My passion for Dance grew out of my multinational family and its musical activities in Soca, Calypso, and Reggae. Various studies and journeys to West Africa completed my cultural knowledge about manduenge dance. Since more than 20 years I am sharing Afro Dance in México, Germany, France, and Turkey. To me, it means lightness, easiness, fluency, and strength at a time. it is presence and connectedness with the group, the music as with one own body and Self within the moment. As the Body never lies the most authentic expression of Human Being is in its Music&Dance.
A key feature is the enjoyment and opening of the spine, pelvis and shoulder movement as independent centers. As we dance we RE-connect and opening up as an integration of our whole physical, emotional and spiritual body. We use this movement of your entire body to connect with the moment of Now and express ourselves in a way the verbal expression is much more limited. It’s about the natural Dance impulse, the consistent continuity throughout. A flow of lightness and power.
And we realize our breathing. we dance as we breathe. so the suppleness of our movements will be related to our fluent breathing. breath in – breath out – finding our rhythm, our timing, and tempo – circulation – around energy: rhythm gets born.
You might join our regular classes in Heidelberg which is a LIVE Dance experience energy based on the live played djembe and dunduns mandingue music. Since 2020 we opened up a new digital dance class:
MOVE & DANCE with me from ANYWHERE you are! every month i share with you a new Rhythm, a new Dance! a weekly new class is shared with All of You being part of it, we gonna WarmUp, put up our steps slowly with attention to coordination and our own body feeling we start up with the basic rhythm line, getting to know the call (appell) and we might count on it, anthropological historical knowledge of the tradition is always part of it, its a guided Dance Experience to tune into your body, get connected! at the end we stretch out and cool down with smoothing kora music Weekly ongoing OnLine Classes
