Learning Environments: Play/Ways of Knowing/Multimodality

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Jeannine Osayande

Learning Sinte Dance Concepts

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Event: Swarthmore Home For the Holidays Kwanzaa 2018

Time: December 2018

Participants: Jeannine Osayande & Dunya Performing Arts Company with Swarthmore community members

Swarthmore Rutledge Elementary School and Jeannine Osayande & Dunyapac have collaborated for over 27 years through an African Dance Artist in Residence relationship. Additionally Ms Jeannine’s family has lived in the Historically Black Neighborhood of Swarthmore for 7 generations, arriving first during The Great Migration.

Does the Drum Talk?

Participants were taught a specific musical language of the Djembe drum, called The Break. The dance and rhythm called, Sinte. Sinte is a Diasporic West African rhythm and dance from Guinea. Sinte commemorates women fishing traditions, Rites of Passage of the Susu People. Sinte became popular through the African National Dance Company Movement in the 1960s-70s.

Chair Dance

Participants are taught all Sinte movements from the chair by scaffolding each moment with the musical breaks and repeating

Participants learned how to listen to the break and respond with a movement vocabulary that repeats whenever we hear The Break

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