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The new issue of Songlines, January/February 2013 (#89, pictured right), is on sale in the UK from today and on its way to overseas subscribers. The free 16-track compilation CD that accompanies the issue includes tracks from the ten Top of the World albums including Duncan Chisholm, The Hot 8 Brass Band and Show of Hands, plus an exclusive playlist by conductor, TV presenter and founder of the Paraorchestera, Charles Hazlewood.
The main features in the issue include: Our Best Albums of 2012; ngoni star Bassekou Kouyaté admist the ongoing chaos in Mali; the weird and wonderful world of sacred harp; the burgeoning English folk scene; Andy Morgans travels to Georgia with Lo’Jo; Guide to Shrewsbury Folk Festival; Beginner’s Guide to Fanfare Ciocărlia, plus the latest news, event listings and CD, DVD and World Cinema reviews.
This issue’s podcast features Rose Skelton on Bassekou Kouyaté, Andy Morgan on Lo’Jo and music by Fanfare Ciocărlia. Download here.
Voting for the Songlines Music Awards 2013 is now open. All voters will automatically be entered into a prize draw to win one of three pairs of tickets to WOMAD Charlton Park 2013 (July 25-28). Click here to vote.
Lastly, thank you to everyone who attended our inaugral Songlines Music Awards 2012 winners’ concert on Friday November 23, it was a memorable evening. Watch highlights from the concert on YouTube here.
The Songlines Team
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Afro-Brazilian Dance Classes | London 2012
Monday at The Place (8 to 9:30pm)
Thursday at Siobhan Davies Studios (7:30 to 9pm)
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03/12 | Monday: NORMAL CLASS | rehearsal for the show*
THE PLACE (8 to 9:30pm)
06/12 | Thursday: NORMAL CLASS | rehearsal for the show*
SIOBHAN DAVIES STUDIOS (7:30 to 9pm)
10/12 | Monday: NORMAL CLASS | rehearsal for the show*
THE PLACE (8 to 9:30pm)
*13/12 | Thursday: DANCE STUDENTS END OF YEAR CELEBRATION!
SIOBHAN DAVIES STUDIOS (from 8 to 9pm) | £5
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 CHAOS Art Group
Performances coming soon!
Born out of a personal desire of its founders – the dancer, choreographer and director Irineu Nogueira and the producer Priscila Wille – to invest in experimenting, without losing focus on commercial viability, C.H.A.O.S. Art Group is a dance performance collective, founded in January 2012, in London, UK.
Artists: Gabriela Mazepa, Alicja Gabi Bunio, Aleksandra Jawulska, Verô Leopoldino, Vikki Marie Page and Ana Perez.
Designer: Fernando Augusto
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Element Dance present: December news including Shows, New DVD and Travel Plans
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Hello all and welcome to our December Newsletter!
This is our month has been exciting with the launch of the DVD, The Salsa Styling Competition, Interviews with Biskit and Authentic Brazil, New members joining, lots of hard work on our latest choreography and nominations for the Lukas awards. Two of the Company (Ella Mesma and Victoria Marie) will be heading to Brazil at the end of this month for training. Ella will also be travelling to New York to perform with the Russell Maliphant Company in The Rodin Project and visiting the dancers in New York whom she trained with on her 2010 Lisa Ullman Scholarship.
Read on for stories about:
· Recent gigs including the Salsa Ladies Styling Competition
· Authentic Brazil Podcast
· Lukas Award Nominations
· Upcoming shows
· EDC Classes in London
· EDC Classes in Leeds
· The Samba No Pe DVD is here
· New Element Dance Company Members
· Element Dance Reccomends
Enjoy the read and Happy Christmas
Much love from the Element Dance Team
Ella Mesma and Element dance
Recent Gigs
3rd November- Love Lee Extravaganza-
We had a great time performing at The LoveLee fundraising Extravaganza in honour of the fun-loving personality who inspired the Trust, Lee Wright.
