Connecting Across Countries and Cultures

Abstract

Creating opportunities for students to connect with dancers from other countries virtually is one of the silver linings of the COVID-19 pandemic. Not all students can afford to travel overseas, so offering the opportunity to dance together on Zoom and experience the dances of another culture is inclusive and enriching. This article describes how two dance educators brought their students together to embody elements of eighteenth-century European court dance and Jamaican and Caribbean folk forms in a virtual platform, and to create short choreographic studies combining elements of the two dance genres.