Sunday, October 29, 2006

[Wadabo_updates] Dance Classes with Kissima Diabate - all this week!!

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Dear African Dance and Drum Community,

Kissima Diabate
will be teaching classes in Central Sq. this weekend and next weekend:

Tomarrow! Sunday October 29th - Astou's class
3:00-4:30pm at the Dance Complex, $12

Saturday, November 4th - Fatou's class
4:30-6:00pm at the Dance Complex, $12

Sunday, November 5th - Pape's class
6:00-7:30pm at the Cambridge YWCA, $12

Kissima Diabate - Originally from Dakar, Senegal, Kissima Diabate is a former member of the Senegalese national dance company, Ballet La Linguire. We are fortunate to have Kissima visiting the area; Kissima has taught in Boston on many occasions to rave reviews. Don't miss out!

The Dance Complex 536 Mass Ave Cambridge, MA
www.dancecomplex.org

The Cambridge YWCA 7 Temple Street, Cambridge, MA



Thursday, October 26, 2006

[Wadabo_updates] Good-bye to Fatou N'Diaye with Abdoulaye Sylla

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Dear African Dance and Drum Community,
Our mother and teacher,
Fatou N'Diaye
will be leaving us this Sunday, October 29th until March of 2007.

Although we will miss her dearly,
we are happy for her opportunity to make the pilgrimage to Mecca
and to spend the following months with her family in Europe and Senegal.
Fatou would like to thank everyone in the community who has supported her.
Please join us in saying "Bon Voyage" and to bless her travels and religious path.


Come to wish Fatou well at the master class
with Abdoulaye Sylla
teaching the exquisite dance arts of Guinea, West Africa
This Saturday, October 28th 4:30-6:00pm
At the Dance Complex, $12
with live drumming by master artists.

Don't worry, while Fatou is away we will have a series of master classes
taught by local and visiting dance masters.
You can look forward to up-coming classes with: Pape N'Diaye, Kissima Diabate, Sekou Sylla, Abdoulaye Sylla and many more gifted teachers!!

Abdoulaye Sylla was a principal dancer and percussionist with Les Ballets Africains, the national dance troupe of the Republic of Guinea, from 1989 to 1994 and a principal dancer, percussionist, and the director of technique for Les Merveilles D'Afrique, a private folkloric troupe which trains dancers for the national company, from 1986 through 1994. He has performed, toured, and taught traditional dance throughout Africa, Europe, and the United States.

Thursday, October 19, 2006

[Wadabo_updates] Travel to Senegal with Fatou Carol Sylla & Sadio Diatta Rosche

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 A SPECIAL CULTURAL EXCHANGE TO SENEGAL, WEST AFRICA;
AN ARTS BASED, GRASSROOTS, CULTURAL EMERSION STUDY ABROAD PROGRAM  
JAN. 5-19 OR JULY 9-24, 2007
Information session & Course Overview below:
 


 Goree Island, Senegal
 
INFORMATION SESSION  OCTOBER 21, 2006

Fatou-Carol Sylla and Lesley University invite you to an information session to learn more about A SPECIAL CULTURAL EXCHANGE TO SENEGAL, WEST AFRICA, offering programs in 2007 both in January and July. This is a two-week arts based program that focuses on traditional dance and music in their cultural contexts, with a three undergraduate or graduate credit option through Lesley University.   This program, created and led by Fatou-Carol Sylla in conjunction with Sadio Rosche, Dr. Cheikh Sene of Suffolk University/Dakar Campus and Fotigue Toure, music director of the National Theater Group of Senegal, is in its 21st. year!
 
Come learn what is in store for 2007.  Travel in January or July!
 
Sat. October 21, 2006
from 1:00 - 2:30 PM
416 Porter Exchange Building
Lesley University
Porter Sq., Cambridge, MA
 
RSVP not necessary but greatly appreciated.
To RSVP or for more information including payment deadlines call Fatou-Carol at 617-868-6193.
 
