Watch Student Performance - Spring 2025

Fuad Elhage, Senior Lecturer of Spanish at UGA, has taught Diversity Through Dance, a course that blends Spanish language and culture with music and dance since 2010. In the past two semesters, a new class, SPAN 4030S has added a service-learning component. Through a partnership with the Athens Community Council on Aging (ACCA), students not only learn dances like salsa, bachata, and merengue but also teach them to older adults, including members of the Dementia Resource Center. 

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"Our goal should be to become something more than temporary cross-cultural tourists: to permanently extend the borders of our embodied selves, while learning the deep value of having fun together and experiencing the great power of dance in breaking through barriers. This helps each other step out of our often deceptive cultural comfort zones into a new, open space of experiential connection, collective empowerment, and democratic understanding. Throughout, the deep power of music in motion will bring us to feel and see each other as one." 

-Dr. Fuad Elhage