[Wadabo_updates] Lacina Coulibaly & Mariama Basse (Sabar) - Workshops!

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Hello all -
This week we've got a few great workshops to add to the mix. Contemporary
African and Sabar, both forms of dance we don't get enough of here in
Boston. Come on out!

1. Lacina Coulibaly (Burkina Faso) Contemporary African Dance Workshop -
Thursday
2. Mariama Basse (Senegal) Sabar Dance Workshops - Saturday and Sunday

1. Lacina Coulibaly (Burkina Faso) Contemporary African Dance Workshop
Thursday, April 20, 8:15-9:30PM, $11
at the DANCE COMPLEX, 536 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA, Central Square

Modern classes with Lacina Coulibaly, choreographer and dancer hailing from
Burkina Faso, West Africa, focus on his original blend of traditions and
genres. Lacina has been working for years to develop his own unique style
that exists at the intersection between the traditional styles of his home
country, the expressions that emerge from the exploration of the self, and
the techniques of European modern dance.

Students of both Modern and traditional African dance genres will find
correlations, challenges and revelations in Lacina's technique and
choreography.

Testimonial from a series participant - "As a dancer trained in both
classical and modern styles, and now with years of experience in African
dance, I find Lacina's classes especially valuable to the modern and
contemporary classical dancer. The rhythmic detail, awareness and fully
inhabited quality that he brings into his movement (clearly from the
traditional dance of his native country), is both challenging and powerful.
The depth that this adds to any _expression of modern dance is profound."

2. Mariama Basse (Senegal) Sabar Dance Workshops
Mariama Basse is from Senegal, West Africa. Ms. Basse has performed and
taught throughout Africa, Europe and Asia with the National Ballet of
Senegal and Fore Ga Kre. Now living in NYC, Mariama will be teaching Sabar
for two classes here in Boston. Both classes will be accompanied by live
drumming.

Special thanks to Fatou N'Diaye-Davis for bringing Mariama to Boston and for
giving up her class on Saturday.

WORKSHOPS:
Saturday, April 22nd, 2006
4:30 – 6 pm, $14
at the DANCE COMPLEX, 536 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA, Central Square

Sunday, April 23rd, 2006
1:30 – 3:30 pm (2 Hours!!), $14
at BE ONE (Dudley Sq – more info below)

Sunday Workshop at: Be One Studio
62 Warren Ave (Dudley Sq)
Roxbury, MA 02119
Accessible via Silver Line, Roxbury Crossing (Orange Line), #1 Bus (more bus
line info at mbta.com)
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