Movement Dynamics in Afro-Caribbean Dance with© Awilda Sterling
Movement Dynamics in Afro-Caribbean Dance with© Awilda Sterling
The construction of the myth of the Caribbean woman will be explored through dance and traditions in African religions. This title signals a dance workshop based on the original concept of the artist titled From Oricha to the Shore...Saints in Salsa! which involves the exploration of dances of the tradition of African religion which are present in salsa musical hits in the 70’s and 80’s. This workshop has been presented with great success in Europe, the United Stes, Central and South America, Puerto Rico and other countries from the Caribbean since the 90’s.
The concept is designed to specifically work with the dynamics of caribbean movement©, a technique developed by Professor Sterling to stimulate the individual capabilities of rhythm and cadence in her participants, with or without prior dance experience. In this manner, the students will be able to exercise their bodies and learn to distinguish, understand and execute a great variety of danceable rhythms within the tradition of tropical salsa.
The workshop also invites observers, researchers and professionals interested in the caribbean intercultural disciplines.
Place: University Carlos III Madrid
En este taller, al ser subvencionado por el Vicerrectorado de Comunicación, Cultura, Deporte y Extensión Universitaria, tiene prioridad la Comunidad Universitaria UC3M. Para aquellas personas interesadas que no pertenezcan a la Universidad Carlos III, enviar su petición de participación a convocatoria@yosoyelotro.org.
Awilda Sterling Duprey
Awilda Sterling Duprey is an interdisciplinary artist who is active in visual arts, dramatic interpretation, cinema and television, “Performance”, experimental dance and the contemporary Caribbean, and independent cultural investigation. She has an MFA in painting from the Pratt Institute in New York. She is professor of visual arts at the School of Fine Arts in San Juan. She teaches specialized courses in afro-caribbean culture, and gives conferences on afro-caribbean dance through her workshop From Oricha to the Shore...Saints in Salsa, an original concept for the cultural study of Cuba and Puerto Rico by means of music, and religious and popular dance in New York between the years 1975-1985. Her biggest passion is the Caribbean and its cultural expressions which are in constant flux, reason for which she has travelled extensively throughout the region with her work in various professional exchanges. she has worked in Puerto Rico, the United States, mostly in the city of New York, Central and South America, in addition to Madrid and the Algarve, Portugal. She is currently doing a doctorate in Puerto Rican and Caribbean History in the Center for Advanced Studies, in old San Juan. Sterling Duprey had distinguished herself in the following documentary and cinematographic projects in Puerto Rico: Burundanga (Poli Marichal); La recién nacida sangre y Mutantes (Juan Carlos García); La taca diabólica y Páramo (Bachillerato Dpto. de Comunicaciones, USC) and Don Amor (Canal 13, Chile y WIPR, Puerto Rico).
Two-Day Master Class with the Jamaican Poet Lorna Goodison
Organized by YoSoyElOtro
During her visit to Madrid next November 16-19 as Key-Note Speaker at The I International Congress on the Caribbean: The Myth of the Caribbean Woman, the Jamaican poet, will offer a special Masterclass on Poetry writing.
http://www.yosoyelotro.org/cenglish.html
Structure and Methodology:
The Master Class will have the format of a two-day workshop, which will take place for four hours-with a twenty minute break-each day. Participants will be expected to write poems and to give and receive constructive feedback and to take part in a poetry reading at the end of the second day. This Masterclass is intended for Native English Speakers and for those who can fluently write and speak it.
Dates: Wednesday 18 and Friday 20 of November 2009.
Place: Asociación Cultural Yemayá. Calle Calatrava 16. Madrid. Metro: La Latina.
Time: 17.00-21.00 hours.
Participants: 12-15
Cost: 125€ for those who register before the 31st of October. 1st-13th November 150€.
Registration until Friday 13th November.
Interested participants please send your simplified CV plus a paragraph of intend in English to:
jesusdelvalle@yosoyelotro.org
Contact:
Jesús Del Valle
Project Manager
jesusdelvalle@yosoyelotro.org
www.yosoyelotro.org
658199014
Contents:
How to Enter and Exit a poem:
From breaking the door down to knocking softly. Abrupt departures, lingering goodbyes and walkgoods.
The Music in the Poem:
How to recognize when a poem wants to Swing, Scat, Rave Moan, Rock and Roll or Rocksteady.
Making sure the Armature is secure:
Ways to ensure that the poem is built upon a good solid frame.
Sudden Rightnesses:
How to be open to serendipitous happy accidents.
Paying mind to the poem:
How to detect when the poem is sending you signals as to where It wants to go, and what it wants to say.
No poet worth his or her salt goes for a walk listening to an iPod:
How to train yourself to hear the music of what happens.
Derek Walcott’s lemon:
To be explained during the workshop.
Tracing your Poetic Family Tree and being nourished by its Fruits:
How to identify the traditions that shape your poetic voice and making hem work for you.
Writing Your Poetic Manifesto:
This might take a lifetime, so why not start now? Participants will be expected to do in-class writing assignments and will Each have at least one one-on-one meeting to discuss their poetry with Lorna Goodison.
Lorna Goodison (born 1947) is a Jamaican poet, a leading West Indian writer of the eneration born after World War II, currently dividing her time between Jamaica and Ann Arbor, Michigan, where she teaches at the University of Michigan. She was born in Kingston, Jamaica, one of nine siblings, and was educated at St. Hugh's High School, a leading Anglican high school in Jamaica and the Jamaica School of Art, before going to New York to study at the Art Students League. She had also been writing poetry since her teenage years; some early poems appeared anonymously in the Jamaica Gleaner. In her 20s, back in Jamaica, she taught art and worked in advertising and public relations before deciding to pursue a career as a professional writer. She began to publish under her own name in the Jamaica Journal, and to give readings at which she built up an appreciative audience. In the early 1990s, Goodison began teaching part of the year at various North American universities, including the University of Toronto and the University of Michigan. Goodison's most recent book is a memoir, From Harvey River (2008). She has published eleven collections of poems: Tamarind Season (1980), I Am Becoming My Mother (1986, winner of the Commonwealth Writers Prize, Americas region), Heartease (1988), Poems (1989), Selected Poems (1992), To Us, All Flowers Are Roses (1995), Turn Thanks (1999), Guinea Woman (2000), Travelling Mercies (2001), Controlling the Silver (2005), and Goldengrove (2006). Goodison has also published two collections of short stories, Baby Mother and the King of Swords (1990) and Fool-Fool Rose Is Leaving Labourin-Vain Savannah (2005). She has also exhibited her paintings internationally, and her own artwork is usually featured on the covers of her books. In 1999, Goodison was awarded the Musgrave Gold Medal by the Institute of Jamaica for her contributions to literature. Goodison describes poetry as "a dominating, intrusive tyrant. It’s something I have to do--a wicked force". Poet and literary scholar Edward Baugh says that "one of Goodison’s achievements is that her poetry inscribes the Jamaican sensibility and culture on the text of the world". Apart from issues of home and exile, her work also addresses the power of art to explore and reconcile opposites and contradictions in the Caribbean historical experience.
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