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Saturday, September 23, 2006
Dunham in Atlanta with Penny Godboldo
PENNY GODBOLDO
Educator/Choreographer
Dunham Technique & Liturgical Dance
DYNAMIC DANCE FESTIVAL, INC.
Atlanta's Premier
Black Dance Festival
In 1991, she taught Dunham Technique in Japan for one month, in 1996 in Benin, West Africa for 2 months, and in 1997 she was a guest teacher in the CHAF Conference, La danse Haitienne: Histoire et Traditions in Port au Prince. Receiving her first training in Dunham from the late Jimmy Hunt and Clifford Fears, she has trained with former members of the original Dunham Dance Theater: Talley Beatty, Madame Lavinia Williams-Yarbrough, Tommy Gomez, Pearl Reynolds, Vanoye Aikens, among others. Ms. Godboldo trains teachers and students, ages 4 – 78 years, in the Detroit community.
Ms. Godboldo travels /(studying/teaching/choreographing/performing) have taken her to countries such as: Benin, W. Africa, Cuba, Brazil, China, Israel, Egypt, Barbados, Italy, England, France and Scotland. She imparts what she calls the “Holistic, Healing Power of Dance.” It is based on the concept of the Mind-Body-Spirit connection, which is the foundation of the Katherine Dunham Technique. She instills in her students the value that Dunham truly is a “Way of Life.”
She holds a Ph.D. degree and Teacher Certification from Wayne State University in Detroit and an M.A. degree in dance/theater from the University of Detroit. She trained as a scholarship student at the Alvin Ailey American Dance School in N.Y. Her research includes over 20 years in “Dance in Traditional Religions.” She helped develop the “Dancing for God” Liturgical Dance Conference” series I, II and III from Hartford Memorial Baptist Church, Dr. Charles G. Adams, Pastor where she serves as Artistic Director of its Liturgical Dance Ministry – a position she has held for 12 years. In April 2005, Ms. Godboldo became a licensed minister at Hartford. She shares her home with her husband, Stephen of 30 years, and they are parents to 24-year old daughter, Ambyr.
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