Principles of African choreography: some perspectives from Ghana: Francis Nii-Yartey

My objective is to explore, from a Ghanaian perspective, how the African choreographer can reconcile tradition with modernity through constructing the new from established principles and philosophy of African dance. Few articles on African dance have been written by practitioners and even fewer on choreography itself. The substance of this chapter relies on those few listed in the reference section and my own thirty years’ practice as choreographer and dance researcher.