Dance Dialogues – Hybridity and Empowerment: Black Women Reimagining Tomorrow with Sandra Golding

7 May, 2:30 pm - 4:30 pm

Golding is an African Holistic Dance practitioner, workshop facilitator, community artist, choreographer and performer. Classically and contemporary trained at the London School of Classical Dance and West Street Studios, Golding specialises in African Caribbean dance with over fifteen years as Principal Dancer of Kokuma Dance Theatre Company under the artistic direction of Jackie Guy MBE. In 2009, Golding graduated with an MA Dance and Somatic Wellbeing: Connections to the Living Body at the University of Central Lancaster. She has taught nationally and internationally, choreographed for the Jamaica 50 celebration in 2012 at Birmingham Symphony Hall, and was guest teacher for L'Acadco Dance Company and Ashe Community Arts Company in Jamaica. Golding has delivered African holistic dance workshops for the Spiritual Living Consciousness Awakening retreat and conference in the Centre for Peace, Geneva. She also performed in Dub Qalander, an intercultural collaborative performance of Sufi and roots rock reggae music at Birmingham Symphony Hall.