[Wadabo_updates] Afro-Cuban class tomorrow will be taught by Lizz Cannon

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CHANGE OF PLANS!
Afro-Cuban class tomorrow will be taught by Lizz Cannon.
Rosemarie Roberts is ill.

She will be teaching on Sunday the 11th of May instead from 12:00 to 1:30.
Please pass the word.

Rosamaria Roberts, Dancer, Choreographer and Educator, hails from New 
York with Puerto Rican and Cuban roots.  Since the age of 5, she has 
been moved by the spirit of dance.  Winner of the 1997 Ethnic Dance 
Award for her commitment to teaching and peforming African diasporic 
dance and its history to youth and adults in the U.S. and the Caribbean, 
Rosamaria is an interpreter of traditional and folkloric Cuban, Haitian, 
Puerto Rican, Congolese and Brazilian dance forms.  Her dance and 
teaching celebrates the historical, cultural and spiritual richness of 
Bantu, Congo, Dahomey and Yoruba peoples found throughout the Caribbean 
and African Diaspora.  Rosamaria has taught workshops to people of all 
ages and performed to diverse audiences at a variety of venues in the 
Caribbean and the United States including holistic centers such as 
Esalen Institute, Omega Institute and Kripalu Center; institutes of 
higher education, including Yale University, Mount Holyoke College, 
Howard University and Connecticut Colege; and in urban high schools as a 
resident teaching artist through Arts Connection and Working 
Playground.  She has danced with Richard Gonazalez and Ochumare and 
performed as a guest artist with M'Bewe Escobar, Cinque Folkloric Dance 
Theater and Maimouna Keita Co. She has also choreographed works for 
Retumba, and was an ensemble member for over ten years. Rosamaria 
directed Echoes of Brown (2004), a multi-genre performance project 
marking the 50th anniversary of the landmark U.S. Supreme Court ruling 
in Brown v. Board of Educationn, directed and choreographed Sweet 
Freedom for El Puente Academy of Peace and Justice, and choreographed 
for Common Green/Common Ground, a collaborative performance created by 
community gardeners, Bronx River advocates, and NYU Drama and dramatic 
writing students. In 2006, Rosamaria co-directed Cultural Traditions 
Dance Program at the Jacob’s Pillow School which focused on  
Afro-Dominican, Afro-Cuban, and Afro-Puerto Rican foikloric dance.  She 
holds a Ph.D. candidate in Social Psychology and is a Visiting Assistant 
Professor of Education at Connecticut College.