My teaching practice includes material for diverse audiences and contexts: professional dancers, dance students, those who dance for pleasure; universities, high schools, community spaces, festivals, events. I teach both theoretical and practical courses (and combinations of the two). I teach one-time workshops, as well as series or semester-long courses.
If you are interested in contracting me to teach, please reach out here. I am able to cater courses to specific audiences, contexts and needs.
Post-performance talk back at the Women Theater-makers Festival, Neúquen, Argentina 2018 (Photo by Flor Castello)
My dance technique class is...
first and foremost, fun. A party (a well thought out, tried and tested party). We are here to enjoy our dances and enjoy this time we'll spend together. Joy. Support of one another. Pleasure. Radical love for ourselves, our bodies and the dances we carry.
a highly physical experience that requires our sensitivity, precise attention, full presence in space, and sincere personality.
a fusion of various types of movement, coming from my formal and informal dance training. This includes traditional and popular West African dance, popular dances of the African Diaspora, and Contemporary dance techniques such as Flyng-Low, Passing Through Contact Improvisation, Asymmetrical Motion and Post-Modern dance.
a moment to form and inhabit a community. We focus on ourselves and our own development, but also open up to the richness of human interaction, which offers its own endless benefits to our performance. We are people in class, not just vessels of our technique.
an opportunity to filter through our technique as we improvise and dance set material together. Students are urged to take comfort in the familiar while pushing themselves to experiment with the foreign. We are going to explore the dances we hold in our bodies as well as new dances that I will share.
a space for each dancer to explore an individual interpretation of learned material, while reconciling the exact and the ambiguous of the movement.
a political space. A radical space. A space where I will constantly challenge what we are used to, and I invite students to challenge me.
Dance for Women of the Diaspora
(ARG | Nov 2018) A community dance class I coordinated for 3 years, in which several guest teachers and myself taught various African diaspora forms
Guest Artist Class
(USA | Jan 2017) Teaching dance students at Loomis Chaffee high school, photo by John Groo
Invited Artist
(Mexico | March 2018) Teaching a technique class at Performática Performance Festival, where I was an invited artist
Where to take a technique class...
CLASS OPPORTUNITIES COMING SOON
I started a bi-monthly class for Women of the African Diaspora in Buenos Aires. The class is taught from a feminist and afrocentric perspective, and serves as a meeting place and place of refuge. It continues to be run by an activist comrade, Florencia Gomes.
I teach workshops for professional and pleasure dancers. You can follow me on social media for updates or check back here periodically.