Please check out a video clip from the most recent trip in July 2006 at:
 
 
Course Overview below:
 

A SPECIAL CULTURAL EXCHANGE:

DANCE, MUSIC AND CULTURE IN SENEGAL, WEST AFRICA

January 5-19, 2007 or

July 9-24, 2007

 

West Africa is rich with humanistic culture that is transferred from generation to generation through its art forms. This course will offer students a Senegalese grass-roots cultural emersion experience. Students will explore the roles dance, music and the integrated arts play in traditional West African culture. Students will study dance and drumming and participate in arts based cultural activities allowing students the opportunity to develop artistically as well as to explore West African culture on an experiential level. Students will also be exposed to historical, geo-political and religious influences on Senegal today by attending lectures with university professors.

 

This exciting two-week study abroad program will be based for one week in the Casamance, a geographically isolated region in the southern most part of Senegal, known as the "Garden of Senegal".  This is a rural area, in which traditional rituals and an animistic spiritual cosmology are still prevalent.

 

The beautiful and very historic Goree Island will be home to students during the second week of this cultural emersion experience. Goree Island is a village hundreds of years old and home to the Slave House Museum, which stands as a reminder of the exportation of West Africans as slaves from her shores. It also offers an artistic, research and cosmopolitan environment, due to its proximity (a twenty minute ferry ride) to Dakar, the capital of Senegal.

 

While in Senegal students will have the opportunity to:

 

Study indigenous dance and drumming in their traditional contexts as well as with members of the National Ballet of Senegal.

 

Participate in community drum and dance festivities/rituals 

 

Attend lectures on historical, geo-political, and Islamic influences on Senegalese culture as well as the on Arts and Spirituality in Senegal

 

Visit the Slave House and Ifa Museum, the University of Dakar as well as attend a National Ballet rehearsal and/or performance.

 

Meet with a traditional practitioner, watch artisans at work, and visit traditional open markets in Ziginchor, Casamance and on Goree Island.

 

Fatou- Carol Sylla founded A Special Cultural Exchange in 1985 and has organized and led West African arts based, grassroots study abroad programs for almost two decades in Senegal, Guinea and Guinea Bissau, including several years for Bradford College.  She does this in conjunction with Sadio Diatta Rosche, international artist and tour organizer in her native Casamance, Fotigue Toure, music director of the National Theater Group of Senegal, Cheikh Sene, professor at Suffolk University/Dakar Campus, as well as many other artists and family members.

 

For more information on the January or July Program please call Fatou-Carol at 617-868-6193

or email underthesundandd@hotmail.com. 

 

For fees and payment schedule, please open attachment.

Tuesday, October 17, 2006

[Wadabo_updates] Lamine Toure & Group Saloum this THURSDAY!

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Lamine Toure and Group Saloum

at the Lizard Lounge

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 19  @  9:30pm & 11:30pm (2 sets)

1667 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge
(between Harvard and Porter Squares)

cover charge: $10 at door (21+ show)
$8 in advance (www.virtuous.com)

"Soul Low" (early show) w/ ZULA HOOP at 8:00pm (free)!


Group Saloum is: Lamine Toure (sabar and lead vocals), Thiokho Diagne (sabar), Michael Lewis (drums), Raja Kassis (lead guitar), Akili Jamal Haynes (bass and backing vocals), Patricia Tang (keyboards and violin), Kimani Lumsden (percussion), Josiah Woodson (trumpet, flute and guitar), Iginaijah Maxwell (backing vocals), John Vanderpool (sax) and Sarah Privler (trombone).


For more info, visit www.laminetoure.com or www.myspace.com/groupsaloum

[Wadabo_updates] Gede! An Intensive Workshop on Haitian Dance & Culture

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Dear African Dance & Drum Community,
Yes, it is that time of year again.

In Honor of Our Ancestors,

Jean Appolon Presents Gede! An Intensive Workshop

on Haitian Folkloric Dance and Culture

Saturday, November 11th & Sunday, November 12th, 3:00-6:00pm

At the Dance Complex, 536 Mass Ave, Central Square, Cambridge

Master dancer/choreographer, Jean Appolon, presents a two-day intensive workshop on Haitian folkloric dance and culture. The series will focus on the Haitian folkloric dances performed during Gede Season, a time of celebration and homage for ancestors in Haitian culture. Mr. Appolon's course will feature Dunham & Horton techniques in a daily warm-up and Haitian folkloric technique & choreography in two 3 hour sessions. Each class will also include assigned readings and discussions of the Gede (ancestor) traditions relevant to the featured dances. Participants will have the opportunity to attend a Gede celebration hosted by the local Haitian community on Saturday night, 11/11. All classes will be accompanied by live percussion played by Haitian drum masters. Some dance experience is required, please ask for details. Answers to FAQs below.

