DANCE & MOVEMENT THERAPY
Summer 2025
Dance and Movement Therapy provides a powerful means of building resilience and fostering healing through the expressive nature of movement. By engaging in culturally rooted dance practices, participants can explore self-expression, celebrate their heritage, and connect deeply with themselves and their community.
This therapeutic approach enables individuals to develop confidence, embrace cultural pride, and navigate personal challenges within a supportive and inclusive environment. Movement serves as a bridge to mental well-being, cultural integration, and strengthened communal ties, promoting holistic growth and empowerment.
The Dance Therapy program highlights traditional dances, blending rhythmic storytelling and call-and-response techniques to create a rich and immersive experience.
Venue: Garfield Community Center
Dates: July 19th and August 23rd, 2025
Time: 12:30 pm – 2:30 pm
Andrew Ssebulime, MA, PhD Candidate, UC Riverside
B.A. (Honors) in Music, Dance, and Drama. Makerere University Kampala-Uganda; M.A. in Dance Knowledge, Practice and Heritage, at the CHOREOMUNDUS consortium: UCA(France), SZEGED(Hungary), NTNU(Norway), and Roehampton University -RU (United Kingdom)
Andrew Ssebulime is a Ugandan first-year Ph.D. candidate in Critical Dance Studies at the University of California Riverside. He began active stage performance and choreography in Uganda in the early 2000s but later moved to China where he has expanded and extended his Ugandan folk dance practice since 2009.
Andrew has conducted and presented numerous dance conferences, workshops and masterclasses on Ugandan folk dances and trainings in various countries and cities around the world. Always inspired by the notions of identity, de-coloniality, change and continuity in dance, Andrew’s academic and research interests are more focused on dance and diaspora/migrant discourses.
