Beginner African Dance Course
The Beginner African Dance Course introduces foundational West African dance techniques, focusing on safe posture, essential steps, rhythm awareness, and musicality. Participants gain rhythmic precision, expressive movement skills, and confidence in culturally authentic performance while designing personal practice routines for ongoing progress.

from 4 to 360h flexible workload
valid certificate in your country
What will I learn?
This course equips beginners with practical skills for confident African dance. Start with safe posture, joint care, and breathing, then master West African steps, hip isolations, arm patterns, and rhythms in 4/4 and 6/8 with call-and-response. End by building a 15-20 minute personal practice plan with progress tracking.
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Develop skills
- Master core West African dance basics including grounded posture, spine articulation, and weight shifts.
- Develop ability to hear and dance to African rhythms like 4/4, 6/8, call-and-response, and polyrhythms.
- Execute beginner African dance sequences with coordinated footwork, arm movements, and torso flow.
- Practice African dance safely through joint-friendly warm-ups, proper breathing, and body alignment.
- Create a structured 20-minute African dance routine featuring warm-up, drills, and cool-down.
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