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Kizomba Workshops w/Tania Mendonca

Kizomba Workshops
w/Tania Mendonca
11:30a-7:30p
Early Bird: $75 (Ends Aug 1st)
Full Price: $100

This 8 hour intensive is the brain child of Tania Mendonca from her years of teaching in Festivals. The workshop aims to share her knowledge of PALOP cultures regrading Kizomba and Semba along with empowering the follower role and creating more empathy between partners in the dance.

There will also be a Late Night Kizomba dance at CB on Aug 10.

Workshop Breakdown:
1- The Awareness-
Posture & Balance
Walk -European vs African
Body Isolations

2- The principle of The Follower-
Timing & Response
Presence and Attitude
Beat keeping

3- Reverse Leading & Following
Angolan Musicality vs Western

4 - Reverse Leading Part 2- masculine energy vs feminine energy

5- The delay- Angolan vs Western styles
Syncopation, brakes, footwork

6- Kizomba vs Semba

7- Semba Solos

8- Semba Solos - End Routine video

Registration open soon!

As with most Angolans,Tania Mendonca has danced Kizomba with family and friends most of her life, but it was in 2010 now resident in UK, that she started to share her knowledge and teach Kizomba outside the community. As a Angolan, Kizomba is more than a dance, it is her culture. Founder of Kizomba Reading, co-founder of Kizomba4Life charity and HBT events, Tania always took on the responsibility of spreading her culture not only by teaching the dance but with the main focus on the music and its artists, as it is the music and its lyrics the most important character of Kizomba movement.
On her most recent project About Kizomba, Tania shares the ins and outs of the history and its importance through the struggles of the Angolan people during the civil war and masses of immigrations of the PALOP communities to Portugal.
Twice nominated for best Kizomba teacher by The UK Lucas Awards, Tania is an highly reputable Instructor in the UK, sought to teach Internationally at various Congresses and Festivals, focusing in sharing her knowledge of Kizomba on its most original form.