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Intercultural Dance and Music Institute The Intercultural Dance and Music Institute (INDAMI), founded in the fall of 1992 by current director Dr. Andrea Mantell-Seidel, is housed in the Latin American and Caribbean Center (LACC) at FIU. The Institute works in collaboration with the Department of Theatre and Dance. INDAMI’s primary purpose is to foster the preservation of all cultural dance and music forms through study, research, publications, conferences, performances, lectures and classes. The institute seeks to foster intercultural understanding, community relations and the appreciation of cultural differences. Reflecting the large Latin American and Caribbean population of the Greater Miami area, INDAMI’s programs emphasize the dance and music of these geographical areas. Public education is one of INDAMI’s top priorities. To further this goal, the institute sponsors numerous programs, including an annual Guest Artist/Scholar Series, an Arts-in-Education outreach program in the Miami-Dade County public schools, the Latin American and Caribbean Summer Dance Institute, the Summer Institute Consortium, and intercultural performance events throughout the year. INDAMI’s programs have received support from the US Department of Education’s Fund for the Improvement of Post-Secondary Education; the Florida Division of Cultural Affairs and the Florida Arts Council; the Miami-Dade Cultural Affairs Council and the Board of County Commissioners; the Miami Beach Cultural Arts Council and the City of Miami Beach; American Airlines; Burstein Foundation; and the BankAtlantic Foundation. Director and Staff Andrea Mantell-Seidel, PhD is INDAMI’s founder and director. She holds a doctorate in Dance from New York University and a Master’s degree in English literature from McGill University, Montreal. As an associate professor of dance at FIU, she teaches courses in Global Perspectives in Dance and Culture, Dance Ethnology, Latin American and Caribbean Dance and Culture, and Modern Dance and writes articles on a variety of topics related to dance, myth, and ritual, intercultural education, and early modern dance reconstruction. As a solo artist and scholar and as Artistic Director of the critically acclaimed Isadora Duncan Dance Ensemble, Dr. Mantell-Seidel has toured nationally and internationally in Japan, China, Germany, Canada, Central and South America, including such prestigious venues as the Kennedy Center in Washington, New York Lincoln Center Festival Out-of-Doors, the International Goethe Festival in St. Petersburg, Russia, the International Festival Sucretino (Venezuela), and International Festival de las Mujeres en la Danza (Ecuador). Dr. Seidel is the recipient of over a hundred local, state and national grants, including a $225,000, three-year grant from the US Department of Education’s Fund for the Improvement of Post-Secondary for the Dancing Across Disciplines project. Charmille Walters is INDAMI’s Program Coordinator. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in Dance from Florida International University. Ms. Walters began dancing at the age of four with the Jamaica School of Dance. In May 2002, she performed at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, DC as a part of the National College Dance Festival. She provides dance consultation to public schools and teaches for after-school programs. Her arts administrative experience began in 1997 as volunteer staff for Performing Arts Network and Tigertail Production. As Assistant Director of Iroko Dance and Performance Center, her duties included performance and company logistic, office and grant management, teacher, dancer (soloist) and musician. As Operation Manager for DanceArts Foundation, Inc. her primary responsibility is grant management, organization development and performance logistics. Her production credits includes local crew stage technician for the MTV Video Music Award, Latin Billboard, Latin Grammy, Source Awards, Disney on Ice, Madonna, Simon & Garfunkel, Yani, Bette Midler among others. Contact Information |
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