Workshops

These workshops are focused especially for children. You will be able to learn about percussion in different styles and from different countries of Latin American. It will be fun and creative, so come along and enjoy it!!

Creative Brazil - Recycled material musical instruments

11:15am - 12:15am @ the Bar

Brazil

With the objective of connecting music and recycling, Guilherme Tavarez and his wife Laura will be involving children in an activity where they will learn how to build musical instruments with recyclable material. The main idea of this workshop is to teach children from xx to xx years old how to transform used and recycled material into musical instruments. For one hour the children will have the chance to play and learn in a playful environment where they will be able to exercise their creativity and artistic talents.

The performers:

Gui Tavares is a professional musician based in London. A graduate of UNICAMP with a specialisation in composition and orchestral instrumentation, he has been work in the business for long time now. He worked extensively with theatre groups in Sao Paulo, being the musical director of many shows, after his graduation. Straight after that, after finding his hidden true desire to help needy people, Gui started working on musical projects for drug dependants, children in the Rochinha Favela, adolescents who needs socialization and singing therapy for the elderly.

Laura Arantes is a professional actress who has been doing all kinds of acting since graduating in drama and acting at Centro de Pesquisas Teatrais Ronaldo Boshi, in Belo Horizonte, Brazil. She has participated in 43 plays over the years that range from Frank Wedekind's "Spring Awakening" to Shakespeare's "Othello.

For more information visit Creative Brazil's website or contact us.

Nadja - Dance workshop

12:15am - 1:15pm @ the Bar

Colombia

 

Professional dancer Nadja Enab will teach different styles of dance from around Colombia whilst exploring some of the history of the dances and the region that they originate from.

For more information please email Nadja or contact us.

Rafael Sarmiento

6pm - 7pm @ the Café

Colombia

Recognised for his skills in Colombian and Latin rhythmic styles,
Rafael will provide an introduction into basic Latin drum techniques.

The Performer:

Rafael Sarmiento is from Colombia and has played at many great world festivals including the International Caribbean Festival in Santiago, and Havana in Cuba (alongside the famous singers Celina Gonzalez and Toto La Momposina) and at the Womad Festival. Today he is the director of a Colombian Folklore traditional band in which he also plays the Gaita and percussion.

For more information please contact us.

Tango - Dance

5.20pm - 6pm @ the Bar

Argentina

Tango is both a musical genre and a social dance that originated in the working class neighborhoods and ports of the Rio Plate area of Argentina and Uruguay over one hundred years ago. Despite its working class origins, tango made its way into the dance halls of Paris at the beginning of the 20th century and soon spread all over the world. Perhaps as a result of this, the dance was adopted by the middle and upper classes in Argentina. However, while In Europe the dance evolved into a ballroom style, back in Buenos Aires, though the dance changed and became more standardized, it stayed true to the original movements and style that had come out of the brothels and drinking parlors. The "golden age" of tango came in the 1930's and 40's but after this the dance and its culture fell into decline. It wasn't until the 1983 hit Broadway show "Tango Argentino" that Tango was brought yet again to an international audience and the dance has been increasing in popularity all over the world ever since.

The performer:

Edward Tattersfield's tango education began in Buenos Aires in 2005 when he started to take tango classes with Magali Diaz. Since then he has participated in a wide variety of classes and has performed and taught Argentinean tango in Argentina, Brazil, Spain and in the UK. In 2009 he participated in the II Master for Tango Dancers at the Argentinean School of Tango in Buenos Aires. Though it is a mesmerizing art form to watch on stage, tango is essentially an improvised social dance. Edward will be improvising a variety of tangos from the 1940's to present and will be showcasing its three main styles of, "Tango", "Waltz" and "Milonga".

For more information visit Edward Tattersfield's website or contact us.