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Irish step dance workshop
2020-03-06 03:45 - 17:15 (America/New_York) | The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center, College Park, MD, 20742, United States
Kate Spanos teaches at the American College Dance Association (ACDA) Mid-Atlantic North conference at the University of Maryland, College Park. The class covers the basic techniques of Irish step dance, with a focus on body posture and footwork. Students learn movements from Irish dance vocabulary and explore the incorporation of these movements into personal style through improvisation exercises.
Conference registration required.

Brazilian dances of resistance: capoeira and frevo movement
2020-03-05 15:45 - 17:15 | The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center, College Park, MD, 20742, United States
Kate Spanos teaches at the American College Dance Association (ACDA) Mid-Atlantic North conference at the University of Maryland, College Park. The class covers movement vocabulary from the Brazilian dance traditions of capoeira and frevo. Capoeira is a “martial art disguised as a dance” and frevo is a carnival dance with origins in capoeira. Students learn how capoeira and frevo are “dances of resistance,” using improvisational exercises.
Conference registration required.

Dances of resistance and frevo: Lecture and discussion
2020-02-12 14:30 - 15:45, 2020-02-10 14:30 - 15:45 | George Washington University, DC, United States
Kate Spanos, PhD visits Dr. Maria Cecília Zea’s cross-cultural psychology class at George Washington University for a discussion about dance ethnography, dances of resistance, and Brazilian frevo—and how these themes connect to cross-cultural psychology.
