Erin Holmes

 

                

    

     Erin Bryce Holmes graduated cum laude from Temple University with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in dance and a minor in psychology.  She has performed with Tania Isaac, as an apprentice with Urban Bush Women, as a member of Kariamu & Company: Traditions, and internationally as a principle dancer in the African American Dance Ensemble.  She has worked with Bill T. Jones in the Fela Kuti Project and is currently a dancer with Dance Theatre X.  Erin is a dancer and choreographer who approaches movement through pan- African, modern and hip- hop techniques.  She is a teaching artist working throughout New York and Pennsylvania.

 

Class Description:

The class mixes with W. African Dance with a Pan African technique called "Umfundalai" (Mmm-foon-da-la).  It is a kiswahili word meaning essence.