Lamban/Traditional African Dance Review

What is Lamban?

• a set of principles underlying and guiding the work of a particular artist or artistic

  movement

• An expression that emerges from a community

• rhythm done in honor

  of the griots

• composing, uttering, executing, or arranging anything without previous

  preparation

The ______ is the historian

who keeps the memories of the

people & their stories

What 4 instruments make up the traditional instruments used in Lamban?

• Kora

• Balafon

• Djembe

• Ngoni

• Djelidunun

True or False: Dances made in African cultures are not drawn from the motions of everyday life (cooking, eating, planting, etc).

• TRUE

• FALSE

Who was the foremost teacher & choreographer of traditional African dance in America?

• Baba Chuck Davis

• Stafford Berry

• Pearl Primus

• Katherine Dunham

True or False: The commonality of embracing conflict means to embrace difference & tension rather than resolving it (battle mode)

• TRUE

• FALSE

Which answer below is NOT a commonality in African/African Diaspora Movement?

• Polyrhythm

• Repetition

• Curvilinear

• Ephebism

• Symmetry

True or False: Dance is integral to social life in African cultures

• TRUE

• FALSE