[Wadabo_updates] Guest Teacher for Seydou's Class, Uhuru Afrika & JUMP! Parties

Greetings all! 

I hope summer is treating everyone well. 

A few announcements in this email:

1) Guest Teacher for Seydou Coulibaly's Wednesday Dance Class

2) Uhuru Afrika - Saturday August 14th

3) Uhuru Afrika's JUMP! featuring Coraje - Thursday, August 19th

4) Dance Complex Summer Cleaning/Temporary ShutDown

1) Guest Teacher for Seydou Coulibaly's Wednesday Dance Class

As most folks already know, Seydou is currently in Mali on his yearly trip leading a group of students (if you would like to go to Mali to study with Seydou, or stay at his school/home, please email wadabo@gmail.com with subject line "Study in Mali"). 

Teaching his class while he is gone is Sharon Kivenko, herself just back from intensive study and research in Mali and Europe. Her classes have been great so far, and with Moussa and Issa heading up the drumming, the music has been awesome as well. 

A little more about Sharon:

Dance Ethnographer, Sharon Kivenko has traveled to Mali and Ghana West Africa, to France and Belgium, and throughout the United States to conduct research on West African dance and music. She recently returned from a year-long stay in Bamako, Mali where she studied dances, rhythms and songs from the Mande canon with members of Seydou Coulibaly's acclaimedTroupe Komée José. She is a member of the historic award-winning Malian dance ensemble Le Ballet du District de Bamako, and has worked with the troupe as a celebration facilitator at community celebrations such as weddings and baptisms. Sharon has also traveled to a variety of rural areas in Mali to observe and participate in community celebrations of all sorts. Sharon is a former member of Joh Camara's Troupe Sewa, and has performed with Seydou Coulibaly, Issa Coulibaly, Djeneba Sacko, Melanie Berg and with Maputo and Mawye Mensah in their Ghanaian dance and music ensemble Logo Legi. A Doctoral Candidate in Social Anthropology at Harvard University, Sharon aims to bring dance as a topic of study and as a physical practice into the academic study of human lifeways and cultures.

2) Uhuru Afrika - Saturday August 14th

This Saturday Uhuru Afrika returns! 

9:00pm 1:00am @ AllAsia Bar - 344 Massachussetts Avenue - Cambridge, MA

Uhuru Afrika : Boston's Afro-Diasporic Dancefloor Explosion !!!End of the Summer Bash!!! w/special guest DJ Marco Castro (Dancegruv / AfrobetaBodega) coming to Boston from Miami to play for you.

Featuring your Resident Uhuru Afrika Urban Griots:

Adam Gibbons & Max Pela

Live West African Drumming

by Malian Master Percussionist Sidy Maiga.

Jay Medina will be mastering a mix of moving images for you.

21+ : $10 : www.uhuruafrika.com

RSVP on Facebook @ http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=128939317147592

3) Uhuru Afrika's JUMP! featuring Coraje - Thursday, August 19th

Next Thursday JUMP! returns! After a party which featured awesome latin dancing and a special surprise appearance by Bassekou Kouyate's Ngoniba, the next party features more latin percussive fun with Coraje.

August 19th

@ Oberon - 2 Arrow St - Cambridge, MA - Harvard Square

18+ : $10 : 9pm-1am

Uhuru Afrika's JUMP Returns!!!

With residents:

* urban griots :: Adam Gibbons & Max Pela.

* Malian master percussionist :: Sidy Maiga.

* Visual Artist :: Jay Medina.

and very special guest:

CORAJE!

http://www.uhuruafrika.com/

Advance Tix: http://www.cluboberon.com/shows.html#uhuru

CORAJE is 3 men (Ernesto Abreu, Nico Laboy and Matt Baranello), 50 pieces of percussion, and 3 tons of fun. Starting with a core mix of vocals and percussion, CORAJE brings the afro-latin-carribean funk to the dance floor. 

