The Ground Flow

Sunset, 30 March 24

Thank you all for coming out last night, for sharing your work and being such a warm and supportive group of audience. We nourish each other creatively through communities and gatherings such as these. Across mediums, the running thread was open-ended and in-the-moment exploration as process—all gleaned from contact improvisation as a modality for artistic thinking and making, that is, it transcends “dance.” Taking chances and going for it, it’s what improvisers do. And it’s a pleasure to witness.

Tomorrow: another joyful session of West African Dance Workshop with Daphne - last one before Daphne leaves the island!

By popular request, we’re holding another West African Dance Workshop with Daphne on Wednesday. This is the last one before she leaves the island.

Traditions with a contemporary take. Joyful collective dancing. Don’t miss it.

Dance to uplifting percussive music, ground your body, elevate your Spirit, release tension and negative emotions, experience joy, and let the Rhythm heal you — all with this earthy, soulful, yet explosive dance inspired by traditions of West Africa.

Monday 18 March 2024
12.00-13.15

Open level, beginners welcome
500 thb
Limited space, please DM to reserve your spot.

The workshop Includes a warm up, instruction of traditional dance and song from Guinea/Mali and a cool down stretch.

Participants can experience:
- a pleasurable and complete bodily workout (work up a sweat!)
- a satisfying grounding sensation of the body through barefoot dancing
- tension/stress release by tuning in to innate rhythms and percussive music
- an emotional release through undulating movements of spine (especially the sternum area where emotional blockages tend to accumulate)
- a reconnection with primitive impulses and vital instincts
- a feeling of self-transcendence through repetitive rhythmic movement
- a celebration of individual creativity
- a strengthened sense of community through group dancing

About the teacher:
Daphne is a dancer, dance teacher, choreographer and musician. She holds a Bachelor degree in Music and Dance (Bryn Mawr College, USA) and a Masters degree in Dance Studies and Choreography (Laban Center, UK). Her passion for African dance, music and culture inspired her to travel to Africa, USA and Europe to learn from top artists in the field. She studied in New York at the ‘Alvin Ailey School’, in Paris at ‘Centre Momboye’, in Italy at “Mama Africa Festival’, in Guinea and in Mali W. Africa with members of ‘Ballets Africains’, ‘Les Marveilles de Guinee’, ‘Ballets Djoliba’ and ‘Ballets National du Mali’ (Youssouf Koumbassa, Mbemba Bangoura, Djeneba Sako, Mangue Sylla, Maguette Camara, Mamady Sano to name only a few names of her teachers).