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EDUCATION/intensive courses/samba percussion

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..)

Tutors: Jean-Christophe Jacquin, Jérome Boumendil Joe Hanson, Bosco De Oliveira and Barak Schmool

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
Location

City University Music Department, (college building)
enter at main university entrance, Northampton Sq (north side)
For a map of City University click here.

Enq./Bookings
Instruments some instruments will be provided, though it is highly recommended that you bring your own where possible. Secure storage will be available.

Dance Programme:

Saturday

10am-1pm: Orixas
3-6pm: Silvestre Technique (dancers with some contemporary dance experience)

Sunday 10am-1pm : Orixas (different orixas taught to Saturday class)
Enq./Bookings maz_axe @ hotmail.com / 07727 682829
fees

Cheques £10 per class (made payable to F-IRE) sent to:

c/o Mariana Whitehouse
47 Hackford rd
Flat 2
London
SW9 0RE

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