Dancers perform during Gede Nibo, a traditional Haitian religious chant that is a sacred song for the spirit of the departed and cemeteries arranged for mixed voices and percussions, at the Global Excursions Concert in Templeton-Blackburn Alumni Memorial Auditorium on March 31, 2017. (Carolyn Rogers/ WOUB)
Last night Ohio University’s School of Music and Division of Dance presented the seventh annual Global Excursions Concert at the Templeton-Blackburn Alumni Memorial Auditorium. The performance was the culminating event of the annual World Music and Dance Festival, which took place over the course of last week. Performers included guest artists the Honorable Abla Dzifa Gomashie, Joanna De Souza, Erik Forst, Kristofer Olsen, John Meriwether, Keith Moone, Roger Braun, Azagu Steel and Azaguno. The OHIO African Ensemble, OHIO Percussion Ensemble, and New Chords on the Block also performed.
Take a look at these photos of the event, taken by WOUB’s Carolyn Rogers.
OU African Ensemble and Azaguno performing at the 7th World Music Global Excursions Concert in Templeton-Blackburn Alumni Memorial Auditorium on March 31, 2017. (Carolyn Rogers/ WOUB)Joanna de Souza dancing at the 7th Global Excursions Concert in Templeton-Blackburn Alumni Memorial Auditorium on March 31, 2017. The concert introduces students, faculty, staff and Athens community to a variety of musical sounds and dance movements from all over the world, potentially opening up new avenues for creativity, expression and appreciation of the arts. (Carolyn Rogers/ WOUB)Dancers perform “Atsiagbekor” one of the oldest dances of the Ewes of Southern Ghana, Togo and Benin. The dance was originally a war dance performed after battle when the warriors returned to the village, it now is performed on many social occasions. (Carolyn Rogers/ WOUB)Dancers perform Gede Nibo, a traditional Haitian religious chant that is a sacred song for the spirit of the departed and cemeteries arranged for mixed voices and percussions. The dance choreography utilizes movement patterns vocabulary and themes from various sacred and secular dance forms emanating from Ghana, Cuba, Haiti, Trinidad, and the African Diaspora. (Carolyn Rogers/ WOUB)
