Contemporary Dance Workshop with Taoufiq Izeddiou & Adil Amimi..
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Event: Contemporary Dance Workshop with Taoufiq Izeddiou & Adil Amimi
Date: 12-Dec-2011
Time: 18:00 - 20:00
Location: Global Dance Lab | Amsterdam
Contemporary dance workshop and traditional gnawa music
with
TAOUFIQ IZEDDIOU & ADIL AMIMI
Open to all levels
"A workshop of sharing, composing and improvisation, mixing rhythm and movement, and using Moroccan Gnawa music, contemporary dance and trance dance "
The choreographer Taoufiq Izeddiou and musician Maâlem Adil Amimi question and expand upon the idea of the ritual. They offer a workshop on traditional gnawa music and songs - an approach somewhere between modernity and tradition. Participants will be encouraged to look for their own movement, but in a variety of frameworks ranging from traditional to trance to contemporary dance. There will be an introduction to rhythm, rhythmic dance steps, and then a combination of those with free expression.
Gnawa Music
Gnawa music is a mixture of sub-Saharan African, Berber, and Sufi religious songs and rhythms. It combines music and dancing. The music is both a prayer and a celebration of life and the chants are repetitive phrases which can induce a trance like state of being.
Taoufiq Izeddiou is regarded as one of the leading contemporary choreographers in Morocco and his works have been performed widely in Europe and the Arab world. He founded Compagnie Anania in 2003, together with two Moroccan dancers, Bouchra Ouizgen and Saïd Aït El Moumen. Taoufiq is also director of the ‘On Marche’ International choreographic festival in Marrakech and has initiated a wide variety of projects in the country, including professional training, choreographic workshops and dance education programs for children.
Maâlem (music master) Adil Amimi has studied with legendary masters of Gnawa and was himself at a young age a member of respected ensembles. Amimi is proficient in many instruments and tours the world with his own groups or as a member of others.
Price: € 22,50
Registration: info@dancingontheedge.nl
To insure a place in the workshop please make your payment at least one week in advance to Stichting Dancing on the Edge ABN 537103376 with the note: ‘Gnawa workshop Amsterdam’
