AFRIC­AN DANCE WORK­SHOP

The workshop connects tra­di­tion­al West African dance and playing the base drums called dunduns. This allows us to feel the rhythm better as we dance and play at the same time. We will focuse on relaxing our minds, opening it for the rhythm and letting our bodies tell the old stories through the west African cho­reo­graphy. African dance projects many dif­fer­ent topics of our everyday lives. Our aim is not just to DO the move­ments, but to connect it with ex­pres­sion. The goal is not to repeat the same movement patterns over and over like we are used to, but to extend our „movement vocab­u­lary“. The workshop will be ac­com­pan­ied by two live drummers and is open to people of all ages (able to dance J), genders and dance levels. You can bring your own base drum and sticks or you can borrow one of ours for 2 euros.

ALENA BOUDA is a dancer, lector and dance movement therapist. She has tought the regular classes and workshops of african dance, dance improvisation and therapeutic dance since 2008. She spent in total a year in West African Guinea, Senegal, Gambia and Sierra Leone in 2006-2018. Her passion is a dance movement therapy, which she studied in Barcelona and finished the psychotherapeutic trainee in Prague in 2014. Currently she is in the trainee of Dramatherapy. Her classes are not just about a dance forme, but she likes to combine the dance and movement with therapeutic aspects, which it naturally brings. More about: www.moveart.cz/e

• saturday, 20^th november 2021 / 17h–19h

  TEL Cultural Venue – Salão

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