DRUMS AND DANCE 2023
DRUMS AND DANCE 2023
Our intensive "Drum and Dance" 2023 course will start on June 20 with its distinguished guests, as usual.
This year, Ferdinand Batantou, Yelessa Antoinette, Christian Vallejo, Orokiya Koné and Zab Maboungou join our musicians, Elli Miller-Maboungou, Mohamed N'Diayé and Adana Daiu to animate and transmit all the art of drumming and movement.
Given the circumstances, we have to limit participation in our internship but we hope you will stay tuned.
A very good summer to you!
Daily program (10 ten-day course, Tuesday to Saturday incl.)
DRUMS SERIES
Ferdinand Batantou (Congo / France)
Christian Vallejo (Martinique/ France)
DANCE SERIES
Address the techniques of contemporary African dance, their rhythmic cultures and the styles of the artists and teachers who represent them.
Yelessa Antoinette (Congo/ France)
Orokiya Koné (Ivory Coast)
Zab Maboungou (Congo / Canada)
DRUMS & DANCE 2023
JUNE 20 TO JULY 1, 2023 - 23rd edition
Tuesday, June 27
Wednesday, June 28
Thursday, June 29
Friday, June 30
Saturday 01 July
09:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m.
Vallejo
Vallejo
Vallejo
Vallejo
Vallejo
11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.
Batantou
Batantou
Batantou
Batantou
Batantou
2:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Zab
Zab
Zab
Zab
Zab
4:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m.
Koné
Koné
Koné
Koné
Koné
7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.
Yelessa
Yelessa
Yelessa
Yelessa
Yelessa
Tuesday, June 20
Wednesday, June 21
Thursday, June 22
Friday, June 23
Saturday June 24
09:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m.
Vallejo
Vallejo
Vallejo
Vallejo
11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.
Batantou
Batantou
Batantou
Batantou
Batantou
2:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Zab
Zab
Zab
Zab
Zab
4:30p.m. to 6:30p.m.
Koné
Koné
Koné
Koné
Koné
7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.
Yelessa
Yelessa
Yelessa
Yelessa
Yelessa
PPROMOTIONS TARIFS
THE WHOLE COURSE at 1200 CAD until Sunday, June 18
Drop-in possible only the first week only: 45 CAD
PRICES
Drum or Dance: 1 class = 10 days = 1 teacher.
1st class: $350
2 classes: $650
3 classes: $900
4 classes: $1100
5 classes: THE WHOLE COURSE
All dances and drums (entire course): $1200 OFFER UNTIL June 18
PREFERENTIAL PRICE FOR STUDENTS AND PROFESSIONALS – Please contact us.
You can pay by interac transfer to:
Password: dance
Thanking you!
Good summer!
Ferdinand Batantou
Master drummer of Congolese origin, Ferdinand Batantou was percussionist of the National Ballet of Congo. He has since participated in several festivals all over the world.
In France, he is a distinguished accompanist for African dance classes.
Visiting professor at the University of Michigan, he has participated since 1995 in the Congolese Camp in California and Hawaii, in the United States. His talent as an arranger has earned him a hand in several large-scale projects, including one with Doudou N'Diaye Rose, an internationally renowned drummer from Senegal.
Antoinette Yelessa
Antoinette Yelessa is an artist in whom there is a whole musical heritage and
danced from the Congo which is, at the same time heir to its traditions and to the changes that have course during the socio-cultural and political evolution of the country where she was born. Dancer, official singer and choreographer of Congolese modern music groups
renowned, such as LOKETO, Matchacha Group, she brilliantly initiates on the club stages
in Europe and America what will later be referred to as the "music of the
world ". A worthy representative of the elegance and finesse of ancestral dance,
invigorated to the sound of Congolese soukouss guitars, Yelessa introduces us to the
Mutuashi.
Yambi Yelessa!
Christian Vallejo and his healing drum
Trained with the Tanboyés (drum masters) in Martinique, including his
great-uncle, master late Apollon Vallejo, Christian Vallejo chooses to transmit what
constitutes one of the cardinal virtues of this instrument-emblem that is the drum,
know its therapeutic potential. Aided by his clinical practice in music therapy
(psychosis, personality disorder, addiction), this percussion artist from the
Culture Patrimoniale Martiniquaise has set up a reception structure for the care that it
called “bèlèthérapy”.
Welcome Christian!
Orokiya Koné
Dancer, choreographer, trainer, Orokiya Koné is the artistic director of "OROKIYA KONE Compagnie". She has more than 30 years of experience in the field of dance.
Orokiya took his first steps in the KOTEBA ensemble in Abidjan. She trained and gained experience throughout the many shows, tours, meetings and exchanges in which she took part.
From a star dancer, she was appointed choreographer of the KOTEBA ensemble in Abidjan in 1990 by director Souleymane KOLY.
Orokiya is an emblematic figure of the KOTEBA style.
Adama Daou
The Malian musician Adama Daou began playing African percussion instruments (djembe, dumdum, calabash and balafon) as a child, while taking part in traditional ceremonies. In 2000, Adama moved to Paris where he performed frequently and toured France and Europe with a number of musical groups, including Lo'jo and the Norma Claire dance company.
At the same time, Adama regularly organized and led African percussion and dance courses and workshops in France, French Guiana and Mali, either solely or in conjunction with community organizations. In late 2011, Adama Daou moved to Montreal, and has since participated in several Canadian music festivals and worked with Zab Maboungou/Compagnie Danse Nyata Nyata. In recent years, he has become known for his mastery of the balafon, both through his live performances and his teaching in schools across Québec and Canada.
Elli Miller-Maboungou
Born into an artistic family, Elli learned to beat a drum before he could walk, at the Centre Création Danse Nyata Nyata, where he grew up. This informed his earliest memories, which involved working with some of the great master drummers, alongside whom he refined his style and stroke. Elli has previously taken part in several shows and led percussion workshops at the Centre and on tour. Founder of the group Jazzamboka and recipient of the Montréal Jazz Festival Composition Award, he also performs regularly with Compagnie Zab Maboungou | Compagnie Danse Nyata Nyata.
Mohamed Ndiaye
Mohamed N'Diaye was introduced to the percussive arts at the age of five in Conakry (Guinea, West Africa). A percussionist and dancer, Mohamed Kèba N'Diaye trained with some of the greatest talents in his native Guinea, where he was born to artists of song and dance. He pursued dual training in percussion and dance at the Ballets Africains de Guinée, where his father Oumar N'Diaye had trained before him.
He later joined his father in Québec (Canada), where he broadened his choreographic vocabulary to include contemporary dance by joining Ghyslaine Dôté's Compagnie Virtu'O Danse. He then continued on to Mexico, where, exposed to the Afro-descendant culture of the Veracruz region, he renewed ties to his origins, accentuating the cultural cross-fertilization between his West African roots and Mexico.
