Mr. Eric Baffour Awuah

ERIC BAFFOUR AWUAH

Eric Baffour Awuah is a tutor in dance studies, researcher and consultant at the Department of Dance Studies, School of Performing Arts. He graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in dance and theatre studies at the University of Ghana, and acquired an M.A. in Dance Knowledge, Practice and Heritage from the prestigious Erasmus-Mundus Choreomundus International Dance Master’s program convened by N.T.N.U-Norway, University of Clermont Auvergne-France, University of Szeged-Hungary, and Roehampton University-UK. Awuah is interested and involved in research areas such as Dance as Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH), dance within museum and gallery spaces, Laban Movement analysis, Ethnochoreology, Dance Anthropology, performance of heritage, and Ethnography. He has undertaken research and taught master classes and workshops in Ghana, Romania, Hungary, Norway, Burkina-Faso, and London. He currently teaches courses such as dance forms of Ghana, dance cultures of the world, introduction to Labanotation, historical and comparative dance studies, and research methods. He has published three articles so far with others under review awaiting publication.

LIST OF PUBLICATIONS

• Awuah, B. E. (2017). Whose dance is this again? In Nikola Krstović (Ed) Book of everything (you wanted to know about open air museums) (Vol. 5). Serbia: Open air museum OLD VILLAGE, Sirogojno. www.sirogojno.rs
• Awuah, B. E. (2016) Negotiating the narrative themes of traditionalGhanaian dance forms within the museum context. Mōtiō: Postgraduate Journal for Dance Practice and Research, 2, pp.23–33. Available at: www.motiojournal.org
• Awuah, B. E. (2015) A study of amateur groups’ re-interpretation of traditional dances in Ghana: Role on continuity and safeguarding. Acta Etnographica Hungrica, 60(1), 53-60. Doi:10.1556/022.2015.60.1.6