A day to ‘lose ourselves’ in dancing to traditional and fusion music
with shamanic and spiritual roots from around the world. A workshop where the
music and our response to it will be in the foreground. How does music affect
our dances, and how does dancing affect our sense of identity and how we feel
about the world and our place in it?
World music is a controversial Western concept, but through authentic dance we now have the privilege of directly participating in the music of cultures and spiritual traditions that have always accepted altered or ecstatic states through rhythmic movement to be everyone’s birthright.
There will be space to find and share language for our experience in words in this workshop.
‘We don’t
have a word for music
in our language.
Music is the same as life.’
Frances Bebey (African musician) quoted in Breathdance by Cora Greenhill
Date: Sunday August
12th 2007
Venue: The Medway Centre, Bakewell, Derbyshire.
Times: 11am (prompt)
until 6pm
Price: £25 (£20 for students or unpaid)
Booking preferred as early as possible and at least a week beforehand.
email me at :
Bring a light lunch,
or some food to share. Wear comfortable layers, bare feet or soft shoes OK.