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 and torso isolations, arm patterns, and timing with 4/4 and 6/8 rhythms through 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 360 hours flexible workload
valid certificate in your country
What will I learn?
This Beginner African Dance Course provides clear, practical tools to build confident movement from the ground up. Learn safe posture, joint care, and breath, then explore essential West African steps, hip and torso isolations, and simple arm patterns. Develop timing with 4/4 and 6/8 rhythms, call-and-response drills, and drum listening, and finish by designing a focused 15–20 minute personal practice plan with guided reflection to track your progress.
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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.
Suggested summary
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