CORAJE is unapologetically angry at the state of the world but crushes apathy through flipping that anger into positive energy and driving powerful hypnotic rhythms and chants. Come to the show, move to the energy, and dance us to a better world.

RSVP on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/#!/event.php?eid=140521179300035

4) Dance Complex Summer Cleaning/Temporary ShutDown

The Dance Complex closes yearly for cleaning, renovations, summer vacation. This year, it will be closed from Monday August 23rd through Monday September 7th (reopening on the 8th). If you would like to volunteer during the closure to clean and earn some free classes, please contact the Dance Complex directly.

[Wadabo_updates] Dance & Drum in NH (Portsmouth & Barrington)

Two exciting opportunities in West African Dance and Drum here in the Seacoast of NH!  

M'Bemba Bangoura is coming back!

Thursday, August 5th, 6:00-7:30 pm
Jack Bingham Studio
Barrington, NH
Drum class with M'Bemba Bangoura~

Learn some traditional drumming rhythms and technique from
Guinea, West Africa!

Master drummer M'Bemba Bangoura is teaching an all levels drum class.  M'Bemba  played with Ballet Djoliba, one of the
most respected dance companies in Guinea. Since moving to the United States nearly 20 years ago, he's been a much sought after instructor and accompanist.

$15.00 per person      All levels welcome.   **Please bring your own drum.**

AND

Friday, August 6th, 6:00-8:00pm
Yoga East Studio
Portsmouth, NH
Doundounba Drum and Dance class with M'Bemba Bangoura~

Special 2 hour combined drum and dance class! A rare opportunity to learn both the drumming and dancing parts to the rhythm Doundounba, an important traditional dance from Guinea. Perfect for drummers and dancers alike!

$20.00  All levels welcome.  **Please bring your own drum.**

For more information about either workshop contact Liz:

603.969.5264 or fowler.camara@gmail.com

[Wadabo_updates] Uhuru Afrika's JUMP! TONIGHT - featuring Ten Tumbao

Uhuru Afrika's JUMP Returns!!!

JUMP! Presents special guests:

TEN TUMBAO! 

Alongside Resident Urban Griot : MAX PELA (ADAM GIBBONS is recharging in Africa)

Selekting the hottest dance tracks from Africa and across the Diaspora.

With Malian Master Percussionist SIDY MAIGA and Visual Artist Jay Medina.

Thursday, July 29th, 2010

18+

$10 pre-sale & door

9pm - 1am

http://www.uhuruafrika.com/

Advance Tix: http://www.cluboberon.com/shows.html#uhuru

Uhuru Afrika's JUMP! at Oberon :: 2 Arrow Street, Cambridge.

Oberon is at the Corner of Arrow and Mass Avenue, in Harvard Square.

Sister event to the monthly Uhuru Afrika, Uhuru Afrika's JUMP features Adam Gibbons & Max Pela, with Malian Master Percussionist Sidy Maiga, and a live group every month. Local and global artists celebrate alongside community and dance together in harmony. Party with a purpose! Every Jump donates a percentage of revenue to NextAid. This month we are honored to welcome to the party special guest Ten Tumbao.

Ten Tumbao is a 7-piece funky and soulful Afro-Latin-Caribbean band that mixes spicy rhythms with vocal harmonies, captivating melodies, and a touch of jazz to create ear-catching, body-moving, heart-opening music! The group plays authentic son and salsa classics as well as hot originals. 

"Tumbao" is a Cuban word meaning rhythm, flavor, style and flair. "Ten Tumbao" means "HaveTumbao," which is exactly what they invite you to do every time they play!

Band members hail from Puerto Rico, Colombia, Venezuela, Boston, NYC - and sessions are known to frequently include guest stars of international acclaim.