3rd November- Revolucion de Cuba- Manchester
Samba Shows
10th November- Revolucion de Cuba- Manchester
Samba Shows
16th November- SOAS
SOAS Salsa society and 3 Cosas Campaign Event- fighting to improve the rights of Latin American workers fighting for pensions and sick pay. We taught salsa and performed at the event.
17th November- Revolucion de Cuba- Manchester
Samba Shows
 21st November- Santa Maria Foundation Charity Ball
The event raises money for Orphaned girls in Colombia. We performed two shows- one salsa and one Samba. Photographs by Angelika Berndt are below and on the website.
24th November- Revolucion de Cuba- Manchester
Samba Shows
24th November- Ladies Styling Team Competition
We performed for Ritmo Latino's event and had a great time! To watch the footage click on this link!
Authentic Brazil Podcast
We have done two interviews this month at our regular rehearsal venue with Biskit (Ritmo Latino) and John from Authentic Brazil. Authentic Brazil are a new Agency who have been helping us with various projects.
Lukas Award Nominations
The LUKAS awards are back! The company has been nominated twice: Ella Mesma has been nominated for best teacher, and the company for best school. We would love it if you could vote for us to win this award.
The Latin UK Awards (LUKAS) is the first to recognise the contribution of Britain´s one million Latin American, Spanish and Portuguese residents. Like last year, The AirEuropa LUKAS Awards 2012 awards will be decided by popular vote. Voting takes place is 2 stages, the first is open now and lasts until Jan 2013 when the top 5 most voted for candidates in each category will go through a final month of voting. A live awards ceremony is planned for March 2013, in what is proving to be, in ballet dancer Carlos Acosta’s words, “the most anticipated and prestigious event of the year for Latinos and Latin culture lovers in the UK.”
Show your support, get voting!
*The two Categories can be found in the Community (Best Brazilian Teacher) Entertainment section. Once you register to vote you're allow one vote every 24hours. That's alot of votes from now until January and every single one counts! VOTE NOW!
Upcoming Shows
1st December- Revolucion de Cuba- Manchester
7th December- Revolucion de Cuba- Manchester
14th December- Revolucion de Cuba- Manchester
22nd December- Revolucion de Cuba- Manchester
29th December- Revolucion de Cuba- Manchester
Samba Shows
25th January- Samba and Salsa Shows- Liverpool
Freestyle Sessions
The free freestyle class is back and is all about getting dancers to get over their nerves and dance! Whilst Ella is away the class will be maintained by students at The Southbank Centre, just rock up and join in! So far the sessions have been great! For more information see the website link http://www.elementdance.co.uk/Classes_Album/Pages/Tuesdays.html
EDC Classes in Leeds and London stop for christmas but will be back on in January!
Leeds University.
Weekly classes in Brazilian Samba and Reggaeton
Start Date: 21st January
Mondays
Samba: 5.30pm- 6.30pm,
Venue: Room 4 @ Union
Reggaeton: 6.30pm - 7.30pm,
Room 4 @ Union
Price: £3.50 for members £4.50 for non-members.
London Studio 68
Contemporary Urban Latin
Element Dance Classes at Studio 68 in Southwark.
EDC members Gabi and Rosa will be teaching salsa, samba, afro-cuban and afro-brasilian with a twist of urban and contemporary.
Thursdays
9.00pm-10.30pm
£7 per class (includes £1 studio fee)
Studio 68
SE1 0NR
London (Southwark)
 DVD Launch
Finally it is here! Ella's new DVD: Samba no Pe- Foundation level !!! The perfect gift for christmas! Order it now here!
Including Samba no Pe Basics, Styling, Body Movement, Footwork and Choreography to stand out, look great and feel confident. Follow this link to order: http://www.elementdance.co.uk/Dvd.html
In this DVD Ella Mesma will equip you with the foundations of Samba no Pe, giving you an understanding of posture, the tools to understand the music, to speed your steps, and a strong base of movement vocabulary to take you on to improver level. This DVD is vital for all levels of dancer in helping you to categorise movement and understand how to make hundreds of unique combinations to make you stand out and get noticed in carnival!
