{"id":11484,"date":"2021-02-12T16:14:31","date_gmt":"2021-02-12T16:14:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/citylore.org\/?page_id=11484"},"modified":"2024-02-02T18:57:27","modified_gmt":"2024-02-02T18:57:27","slug":"dionne-kamara","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/citylore.org\/education\/our-community\/teaching-artists\/dionne-kamara\/","title":{"rendered":"Dionne Kamara"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"11484\" class=\"elementor elementor-11484\" data-elementor-post-type=\"page\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-2dc1a2c8 pad elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"2dc1a2c8\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-2e464f83\" data-id=\"2e464f83\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-inner-section elementor-element elementor-element-117adc66 bottom-pad-small elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"117adc66\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-wide\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-inner-column elementor-element elementor-element-6108bd90\" data-id=\"6108bd90\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-1703a42 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"1703a42\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Dionne Kamara | Afro-Jamaican Kumina Dance<\/h2>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-4870647d elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"4870647d\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<h3 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Artist\u2019s Statement:<\/h3>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-291ecfa elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"291ecfa\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-13375 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/citylore.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Dionne_Headshot.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"285\" height=\"402\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citylore.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Dionne_Headshot.jpg 995w, https:\/\/citylore.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Dionne_Headshot-350x493.jpg 350w, https:\/\/citylore.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Dionne_Headshot-710x1000.jpg 710w, https:\/\/citylore.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Dionne_Headshot-768x1081.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 285px) 100vw, 285px\" \/>My name is Dionne. I am a dancer and dance teacher who lives in NYC. I didn\u2019t always live here, though. I was born and lived in Jamaica, where I would learned to love dance. Every evening after dinner, my great-grandmother, whom we called Simo, would sing, dance and play music from our Jamaican traditions. All of the children in the family would jump up to dance and sing along with her. My family had a great time each night as we danced and sang together. After emigrating to New York with my family, I made it clear to my mother that I wanted to continue dancing like I did when I was in Jamaica. Fortunately, the public school I attended when my family moved to Queens had a dance teacher. Her name was Ms. Witherspoon and she was the \ufb01rst dance teacher I ever had, other than my great-grandmother. I fondly remember being excited when it was Wednesday, which was the day that Ms. Witherspoon came to teach us. During dance class, we were taught special turns, leaps and fancy dance moves. We listened to the rhythm of the music and wiggled with joy. At the end of each class, I always felt happy. I loved moving my body in many new and interesting ways.<\/p><p>I dreamt of becoming a professional dancer. And I did!<\/p><p>Since becoming a professional dancer and dance teacher, I\u2019ve had the joy of performing in many theaters for people here in the United States and all over the world. I\u2019ve taught in Germany, Senegal, Australia, and Brazil, though what I love most is teaching here in New York where I live. In the dance classes I instruct, we will explore how our bodies can stretch, jump, leap, turn and create cool new shapes. We dance with partners and perform for one another in groups. Sometimes, we will dance with instruments, scarves, hoops, stretchy streamers, and other interesting props. Tp dance is to express yourself, it is to be free.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-inner-section elementor-element elementor-element-489b7c1a bottom-pad-small elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"489b7c1a\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div data-dce-background-color=\"#1B8B91\" class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-inner-column elementor-element elementor-element-408de802 pad\" data-id=\"408de802\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div data-dce-advanced-background-color=\"#FFFFFF\" class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-2195812a elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"2195812a\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h3>Dionne Kamara at City Lore:<\/h3>\n<p><b>Creative Dance for Primary school students<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Dionne Kamara focuses on conceptual based dance pedagogy. She works with teachers to adapt to the grade level and particular needs of the students. Dionne creates lessons that develop partnered and individual dance, literacy-based (books\/rhymes), dance of different cultures, and multi-sensory experiences. Her \u201cBrain Dance,\u201d is a warm up exercise based on the neurological development that we go through in the first year of our lives as humans. Dionne uses a poster to illustrate the patterns of the dance to the class and uses every week session to dive into a particular theme or focus, such as gravity and balance or repetition<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. In the last session of the residency, teachers are encouraged to invite families, but it is meant to be like an open studio rather than a finished performance.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<h3>What students and teachers say about Dionne:<\/h3>\n<p>COMING SOON!