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http://www.myspace.com/tentumbao

http://www.tentumbao.com/

http://www.afrobetabodega.com/

http://www.cluboberon.com/

http://www.uhuruafrika.com/

http://twitter.com/uhuruafrika

http://myspace.com/uhuruafrika

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=42001721402

Facebook Event page (RSVP and see who else is going): http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=102571869797329

MySpace Event page : http://events.myspace.com/External/MySpace/Event/View/6197918

And a quick Sneak Peak Forward:

Uhuru Afrika @ AllAsia - August 14th w/Guest DJ Marco Castro

Uhuru Afrika's JUMP! @ Oberon - August 19th w/CORAJE!

[Wadabo_updates] Fatou-Carol teaching in July

Just a reminder that Fatou-Carol WILL be teaching her Friday night African dance class during the entire month of July this summer. 

[Wadabo_updates] Tomorrow Night: Uhuru Afrika's JUMP Featuring ZILI MISIK !

Uhuru Afrika's JUMP! returns this Friday, June 25, 2010 (10:30pm - 2 am) with special guest ZILI MISIK!!

Where: Oberon, 2 Arrow Street, Cambridge, MA

When: 10:30 pm til 2 am!!

Cost: $10 Door (discounted tix ($5) from 1:30am onwards)

 

Uhuru Afrika's JUMP Returns!!!

With resident urban griots: Adam Gibbons & Max Pela

With Malian master percussionist Sidy Maiga and Visual Artist Jay Medina.

and very special guest:

ZILI MISIK! 

More Info: http://www.facebook.com/#!/event.php?eid=122370504471069

Zili Misik has been bridging cultures, generations, and continents for ten years. With captivating sounds that evoke the African continent, Zili retraces routes of forced exile and cultural resistance through diasporic rhythm and song. Powerful Haitian, Brazilian and West African rhythms infuse Zili's original creations and traditional folksongs. Reconnecting Haitian mizik rasin, Jamaican roots reggae, Afro-Brazilian samba, Afro-Cuban son, and African American spirituals, blues, jazz and neo soul, Zili Misik honors its influences while creating a sound that is uniquely its own.

All female, zili takes its name from Haitian spiritual entity, "Ezili" who is envisaged as mother, lover, and warrior. Zili's songs are sensual, political, self-reflective, positive, and invoke love. Zili's lyrics glide seamlessly from English to Kreyol to Portuguese to Spanish, spinning tales and visions of lives lived and yet to be.

More about Zili Misik:

-Winner of the 2008 Boston Music Awards for "Outstanding International Act of the Year", as well as Boston Phoenix and FNX's Boston Best World Music Band 2008 and 2009! Also, winner of ROCKRGRL's and Berklee College of Music's BATTLE of the All-FEMALE BANDS 2007

-featured on an episode of national tv PBS' "Design Squad"! Other features include airplay on the BBC's and NPR's Afro Pop Worldwide in April 2008, as well as being highlighted in a full-page article in the March/April 2008 issue of national Color Lines Magazine.

-has toured with State Radio and Tony Brown; has performed with Queen Ifrica and Queen Omega; has opened for Emeline Michel, Shaggy, Boukman Eksperyans, and ZAP MAMA.

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www.zilimisik.com

www.uhuruafrika.com

[Wadabo_updates] 4th Annual Ndaje Festival of African Music and Dance June 25-27th 2010!!!

4th Annual
NDAJE FESTIVAL
of African Music and Dance
in BOSTON - June 25-27, 2010

SPREAD THE WORD!!

The 4th Annual Ndaje Festival of African Music and Dance in Boston is THIS weekend!! We are bringing you a full line-up of master African dance and music artists to teach djembe, sabar and kutiro dance, drum and song classes! PLUS the amazing dance company, Les Enfants du Soleil African Dance Theater will be performing at MIT's Kresge Auditorium! Check out the list of dynamic percussionists who will be keeping our hearts pumping with the rhythms of Africa during the festival....

 

FESTIVAL MUSICIANS:

Fode Bangoura
Kolipe Camara
Samba Cisse
Thiokho Diagne 
Mamadou Diouck
Alioune "Guido" Faye
Brigo Gueye
Mamadou Guisse
Nko Fallou
Foluso
Abdou M'Baye 
Backa Niang
Mamadou Lynx N'Diaye
Babacar Seck
Paa Seck
Mangue Sylla
Lamine Toure

and MORE!!!  

