We have THREE fantastic Christmas salsa parties coming up in December:
* El Rumbon Cubano with LIVE music from Camina plus the chance to win a flight to Cuba *
* Our first regional Rumbon Cubano in Essex with LIVE music from Tumbao Tivoli and another flight to Cuba up for grabs *
* Baila Londres with LIVE music from George Peguero *
What are you waiting for? Put the dates in your diary and get your dancing shoes out and at the ready....
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El Rumbon Cubano is back on Sunday 12th December
with live music from Felix Gonzalez and his HOT 6-piece salsa band
Camina
Plus win a flight to Cuba
courtesy of our new sponsors Cubana de Aviacion
One FREE ENTRY to the prize draw with every �10 Rumbon entry ticket
plus extra raffle tickets on sale on the night
DJ Amado will be on the decks playing the hottest Cuban salsa, timba, and reggaeton.
And if all that dancing makes you hungry, enjoy delicious Spanish-style snacks FREE,
plus special offers at the bar, courtesy of the Nueva Costa Dorada
CubanaDanza's principal male dancer, the dynamic David Martinez,
will also be be back teaching his popular salsaton class
7.30-8.30pm - Salsaton class - all levels
�10 (including entry to the rest of the Rumbon)
At Nueva Costa Dorada
47-55 Hanway Street
London W1T 1UX
Nearest tube Tottenham Court Road
Doors open 7pm
Entry - �7 in advance via online registration (excluding dance class)
�10 on the door (or including dance class)
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El Rumbon Cubano goes East - our first Regional Rumbon!
On Saturday 4th December we are in Essex!
* Live music from Tumbao Tivoli *
* Dance showcase from CubanaDanza *
* Rueda class for all levels with David Martinez *
* DJ and dancing *
* PLUS another flight to Cuba to be won courtesy of Cubana de Aviacion *
Saturday 4th December 7pm-12.30am
at Gatsbys Wine Bar
91 Shepherds Hill
Harold Wood
Romford, Essex RM3 0NP
�9 in advance
�12 (�10 members) on the door
Call Lee for more information or to book - 07956 369568
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Cubacheche and Timberos de Londres present
Baila Londres
one of the hottest Cuban style Saturdays you can find anywhere in town!
Saturday 18th December
With live music from George Peguero
"Probably the best salsa party band in the UK" (Time Out)
* 1st 50 paying guests receive a FREE George Peguero promo CD *
Plus Rueda de Casino dance class for all levels with
Rafael del Busto
Music from DJ Javier and guest Green Papi
Dancing until 4am!
�8 in advance by emailing your full name to info@cubacheche.co.uk
�10 on the door
At Charlie Wrights International Bar
45 Pitfield Street
London N1 6DA
5 minutes walk from Old Street Tube (Northern Line)
Exit 2 North Side
Intensive Afro-Cuban dance course now extended until Saturday 11 December. MiCUBA! this Sat 20 Nov with specialised SON class
Hi guys
A quick email to update you about Get it Right!- Intensive Afro-Cuban dance courses at The Place on Saturday
Afro-Cuban dance courses are suitable for everyone - regarding their level in Salsa if any. They are great for boosting your stamina, self confidence, fitness, cardio, coordination, body movement, creativity, interconnection, musicality just to mention some of the benefits while learning about a very rich dance form, which will enrich your cultural and history background as well.
Price for 4 Dec & 11 Dec = £45
Price for next 4 weeks starting this Saturday 20 Nov=£ 65
Price for drop in = £15 ph
Course duration per day- preferably 2hrs
Venue: The Place - 17 Duke Road, WC1H 9PY
Nearest tube station - King X or Euston
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Also to remind you about MiCUBA!- Your Saturday Night Salsa party near Tower Brigde. Which is taking place this Saturday 20 Nov from 9pm. Invited guest teachers & Dj Yersin & Richard - Fun guaranteed as well as specialist dance class in Son - Don't miss your compilation cd of some of the best djs in town!
Join us in this incredible night - Nice people, nice venue, nice vibes and nice music. And as a special treat DJ Yersin and DJ Rich will be playing the very best in salsa con timba. Spread the Word! Mi Cuba! Mi Cuba! Mi Cuba! Classes with Damarys, Yersin & Richard start at 9.25pm then it's dancing until late.
Venue- BLV - 224A Tower Bridge Road, SE1 2UP, London
Price - £10 in adv - which you can get by buying tickets in adv or sending an email or text message with your full name - cubanschool_arts@yahoo.com or 07788110421
Otherwise £12 on the door
*CALL NOW! To register your name on the Promotional Guest list 07788 110421
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See you tonight in South Ealing at our Salsa con Wodka! event - which please remember is a weekly event, so we there every Friday and have a live Salsa band on the last Friday of the month- except from December when our Christmas party is on the 3rd of December with great & fun Salsa band plus .......