Costs:
£16.00
Postage: UK £4.99
EU: £8.95
Worldwide inc USA: £11.95
View a sample of the DVD here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PqBTrekSG2c&feature=youtu.be&a
To order go to http://www.elementdance.co.uk/Dvd.html
New Company Members
We would like to welcome new full company members and thought you might want to see our full team!
We are: Ella, Gabriella, Rosa, Emmanuelle, Victoria, Sofia, Myriam, Hannah, Daniella, Christina and Margiorri! We also welcome our first full time male dancer- Roberto and new dancer Sophia!
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Element Dance Reccomends
Rebel Soul Christmas Party
Event type : live concert + clubnight
Date : Friday 14th December 2012
Venue : The Wardrobe St Peter's Square Leeds LS9 8AH
Time : 9pm-2.30am
Tickets : £6 adv from www.thewardrobe.co.uk <http://www.thewardrobe.co.uk>
On the door price : £8/£6 students
Artists : Extra Curricular + Lamin & The African Roots Reggae Band + Stop Motion Trio & Dwayne Kilvington (Wonky Logic)
DJs : Jonny Crawshaw (Gibe It Some) & Lubi (DIG! Family/Fania Records)
Info : www.thewardrobe.co.uk <http://www.thewardrobe.co.uk> (0113 383 8800)
The final clubnight/live concert of 2012 at The Wardrobe in Leeds hosted by longtime jazz/funk/soul/latin/afrobeat promoter Lubi Jovanovic (DJ Lubi) is the Rebel Soul Christmas Party. 3 bands, 2 DJs, 1 bumping black music and global beats party!
Extra Curricular (feat Thabo) from Huddersfield are one of the north’s top hiphop/soul bands recording on their own Under Wraps Music label, playing across the UK at major venues and festivals and supporting soul legends like Tower Of Power. Check out their music and videos here: http://www.extracurricularband.com/ <http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.extracurricularband.com%2F&h=qAQG0bUlx&s=1>Lamin & The African Roots Reggae Band play sweet reggae music with the addition of African vocals, melodies and rhythms. Bandleader and lead vocalist Lamin Jassey from Gambia fronts the band singing in his native mandinka and woloff languages. Check out Lamin’s biography here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/world/onyourstreet/mslamin.shtml <http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bbc.co.uk%2Fradio3%2Fworld%2Fonyourstreet%2Fmslamin.shtml&h=5AQG0OAJE&s=1>
Stop Motion Trio are drummer Matt Davies (Paper Tiger, Tantz), bassist Emlyn Vaughan (Tim Sheridan, Kidkanevil, Alpha Manoeuvre) and pianist Aron Kyne (Yoruba, Thabo & The Real Deal) plus special guest Dwayne Kilvington aka Wonky Logic, left-field underground hiphop producer. Please note, the band are onstage at 9.30pm sharp.
DJ Jonny Crawshaw (aka DJ Red6), originally from York, made his name in Edinburgh during the noughties with his clubnight Give It Some where he brought together his mutual love for hiphop, funk, soul, ska and reggae playing strictly 100% vinyl sets.
DJ Lubi Jovanovic - Rebel Soul promoter, resident DJ and host - has worked with or promoted Terry Callier, Gilles Peterson, Eddie Palmieri, The Cinematic Orchestra, Jazzanova, Tania Maria, The Blackbyrds, Ozomatli, Sharon Jones & The Dapking, Lee Fields, Rainer Truby, Kurtis Blow....thirty years in the game and still putting on great great gigs, clubs and festivals of quality music.
Expect some deep and rocking DJ sounds past and present covering heavy funk, jazz, afrobeat, reggae, ska, Latin, deep soul, Brasilian sounds and conscious hiphop....no mainstream dipping here!