For complete Ndaje Festival 2010 information, visit
www.papendiaye.com/ndajefestival

For details about Les Enfants du Soleil African Dance Theater, including
artist bios and video links, visitwww.NdajeArts.org!


UPDATED NDAJE FESTIVAL SCHEDULE**

Friday, June 25, 2010

4:00-5:30pm - Mali Dance - Djeneba Sako
5:30-7:00pm - Kutiro Dance - Malang Bayo
7:00-8:30pm - Guinea Dance - Mouminatou Camara
8:30-10:00pm - Sabar Dance - Rich Faye

Saturday, June 26, 2010

10:30-12:00pm - Guinea Dance - Youssouf Koumbassa
12:00-1:30pm - Sabar Dance - Rich Faye
12:00-1:30pm - Djembe Drum - Fode Seydou Bangoura
1:30-3:00pm - Kutiro Dance - Mariama Basse
3:00-4:30pm - Sabar Dance - Babacar M'Baye
3:00-4:30pm - Dun Dun Drum & Dance - Mangue Sylla
4:30-6:00pm - Guinea Dance - Mouminatou Camara
8:00 pm - CONCERT - Les Enfants du Soleil African Dance Theater
11:00 pm - Drum & Dance Party!

Sunday, June 27, 2010

10:30-12:00pm - Guinea Dance - Youssouf Koumbassa
12:00-1:30pm - Sabar Dance - Pape N'Diaye
1:30-3:00pm - Kutiro Dance - Ousmane Sall
1:30-3:00pm - Sabar Drum - Lamine Toure
3:00-4:30pm - Mali Dance - Djeneba Sako
3:00-4:30pm - Casamance SongsFatou N'Diaye-Davis
4:30-6:00pm - Sabar Dance - Babacar M'Baye
6:00-7:30pm - Djembe & Sabar Dance - Festival All-Stars

**Festival Schedule is subject to change. Join the Ndaje Festival Email
List for the latest updates to the schedule.

Dance and Music Workshops Location:
Dance Complex in Central Square
536 Massachusetts Ave
Cambridge, MA 02139

The Les Enfants du Soleil Concert Location:
Kresge Auditorium at MIT
48 Massachusetts Ave
Cambridge, MA 02139

Contact Information:
Ndaje Festival 2010
www.papendiaye.com/ndajefestival
ndajefestival@papendiaye.com
www.NdajeArts.org
LesEnfantsduSoleil@NdajeArts.org
347-820-4393

See you at the Festival!

[Wadabo_updates] "Ti Jean and His Brothers" Audition Notice

Audition Notice that may be of interest to folks on this list. . .

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Megan Sandberg-Zakian <megansz@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, May 26, 2010 at 10:09 AM
Subject: "Ti Jean and His Brothers" Audition Notice
To: Megan Sandberg-Zakian <megansz@gmail.com>

Hi friends,

I'm forwarding the official audition call for "Ti Jean and His Brothers"
at Central Square Theatre. Please reply to this email if you plan to
attend the audition (even if you have already expressed an interest),
and include any time constraints so I can schedule you between 2:30 and
6:30 p.m. on June 9th. Copies of the script are available; I'll email
one to you if you ask.

Also, I want to cast the net wide for this production -- so please, pass
this notice on to those who you think might be interested in taking
part. We are especially looking for musicians and dancers with
experience in Afro-Carribean forms (they should also be comfortable
with, or at least interested in, doing some acting as well). I'm still
in the process of finding a musical director, choreographer, and visual
artists to collaborate with, so if you know anyone (again, with
expertise in Afro-Caribbean, especially Haitian, dance, music, or visual
art), send them my way.

