(Founder and Artistic Director: Susie White)


Saturday 25 October 2014

Drum solo workshop

A couple of Ya Raqs girls found themselves back in Manchester on Saturday. This time Kebi and Phoenece found themselves taking part in a sell-out drum workshop run by Jane Wass Mazazik and accompanied by Guy Shalom. Drum solos are one of the most popular aspects of Arabic dance, where a dancer uses her skill with hips and shimmies to work with the drummer, and sometimes lead the drummer. Jane encouraged them to develop the creative side of a drum solo, playing with different energies to change tempo and use different parts of their body in their dance.

Kebi, Jane Wass, Guy Shalom and Phoenece

Besides dancing to live music, they learned about different drum rhythms, which was really helpful as they have both been taking drumming lessons from Meroe and Rhythmic Ginger.

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