Friday, December 29, 2006

Re: [Wadabo_updates] Fatou Dance classes cancelled - Sat/Mon Dec 30, Jan 2

I will be away from December 27 through January 19. My email access will
be limited. Thank you for your patience during this time and happy new
year!

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[Wadabo_updates] Fatou Dance classes cancelled - Sat/Mon Dec 30, Jan 2

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Hello All -
FYI for any of you still in town this New Year's weekend:

Fatou has cancelled the next two classes at Be One Saturday 12/30/06  and Monday 1/1/07. Please spread the word. Also please continue to support her long trips from NYC to keep Joh's classes going until the end of January. She will resume teaching on Saturday, 1/6/07.
Thanks and enjoy your New Year's weekend and celebrations. Peace in 2007.

Thursday, December 28, 2006

[Wadabo_updates] Call for artists & Alvin Ailey FREE performance

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Dear African Dance and Drum Community,
Hope the holidays are being enjoyed by all!

In this email:

1- Call for Music and Dance Artists

2 - Alvin Ailey Dance Across the City free concert at the Strand Theatre
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1 - Call to Music and Dance Artists

The Somerville Human Rights Commission is seeking
performers for our fifth annual Martin Luther King Jr.
Day celebration. Held at the East Somerville
Community School, this city-sponsored event features
speakers, performances, and awards honoring the spirit
of Dr. King's work.

Date: January 15, 2007
Time: 10:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Location: East Somerville Community School, 115 Pearl
Street, Somerville

We invite local artists (preferably musicians or
dancers) to perform either solo or in groups for TWO
slots of 10-15 minutes each. Unfortunately, all
speakers and performers are unpaid - sorry! This is,
however, a great opportunity to have your work seen by
a diverse audience of approximately 250 people,
including local officials and community leaders.
Please consider donating your time to help us honor
the legacy of Dr. King and the work of local civil
rights advocates and activists.

To inquire further, please contact: Mary Lu Mendonca
at 617-625-6600 x2165 or
mmendonca@ci.somerville.ma.us.

2 - Alvin Ailey Dance Across the City free concert at the Strand Theatre

Alvin Ailey Dance Across the City
Friday, Jan 5
7:00 pm
Strand Theatre, 543 Columbia Road
Dorchester
 
FREE performance at the Strand as part of Dance Across the City Day. 
Featuring showcase performances by the Boston Ballet, Pilobolus,
the Boston Arts Academy and the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater. 
Members of the Ailey Company will perform their signature work, "Revelations."
 
To Reserve free tickets call (617) 598-3201 (celebrity series). 
You must call and be on the list in order to pick up your tickets

We cannot take orders here.
 
Maximum of 6 tickets per person.  Tickets are general admission with no assigned seating. 
After placing the order, please allow 2 business days to pick-up your tickets.
 
Pick-up your tickets in Room 802 from 9 am to 5 pm on December 27, 28, 29 or January 3, 4. 
Tickets can also be picked up at the Strand Box Office on Jan. 3, 4 from 10 am to 4 pm.
 
Tickets not picked up by Jan. 4 @ 5 pm will be released to the general public at the
Strand Box Office on Friday, Jan. 5 from 10 am to 2 pm.

Friday, December 22, 2006

[Wadabo_updates] Sad News - Alexandria Ferdinand

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Dear African Dance & Drum Community,

It is with great sadness and heavy heart that I have to bear the news
that our friend, fellow dancer, amazing artist & blessed woman
Alexandria Ferdinand
passed away on Tuesday, December 19th
due to complications with an on-going heart condition.

This happened while she was doing what she did best:
teaching dance.

Her family is in need of our help!
They have set up the
Alexandria Ferdinand Memorial Fund
to help with the costs of the funeral. Any money given over those costs will be donated to a charity
that her family feels Alex would have supported. If you want to dontate contact:
Cambridge Teacher's Federal Credit Union
459 Broadway, Cambridge, MA 02139
617.492.3212 tel.

The Wake is Friday, December 29th, 4pm-8pm
at Roger's funeral Home
380 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA 02141
617.876.8964 tel.