<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-1e1991be bottom-pad-small elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"1e1991be\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Gallery<\/h2>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-35290a8d elementor-arrows-position-inside elementor-pagination-position-outside elementor-widget elementor-widget-image-carousel\" data-id=\"35290a8d\" data-element_type=\"widget\" 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aria-roledescription=\"slide\" aria-label=\"1 of 6\"><figure class=\"swiper-slide-inner\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"swiper-slide-image\" src=\"https:\/\/citylore.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/M364_DionneK_12-13-23_EP_2-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"Dionne Kamara explains the Brain Dance\" \/><figcaption class=\"elementor-image-carousel-caption\">Dionne Kamara explains the Brain Dance<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div><div class=\"swiper-slide\" role=\"group\" aria-roledescription=\"slide\" aria-label=\"2 of 6\"><figure class=\"swiper-slide-inner\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"swiper-slide-image\" src=\"https:\/\/citylore.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/M364_DionneK_12-13-23_EP_13-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"Students and teachers join together to dance using props\" \/><figcaption class=\"elementor-image-carousel-caption\">Students and teachers join together to dance using props<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div><div class=\"swiper-slide\" role=\"group\" aria-roledescription=\"slide\" aria-label=\"3 of 6\"><figure class=\"swiper-slide-inner\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"swiper-slide-image\" src=\"https:\/\/citylore.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/M364_DionneK_12-13-23_EP_15-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"Dionne Kamara explains the steps to a new dance for Pre-K students\" \/><figcaption class=\"elementor-image-carousel-caption\">Dionne Kamara explains the steps to a new dance for Pre-K students<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div><div class=\"swiper-slide\" role=\"group\" aria-roledescription=\"slide\" aria-label=\"4 of 6\"><figure class=\"swiper-slide-inner\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"swiper-slide-image\" src=\"https:\/\/citylore.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/M364_DionneK_12-13-23_EP_17-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"Dionne Kamara reads to Pre-K students about gravity when dancing.\" \/><figcaption class=\"elementor-image-carousel-caption\">Dionne Kamara reads to Pre-K students about gravity when dancing.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div><div class=\"swiper-slide\" role=\"group\" aria-roledescription=\"slide\" aria-label=\"5 of 6\"><figure class=\"swiper-slide-inner\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"swiper-slide-image\" src=\"https:\/\/citylore.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/thumb_DSCN0018_1024_PS67-750x600-1.jpg\" alt=\"Dionne Kamara Warming up with students\" \/><figcaption class=\"elementor-image-carousel-caption\">Dionne Kamara Warming up with students<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div><div class=\"swiper-slide\" role=\"group\" aria-roledescription=\"slide\" aria-label=\"6 of 6\"><figure class=\"swiper-slide-inner\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"swiper-slide-image\" src=\"https:\/\/citylore.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/thumb_DSCN0002_1024_PS67-750x600-1.jpg\" alt=\"Dionne Kamara Warming up with students\" \/><figcaption class=\"elementor-image-carousel-caption\">Dionne Kamara Warming up with students<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-swiper-button 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data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Coming Soon!<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-a3e7390 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"a3e7390\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-1cd2d4c\" data-id=\"1cd2d4c\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dionne Kamara | Afro-Jamaican Kumina Dance Artist\u2019s Statement: My name is Dionne. I am a dancer and dance teacher who lives in NYC. I didn\u2019t always live here, though. I was born and lived in Jamaica, where I would learned to love dance. Every evening after dinner, my great-grandmother, whom we called Simo, would sing, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":13375,"parent":10808,"menu_order":123,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"site-sidebar-layout":"no-sidebar","site-content-layout":"page-builder","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"disabled","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"disabled","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"page_builder":[],"layout":[],"teaching_artist_category":[201],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citylore.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11484"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citylore.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citylore.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citylore.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citylore.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11484"}],"version-history":[{"count":34,"href":"https:\/\/citylore.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11484\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25467,"href":"https:\/\/citylore.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11484\/revisions\/25467"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citylore.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10808"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citylore.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citylore.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"page_builder","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citylore.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/page_builder?post=11484"},{"taxonomy":"layout","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citylore.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/layout?post=11484"},{"taxonomy":"teaching_artist_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citylore.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/teaching_artist_category?post=11484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}