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2023 INTANGIBLE ROOTS
ONLINE PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT CLASSES
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In February 2023, INTANGIBLE ROOTS Pedagogical School offered online professional development classes. This Four Part Course was be an exploration of the cultural modalities of Africanist aesthetics in American culture. The modules included:
How to Analyze Dance on Film
Belonging and Identity
Rhythm & Representation
Aesthetics of Kool
How to analyze dance on Film
Go from a passive watcher to an active watcher. A film is something we can read just as carefully and consciously as a book or poem.
BElonging and Identity
Belonging means more than having access. Belonging entails being respected at a basic level that includes the right to both co-create and make demands on society.
Rhythm and Representation
Rhythm is essential to life, we have to allow our own embodied experience to guide and enrich our perceptions about the dance we are studying.
Aesthetics of Kool
Coolness was central to the culture of many ancient African civilizations. John Janzen believes that coolness was expressed in oral culture, character building, artwork, linguistics, dance initiation rituals, warrior cults, mating rituals, and the concept of health.