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Akwaaba Dance Project
Where sacred dance, ancestral memory and storytelling keep the circle unbroken.
Educational Curriculums
Olubayo Jackson is a dance teacher of over 400 students from Kindergarten to 5th grade at P.S. 87 in Manhattan, New York. She specializes in using dance to promote her student's cross-cultural understanding, empathy, and greater realization of historical connections. Olubayo is also a Curriculum Developer, Researcher, and Filmmaker. Her current film, "The Akwaaba Dance Project" is a work in progress, that traces African cultural retentions in the Caribbean, Central American and American dance forms.
Akwaaba Dance
Movement-based learning or cultural dance
Teaches students to identify similarities in African diasporic dance and culture across regions, emphasizing continuity, adaptation, and cultural survival.
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