Venue: Kuznia Smaku, - 175 South Ealing Road London W54QP
Closest station South Ealing
Free parking spaces
Price: £8 no band day & £10 on band days
Muchos besos
Damarys Farres (The Cuban School of Arts)
+ 44 (0) 7788 110421
Cubanschool_arts@yahoo.com
www.CubanSchool.co.uk
HELLO CHOIR MEMBERS OLD AND NEW; PLEASE COPY AND PASTE THE BELOW
INFORMATION AND SEND TO YOUR MAILING LIST AND FACEBOOK FRIENDS; THANKS
FUNDRAISING EVENTS:
SUNDAY 5th DECEMBER 2010 2.30- 5.00 pm
"CUANDO LOS ESPIRITUS BAILAN MAMBO ( when the spirits dance mambo)
MARTA MORENA VEGA, CUBA/US 2002
LEXI CINEMA: 194 Chamberlayne Rd, London NW10 3JU
0871 704 2069
TICKETS IN ADVANCE FROM YOUR LOCAL CHOIR MEMBER AND THE CUBAN RHUM
JUNGLE ON A TUESDAY EVENING. £12 in advance £15 on the door. THE
CINEMA IS SMALL THERE ARE LIMITED TICKETS AVAILABLE PLEASE HURRY AND
BUY YOURS!
Marta Moreno Vega is a New York based Afro-Puerto Rican producer whose
film Cuando Los Espíritus Bailan Mambo has been celebrated as the
first to explore the complexity of Afro-Cuban traditions without
resorting to pedestrian notions of exotica and primitivism.
This absorbing documentary charts the history and continuing legacy of
the sacred African religion, Le Regla de Ocha (known as Santeria), as
practised in Cuba, and in particular looks at the influence of
religious music on the development of Cuban popular music styles
including son (salsa), rhumba, mambo, timba, Latin jazz and Cuban
hip-hop. The film features interviews with priests, priestesses,
scholars and musicians including Yoruba Andabo and Clave Y Guaguanco,
as well as interviews with and performances by Mario Bauza, Frank
Grillo, Mongo Santamaria and Tito Puente, among others; and also
Pancho Quinto, Puntilla and others who have also passed over to the
realm of the ancestors.
As developing practices in the formation of Cuban civil society, the
Yoruba belief systems survived and traveled from Africa to Cuba and
New York through sacred rituals, songs, music and dance. Armed with
the energy of their ancestral rituals and customs, enslaved Africans
carried La Regla de Ocha as protective shields believing in the power
of a spiritual force for endurance, identity and empowerment.
19th DECEMBER 3.pm till 11.pm
CHRISTMAS FUNDRAISER:
BOSTON ARMS MUSIC ROOM 178 JUNCTION ROAD N19 (TUFNELL PARK STATION)
£10 in advance and £15 on the door. ( Children go free)
WE HAVE A SINGING RUMBA WORKSHOP WITH GERARDO AND THE CHOIR IN THE
AFTERNOON; A TALK AND Q/A ON THE CHANGING ATTITUDES TO SANTERIA IN
CUBA WITH CHRISTINE AYORINDE AND FILMS TO BE CONFIRMED
PERFORMANCES IN THE EVENING FROM THE CHOIR AND SPECIAL GUESTS; SO
FAR CONFIRMED THE LONDON LUCUMI CHOIR; JUWON OGUNGBE AND MALAMBO
THE EVENING WILL END WITH DJ CLANDESTINO PLAYING THE LATEST IN CUBAN
SOUNDS; BRASILIAN AND AFRO BEAT.
We will also be hosting a raffle, a lucky dip and launching our
special international auction, where memberd of the community can bid
for a wide range of amazing goods and services.
THE LONDON LUCUMI CHOIR IS COMPLETELY UNFUNDED, ASIDE FROM THE ODD
GRANT FOR INDIVIDUAL PROJECTS. WE ARE RAISING FUNDS
1. IN ORDER TO KEEP THE SUBSCRIPTION FEES TO A MINIMUM AND TO
SUBSIDISE THOSE WHO TRULY CANNOT AFFORD THE FEE TO JOIN. SINGING IS
FOR ALL.
2. TO INABLE US TO PERFORM AT COMMUNITY EVENTS WHERE THERE IS NO
PAY.
3. THERE ARE DEMANDS FOR US TO RECORD, THIS IS A COSTLY PROCESS. WE
NEED TO RAISE FUNDS IN ORDER TO DO THIS
Feedback33 is a Professional Dancers' Mentoring Forum set up by Sheron Wray.
An opportunity to take part in various dance techniques with teachers from around the globe. It is a chance to gain insights into the passions, challenges, and experiences of various artists and teachers.
Feedback33 with Alesandra Seutin Thurs 25 Nov @ London Studio Centre
Venue: The London Studio Centre, 42 - 50 York Way, London N1 9AB (adjacent to Lincoln Lounge)
Afro-Eclectic workshop with Alesandra Seutin, Thursday 25 November 2010, 7.30 -9.00pm.
