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African Holistic Dance: The global movement of dance medicine into every home

With Sandra Golding, MA, RSMT
Hosted by Gayatri Maya Andersson-Schriefer, MSME

African Holistic Dance practice integrates the social, spiritual, physical and mental as they relate to celebration, ritual, healing and expression. With it's genealogy in African indigenous and diaspora journeys, African Dance is intangible cultural heritage (UNESCO). Join Sandra Golding to talk about cultural ‘rootedness’ through dance movement, and recognise the richly diverse communities from which we all come.

In This Session:

  • A deeper understanding of African Holistic Dance
  • Dance as an internal-external message and communication loop
  • Culturally responsive engagement, sense of belonging and interconnectedness
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Sandra Golding, MA, RSMT

African Holistic Practitioner, Member of Ismeta, People Dancing and Onedance UK

Sandra Golding is U.K’s leading African Holistic Dance Practitioner, former principal dancer/teacher of Kokuma Dance Theatre Company. She is an advocate for the healing power of therapeutic movement, artistic and spiritual expression. She has taught nationally and internationally, choreographed for Jamaica 50 celebrations and Dub Qualander at Symphony Hall Birmingham. She was guest teacher for ‘L’acadco’ Dance Company, ‘Ashe’ Community Arts Company in Jamaica, Tauhadi Lightworkers community organisation and Moving Into Dance Mophatong in South Africa. Golding delivered an African holistic dance workshop for the Spiritual Living Consciousness Awakening Retreat and Conference in the Centre for Peace, Geneva, 2015.

In 2018 she presented at academic symposiums at Middlesex and Surrey University: has written a chapter in Narratives of Black British Dance and was interviewed for Vital Practice People Dancing Magazine. Golding was also a recipient of The ‘Lisa Ullmann Travelling Scholarship Fund’, in 2018 for a research and teaching trip to South Africa.

In 2019 she co-presented with Martha Eddy Crossing Borders Respectfully at the 5th annual Dance and Somatic Practices Conference at Coventry University. Sandra presented African Holistic Dance at the ‘Progressive’ Mind body spirit retreat in Malaga, and conducted the libation ceremony and performed at the Black Mothers & Childbirth Conference  "A Reproductive Sankofa," in London. In 2020 she was a guest speaker on the practice on healthy aging at ‘The Art & Science of living well’ conference in Birmingham. Golding currently teaches a regular Dance & Wellbeing classes and conducts community dance and wellness events for 50+ in Birmingham.

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