Thanks friends!
Megan

AUDITION NOTICE

Underground Railway Theater and Boston Playwrights' Theatre announce an
additional audition date for their February 10 – March 12, 2011
co-production of "Ti-Jean and His Brothers" by Nobel Prize-winning
Caribbean playwright Derek Walcott. The play will be performed by an
ensemble portraying multiple characters including humans, animals, and
devils. We seek versatile performers comfortable with poetic language
and, ideally, familiar with Afro-Caribbean music and dance. Roles are
available for both AEA and non-Equity performers.

The script is available for perusal during office hours at StageSource
(88 Tremont St., Boston) and at Central Square Theater (450 Mass. Ave.,
Cambridge – call in advance to Alison Klejna, Manager of Artistic
Operations, at 617-576-9278 x209).

Call-back auditions are BY INVITATION and BY APPOINTMENT at Central
Square Theater (450 Mass Ave., Cambridge) on Wednesday, June 9th, from
2:30-6:30 p.m. Interested performers should email a headshot/resume and
preferred audition times to director Megan Sandberg-Zakian at
megansz@gmail.com. You will be contacted within 48 hours.

Please prepare one monologue of up to 2 minutes (not from "Ti-Jean";
best if it is from another poetic or epic text, such as Shakespeare,
Walcott, Fornes, Lorca, Soyinka, etc.). You will also be asked to read
from the "Ti-Jean" script. An electronic copy of the script will be
available in advance. If you play an instrument, sing, or have dance
experience, please come prepared to demonstrate (and/or provide us with
a link to video/audio of a performance prior to the audition).

Underground Railway Theater Artistic Director Debra Wise, Boston
Playwrights' Theatre Artistic Director Kate Snodgrass, and director
Megan Sandberg-Zakian will attend the auditions. Underground Railway
Theater and Boston Playwrights' Theatre operate under the NEAT Agreement
with Actors' Equity Association. No housing is available.

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[Wadabo_updates] Uhuru Afrika's JUMP! featuring Debo Band - May 27 (Thursday)

Greetings!
Last month's initial JUMP! was an amazing evening. Beautiful music, great energy, wonderful crowd, and a great venue. I'm happy to say we're back next week for our second JUMP! featuring Boston's own ethio-groove collective - Debo Band. All the details below, and I look forward to seeing you on the dance floor.

Uhuru Afrika's Monthly Live Music sister party 'JUMP' returns!
Thursday May 27th 2010

JUMP Presents special guests:
DEBO BAND - Ethio-Groove Collective

Alongside Resident Urban Griots : ADAM GIBBONS & MAX PELA
Selekting the hottest dance tracks from Africa and across the Diaspora.
With Malian Master Percussionist SIDY MAIGA.

Debo Band, Boston’s own 11 piece Ethio-groove collective explores the unique sounds that filled the dance clubs of “Swinging Addis.” Immersed in the unlikely confluence of traditional East African polyrhythms, pentatonic scales, classic American soul & funk music, and the instrumentation of Eastern European brass bands, Debo Band produces a unique form of dance music.

If you could not join us for our launch party with Lamine Toure & Group Saloum, you missed an amazing evening of Music and dance in a new venue with so much space for dancing and lounging. However, that was just the beginning. Now every month you can dance, party, lounge, listen with us. We hope to see you on this special occasion!

18+
$10 pre-sale & door
9pm-1am

Uhuru Afrika's JUMP at Oberon. 2 Arrow Street, Cambridge.
The Corner of Arrow and Mass Avenue just outside of Harvard Square.

PreSale Tickets @ https://www.ovationtix.com/trs/cal/28325
Facebook event: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=124590634222651
Pictures from last months JUMP! with Lamine Toure & Group Saloum: http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=427078&id=613430028

More Info on Debo Band @ http://deboband.com/

!! Check out DEBO BAND performing live at the Sauti Za Busara Festival in Zanzibar !! - http://vimeo.com/9649087

If you want to put the JUMP flyer as wallpaper on your phone, go to http://mobopic.com/ and put this url (http://profile.ak.fbcdn.net/object2/200/110/n124590634222651_944.jpg) into the "somewhere on the internet" field and you're on your way!