PLEASE COME FOR CLASS REGISTRATION AT 7PM.
Afro Eclectic Dance takes its roots in traditional African dance, combined to a contemporary flow and the dynamic of urban dance. Alesandra Seutin will lead you in a high energy class were the participants will be challenged to use their bodies gracefully to take off in a fluid motion whilst focusing on the mobility of the spine and sternum, musicality and rhythmic polyphony of the body, which will allow them to explore the space in many ways and dynamics. The traditional gestures will support the development of a creative dance and openness, resulting in the appropriation of all these elements by the dancer. This workshop is aimed at intermediate and professional dancers but also to anyone wishing to discover their body and dances inspired by the African, contemporary and urban forms.
Cost per class
£5 Members / £8 Non-members
Concessions*
£3 Members / £5 Non-members
* Concessions are open to students and to unemployed professional dancers only. ID/proof of status is required. To check if you qualify for the unemployed professional dancer concession, please phone number below.
Annual Membership fee
£10
To book a place on this workshop please email Paula Allen: p_j_allen@hotmail.com or phone: 07792236583.
FEEDBACK33 TEACHER’S BIOGRAPHY
Alesandra Seutin: artistic director of Vocab Dance Company (www.vocabdancecompany.co.uk), Alesandra was born in Harare and raised in Brussels. Trained at Laban and at Middlesex University, Alesandra is a dance artist whose practice draws on traditional/modern African, contemporary, hip hop dance and non-stylized movement which she has blended together to create her unique vocabulary she names Afro-Eclectic dance. Over the course of her career as a dancer, choreographer and teacher she has worked with a number of leading dance professionals and arts organisations including:
Mavin Khoo; Beverley Glean (Irie! Dance); Kenrick Sandy; Tara Herbert (Dance-United); Mohamed Dordoh; Carol Straker (Alvin Ailey); Rafael Bonachela; University of East London; Dance United; Dance Exchange; Yorkshire Dance; Tanzhaus nrw; Studio3Arts; and East London Dance (ELD) - Vocab Dance Company is an associate company of ELD. Formed by Alesandra in 2007 Vocab Dance Company has toured nationally and internationally and is progressively emerging as an established UK dance company. As a freelance choreographer and movement director Alesandra has created a commissioned piece '1976' for renowned Phoenix Dance Theatre, and animated dance sequences for Ashmeed Sohoye's Rigged as well as The day the waters came for Theatre Centre. Her latest commission was through ADAD and the South Bank Centre and saw her collaborating with Vicki Igbokwe and Nii Tagoe (Fritti Dance Company) for African Dance Encounter, an exploration into both traditional and modern approaches to African Dance.
A recipient of an ADAD Trailblazer Fellowship 2009/10 and a Lisa Ullman Travelling bursary, Alesandra has recently returned from a 3 months professional training/exchange at the renowned Germaine Acogny's Ecole des Sables centre for African Traditional and Contemporary Dance in Senegal, Africa. To see Vocab Dance Company in action visit: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=llgzvxbt08I, and http://vimeo.com/12589904
Saturday December 4th, 11.00 – 13.00, 13.00 – 15.00
FINALLY - we have a chance to enjoy Landing's wealth of knowledge and engaging teaching style in London. He has not been giving lessons or workshops in London for a while and others, outside our capitol have had the privilege of his teaching. No more!
As you may know, Landing is one of the most beloved African dance teachers in the UK. He has studied traditional West African dance since he was 4 years old. He is a versatile musician and dancer with innate talent for performing and teaching, whose energy inspires joy of dancing in all, from beginners to more advanced students.
FINALLY - we have a female Sabar dancer in London! Aida Diop is a dancer and choreographer from Dakar, Senegal. She started dancing Sabar at a young age in ceremonies and festivals. She has worked with many companies as a performer and teacher, including Les Ballets Africain de Sanghomar, Daraa Ji and Bakalama de Thionck-Essyl. Aida is a very energetic and patient teacher. She loves to share her knowledge and gets everyone having a great time. And she loves Sabar!
Workshops
11.00 – 13.00 Djembe with Landing
13.00 – 15.00 Sabar with Aida
Both workshops are with live music and suitable for all levels of dance experience.
Venue
Islington Arts Factory,
2 Parkhurst Road, London N7 0SF
Islington Arts Factory is a converted church building, opposite the entrance to Holloway Prison and on the Parkhurst Road / Camden Road one-way system.
Tube: Holloway Road, Caledonian Road or Camden Town and catch a buss or walk (appr. 15 min)
Buses: 4, 17, 29, 43, 91, 153, 253, 259, 271, 279, 359
Price
One workshop £15 (£14 advance payment)
Both workshops £30 (£27 advance payment)
Book your place with
Tina-Maria
tmknuuttila@yahoo.co.uk or 077 6262 9818
