Kariamu and Company: Traditions — A Celebration of African Dance (GVSU Fall Arts Celebration)

Kariamu Welsh, honorifically known as Mama Kariamu, is a Guggenheim award–winning dance scholar, choreographer, educator, and the founder of the Umfundalai technique, which is a contemporary African dance technique based on traditional ideas from Africa and throughout the African diaspora. Welsh is a professor in the dance studies department in the Boyer College of Music and Dance at Temple University. For the past 40 years, Welsh has developed Umfundalai as a dance technique that seeks to articulate the essence of African-oriented movement while highlighting the cultural and aesthetic continuity found in the rhythm and artistic sensibilities that cover the full range of African dance.