DAN 105 Creative Improvisation Through World Percussion
2.0 Credits
Instructor: Martino, K.
This class explores improvisation as a process and vehicle for personal expression, while investigating some of the rhythms and music of the world through hands-on performance, guided listening, readings, and video presentations. This course provides an introduction to hand-drumming technique, with an emphasis on West African and Afro-Cuban percussion traditions. Following the spirit of these traditions, which celebrate community over individualism, practical facility with drumming language will be emphasized as a key to exploring improvisation. The course, in an overall sense, provides students with a first-hand experience of how music in general, and drumming in particular, joins people together in a shared experience of sound and vibration that is both ancient and contemporary.
(Fall and Spring)
