Honoring Hip-hop’s Roots: 100 Years of Black Social Dance

Class Description: Traci Bartlow is an EMMY award winning documentarian whose passion is to document and preserve black dance and culture.  With an emphasis on the history of Hip Hop, she has researched, studied, and performed African American social dances that date back to the early 1900's. Her movement based lecture moves through 100 years of the black experience to honor the aesthetic, culture, and liberation felt in African American social dances and how they set the stage for the phenomenon that is Hip Hop. This class may be participatory so please be prepared to dance.

BIO: Traci Bartlow: Dance, Choreographer, Business Owner, Cultural Documentarian

http://www.iamtracibartlow.com/

http://www.b-lovesguesthouse.com/

A native of Oakland, CA Traci Bartlow is an artist and entrepreneur with a longstanding career

as an activist, business owner, photographer, dance educator, lecturer, curator, and cultural