DANCE 490 A: Special Studies in Dance

HISTORY AND DEVELOPMENT OF AFRO-PERUVIAN DANCE ANALYZES THE HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT OF AFRO-PERUVIAN DANCE PRACTICES. EXPLORES DANCE WITHIN THE COLONIAL AND POST-COLONIAL CONTEXTS IN WHICH THESE TRADITIONS EMERGED AND CONTINUE TO EVOLVE IN THE ANDEAN REGION AND AS PART OF A LARGER AFRO-LATIN AMERICA. COURSE MATERIALS AND DISCUSSIONS INVOLVE ISSUES OF RACE, CLASS, POWER, NATIONALISM, CULTURAL RESISTANCE AND REVIVAL, FOLKLORIZATION, MIGRATION AND GLOBALIZATION.