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NDEO Member Early Access Registration NOW OPEN

General Registration Opens Friday, July 18

September 8 - October 19, 2025

Professor: Careitha Davis

Tuiion: $310 member / $385 non-member

6 Weeks; 1.5 NDEO-Endorsed PDCs

**Optional add-on** College Credits through Oakland University: 2

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Discover the profound histories, diverse contexts, and innovative choreography found in Afro-Caribbean dance traditions! We’ll journey through sacred rituals and communal expressions to performance art and contemporary commercial dance, covering the evolution of Afro-Caribbean dance as both a cultural practice and an artistic form. We  will critically analyze primary sources, oral histories, and movement analysis to understand the roots and transformations of various dance styles such as Haitian Vodou, Jamaican Dancehall, and Trinidadian Carnival.

Through this mini-course, we will investigate the intersection of music, rhythm, and dance in Afro-Caribbean traditions. We'll explore how colonialism, slavery, and migration shaped Afro-Caribbean movement and examine the essential role of dance in cultural identity, spiritual expression, and community-building. 

In addition to historical and cultural analysis, you will practice choreographing with Afro-Caribbean movement principles in mind, gaining tools for integrating these aesthetics into your own choreographic or pedagogical practice. You’ll learn to identify key stylistic features and apply culturally informed movement principles that can deepen your teaching, research, and creative work.

Whether you're a seasoned educator or an emerging researcher, this mini-course will deepen your understanding of the intersection between history, music, rhythm, and dance. You’ll leave with fresh insights into how Afro-Caribbean traditions continue to influence and reshape contemporary dance around the world.

To receive college credit for this course in addition to PDCs, you must register through Oakland University by  and finalizing your registration through OU before the August 1 deadline.

Questions about this Course?  Email opdi@ndeo.org

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Careitha Davis, a Brooklyn native with roots in Trinidad and Tobago, is a professional dancer, choreographer and educator. From an early age Careitha started training as a dancer in Modern, Jazz, Ballet and African while traveling as a young performer. Careitha attended SUNY Purchase College receiving a BA in Media, Society & the Arts and earned an MA in Dance Education K-12 Track from New York University. She has performed the works of George Faison, Dianne McIntyre, Ronald K. Brown, Mouminatou Camara, Joya Powell/Movement of the People, Jemal Gaines, Michael Manswell and Pearl Primus. Careitha began teaching Soca at Cumbe: Center for African and Diaspora Dance in 2018 and established BodyRa Movement in 2020. Her teaching and choreographic philosophy for BodyRa Movement is for dancers to reach a level of freedom in their movement, building community through the rituals and traditions in Caribbean culture. Careitha has taught workshops in Basel, Uganda, Trinidad and Tobago, St. Martin and the United States. Her works have been performed at Spoke The Hub, PBS-Travel BareFeet, Alvin Ailey Citigroup and the Apollo Theatre.  Careitha is awarded a Jacob’s Pillow College Partnership Program Faculty Research Fellowship, currently an adjunct at New York University- School of Steinhardt teaching Afro-Caribbean, serving as a DOE Dance Educator and a Teacher’s College, Columbia EdD student.

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