Fiscal Year Schedule

Our yearly class season is from October through July. Our studio classes are held on Saturdays at the Harrison Park Recreation Center 901 17th street south west (located in West End Community).  Please call to register.  Classes are sometimes canceled or rescheduled due to touring company conflicts.

We provide programs for schools, churches, summer camps, libraries, family reunions and much more. Nathifa Dance Company offers class to all ages.  This is a great way to stay in shape. Nathifa Dance Company is always seeking new faces to join our performing dance and drum family. Students start dancing and drumming  in our performing company at the age of 8 through adults in West African, modern, and praise dance ministry. Call now to enroll in this program.

2010 African Dance & Drum class schedule

We meet on the following dates:
January 23, 30
Feb. 6, 13, 20, 27
Dates may vary due to Black History month
March 6, 13, 20
April 3, 10, 17, 24
May 1, 8

Studio/Recreation Fee  $20
Registration fee
Students 12- adult drop in class fee  $12
Students 11 and under drop in class fee  $10
Monthly class  $55                                              

Class card for 12 classes adults only from October through June    $100     

Programs

West African Dance
This class educates students of all ages on the traditional dances from West Africa, Guinea, Mali and the Ivory Coast.  The perfect way to exercise and tone the body while learning African dance as we prefect the heritage of cultural folklore stories to live drums.  Dances are taught to the Djembe and Dununba drums.

Traditional Praise Dance Workshops
These workshops and classes help students to strengthen or develop their technique in modern dance, jazz and African dance for spiritual worship.  Good for personal use or for a church dance ministry team.  Students are taught basic African dance as it relates to the passing of generational praise and worship.

Private Classes
Classes are offered to individuals who desire to have that one on one training at an affordable price. Please call four weeks in advance to schedule your appointment.

Drum Class
West African drums are the unique way to help teach students discipline and develop a feeling for a sense of rhythm.  This style of drumming teaches students in the discipline area of focusing skills. Students are taught the techniques and rhythms that complement the West African dances. This style of dance and drum has a communication relationship that explaining the story of the dance.

Lecture Demonstration Workshops & Classes
Our lecture demonstration classes/workshops gives the students the experience of learning the drums and dances from Guinea, Mali and the Ivory Coast in a small classroom setting. Students and teachers are given the opportunity to have hand on hand experience to play the drums while others are learning the dances.  Handout materials are also use in this teaching setting.


Pre-school Dance & Movement
Through dance & movement children are taught body awareness, translation of sounds, directions and rhythm. Dance also helps develop pre-school coordination and increase motor skills. Good for ages 2 through 5.

Artist & Residency Programs
This program is designed to help teachers “integrate the art of dance” into their curriculum. Workshops are provided for teachers as well as students grades 3 through 5. Research has shown that this format of dance instruction reaches the individual student at his or her level of skill and is effective in promoting a higher quality of life. Therefore the students will not only benefit from this program because they will receive an integrated exposure to the arts through African Dance, but also because it will help build their confidence and self-esteem.

For all other outreach programs please call the office for booking. 205.956.5858