Topic: Mandiani responses (3 pages)

Help me study for my Social Science class. I’m stuck and don’t understand.

Subject: Theater studies

Topic: Mandiani responses

Paper details:

1. Where is Mandiani from and what ethnic group dances it?

2. Why is Mandiani danced according to the master dancers/instructors interviewed?

3. What is the importance of Mandiani in African American communities?

4. Who is Babatunde Olatunji and why is he significant?

5. How does age influence how Mandiani is danced?

6. How does gender play out in Mandiani?

7. What techniques, skills, or steps do you recognize from class in this chapter of Sunkett’s Mandiani Drum and Dance?