Afro-Cuban Orisha Song and Dance Classes with Live Drumming

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Sunday 10 January, Sunday 14 February & Sunday 13 March 2016

Three workshops on song and dance from the Afro-Cuban Orisha tradition of Santeria.

Daniela De Armas, leader of The London Lucumi Choir, will teach songs for two Orisha each month, accompanied by the live bata drums of The Axis Trio. Dances for those Orishas will be taught by a different professional Cuban folfloric dancer each month, accompanied by live singing and drumming. The aim is to experience the link between the song, the dance and the drum in this genre. Participants can learn just the singing, just the dancing or both.

Sunday 10 January

This dance session will be taught by Cuban folkloric dancer, Alicia Bueno Atie. Alicia danced for 25 years with Raices Profundas Folkloric Dance Company directed by Juan de Dios Ramos, one of the most famous folkloric performers/teachers in Cuba, with whom she performed throughout Cuba and internationally.

Sunday 14 February

Dance session two will be taught by Lazaro Lopez. One of the most brilliant and distinguished dancers of Afro-Cuban in the world, graduating in 1989 from the renowned Escuela Nacional de Arte (ENA) in Havana, Lazaro went straight on to work as a principal dancer with some of the best Cuban folkloric dance comapnies such as Raices Profundas, Pinos Nuevos, and the Conjunto Folklorico J.J dancing all over Cuba and in Asia, Europe and Latin America.

Sunday 13 March

Dance sessiob three will be taught by Idalberto Alcala an international master of Cuban Dance, ex Havana Night Choreographer and performer and nine times winner of the world renowned Havana Carnival for best Choreography, costume and performance.

Cost

Song sessions - £12.50 / Concessions £10

Dance sessions - £12.50 / Concessions £10

Both sessions - £18.50 / Concessions £15