wild moves international | workshops
Our workshops can be adapted to any age group
Pre requisite ...
a Sense of Wild Moves
Stylin’ Afrique Drum & Dance: Suitable for all levels of experience in drum & dance. Learn to drum, dance and sing as a group with members of Wild Moves International. Develop an “ear” for the drum patterns that guide the dancer to “change gears.” Understand how the dance, song & drum communicate the “message” within African culture. Be prepared to sweat and challenge your comfort zones into discovering your own Wild Moves.
Ayankofu: for all children and the “child within” Ayankofu is a meeting place for friends. A wildly fun class to encourage creativity and confidence, through games and body percussion, song, dance and drumming, costumes and storytelling. It’s very simple and not too fast in pace, so you can come in and out of the workshop as you need. We will visit the Goddesses and Guardians of Earth, Wind, Fire, Lightning, Sky, Water, Ocean, Forest and a few other tricksters like dwarfs and doolagars. Get dressed up, use props and paints, whatever and go wherever our play takes us.
Ayketekyi Asafo: for wild kids 8 – 12years and older if you dare!! (fast, hot) exudes the power and strength of the Asafo (warrior). This is a drum & dance workshop for young people who are interested in fusing acro-balance, hip hop, physical theatre, creating rap rhythms on djembe and modern drums.
High Life to Hip Life: for teenagers and older who are interested in the African Diaspora of Wild Moves High Life was Ghana’s popular music and dance in the 1920’s and essentially came from the Spiritual dances of the Juju. WW1 & 2 American soldiers had regular stops in Ghana on their way over to Europe and that influenced the secularisation of the dance with Jazz and Swing. Over time with the development of more globalisation, High Life fused with other popular African dances like Kpanlogo, Soukous, Latin-American styles of Rhumba, Son, Lambada and Afro-American Funk and Hip Hop. Affectionately now known as Hip Life, it is essentially a fusion of all of the above and is geared to keep large groups of dancers moving on the dance floor at the hottest nite clubs with Ghanaian R n B music. Be prepared to sweat, swing, shake, thrust and groove your Wild Moves into being.
Harvesting your Wild Moves: tailored to any age group This workshop will draw upon the themes of a traditional African harvest or fertility Dance of abundance. The connection of people and place will be explored and motifs model of participation and connection to place through drum and dance. Jacqui will facilitate the process of choreographing and composing our own community dance about CERES. It will be a site specific dance work based on an indigenous choreographic model that provides a framework for making contemporary dance and music about CERES community arts park. Come with any instrument and be prepared to make your costume with anything recycled from the day from within the CERES environs. All levels of abilities are welcome to participate.
Pre requisite: openness to finding your own Wild Moves.
Sacred Wild Moves: Puberty Dances
Wildly Moving Body Percussion: Gumboot Dance
Wild Moves Circle of Life: Animals
Wild Moves of the Royal Court: Traditional Ghanaian dance of the Royal Palace
Connecting Wild Moves: Dance and drumming as therapy or for team building
Hooked on Wild Moves: Fishing dances for team building
Golden Years Wild Moves
Pre requisite ...
a Sense of Wild Moves
Stylin’ Afrique Drum & Dance: Suitable for all levels of experience in drum & dance. Learn to drum, dance and sing as a group with members of Wild Moves International. Develop an “ear” for the drum patterns that guide the dancer to “change gears.” Understand how the dance, song & drum communicate the “message” within African culture. Be prepared to sweat and challenge your comfort zones into discovering your own Wild Moves.
Ayankofu: for all children and the “child within” Ayankofu is a meeting place for friends. A wildly fun class to encourage creativity and confidence, through games and body percussion, song, dance and drumming, costumes and storytelling. It’s very simple and not too fast in pace, so you can come in and out of the workshop as you need. We will visit the Goddesses and Guardians of Earth, Wind, Fire, Lightning, Sky, Water, Ocean, Forest and a few other tricksters like dwarfs and doolagars. Get dressed up, use props and paints, whatever and go wherever our play takes us.
Ayketekyi Asafo: for wild kids 8 – 12years and older if you dare!! (fast, hot) exudes the power and strength of the Asafo (warrior). This is a drum & dance workshop for young people who are interested in fusing acro-balance, hip hop, physical theatre, creating rap rhythms on djembe and modern drums.
High Life to Hip Life: for teenagers and older who are interested in the African Diaspora of Wild Moves High Life was Ghana’s popular music and dance in the 1920’s and essentially came from the Spiritual dances of the Juju. WW1 & 2 American soldiers had regular stops in Ghana on their way over to Europe and that influenced the secularisation of the dance with Jazz and Swing. Over time with the development of more globalisation, High Life fused with other popular African dances like Kpanlogo, Soukous, Latin-American styles of Rhumba, Son, Lambada and Afro-American Funk and Hip Hop. Affectionately now known as Hip Life, it is essentially a fusion of all of the above and is geared to keep large groups of dancers moving on the dance floor at the hottest nite clubs with Ghanaian R n B music. Be prepared to sweat, swing, shake, thrust and groove your Wild Moves into being.
Harvesting your Wild Moves: tailored to any age group This workshop will draw upon the themes of a traditional African harvest or fertility Dance of abundance. The connection of people and place will be explored and motifs model of participation and connection to place through drum and dance. Jacqui will facilitate the process of choreographing and composing our own community dance about CERES. It will be a site specific dance work based on an indigenous choreographic model that provides a framework for making contemporary dance and music about CERES community arts park. Come with any instrument and be prepared to make your costume with anything recycled from the day from within the CERES environs. All levels of abilities are welcome to participate.
Pre requisite: openness to finding your own Wild Moves.
Sacred Wild Moves: Puberty Dances
Wildly Moving Body Percussion: Gumboot Dance
Wild Moves Circle of Life: Animals
Wild Moves of the Royal Court: Traditional Ghanaian dance of the Royal Palace
Connecting Wild Moves: Dance and drumming as therapy or for team building
Hooked on Wild Moves: Fishing dances for team building
Golden Years Wild Moves
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