Beginner African Dance Course
Elevate your arts practice with this Beginner African Dance Course. Learn grounded West African movement, musicality, and safe technique while building rhythmic precision, expressive choreography skills, and culturally rooted performance confidence. Discover essential steps, hip isolations, arm patterns, timing with 4/4 and 6/8 rhythms, call-and-response drills, and drum listening. Finish by creating a personal 15–20 minute practice plan with guided reflection to track progress.

4 to 360h flexible workload
certificate valid in your country
What will I learn?
This Beginner African Dance Course provides practical tools to build confident movement. Learn safe posture, joint care, breath control, essential West African steps, hip and torso isolations, arm patterns, timing with 4/4 and 6/8 rhythms, call-and-response drills, drum listening, and design a 15–20 minute personal practice plan with reflection.
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Develop skills
- Master West African dance basics: grounded posture, spine use, and weight shifts.
- Hear and move to African rhythms: 4/4, 6/8, call-and-response, polyrhythms.
- Perform beginner African dance phrases: coordinated feet, arms, and torso flow.
- Practice African dance safely: joint-friendly warm-ups, breath, and alignment.
- Build a 20-minute African dance routine: warm-up, drills, and cool-down plan.
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