 PRE-REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED FOR THIS WORKSHOP

$60.00 for entire 2-session workshop

$30.00 for Saturday or Sunday ONLY (one class)

$70.00/$35.00 if registered after 11/09

To register call 617.909.4489 or email daryamarusa@yahoo.com.

Please Visit www.JeanAppolon.com.

  Frequently Asked Questions:

1: How are these workshops different from his regular, weekly class?

The extended length of the workshop classes will allow for more detailed explanations of both the Dunham/Horton and Haitian movement techniques and illustrate their interrelatedness in Haitian performance. In addition to an expanded study of traditional Haitian dance technique and movement, Mr. Appolon will teach short sets of dance choreography, which will allow for the students to 'get a feel' for the dance steps and develop a firm foundation in Haitian movement sensibilities.

The workshop classes will also include discussions of Haitian Gede Season celebrations and dance genres, specifically their relationships to the Haitian Voudun traditions.  Mr. Appolon would like to educate the participants about Voudun traditions in order to illustrate Haiti's rich culture and to create understanding about the nature and texture of the dances. The overarching goal of the workshop is to engender a more informed dance community and to provide a space for all community members (teachers, drummers and students) to learn and grow together.

All participants are invited to attend a Gede celebration hosted by the local Haitian community on the evening of Saturday, November 11th. This will allow the student to see the traditions explored within the classroom as they are joyously enacted in the community. Transportation will be arranged.

2: What are Dunham and Horton techniques?

Dunham technique was created by Katherine Dunham to train the body specifically for the rigors of African traditional dance genres. Dunham's specialty was Afro-Caribbean dance genres, particularly Haitian Folkloric dance. In essence, Dunham technique was created to develop Haitian movement and performance skills in the professional dancer. Horton Technique was created by Lester Horton, which focuses on developing core strength and symmetrical balance in the body. Alvin Ailey was a student of Lester Horton and used this technique throughout his career. Both of these techniques are used by professional dancers of African and African-rooted genres (and all contemporary dance) to condition and train the body.

3: What about registration and payment?

·         $60.00 for entire 2-session workshop, $30.00 for Saturday or Sunday only (one class).

·         $70.00 after November 9,  $35.00 for one class after November 9.

·         Half payment is due at registration; The remainder of the total fee is due at the workshop.

 Registration deposits will not be refunded if cancellation notice is given after November 9. Only cash, money orders and personal checks will be accepted.

For information & to register call 617.909.4489 or email daryamarusa@yahoo.com.

[Wadabo_updates] Gede! An Intensive Workshop on Haitian Dance & Culture

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Dear African Dance & Drum Community,
Yes, it is that time of year again.

In Honor of Our Ancestors,

Jean Appolon Presents Gede! An Intensive Workshop

on Haitian Folkloric Dance and Culture

Saturday, November 11th & Sunday, November 12th, 3:00-6:00pm

Master dancer/choreographer, Jean Appolon, presents a two-day intensive workshop on Haitian folkloric dance and culture. The series will focus on the Haitian folkloric dances performed during Gede Season, a time of celebration and homage for ancestors in Haitian culture. Mr. Appolon's course will feature Dunham & Horton techniques in a daily warm-up and Haitian folkloric technique & choreography in two 3 hour sessions. Each class will also include assigned readings and discussions of the Gede (ancestor) traditions relevant to the featured dances. Participants will have the opportunity to attend a Gede celebration hosted by the local Haitian community on Saturday night, 11/11. All classes will be accompanied by live percussion played by Haitian drum masters. Some dance experience is required, please ask for details. Answers to FAQs below.

 PRE-REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED FOR THIS WORKSHOP

$60.00 for entire 2-session workshop

$30.00 for Saturday or Sunday ONLY (one class)

$70.00/$35.00 if registered after 11/09

To register call 617.909.4489 or email daryamarusa@yahoo.com.

