Zimbabwean Dance Class with Rujeko
Wed, Jul 02
|Confluence Arts Center
Join us for a Zimbabwean Dance class with Rujeko Dumbutshena! Learn traditional Zimbabwean dance movements, and connect to the joy of dance! Beginners and all levels welcome!
Time & Location
Jul 02, 2025, 6:00 PM – 7:15 PM
Confluence Arts Center, 20159 Hazelnut Ridge Rd, Scotts Mills, OR 97375, USA
Guests
About the event
Join us for a Zimbabwean Dance class with Rujeko Dumbutshena! Learn traditional Zimbabwean dance movements, and connect to the joy of dance! Beginners and all levels welcome!
The intricacies offered in Zimbabwean rhythmic patterns will inform our movement vocabulary in this workshop. Zimbabwean dance offers tools for internalizing rhythm through repetition and duration while deepening our individual grounded and weighted movement. Come connect with the soul filling movements of Zimbabwean dance!
About the Artist:
Rujeko Dumbutshena(Zimbabwe/US) Rujeko is a Zimbabwean born dancer, teacher, cultural arts community organizer, and performing artist of what she terms her Pan-African dance practices. She received her MFA from the University of New Mexico, and is Assistant Professor of African Dance at the University of Florida. She conducts community based participatory research to promote sustainable development projects through cultural arts production. Her creative research black power lines rites develops collaborative performances as ritual spaces for black…