The 10th CITY SAMBA WEEKEND, 5-7 Jan 2007 - Rio style samba percussion &
Brazilian
Orixas dance
course -
presented by F-ire in partnership with City University
Music Programme (dance programme scroll down)
Course content:This weekend will concentrate on group performance, taking
the form of alternating instrumental workshops with full rehearsals, giving
the opportunity to instantly contextualise and practise the information
passed on. The workshops are in all samba-bateria instruments and disciplines:
chocalho, tamborim, caixa, repique, surdo, agogo... with some flexibility
for requests (cavaco, cuica, directing..)
Suitable for: all levels with some exposure
to samba percussion, and musical experience. It is expected that many
participants on the course will have the technical facility on at least
one instrument . Classes will be at an intermediate/advanced levels and
seperate classes at technical beginner level. All participants will be
integrated in to the group sessions.
Friday
meet and greet 6pm
welcome class 6.30-9pm, followed by pagode after
Saturday
classes
10.30am - 6.00pm
evening entertainment - Ritmos da Cidade @ Guanabara, Parker
Street WC2
onstage 10.15pm - £8, or free entry before 8pm (info will
be updated and corrected)
Sunday
classes 10.30 am - 6.00pm
Course
Dates
5-7 Jan 2007
Course
fees
£70, by cheque (payable to F-ire)
sent to
F-IRE,
c/o Music Department,
City University,
Northampton Square,
London EC1V 0HB
state level as you apply, there may be
possibilities for partial attendance - contact
us
please state which classes you would like to attend.
Paula de Hollanda
Paula de Hollanda, resident in Gothenburg, Sweden, is a dancer, choreographer
and teacher in contemporary dance and Brazilian popular dances. She trained
and graduated in dance and choreography at Escola de Dança da Fundação
Cultural do Estado da Bahia, Salvador, Brazil. During her time in Brazil
studying Silvestre technique and Orixa Dance Movement for Vera Passos
and Rosângela Silvestre. She also studied Orixa Dance Movement with
the late Joselito Santos.
Paula has been teaching traditional and contemporary Brazilian dance since
1994 and is one of only three in Europe that teaches Silvestre technique.
She also gives lectures in Brazilian popular dances. She has given workshops
in Silvestre technique and Afro-Brazilian dance in Sweden, Denmark, Russia
and Kyrgyz.
Since 1990 Paula has danced with Escola de Samba de Gotemburgo and A Bunda,
for which she for six years was principal, choreographer and member of
the artistic management. In Brazil she has danced for choreographers such
as Vera Passos, Roquidélia Santos, Edva Barreto och Daniel Gwirtzman.
She has also danced with Crowd Company in Russia and choreographed and
danced at Glastonbury Festival, and with Brasilidade Mendes, Gothenburg,
and SambaCaramba, UK.
She started and has been running the dance company Jacaré since
2000 with Brazilian dance on the repertory. Paula is a member of the production
collective Dansbyrån, with studio and office in Gothenburg
Her recent choreographies include Abrindo Caminhos - a solo, Rio-Vasagatan
t/r -a duo, both in an afro-contemporary style, and two contemporary pieces
Jen and Santa Cruz.
Silvestre techinque
Silvestre technique is a contemporary dance technique based on Afro-Brazilian
cultural symbols. The dance technique was developed by the dancer and
choreographer Rosângela Silvestre, who with her base in the US and
Brazil, still is active and continuously develops the technique and it's
pedagogy. She has been researching Brazilian dance and Capoeira and analyzed
their movements and gestures regarding its technical functions from a
dance point of view from which she has developed this Brazilian dance
technique, which is an excellent technique for training the dancer's strength,
speed and balance. For further information see: www.silvestrelink.com