Please Visit www.JeanAppolon.com.

  Frequently Asked Questions:

1: How are these workshops different from his regular, weekly class?

The extended length of the workshop classes will allow for more detailed explanations of both the Dunham/Horton and Haitian movement techniques and illustrate their interrelatedness in Haitian performance. In addition to an expanded study of traditional Haitian dance technique and movement, Mr. Appolon will teach short sets of dance choreography, which will allow for the students to 'get a feel' for the dance steps and develop a firm foundation in Haitian movement sensibilities.

The workshop classes will also include discussions of Haitian Gede Season celebrations and dance genres, specifically their relationships to the Haitian Voudun traditions.  Mr. Appolon would like to educate the participants about Voudun traditions in order to illustrate Haiti's rich culture and to create understanding about the nature and texture of the dances. The overarching goal of the workshop is to engender a more informed dance community and to provide a space for all community members (teachers, drummers and students) to learn and grow together.

All participants are invited to attend a Gede celebration hosted by the local Haitian community on the evening of Saturday, November 11th. This will allow the student to see the traditions explored within the classroom as they are joyously enacted in the community. Transportation will be arranged.

2: What are Dunham and Horton techniques?

Dunham technique was created by Katherine Dunham to train the body specifically for the rigors of African traditional dance genres. Dunham's specialty was Afro-Caribbean dance genres, particularly Haitian Folkloric dance. In essence, Dunham technique was created to develop Haitian movement and performance skills in the professional dancer. Horton Technique was created by Lester Horton, which focuses on developing core strength and symmetrical balance in the body. Alvin Ailey was a student of Lester Horton and used this technique throughout his career. Both of these techniques are used by professional dancers of African and African-rooted genres (and all contemporary dance) to condition and train the body.

3: What about registration and payment?

·         $60.00 for entire 2-session workshop, $30.00 for Saturday or Sunday only (one class).

·         $70.00 after November 9,  $35.00 for one class after November 9.

·         Half payment is due at registration; The remainder of the total fee is due at the workshop.

 Registration deposits will not be refunded if cancellation notice is given after November 9. Only cash, money orders and personal checks will be accepted.

For information & to register call 617.909.4489 or email daryamarusa@yahoo.com.

 


Saturday, October 14, 2006

[Wadabo_updates] Dance with Marilyn Middleton-Sylla 10/14

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Dear African Dance and Drum Community,
This is a reminder about a special workshop this weekend that will benefit Fatou N'Diaye -
Don't miss this opportunity to study the dances of Guinea, West Africa with
one of New England's best FEMALE AFRICAN DANCE TEACHERS.

Sister Fatou N'Diaye Presents

Master Dance Class with Marilyn Middleton-Sylla
(Benefit for Fatou N'Diaye)
Saturday, October 14th 4:30pm-6:00pm


Master dancer & choreographer, Marilyn Middleton-Sylla
will be teaching Sister Fatou's dance class, focusing on dances from Guinea, West Africa.
We are fortunate to have master drummer and former member of Les Ballets Africans ,
Sekou Sylla, to drum for the class!
Marilyn has generously decided to donate proceeds from the class to Sister Fatou.
Come out and support Sister Fatou and learn from one of the Matriarchs of the African Dance & Drum community!

$12.00, At the Dance Complex, 536 Mass Ave, Central Sq. Cambridge.
Classes will have live accompaniment by master African drum artists.
All are welcome. For more information please contact 617.909.4489 or visit www.WADaBo.com.

Marilyn Middleton-Sylla, Director of Bamidele Dancers & Drummers, has been at Mt. Holyoke College since 1994 and Greenfield Community College since 1993 teaching African dance from a cultural perspective. She is currently teaching African dance at Smith College and Amherst College. Since 1987 she has taught and performed throughout New England and the United States including Jacobs Pillow, the Omega Institute in Rhinebeck, New York and Kripalu Center in Massachusetts.

