ZAMBRA MORA WORKSHOP with ELENA VILLA

Sunday August 9, 2009
1-3 pm
Celebration Belly Dance and Yoga
1840 Willamette St., Eugene, OR
$25 by August 5, $30 at the door
Info: elena_vll@yahoo.com

Zambra mora – A flamenco dance with Arabic roots from Granada, Spain. Traveling steps, kicks, turns, skirt technique, and more! Please wear a long, full skirt and bring your fiery attitude! No flamenco experience necessary. Includes handout of dance steps.

Zambra is a form of flamenco from the city of Granada (the last stronghold of the Moors) and contains Moorish overtones. It is associated with the Gypsies of the Sacromonte, which is the collection of cave dwellings overlooking Granada. Musically speaking, the zambra is a four-count rhythm: 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 (clap on the 2, 3, 4)––a slower version of the tangos flamencos––that evokes a mood of celebration at once earthy and fiery. The dance is always improvised and is sometimes danced without shoes. Zambra is also the term used to designate “a fiesta in the caves of the Sacromonte [as well as the name of] a performing group from the Sacromonte” (Sevilla, Queen of the Gypsies 396).

African Dance Workshops in Florence

Florence Dance Guild presents a West African Dance workshop with
Gabrielle Eggstein and live drumming by Mamadou Lamine Thioub.
Participants will learn the basics, and characteristic movements used
in African dancing. African dancing is joyful,
empowering and uplifting. Ms. Eggstein has
studied jazz, modern dance, classical In-
dian dance and West African dance in
Europe and Africa for many years under
master African teachers from Burkina Faso,
Senegal and Liberia. All experience levels
are welcome.
Workshop fee $30
FDG members $25
Call 541-997-6839 to register & hold your
place.

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