African Dance

The Drum Cafe offers exisitue African Dancers for your event.

A central trait of African dance is that it is polycentric. This means that - unlike many other regions of the world - the body is not treated as a "stiff" unit but is segmented into several centers of movement (shoulders, chest, pelvis, arms, legs etc.).

These centers of movement may be moved according to different rhythmical components of the music or even add rhythmical components of their own.

This may result in very complex movements "inside" the body, as opposed to the movement through space of the whole body that plays the most important role in many European choreographies.