Marilyn studied Haitian Folkloric dance and taught West African dance in Port Au Prince, Haiti at the Ecole National Des Arts and in Mirebelais, Haiti at the Centre Cultural Alexandre Kenskoff in a collaborative exchange project with the director of Ballet Folklorique Tamboula D'Haiti, Inc., Peniel Guerrier. She also performed at the Theatre Nationale' in Port-au-Prince, Haiti with Ballet Folklorique Tamboula DHaiti, Inc., during March 2003. In addition she has performed and taught in Senegal and Guinea, West Africa and also taught African dance in Brazil at Malé deBalé and at the Universidade Federal da Bahia. She returns to Africa regularly to continue her studies of African dance and music. In 1998 she received an award from the University of Massachusetts for "Outstanding Support to Women of Color." Marilyn is a board member of A Better Chance Program, in Amherst, MA.

Sekou Sylla, Artistic Director of Bamidele Dancers & Drummers, was a principle dancer, acrobat and musician with Les Ballet Africains, the National Dance Company of the Republic of Guinea, West Africa, until he relocated to Massachusetts in 1996. Sekou has taught and performed all over the world including Africa, Australia, Europe, Spain, Korea, Finland, France, England, Mexico and North and South America and recently taught African dance in Brazil at Melé deBalé and at the Universidade Federal da Bahia.

Wednesday, October 11, 2006

[Wadabo_updates] Dance the Night Away - Every Thursday!

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A quick reminder  -

Every Thursday night at the Middle East Corner (aka the Bakery), you can dance the night away to the latest and greatest music from Africa and the Diaspora.

Rumba, Soukous, Mbalax, Zouk, Kwaito, Funana, Hip Hop, Salsa, Samba, Reggae, Reggaeton, Kompas, MPB, and whatever you request!

The night starts around 9 - 9.30 pm and runs until the last dancer leaves the floor, or until they shut the doors at 2 am.

It is FREE.

see you there!

[Wadabo_updates] Lecture-Demonstrations on Africa & the Diaspora

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Dear African Dance & Drum Community,

The following lectures on African and Diaspora cultures are being held:
1 - 10/11 - The Image of Cuba in Cinema (Cuba)-
2 - 10/12 - Embodying the Divine: Gender and Politics of Oricha Possesion Performance (Cuba & Haiti) -
3 - 10/16 - Themes in the Ekpe / Abakua Continuum (Nigeria/Cameroon/Cuba)
************************************************************************************** 
 1- The Image of Cuba in Cinema: The Making of a Canon
*Wednesday, October 11th 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm* 
Location: David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies,
CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street, Seminar Room S-250.
Rafael Hernández, Robert F. Kennedy Visiting Professor  
in Latin American Studies,
DRCLAS;Senior Research Fellow, Centro de
Investigación y Desarrollo de la Cultura Cubana Juan Marinello;
Professor of Internacional Relations, Universidad de la Habana.
A light dinner and refreshments will be served.
****************************************************************** 
 
2 - "Embodying the Divine: Gender and the Politics  
of Oricha Possession Performance"
Dr. Katherine J. Hagedorn

Center for the Study of World Religions, Harvard Divinity School
42 Francis Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138 (617) 495-4495


This lecture is about the process of possession performance in
Cuban Ocha (also known as Santería),
and how sociological and theological constructs encourage a gendered understanding of it.  
The lecture will also consider possession performance in Haitian Vodou as a comparison.  
Brief examples from both the Cuban and Haitian liturgies
will be performed toward the end of the lecture.
Dancers: Paritck Caskey and Darya Marusa Pinton.
*************************************************************************************************************
3 - Boston University African Studies Center
The 27th Walter Rodney Seminar Series (2006-2007) 
SCHEDULE FOR FALL 2006
 