Calle Ocho Christmas Party 2012
Friday 21st December
9pm-3am (class 9pm, club 10pm)
THE FAVERSHAM
Springfield Mount
Leeds LS2 9NG
3 ROOMS - 8 DJs - 2 TEACHERS - 1 GRAN FIESTA DE NAVIDAD
SALSA - KIZOMBA - URBAN LATINO
The biggest salsa & tropical party outside London now in it's third year and pulling 400-500 dancers regularly.......amazing 3 room venue, great soundsystem, quality music, top professional specialist DJs in each genre, great danceteachers, safe car parking, pub bar prices....Calle Ocho has it all! We don't need to win awards, the numbers attending speak for themselves....this is the final Calle Ocho of a great 2012 and we'll be back in February 2013....a Happy Christmas to all!
9pm : Dominican bachata class with Felipe Reyes
(Salsa Cabana) & Amanda Hawley (Todo Latino)
ROOM 1 : SALSA
DJs Lubi, Fabio Bahia, Dr Salsa & guest Montunno (Newcastle Salsa Congress)
ROOM 2 : URBAN LATINO
DJs Silvao, MrB & Parce
ROOM 3 : KIZOMBA/SEMBA/KUDURU/FUNANA/ZOUK
DJ Dico
£10/£8 students - class & club
£8/£7 students - club only
125 free Calle Ocho mix CDs from 10pm!
www.thefaversham.com <http://www.thefaversham.com>
lubij@blueyonder.co.uk
http://www.facebook.com/events/278327128943569/
07789 886098 (info)
Embodied dancer teacher training
Join Abby Hoffmann for an intensive exploration of what yoga can offer dancers and performers.
This training will be a chance for those interested in working with specialist populations and yoga. Embodied Dancer is an innovative project blending the ancient teachings of yoga with cutting edge developments in dance training and performance enhancement.
This intensive training course will be a unique opportunity for experiential discovery, discussion, scholarship, and personal development.
What the training will offer An 60 hour curriculum that investigates the benefits of yoga for dancers in several key areas namely: creating safe, effective practice using anatomical and bio mechanical knowledge in order to apply specific techniques to a classroom or rehearsal/performance situation. This will not qualify you as a yoga teacher, but if you are already teaching yoga will add to your professional development and skillset.
How will it be taught? Practical, hands-on explorations will sit alongside more formal lecture and seminar discussions.
Who is this course for? Maybe you are already a yoga teacher, or someone with a background in dance and movement. You want to understand the application of yoga principles to dance conditioning and training, and to learn how to apply these principles and practices to your current teaching. If you are not a teacher, this course will deepen your understanding of anatomical and movement principles in both the yoga and dance traditions - and how they inform each other. For those who are teaching there will be opportunities to practice your skills and get feedback and mentoring on your progress. There are 3 weekends which need to be attended, as well as 15 hours of self study and teaching practice. On completion of the course you will receive a certificate and be eligible to join our growing community of dancers, teachers and yogi’s who are interested in enhancing dancers health and well-being as well as improving performance.
Embodied Dancer will show you how to utilise and apply the benefits of yoga techniques to performers with particular reference to dancers and safe dance practice.
Rationale: Dancers and performers are highly skilled individuals whose particular expertise lies in the mastery of the body and who are expected to perform at high levels of intensity which is often not cultivated in training or rehearsal situations. The need for supplementary practices and techniques has been identified by researchers, academics and teachers as being vital to a dancers overall fitness and conditioning, but to date, very little research exists to support the anecdotal praise for yoga as an effective and multidimensional approach to wellbeing for the dancer. In her PhD and subsequent work with Embodied Dancer, Abby has identified a range of benefits and best practices that can be assimilated into dance training regimes and/or rehearsal and performance periods. Following existing guidelines
For more info follow this link
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