Comments on: Need Therapy? Try African Dance!

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By: afroenergydance

afroenergydance — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 07:47:48 +0000

Welcome the New Age of Dance as a Healing Tool…Let the Mother..Africa bring us back to our Dancing Roots..Welcome the dance of life to help us flow easily through the trials and tribulations of life….The heart beat of the drum brings us home…

By: Sarina

Sarina — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 18:05:43 +0000

African Drumming & Dance was my FAVORITE class I took throughout my college years. Such a wonderful release and opportunity for deep connection to the human experience through music and movement. Thanks for sending this out…

By: Sean

Sean — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 19:06:46 +0000

Communal catharsis is awesome! I also like book clubs and poetry readings – there are many mediums for this sort of thing, though dance is probably the most effective.

By: Amy Roldan

Amy Roldan — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 17:04:23 +0000

I really believe in alternative forms of therapy this is great! thanks!

By: Jessa

Jessa — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 19:50:21 +0000

I took African dance last spring, and I’ll agree – it was a transformative experience. For me, African dance helped me “unlearn” the American mentality where the individual is always wondering how he or she is being perceived, and to learn the (much more refreshing, vital, and illuminating) mentality of how to receive others in community. African dance got me to step out of myself, out of my head and into the world where we just exist together. It’s a joyful, juicy place!

By: SJM

SJM — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 18:50:12 +0000

though i have not experienced Nii Armah Sowah’s classes, my first experience with W. African dance and Afro Brazilian dance changed my perspective on dance, my emotions and my life for ever. i had resigned to the reality that ballet, modern and “Western” approaches to movement were all that there were and so quit dancing all together. it wasn’t until i started regular African dance classes, that i realized what true joy could feel like, what a dance community really is and what humans need more of in our society. praises to these traditions! praises to Nii Armah Sowah!

By: Sage

Sage — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 15:28:39 +0000

I took Nii Armah’s African Dance classes my first two years at CU. I watched people (particularly “normal” sorority girls who had never encountered the likes of dancing with abandon) transform from uptight, shy, and uncomfortable to open, bold, and celebratory.

Nii Armah reminded us (often) that Africa is a continent not a country, and challenged us to re-think our own cultural baggage. If, when he walked into the classroom of African Dance students we weren’t talking to one another- he would remind us “Talk! Talk to your community!”
And even if we couldn’t get a step or a move- to do it anyway and do it “juicy” (with flair, with joy!)

Nii Armah Sowah’s classes should me a prerequisite for EVERY student, EVERY where. It’s about dance, yes- but not dance as westerners know it. It’s about so much more.

By: chris mulvany

chris mulvany — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 09:28:58 +0000

I concur! Hooray for that beautiful days where I was able to take that as a class for credit.