To educate is to equip people with the ability to assimilate, to consider, and to embrace new information, to acknowledge where their realm of experience ends and a new vista begins. Arts-based inquiry can be a powerful site for education regarding citizenship in our contemporary world. An ability to work in groups, globally or locally, is vital as we discover the interconnectedness of things, as we live, work and create together—this is a hermeneutic project. Hermeneutics acknowledges the vitality of conversation, discourse and dialogue, and what better place than studios and classrooms across borders, promoting dialogue and exchange. The body does speak. it is poetic and powerful. Indeed the dancing body can facilitate opportunities for learning about the world and self. These meaningful encounters can sometimes require a passport.
The Credit travel Study program is an opportunity to internationalize your degree and enrich your life. There is no other way to describe it but ‘life-changing’ (the words of past participants).
Field courses in the past have travelled to Guinée, West Africa and have been
hosted by Hamidou Bangoura and Les Ballets Africains
Guinée is a world away in so many respects but what we share is so profound: dance and music, breath and movement. Learning to be an ethical cultural traveller and ambassador of Canadian culture is a great responsibility and moreover, great fun! The program to West Africa ran in 2000, 2003 and 2006.
An Interdisciplinary (Dance and Anthropology) Credit Travel Study was undertaken in 2007 to Cuba to study music, dance and culture.
