Advanced Dance Practicum
Location: Kampala, Uganda
Dates: January 4-17, 2009
Application Deadline: November 1, 2008
Students liase with professional dancers, educators, and students both at the Royal Ballet Academy and at Makerere University. Through dance classes, outreach programs, and meeting with Ugandan officials of state, students develop a global perspective as related to dance and the performing arts that will positively and explicitly immpact their future teaching and learning. Students take classes in traditional Ugandan dance, teaching methodologies, and Ugandan school structures at Makerere University. Students also work with children from the refugee camp in Gulu at the Royal Ballet and Modern Dance School, teaching and choreographing
3 Points. Offered through the Department of Music and Performing Arts
Courses
E892077.095
Faculty
Deborah Damast, Dance Education, Department of Music and Performing Arts
Accommodations
You will stay at a hotel in Kampala.
Costs
Tuition (Regular NYU Spring tuition plus fees), Housing Fee: $1020 based on double occupancy, Activities fee: $150
Only housing & activities fees due before the trip (Nov. 15th, 2007). Spring tuition due February 1, 2008.
Flight or Travel Information
A group flight will be organized departing New York on January 4 and leaving Uganda on January 21.
Weather
Between December and February, temperatures in Uganda are hot, average 84 F, although it is cooler in the mountains. It is also the dry season.
For More Information
Deborah Damast, Department of Music and Performing Arts Professions, 35 W. 4th Street, Suite 777, New York, NY 10003: 212 998 5865
Office of Academic Initiatives and Global Programs, The Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development, New York University, 82 Washington Square East, 5th Floor, New York, NY 10003-6680; (212) 992-9380; steinhardt.global@nyu.edu.