Africanist Dance Traditions This proposal is support and enhance the instruction of the course Dances in Culture: Africanist Dance Traditions from Minstrelsy to Hip Hop through guest lectures and movement sessions with experts in such Africanist dance forms as Rhythm Tap, African American stepping, Hip Hop and Dunham Technique. Offered each winter and cross-listed in Dance and Afro-American and African Studies (AAS), the course uses a mixture of lecture, class discussion, movement sessions, and video screenings to explore the relationship between African-American vernacular dance forms and their influence upon 20th century American popular and concert performance, and places embodied learning at its center. Movement sessions and master classes in various Africanist dance forms provide the means for students, non-dancers and dancers alike, to understand the history and impact of African Diaspora dance in the United States through their own dancing bodies. Funds will provide honoraria for guest lecturers Alde Lewis, Jr., Penny Godboldo, and others, providing expertise in Rhythm Tap, Dunham Technique, African-American stepping, Hip Hop, and West African dance, thus enhancing student experience of these forms. It will also provide specialist drummer/accompanist fees for sessions that require live accompaniment. Funds may be spread over a two-year period to bring in experts on a rotating basis, based on artist availability.