Intensive Course on African Dances (Returning to roots)

This course focuses on salsa´s African roots, and body expressions of Afro Cuban dancing movements. It does not include salsa dancing particular techniques. It teaches the Afro Cuban elements used in salsa dancing as a free style – especially for body expression. The course includes three modules: Yoruba; Congo-Abakuá, and Cuban Rumba.

Contenido:

Yoruba
• Yoruba Art
• Yoruba basic steps (applied to all saints)
• Individual saints (males and females)
• History of Saints (introduction to live chants, with yoruba percussion)
Congo and Abakuá
• Afro warming-up
• Basic steps
Rumba
• Afro warming-up
• Basic steps for Yambú, Guaguancó, and Columbia
• Yambú pairs (history, interpretation and special movements)
• Guagancó pairs (history, interpretation, and special movements)
• Columbia (history, interpretation, and special movements)
• Use of Cuban Rumba in Salsa dancing.

Requisitos:
A good intermediate, or advanced, level of salsa dancing, or equivalent knowledge of African dances.
Resultados:

At the end of the course, the students are able to get to know, deeply, the history of dance in Cuba; integrating the aesthetic resources of Afro Cuban dancing into salsa dancing.

Duracion:
A minimum of 15-hour course. Maximum of 3-hour lesson per session.
Precio:

• 1 student: 15 hours: 360 CUC
• 1 student: 21 hours: 480 CUC
• 2 students sharing the same instructor: 15 hours: 290 CUC
• 2 students sharing the same instructor: 21 hours: 390 CUC

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