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Canada West African Dance Teachers

Canada West African Drum Teachers

MONTREAL     VANCOUVER

Rachel Stevenson
514- 842-8597, email:
MAI Arts Center
3680 Jeanne Mance,
(Second Floor)
Tuesdays, 6:30 – 9:00
6:30- 7:30- Drum
7:45- 9:00- Dance

Description of Courses
West African Dance:
Dance classes focus on traditional West African dance techniques, including placement of weight, balance, suspension and relaxation, as well as choreography. Students will explore the dances of West Africa, with a focus on Senegal, Mali, and Guinea. There will be an emphasis on the communication between dancers and drummers, as well as improvisation and community within the dance circle.

Rachel Stevenson has been a student of African percussion and dance for over ten years. The traditions she has studied have included Afro-Haitian drumming and dance, Cuban percussion, Brazilian Samba, and West African Drumming and Dance (Malian, Senegalese, Ghanaian, and Guinean). She has recently returned from  Tokyo, Japan where she has been studying West African drumming and dance under teachers Hiroyuki Takeda and Theodore Bah   (ex-member of the Guinean National Ballet) .  She has studied intensively in Tambacounda, Senegal, West Africa under Master Drummers Moumadou Silibe and Abdouli Diakite.  

Cost: Dance- $12.00 per class

Both drum and dance -$20.00

 

 

 

 

 Fana Soro            fana_soro.jpg (17528 bytes)
14654 Wellington Drive, Surrey (Vancouver) BC, V3R 9H3, Canada
Phone: 604 584 5330
Fax: 604 584 5313

Email: masabocc@home.com
URL: http://www.masabo.com

Class Schedule and Artist Biography  about Fana Soro, a former nine year member of the Ballet National de Cote d'Ivoire, and the other members of Canada's most exciting traditional West African performance group, Masabo Culture Company.

  Vancouver and Burnaby, BC, Canada

Aboubacar Camara
(see drum teachers)
Doundounba Music & Dance
Delamont Postal Outlet
1950 West Broadway
PO Box 29152
Vancouver, BC V6J 5C2
Canada
Tel: 604.734.8744
Fax: 604.734.7439

E-mail: info@doundounba.ca
Url: http://www.doundounba.ca
Guinean dance & drumming classes and workshops as well as Aboubacar's West African performance group, Doundounba.
Aboubacar's bio is available at: http://www.doundounba.ca/bio-ab.php