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HIP-HOP AND KA'FRICAN
​(AFRO URBAN DANCE)
with
Angel Kaba
Nov 2 2015, 6:30-8:30pm
SUGGESTED DONATION $8 OR PAY WHAT YOU CAN
Brooklyn Arts Exchange

Class Description
Angel Kaba’s Ka’frican urban dance technic is a mixture of the new generation of African influences and American street dance. In the class you work on musicality heavily influenced by the rhythm and musical trends from The Congo, Ivory Coast, and Angola.  The foundation dances of urban street styles are incorporated as a backdrop to the heavily African based technique. The social and pleasant side of this discipline creates an environment where students dance, have fun and feel free.
  
Experience required of participants
No experience or previous dance training needed.

Goals for participants
Understand more the energy of the Hip Hop Dance and get a bit more knowledge about Hip Hop music (90 Vs 00). Find the connection between Hip Hop and the african diaspora worldwide. How can you be yourself through dance?

Goal for the teacher
Guide students to find themselves in dance.

About Angel
Artistic/Creative Director, choreographer and dance teacher Angel Kaba began her artistic career with ballet at age 6, which she pursued for more than 15 years. She also studied music theory and theater at the Music Academy of Brussels in Belgium. In 2006, she started working on her first musical "Elya's Dream". By then, she had already founded her own performance company, Contre-Tendance. Her primary goal is to train artists and to create opportunities for them to express themselves on stage. "Believe in your dreams and try hard to reach them" is the leitmotif she keeps repeating to her company's artists.
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about this series
We've asked teachers to bring something that they're working on, something they're intrigued about, to present it to the community and see how can we make it work together. At the end of every class there will be a time to debrief and discuss the material and strategies used to present it.

​This series is a part of the CREATING SPACE Program. Funded in large part by the Lambert Foundation Fund of Tides Foundation, the CREATING SPACE Program provides opportunities to support and develop artists of all races, backgrounds, cultures, sexual orientations, gender identities and aesthetic traditions.