See you at the show.

Peace & Blessings.
- erich

[Wadabo_updates] Fw: Dancing For Water Benefit Class

 

DANCING for WATER

 

Friday May 14, 2010   

                                                6-7:30 PM

Fatou-Carol's African Dance Class

                            Dance Complex

536 Mass Avenue, Central Sq, Cambridge

 

The lack of clean water in many parts of the world is threatening the extinction of many indigenous cultures. This is especially true for the Dagara people of Burkina Faso, who live in the Sahel, a desert like corridor, in West Africa.

 

In 2004, when a Kristen Karinshak, a high school sophomore in Leesburg, VA, learned from Sobofu Some, of Burkina Faso. that mothers and children had to walk up to 6 hours a day with heavy jugs on their heads in order to provide water for their families, she decided to take action. She led her first fund raising event, called Walking For Water.  The seventh annual walk will be held May 8, 2010.   Thousands of dollars have been raised from these seven walks and ten wells have already been dug.  This as a great start, but much work still needs to be done.

 

Here in Boston, let's support this important effort and dance for water!!!   Come to this benefit class and dance, watch, sponsor a friend to dance or send in a donation on your own.  No offering is too small.   

 

Consider this:   The average shower uses over 50 gallons of water.  Children in Burkina Faso begin carrying water at age.  UNICEF reports that 2% of children in the US die before the age of 5. In Burkina Faso 45% die before their 5^th birthday.

 

For info email Fatou-Carol Sylla underthesundandd@hotmail.com 

or call  her at 617-868-6193

To contribute to the walk directly contact walking4water@gmail.com

[Wadabo_updates] Fw: Dancing For Water Benefit Class

 

DANCING for WATER

 

Friday May 14, 2010   

                                                6-7:30 PM

Fatou-Carol's African Dance Class

                            Dance Complex

536 Mass Avenue, Central Sq, Cambridge

 

The lack of clean water in many parts of the world is threatening the extinction of many indigenous cultures. This is especially true for the Dagara people of Burkina Faso, who live in the Sahel, a desert like corridor, in West Africa.

 

In 2004, when a Kristen Karinshak, a high school sophomore in Leesburg, VA, learned from Sobofu Some, of Burkina Faso. that mothers and children had to walk up to 6 hours a day with heavy jugs on their heads in order to provide water for their families, she decided to take action. She led her first fund raising event, called Walking For Water.  The seventh annual walk will be held May 8, 2010.   Thousands of dollars have been raised from these seven walks and ten wells have already been dug.  This as a great start, but much work still needs to be done.

 

Here in Boston, let's support this important effort and dance for water!!!   Come to this benefit class and dance, watch, sponsor a friend to dance or send in a donation on your own.  No offering is too small.   

 

Consider this:   The average shower uses over 50 gallons of water.  Children in Burkina Faso begin carrying water at age.  UNICEF reports that 2% of children in the US die before the age of 5. In Burkina Faso 45% die before their 5^th birthday.

 

For info email Fatou-Carol Sylla underthesundandd@hotmail.com 

or call  her at 617-868-6193

To contribute to the walk directly contact walking4water@gmail.com

[Wadabo_updates] Guest Teacher from Senegal, Samba Diop, Friday April 23 at Fatou-Carol's Class

Samba Diop, a former member of the National Ballet of Senegal and The Ballet Foret Sacre, will be teaching Fatou-Carol's class this Friday, April 23 from 6 - 7:30 at the Dance Complex.

 

Samba will also teach Sabar Dance Class on Thurs. April 22, 6:30 - 8:00 at the Dance Class

 

Samba now resides and teaches in France and came to the States to teach at Marie Basse-Wiles's Dance Conference in New York City over Easter week-end.  He will be in Boston for only two days, this Thursday and Friday, before returning to France on Saturday.  

 

Come enjoy a wonderful part of the New York City African Dance Conference right here in Bean Town.

 

Best wishes,

 

Fatou-Carol