All seminars are held on Mondays, from 12:00 noon to 1:30 p.m. William O. Brown
Seminar Room (416), African Studies Center, 270 Bay State Road 
October 16: Ivor Miller (Hampshire College)
"Themes in the Ekpe/ Abakuá Continuum"
In the early 19th century, Africans in Cuba created the Abakuá mutual aid society on the model of the  
Ékpè leopard society of West Africa's Cross River basin (Old Calabar).
This is clear not only from oral history, but from the fact that Abakuá material and
intellectual culture (dance masks, temple designs, drum construction, musical patterns,
chanted texts) are obviously similar to their Ékpè counterparts.
Also transmitted was a form of political organization in autonomous lodges with multiple
functionaries or membership grades--a system which had enabled long distance trade in
Africa despite the absence of territorial states, and which fostered social autonomy in Cuba.
Abakuá ritual language comprises thousands of chants containing phrases of Èfìk, a pre-colonial
lingua franca. In the past century, Cuban migrants to the United States have performed in the
context of American jazz music and made commercial recordings in Abakuá style, with coded
lyrics recalling specific West African places and events. In ongoing dialogues between Ekpe and
Abakuá members on both sides of the Atlantic, peoples scattered by slavery are reconstructing
their past and shaping their future.
For more info, see: http://afrocubaweb.com/abakwa/cubanscrossriver.htm

[Wadabo_updates] Dance with Marilyn Middleton-Sylla 10/14

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Dear African Dance and Drum Community,

Sister Fatou N'Diaye Presents

Master Dance Class with Marilyn Middleton-Sylla
(Benefit for Fatou N'Diaye)
Saturday, October 14th 4:30pm-6:00pm


Master dancer & choreographer, Marilyn Middleton-Sylla
will be teaching Sister Fatou's dance class, focusing on dances from Guinea, West Africa.
We are fortunate to have master drummer and former member of Les Ballets Africans ,
Sekou Sylla, to drum for the class!
Marilyn has generously decided to donate proceeds from the class to Sister Fatou.
Come out and support Sister Fatou and learn from one of the Matriarchs of the African Dance & Drum community!

$12.00, At the Dance Complex, 536 Mass Ave, Central Sq. Cambridge.
Classes will have live accompaniment by master African drum artists.
All are welcome. For more information please contact 617.909.4489 or visit www.WADaBo.com.

Marilyn Middleton-Sylla, Director of Bamidele Dancers & Drummers, has been at Mt. Holyoke College since 1994 and Greenfield Community College since 1993 teaching African dance from a cultural perspective. She is currently teaching African dance at Smith College and Amherst College. Since 1987 she has taught and performed throughout New England and the United States including Jacobs Pillow, the Omega Institute in Rhinebeck, New York and Kripalu Center in Massachusetts.

Marilyn studied Haitian Folkloric dance and taught West African dance in Port Au Prince, Haiti at the Ecole National Des Arts and in Mirebelais, Haiti at the Centre Cultural Alexandre Kenskoff in a collaborative exchange project with the director of Ballet Folklorique Tamboula D'Haiti, Inc., Peniel Guerrier. She also performed at the Theatre Nationale' in Port-au-Prince, Haiti with Ballet Folklorique Tamboula DHaiti, Inc., during March 2003. In addition she has performed and taught in Senegal and Guinea, West Africa and also taught African dance in Brazil at Malé deBalé and at the Universidade Federal da Bahia. She returns to Africa regularly to continue her studies of African dance and music. In 1998 she received an award from the University of Massachusetts for "Outstanding Support to Women of Color." Marilyn is a board member of A Better Chance Program, in Amherst, MA.

Sekou Sylla, Artistic Director of Bamidele Dancers & Drummers, was a principle dancer, acrobat and musician with Les Ballet Africains, the National Dance Company of the Republic of Guinea, West Africa, until he relocated to Massachusetts in 1996. Sekou has taught and performed all over the world including Africa, Australia, Europe, Spain, Korea, Finland, France, England, Mexico and North and South America and recently taught African dance in Brazil at Melé deBalé and at the Universidade Federal da Bahia.

Thursday, October 05, 2006

[Wadabo_updates] new djembe / djun djun class (thursday nights)

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New Djembe and Djun Djun Drum Class with Malian Master Drummer Sory Diabate

***learn traditional rhythms and variations, master the accompaniments and solos, perfect your
technique***

Thursdays, 6-7:30 pm, starting October 5
at King Open School auditorium
850 Cambridge St. (East Cambridge)

$12 per class; $50 for a 5 class card
Drums can be provided with prior arrangement
All levels and drop-ins welcome!

For further information, please call
Sory Diabate   617 894 9637  or
Ahmed Nur      617 908 1691

[Wadabo_updates] African Dance this week: Katrina Survivors Performance Benefit, Kissema Dioubate & more...

