| In this master class dance workshop,
Marguerite Laurent teaches some of the basic steps of the traditional
Haitian dances, their origin, meanings, colors and their place in
Haitian Vodun culture and in the development of American dance and
musical theater. You will learn to chant and sing their counterpart
chants and songs. This is followed by across-the-floor work integrating
more patterns of the selected dances and introducing at least two
other different (Djouba, Kongo, Rabodaj, Nago, Mayi, Zepol, Ibo,
Yanvalou ...) Haitian dances and rhythms. Participants will begin
to learn the dances of the Haitian gods and goddesses, their symbolic
meanings, the meaning (and true spelling) of "Vodun" and
the phrase, "Lèmò, Lèmarasa e Lèmistè." |
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