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SENIOR LECTURER AT THE UNIVERSITY OF GHANA, SCHOOL OF PERFORMING ARTS, DEPARTMENT OF DANCE STUDIES. AREA OF STUDY IS DANCE IN RELIGION
Supervisors: Prof. Avorgbedor
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International journal of humanities & social studies, Mar 8, 2024
Performative Inter-Actions in African Theatre is a book-set with unique subtitles designed to foc... more Performative Inter-Actions in African Theatre is a book-set with unique subtitles designed to focus and differentiate between the three volumes in the set. The first volume, Diaspora Representations and the Interweaving of Cultures, explores the idea that in and from their various locations around the world, the plays of the African diaspora acknowledge and pay homage to the cultures of home, while simultaneously and vigorously articulating a sense of their Africanness in their various inter-actions with their host cultures. In the second volume, Innovation, Creativity and Social Change, contributions address performativity as a process – particularly in the context of theatre’s engagement with contemporary realities with the hope of instigating social change. The examples explored point to the ingenuity and adaptive capacity of African theatre for engaging indigenous forms in the service of contemporary realities. The final volume is subtitled Making Space, Rethinking Drama and The...
Dance as a complex cultural phenomenon contains elements that define people as belonging to a par... more Dance as a complex cultural phenomenon contains elements that define people as belonging to a particular cultural group. As a form of self-expression and communication, dance has the power to bring people together in peaceful coexistence. This thesis examines dance as a tool for identity negotiation in the church. It focuses on the Presbyterian Church of Ghana, specifically the Immanuel congregation at Madina, Accra. The Presbyterian Church was the first Christian church to be institutionalized in Ghana and has survived continuously since its establishment in the 1820s. The thesis examines dance as an expressive medium to complement the worship style of the church in order to make the institution more attractive to its members. It adopts a qualitative mode of investigation using ethnographic fieldwork to explore the use of dance as a medium for identity negotiation in the church. The study conceptually draws on the work of Taylor (1994), to capture the dialogic aspects of identity n...
Dance as a complex cultural phenomenon contains elements that define people as belonging to a par... more Dance as a complex cultural phenomenon contains elements that define people as belonging to a particular cultural group. As a form of self-expression and communication, dance has the power to bring people together in peaceful coexistence. This thesis examines dance as a tool for identity negotiation in the church. It focuses on the Presbyterian Church of Ghana, specifically the Immanuel congregation at Madina, Accra. The Presbyterian Church was the first Christian church to be institutionalized in Ghana and has survived continuously since its establishment in the 1820s. The thesis examines dance as an expressive medium to complement the worship style of the church in order to make the institution more attractive to its members. It adopts a qualitative mode of investigation using ethnographic fieldwork to explore the use of dance as a medium for identity negotiation in the church. The study conceptually draws on the work of Taylor (1994), to capture the dialogic aspects of identity n...
International journal of humanities & social studies, Mar 8, 2024
Performative Inter-Actions in African Theatre is a book-set with unique subtitles designed to foc... more Performative Inter-Actions in African Theatre is a book-set with unique subtitles designed to focus and differentiate between the three volumes in the set. The first volume, Diaspora Representations and the Interweaving of Cultures, explores the idea that in and from their various locations around the world, the plays of the African diaspora acknowledge and pay homage to the cultures of home, while simultaneously and vigorously articulating a sense of their Africanness in their various inter-actions with their host cultures. In the second volume, Innovation, Creativity and Social Change, contributions address performativity as a process – particularly in the context of theatre’s engagement with contemporary realities with the hope of instigating social change. The examples explored point to the ingenuity and adaptive capacity of African theatre for engaging indigenous forms in the service of contemporary realities. The final volume is subtitled Making Space, Rethinking Drama and The...
Dance as a complex cultural phenomenon contains elements that define people as belonging to a par... more Dance as a complex cultural phenomenon contains elements that define people as belonging to a particular cultural group. As a form of self-expression and communication, dance has the power to bring people together in peaceful coexistence. This thesis examines dance as a tool for identity negotiation in the church. It focuses on the Presbyterian Church of Ghana, specifically the Immanuel congregation at Madina, Accra. The Presbyterian Church was the first Christian church to be institutionalized in Ghana and has survived continuously since its establishment in the 1820s. The thesis examines dance as an expressive medium to complement the worship style of the church in order to make the institution more attractive to its members. It adopts a qualitative mode of investigation using ethnographic fieldwork to explore the use of dance as a medium for identity negotiation in the church. The study conceptually draws on the work of Taylor (1994), to capture the dialogic aspects of identity n...
Dance as a complex cultural phenomenon contains elements that define people as belonging to a par... more Dance as a complex cultural phenomenon contains elements that define people as belonging to a particular cultural group. As a form of self-expression and communication, dance has the power to bring people together in peaceful coexistence. This thesis examines dance as a tool for identity negotiation in the church. It focuses on the Presbyterian Church of Ghana, specifically the Immanuel congregation at Madina, Accra. The Presbyterian Church was the first Christian church to be institutionalized in Ghana and has survived continuously since its establishment in the 1820s. The thesis examines dance as an expressive medium to complement the worship style of the church in order to make the institution more attractive to its members. It adopts a qualitative mode of investigation using ethnographic fieldwork to explore the use of dance as a medium for identity negotiation in the church. The study conceptually draws on the work of Taylor (1994), to capture the dialogic aspects of identity n...