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Dance in Our FootstepsDance in Our Footsteps (multimedia download)

Download: $34.97

Dance in Our Footsteps DVD Video offers a demonstration of the featured dances. It is not intended as a conventional instructional product. Enjoy yourself while experiencing the de-stressing and exhilarating effects of African dance. Try and copy the dancers if you wish or just use their movements and the music to inspire you to create your own authentic, original dance. But most importantly have fun and if possible have a party at the same time.

Six Dance Movement Lesson PlansSix Dance Movement Lesson Plans (e-book)

Download: $17.48

Six Dance Movement Lesson Plans can be used on its own or in conjunction with Dance to Health Help Your Special Needs Child. The manual explains how to transform ordinary everyday movements into Dance. There is help in building lesson plans and suggestions for musical choices and props. This is an approach to improved Wellbeing which does not involve drugs of any kind and which will help Mind-Body-and-Spirit integration.

Dance to Health Help your Special Needs ChildDance to Health Help your Special Needs Child (e-book)

Download: $27.97

Parents just need to be open to the idea of having fun and communicating with their child in a new and different way. The Book explains how to transform ordinary everyday movements into Dance. There is help in building lesson plans and suggestions for musical choices and props. This is an approach to improved Wellbeing which does not involve drugs of any kind and which may well help your Child who has Special Needs or Disabilities.

Calling All Drummers and Flute PlayersCalling All Drummers and Flute Players (multimedia download)

Download: $5.17

Calling all Drummers and Flute PlayersLearn the Drum and Flute Rhythms of Three Northern Ghanaian Dances. This CD features the musical accompaniment to the DVD "Dance in Our Footsteps". It is to enable Drummers and Flautists to practice without playing the DVD. Musicians in general will also find it helpful in learning the dance rhythms. Dancers can create their own choreography to the music.

Tales My Ghanaian Grandmother Told MeTales My Ghanaian Grandmother Told Me (e-book)

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"The Wicked Curse of Nibobobo". The villagers are holding a dance. The young hero of the story asks the father of the girl he loves for permission to marry her.Her parents are delighted but his own father forbids the relationship. This decision has catastrophic consequences as the girls mother commits a terrible act which affects all the villagers. "Akua's Foolish Wish" explains the possible origins of a taboo. Akua,is a young potter who unthinkingly makes a wish not realizing her power to make it come true. "Fingers of Fire" is about a very unusual boy who has mysterious powers. He receives instructions to build a very strange object though he does not know what it's purpose is. When finally the purpose of the strange object is revealed it completely changes the lives of the villagers. "Journey to the Chest of Gold".A party of schoolchildren and their teacher make a trip to Ghana to learn about the Gold Trade.The group travel back through time and enter the King's Palace.

An Approach to African RhythmAn Approach to African Rhythm (e-book)

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An Approach to African Rhythm by Seth Cudjoe Until recently there was no formal tuition in African music offered in institutions. African music does not have a written tradition. It is very difficult to notate the music using the western staff. The pitches and subtle intonations are not easily indicated. This publication, which analyzes various rhythmic patterns, is being re-issued in the hope that it will be helpful to ethnomusicologists, and to all those interested in African drum rhythms. Enjoy!