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latest news - feb 2008
Cimarron! - February 11th to 23rd
A free festival celebrating the African cultural heritage in
Latin America
Last year saw important celebrations of the bi-centenary of the
Abolition of the Slave Trade in the English-speaking world. This event
has been designed to address such a historical occasion from a Latin
American perspective, by highlighting and celebrating the African
cultural legacy in Latin America.
Latin America is the synthesis of various peoples, races and cultures
merged together into one, after a painful and inhumane process
brought about by the colonisation of the so-called New World with the
transportation and enslavement of Africans as well as the Indigenous
peoples. Latin American countries with their unique synergistic culture
have come to realise their true identity. Africa has undoubtedly played
an important, vital, but often overlooked and forgotten role.
Africa’s influence is ever present in the cultural make up of Latin
America. The ‘cimarrón’ or runaway African slave symbolizes for us the
free and live spirit of Africa in Latin America, hence the name for our
event where we will pay homage to its cultural legacy. It is their
contribution, together with the Amerindian and European that make
Latin America so special and unique.
CIMARRON! will take place on the 11th to 23rd February 2008 in
Canning House, Bolivar Hall, Conway Hall, SOAS University and other
smaller venues across London, this will be a free for all special event
that will celebrate the African cultural legacy in Latin America, through
music, dance, art, film, ethnicity and culture as a whole.
More...
A free festival celebrating the African cultural heritage in
Latin America
Last year saw important celebrations of the bi-centenary of the
Abolition of the Slave Trade in the English-speaking world. This event
has been designed to address such a historical occasion from a Latin
American perspective, by highlighting and celebrating the African
cultural legacy in Latin America.
Latin America is the synthesis of various peoples, races and cultures
merged together into one, after a painful and inhumane process
brought about by the colonisation of the so-called New World with the
transportation and enslavement of Africans as well as the Indigenous
peoples. Latin American countries with their unique synergistic culture
have come to realise their true identity. Africa has undoubtedly played
an important, vital, but often overlooked and forgotten role.
Africa’s influence is ever present in the cultural make up of Latin
America. The ‘cimarrón’ or runaway African slave symbolizes for us the
free and live spirit of Africa in Latin America, hence the name for our
event where we will pay homage to its cultural legacy. It is their
contribution, together with the Amerindian and European that make
Latin America so special and unique.
CIMARRON! will take place on the 11th to 23rd February 2008 in
Canning House, Bolivar Hall, Conway Hall, SOAS University and other
smaller venues across London, this will be a free for all special event
that will celebrate the African cultural legacy in Latin America, through
music, dance, art, film, ethnicity and culture as a whole.
More...
this Sunday (February 24th)
technique, but will experience a Cuban way of life which celebrates
Cuba’s African roots.
Times:
1pm - 3pm
1st Session 1pm-2pm – Beginners/Improvers
This session will concentrate on technique, focusing on developing the
capacity of movement of the body and spine, perfecting isolation, and
developing language unique to Afro-Cuban dance.
2nd Session 2pm-3pm – Intermediate/Advanced
This session will build on the technical skills learnt in the first session,
and further explore some of the principal dances of the Orishas,
derivatives of the Afro-Cuban Yoruba Pantheon.
Fees:
1 session £8 / 2 sessions £15
Address:
The Basement Dance Studio
400 York Way
London
N7 9LR
Contact:
Ariel 07944338979
More...
technique, but will experience a Cuban way of life which celebrates
Cuba’s African roots.
Times:
1pm - 3pm
1st Session 1pm-2pm – Beginners/Improvers
This session will concentrate on technique, focusing on developing the
capacity of movement of the body and spine, perfecting isolation, and
developing language unique to Afro-Cuban dance.
2nd Session 2pm-3pm – Intermediate/Advanced
This session will build on the technical skills learnt in the first session,
and further explore some of the principal dances of the Orishas,
derivatives of the Afro-Cuban Yoruba Pantheon.
Fees:
1 session £8 / 2 sessions £15
Address:
The Basement Dance Studio
400 York Way
London
N7 9LR
Contact:
Ariel 07944338979
More...
| Ladies please bring a long skirt |
A fantastic monthly opportunity, to learn some
rootsy Afro-Cuban dance movement with Ariel
Rios Robert, one of its greatest Cuban
exponents resident in our wonderful
metropolis.
Imported to Cuba from the Yoruba people
and subsequently hidden from European eyes
in Santeria, movements from the Orisha
dances have seeped through into Cuban
popular dance, complete in themselves or as
elements of styling.
This workshop is designed to give you an
opportunity to immerse yourself in authentic
Afro-Cuban culture. You will not only learn
rootsy Afro-Cuban dance movement with Ariel
Rios Robert, one of its greatest Cuban
exponents resident in our wonderful
metropolis.
Imported to Cuba from the Yoruba people
and subsequently hidden from European eyes
in Santeria, movements from the Orisha
dances have seeped through into Cuban
popular dance, complete in themselves or as
elements of styling.
This workshop is designed to give you an
opportunity to immerse yourself in authentic
Afro-Cuban culture. You will not only learn