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afro-cuban Classes in London

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Learn to dance or improve your Afro-Cuban dances

Dancing is one of the best ways to relieve stress and bring happiness to your life. We offer Afro-Cuban classes that are full of fun along with great technique.

What you will learn

Learn the basic moves to a more complex level.
Get fit, learn about the Afro-Cuban legacy while improving your core movement, technique and enriching your dance and culture vocabulary. 

Understand the similarity and differences of Afro-Cuban dances and music. Some props names and used.

Why dance with us?

Get it right from the beginning.  We are passionate and know our Afro-Cuban...
The Afro-Cuban dance movements, footwork and corporal expression learnt during the course, will enrich any other dance form that you might enjoy and will help you with your confidence, style and improvisation in the dance floor, especially with the core movements (roots) of many Cuban dances.
Classes are done a a comfortable dance studio.

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BOOK your NEW Afro-Cuban workshops
(Saturday 1st /8th & 29th October, 1:00-3pm)  

No dance partner needed

Come on your own or join us with a group of friends.

​All dance levels welcome

  • Beginners
  • Improvers
  • