Global Programs

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

E89.2077.095

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: TBA based on double occupancy, Activities fee: TBA

Only housing & activities fees due before the trip (Nov. 15th, 2008). Spring tuition due February 1, 2009.

Estimated airfare: ranges from $1,800 - $2,200*

*based on search conducted on Sep. 2nd, 2008

Flight or Travel Information

 

Weather

Between December and February, temperatures in Uganda are hot, average 84º 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; deborah.damast@nyu.edu


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