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Umfundalai Teaching Syllabus

Holmes, K. (2021). How and why to teach anatomy in technique class. Dance Teacher.

 

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Malone, Jacqui. Steppin' on the Blues The Visible Rhythms of African American Dance.  Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1996.
 

​Mills, Glendola. "Dancing in My Mother's Mother's Body Transmutation and Synthesis of African Dance Culture in Kariamu Welsh-Asante's Umfundalai Dance Technique" Ed.D. Diss., Temple University, 1996.
 

Solomon, R. (2011). Functional anatomy in dance training: An efficient warm up emphasizing the role of the psoas. IADMS Bulletin for Dancers and Teachers, 3(2), p. 13 – 17.

 

Welsh, Kariamu and C. KemalNance. Iwe Illanan: The Umfundalai Teacher's Handbook. 2017​
 

Welsh, Kariamu, Esailama Diouf, and Yvonne Daniels. Hot Feet and Social Change African Dance and Diaspora Communities. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2019.

Holmes, K. (2021). How and why to teach anatomy in technique class. Dance Teacher.

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Wilson, M. (2009). Applying biomechanic research in the dance studio. IADMS Bulletin for Dancers and Teachers, 1(2), p. 11 – 13.

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