West African Dance & Spiritual Well-Being Morning Class | Instructor
Truth Hunter was born and raised in Oakland, California. She studied West African dance under the tutelage of Marilyn and Sekou Sylla of Bamidele Dancers and Drummers at Mount Holyoke College. In 2007, Truth Hunter created a multimedia African Dance concert to fundraise for asylum seekers impacted by genocide in Darfur. It was through this experience that she realized the performing arts can be used as a tool for activism and are a powerful way to bring healing into the world. In August 2017, Truth Hunter became the Director of Race and Ethnicity programs at Connecticut College where she collaborated with the Dance Department to design an interdisciplinary course that used West African dance to tell stories of resistance of African diaspora people during the Transatlantic Slave Trade. In spring of 2018, Truth Hunter traveled to Senegal to train with Bakalama Dance Company and performed a solo at the renowned dance school École des Sables. Currently, Truth Hunter is a doctoral candidate at the University of Connecticut. Her research examines the ways that West African dance deepens embodied teaching and learning. Additionally, Truth teaches African dance healing workshops that promote the union of the mind, body, and spirit.