AUTUMN 2020 MUSEN 389/589 (1 credit)
Drum, Dance and Diaspora:
Afrolatino and Afro-indigenous
Arts in Dialogue
Autumn 2020
TTh 5:30-6:50, instruction on-line
Offered in Collaboration with
Movimiento Afrolatino Seattle (MAS)
and Union Cultural Center (UCC)
This class will be co-taught by a team of local
artists, and coordinated with a series of
Teaching Artists community dialogues organized by MAS.
Instruction is online, but students may borrow a
• Silvio dos Reyes & hand drum (such as a conga), if they don’t have
Dora Oliveira one, to play on at home and learn rhythms and
(Brazil) songs and dances.
Students will attend twice-weekly classes for
• Otoqui Reyes &
three weeks with artists from each of three
Sara Silva-Soto countries: Brazil, Puerto Rico and Garifuna
(Puerto Rico) (an Afro-indigenous people who live in Belize,
Honduras and Guatemala).
• Ricardo Güity &
Sylvia Blanco In addition to performance instruction in dance,
drumming and singing, students will attend
(Garifuna)
online community dialogues about culture, race
and immigration, with members of Seattle’s
• Milvia Pacheco
Afrolatino communities, as well as artists
(Coordinator) living abroad.
For information and add codes contact Shannon Dudley,
dudley@uw.edu.