Traditional Afrikan dance - Intermediate Class
What you'll do
This one hour 20 minute experience, for intermediates, will introduce you to the beauty of traditional Afrikan dance. In the workshop, your attention and energy will be brought to every part of your body, waking up the senses and improving your outlook.
Afidance's master drummer will use the beat of the drum to guide you through the experience. The drums play a key part in not just controlling the dance, but the providing the context and feeling of where these dances originated. These biorhythms connect you with your mind and body, giving you tools to cope with the day-to-day stresses of living. You'll be dancing to drums that originate from all over Africa – Djembe from Senegal, Kpanlogo from Ghana and more.
The workshop will start with a warm-up, building slowly on each guest’s strengths and allowing you to get used to the style of movement. An important part of this process is building strength in parts of the body that can often go ignored. Your host Rubba will guide you through this and show you how to build the dance as a group, providing a feeling of unity and togetherness as you move your bodies.
The workshop wraps up with a full run-through of the moves and skills you’ve discovered through the session in a collaborative routine. To finish, you’ll do cool down and take a moment of silence to thank the ancestors that guide you.
Intermediate classes run every Wednesday from 7.10pm - 8.30pm
Minimum fitness level required.
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What you'll do
This one hour 20 minute experience, for intermediates, will introduce you to the beauty of traditional Afrikan dance. In the workshop, your attention and energy will be brought to every part of your body, waking up the senses and improving your outlook.
Afidance's master drummer will use the beat of the drum to guide you through the experience. The drums play a key part in not just controlling the dance, but the providing the context and feeling of where these dances originated. These biorhythms connect you with your mind and body, giving you tools to cope with the day-to-day stresses of living. You'll be dancing to drums that originate from all over Africa – Djembe from Senegal, Kpanlogo from Ghana and more.
The workshop will start with a warm-up, building slowly on each guest’s strengths and allowing you to get used to the style of movement. An important part of this process is building strength in parts of the body that can often go ignored. Your host Rubba will guide you through this and show you how to build the dance as a group, providing a feeling of unity and togetherness as you move your bodies.
The workshop wraps up with a full run-through of the moves and skills you’ve discovered through the session in a collaborative routine. To finish, you’ll do cool down and take a moment of silence to thank the ancestors that guide you.
Intermediate classes run every Wednesday from 7.10pm - 8.30pm
Minimum fitness level required.
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Facilities
- Baby changing
- Adult changing
- Child friendly (0-16)
- WiFi
- Toilets
COVID-19 guidelines
- All guidelines in place at the time will be adhered to
On the day
- Intermediate classes run every Wednesday from 7.10pm - 8.30pm
- It's compulsory to dance barefoot
- Please bring water and wear comfortable sports clothes
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About Afidance
Afidance is on a mission to bring dance to everyone – they want to share the benefits that go often unnoticed by the general public and introduce people to healing the body in an African sense, through music and dance.
Afidance is run by Rubba, who spent 20 years touring as a professional performer and has been teaching traditional African dance since 1996, with experience teaching in schools and community centres. Afidance is also are part of various mental health and wellbeing initiatives.
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Norman Stephenson, affectionately known as Rubba (elastic band!), is an Afrikan/global dance extraordinaire, celebrated performer and teacher. Rubba picked up his nickname as a 16-year-old, dancing in the streets of Bristol. His spiritual approach, fluid technique, rubber-like flexibility, supple movements and graceful style of dancing has endeared him to audiences, fellow dancers and students all over the world.
Rubba cultivates a feeling of pride and belonging in those who attend his experiences. He uses his 37 years of teaching Afrikan dance to introduce this art to others with the right spirit and essence.
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