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Dear African Dance & Drum Community,

Thank you to all who came out to make last week's events, workshops and performances, all.

This coming week there are more African dance events and announcements to keep you going...

1 - Lamine Toure's Sabar Class  - Schedule Change
2 - Kissema Dioubate - Master Class Saturday, October 7th
3 - Bridging the Gulf - Performance to Benefit Katrina Survivors - Saturday, October 7th

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1 - Lamine Toure's Sabar Class - Schedule Change

Lamine has decided to re-structure his weekly Sabar class in the hopes of providing a better class for the community.

Starting this Thursday, October 5th
Sabar class will start promptly at 6:30pm with a warm-up
Lamine will begin to teach the choreography at 6:45
This way there will be more time dedicated to Sabar dance!!

This is a change from the previous structure of warm-up from 6:30-7 and choreography from 7-8.

Lamine decided to make this change in response to communtiy feedback about his class
and in the interests of giving his students' more time to learn.
So don't forget to be ON TIME TO CLASS THIS THURSDAY!

CLASS IS HAPPENING AS USUAL:
6:30-8PM AT THE DANCE COMPLEX,
536 Mass Ave, Central Sq, Cambridge
www.DanceComplex.org.

2 - Master Class with Kissema Dioubate

Sister Fatou N'Diaye Presents -
Master Dance Class with Kissema Dioubate
Saturday, October 7th
4:30pm-6:00pm (Fatou N'Diaye's class)
Sengalese Dance

Master dancer & drummer Kissema Dioubate will be teaching Sister Fatou's dance class.
Originally from Dakar, Senegal, Kissema is a former member of the Senegalese national dance company,
Ballet La Linguire. Kissema has taught in Boston on many occasions to rave reviews. Don't miss out!

Class is $12/student.
At The Dance Complex, 536 Mass Ave, Central Sq. Cambridge
(www.DanceComplex.org).
Classes will have live accompaniment by master African drum artists.
All are welcome. For more information please visit www.WADaBo.com.

3 - Bridging the Gulf - Performance to Benefit Katrina Survivors in Mississippi

BRIDGING THE GULF, a concert of dance and music to
benefit Hurricane Katrina rebuilding efforts in Mississippi  
by Turkey Creek Community Initiatives
Date:  Saturday, October 7, 2006
 Time: 8 pm
Venue: The Somerville Theatre, 55 Davis Square ,
Somerville , Ma 02144. 
 
Local artists have organized an evening of dance and music to benefit 
Turkey Creek Community Initiatives (TCCI) a non-profit in Mississippi that is resettling people
and promoting a future for them that is culturally and environmentally sound
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For more information on the TCCI you can go to: http://www.turkey-creek.org/
.
Derrick Evans, the founder and director, was raised in Turkey Creek, attended Boston College,
became a historian, and taught history in Boston for twenty years. 
He returned to Turkey Creek and founded TCCI. CNN says of his work: "Faster than FEMA,
more nimble than the Red Cross, Derrick Evans doesn't think much about either. 
All he thinks about is that ocean of need."
 
 
Tickets; Theatre and Ticketmaster Open seating:  $20 at the door   

Reserved seating: (first two rows) $50 for one ticket,

$75 for two and $100 for four.

 
Performers: Diane Arvanites-Noya and Tommy Neblett (Prometheus Dance), Marianne Harkless with Beat Tree, 
Bass-Line Motion (Adrienne Hawkins and Larry Roland), Kathy Hassinger Dance Company, Ballet Rox,
Annie Keating (folk-rock singer whose music has been featured on WERU, WMBR and others around the country),
Matt Keating (no relation to Annie, folk-rock singer (photo attached), Rozann Kraus, Rebecca Rice Dancers,
and featuring two African American, folk singer
songwriters from the Gulf Coast of Mississippi, Erich Suave Funches and Gigi Hines. 
Derrick Evans is also scheduled to speak.
 
CONTACTS:  Lizz Cannon, 508-292-2720, e-mail
 lzzcannon@yahoo.com; Kathy Hassinger, 617-965-1569,
e-mail  kathyhassinger@verizon.net, and Margo Marado,
617-491-5144, e-mail casaniastudio@aol.com.