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Caroline Muraldo is the artistic director of the Christian dance company Muraldo D.C formed in 1999. The company performs traditional dances from both Africa and the Caribbean in addition to a wide range of dance pieces based on biblical truths. As a born-again Christian she considers her work that expresses her faith to be the most important
Caroline is an experienced professional dancer, choreographer, dance teacher, who incorporates storytelling and folk singing as part of her dance work with primary schools and has worked as a singer and actress. She holds two degrees in dance studies and is currently working towards her Ph.D., also in dance studies. She has worked with most of the renowned British based exponents of African and African-Caribbean dance forms.
In addition, she is the creator and organiser of the unique annual celebration of traditional Caribbean culture ‘Quadfest’ and Jnr. Quadfest (especially developed for primary schools) which centres upon ‘Caribbean Quadrilles‘ and is a platform for traditional Caribbean dances generally along with other traditional Caribbean folk forms. |
| Caroline is responsible for the highly successful day of Caribbean dance which incorporated also storytelling, folk singing and discussion panels, entitled ‘Dance Caribbean Dance’ held as part of Blazing 2000 at the South Bank in August 2000, attended by 4000 people.
She was also the director of the ‘Dancing at the Crossroads’ conference also held at the South Bank Centre during summer 2002 and continues to help organise academic discussions concerning critical issues at the heart of dance forms of African heritage. Caroline was the initiator of ‘Quadrille-mania’, another annual event which consists of a wonderful weekend of workshops in English/French, Caribbean Quadrille and Irish Step dance held at Cecil Sharpe House, Camden home of the English folk Dance and Song Society where she also currently teaches a monthly Caribbean Quadrille class. She had her first article published in Dance Theatre Journal (2003) which was considered to be an important contribution and received much positive feedback. |
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| Caroline along with members of her company currently teaches in a variety of educational establishments working with ages ranging from nursery school to elders both nationally and internationally. This includes her post as visiting lecturer at Surrey University were she has been teaching since 1999 on the first Dance and Culture degree for which she has developed the first three-year degree module ‘ A foundation in Africanistic Movement’ coining the phrase ‘Africanistic Movement’ in 2003 in the wake of her article for Dance Theatre Journal.
A significant part of her work is dedicated to creating awareness and appreciation of traditional black dance forms with a special emphasis towards traditional Caribbean dance which forms the central area of focus for her doctoral research work. |
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