• POLISH SOCIETY OF ANTHROPOLOGY OF DANCE

    established in 2003, registered in 2008

  • POLISH SOCIETY OF ANTHROPOLOGY OF DANCE

    established in 2003, registered in 2008

  • POLISH SOCIETY OF ANTHROPOLOGY OF DANCE

    established in 2003, registered in 2008

2nd edition 

RHYTHMS AND STEPS OF AFRICA 15th-21st May 2005, Krakow

Under auspices of the Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Mayor of the City of Krakow

conference ● workshops ● performances● exhibitions

in cooperation with Jagiellonian University  and Consulate of France in Krakow

The second conference of the festival is dedicated to chorea Africana, and specifically to the dancing people of contemporary Africa, whether ritual or contemporary

conference research areas cover semantics of the human body, theatre and dance, music, cultural and philosophical anthropology, namely 

  1. Homo sapiens emergence in Africa, anthropological and paleontological concepts
  2. Chorea Africana, morphology and classification of genuine African dances
  3. Impact of the African dance on the world music and dance
  4. Phenomenon of African dancer on the ground of psychosomatic studies
  5. Microcosm and macrocosm in African art
  6. Catharsis in African dance
  7. The movement archetype and the cultural identity
  8. Symbolism and semantics of the body painting
  9. The African mask, its genesis and function
  10. Body-mind link in African dance
  11. Slavery; the psychological and social conditions of man’s tragedy
  12. Cultural identity of the contemporary African
  13. African music
  14. African cultural influences on Polish art
  15. Anthropology of Dance, approaches and methodologies

 photo by PSAD© 

  • key note speakers:

Sylvia Glasser, Ana Clara Guerra Marques, Jacek Łapott, Jean Paul-Colleyn, Piotr Lenartowicz, Thomas Riccio 

  • workshops’s runners: 

Vincent Sekvati Koko Mantsoe (RPA)

Deanna Anderson,  USA

Jan Pilch, Poland

Thomas Riccio, USA

Diakaridia Keïta Sélofara, Mali & Agnieszka Kędzierska – Man, RPA 

  • perfomances

Vincent Sekvati Koko Mantsoe (RPA)

Jan Pilch, Poland

The Polish Dance Theatre of Poznań, Poland

Dançe Carte, Angola

Diakaridia Keïta Sélofara, Mali

 Ana Clara Guerra Marques, Angola

exhibition; African puppet theatre, The The Seweryn Udziela Ethnographic Museum of Krakow

 Festival Venues

Jagiellonian University, Center of Contemporary Art SOLVAY, Academy of Music, Krakow

 

Postconference monograph

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