PEDAGOGY

My work as a scholar and dancer represents a hybrid synergy of diverse ways of knowing.  I start from the premise that knowledge is honed and disseminated through multiple channels and therefore approach my role as an educator and artist with that same level of creative dexterity and openness.  In terms of my African diaspora dance practice, it embodies a fusion of folk and modern idioms informed by diverse sacred systems. What emerges from this encounter of traditions, expressions, histories, embodied memories and sacred cartographies is a movement vocabulary that is both subtle and dynamic and one that elaborates on balancing the duality of power that exists within the feminine and masculine, the mundane and the divine. Connect with me.

A group of people participating in a yoga class, doing a partner pose where they hold each other's hands and stretch forward while balancing on one leg.
A woman dancing barefoot in a flowing dress in front of a large window with children behind her, in a spacious room.
A group of people practicing yoga or dance together indoors, forming a connected pose with arms raised and hands joined.
Three women dressed in traditional African attire, dancing or performing with expressive movements, one with a headwrap, in a room with a plain or white background.
A woman in a white dress bends forward as she is guided by a woman in patterned clothing. Other women in headscarves and turbans, and a man in a black shirt, are in the background, engaged in a cultural dance or celebration with drums present.

Alexandar Gelbared