Mind, Body, and Spirit through Dance Ep. 1 Connecting with Spirit

“Mind, Body, and Spirit through Dance”: is a black dance documentary film that shines light on my experience as an MFA student teaching the first West-African dance course offered at the University of Michigan while taking Dunham technique with Madam Penny Godboldo Fall semester 2019. With the ambition to conduct deeper investigations this documentation shows both these dance techniques have been crafted for the mind, body, and spirit of the dancer. As innovations are made in the predominate white space at U of M, you will see interviews and hear the voices of Madam Godboldo, students, dancers, and musicians in regard to their experience with the Dunham technique and West-African dance. From the words of the late Baba Tahuti AnkhmenRa Amen “It is important that we as African Americans document everything that we do in order to shift the negative narratives that have been used against us to disband, discriminate, and objectify us.”