The Funeral is Saturday, December 30th, at 9am
at St. John's Roman Catholic Church
2254 Mass. Ave., Cambridge, MA
617.547.4880 tel.

Both of these events are open to all in the miriad of communities
that Alex lived, worked and danced with who want to honor her.

If any more information surfaces about these or other events I will post another email.
Peace to all during the holidays, keep Alex and her family in your thoughts & prayers.
Darya


Tuesday, December 19, 2006

[Wadabo_updates] Guest Teacher - Fatou Keita from Mali

hello all!
so it is that time of year again. Joh has left for Mali for the holidays.
However, we have a wonderful guest teacher to fill in for him on Mondays
and Saturdays, and to fill in for Seydou until he returns.
Fatou Keita, from Mali, has danced with the major dance troupes in
Bamako, Mali, including the renowned Troupe District du Bamako. We're
lucky to have a wonderful female teacher filling in for us, and it would
be great to show her the packed classes we can bring in Boston!
Fatou will also teach Seydou's Wednesday class this week (Dec 20th).
Seydou will be back after Christmas, and may even teach on the 27th of
December. He will be back for sure on the 3rd of January.
See you all on the dance floor!
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Monday, December 11, 2006

[Wadabo_updates] Lamine Toure & Group Saloum THURSDAY!

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Dear African Dance and Drum Community,

BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND...  Group Saloum has ONE MORE show at the Lizard Lounge before Lamine leaves for Senegal!!


LAMINE TOURE & GROUP SALOUM

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 14 at 9:30pm

"Soul Low" (early show) with The Grownup Noise at 8:00pm (free)!!

The Lizard Lounge
1667 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge
(between Harvard and Porter Squares)
cover charge: $10 at door (21+ show)
$8 in advance (www.virtuous.com)


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

Wednesday, December 06, 2006

[Wadabo_updates] Cape Verdean Dance

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Dear African Dance  & Drum Community,
In the next few emails are several opportunties to study and witness dance and music from the African Diaspora.
Enjoy!

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1 - Cape Verdean Music & Dance

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*       Cape Verdean Music and Dance Workshop Demonstration       *
*                     featuring *** LURA! ***                     *
*             Tuesday, December 12th, 3:00 - 5:00 PM              *
* Thompson Room, Barker Center, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA *
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This workshop demonstration will feature Lura, one of Cape Verde's most
famous singer-dancers, and her spectacular band of legendary Cape
Verdean musicians.  Lura's distinctly Cape Verdean style ranges from ballads to
batuku, a traditional women's genre, to funana, an energizing dance
gaining in popularity throughout West Africa.  After the demonstration,
join members of the local Cape Verdean community for Cape Verdean
refreshments and discussion.  If you have an interest in music, dance,
the African diaspora, the Lusophone world, or community outreach, this
event is for you!

This event is free and open to the general public.  Sponsors: the
Department of African and African American Studies, the Harvard African
Students Association, and the Cape Verdean Creole Institute.

Contact: Carla Martin, cdmartin@fas.harvard.edu

More information about Lura:
http://www.luracriola.com
http://www.worldmusic.org/concerts_event_indiv.php?p_seq=564
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wiKxQeDkn58
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjtHrw9lbxU

Boston Globe review:
http://www.boston.com/ae/music/articles/2005/09/14/alluring_lura_goes_all_out_with_intense_cape_verdean_flair/

Directions:
http://www.harvard.edu/community/transportation.html

Monday, December 04, 2006

[Wadabo_updates] Senegalese Music & Dance Performance this weekend, 12/09

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Kisssima Diabate & Pape N'Diaye present
NDAJE
Saturday, December 9th at 8pm

At the Julie Ince Thompson Theatre at The Dance Complex

Two powers of Senegal, West Africa, "Ndaje", come together,
to create a spectacular performance of African drum and dance arts.
Featuring the Boston premier performance
of Sengalese music from Doomou Africa.
Also featuring African dance performances, choreographed by Kissima Diabate & Pape N'Diaye,
with special guest artists from Boston, New York, and Vermont.
Tickets are $15/ $13 students.
The Dance Complex is located at 536 Mass. Ave. Central Sq. Cambridge -
 www.DanceComplex.org for directions.