About

Holds an M.A degree in International Master in Dance Knowledge, Practice and Heritage. He is a researcher interested in movement systems and dance as heritage. One of his other interests lies in the educational legacy of dance in Ghanaian Higher Education and discusses the influence of the interpretive leverage and abilities available to the amateur dance category and their effects on safeguarding dance as intangible cultural heritage in Ghana. He currently serves in the capacity of part-time lecturer of dance at the University of Education – Winneba.

Education

2012 — 2014

MA International Master in Dance Knowledge, Practice, and Heritage 

• ERASMUS MUNDUS Scholarship: Norway, France, Hungary, UK

2006 — 2010

B.F.A. Dance Studies with Theatre (First Class honors)

• University of Ghana, Legon, Ghana

Publications

Awuah, E. (2017). Whose dance is this again? In book of everything (you wanted to know about open air museums) (Vol. 5). 

Awuah, E. (2016). Negotiating the narrative themes of traditional Ghanaian dance forms within the museum context. Motio: Postgraduate Journal for dance Practice and Research 2, pp.23-33. Available at; www.motiojournal.org 

Awuah, E. (2015). A study of amateur groups’ re-interpreteation of traditional dances in Ghana: Role on continuity and safeguarding. Acta Ethnographica Hungrica, 60(1), 53-60. Doi:10.1556/022.2015.60.1.6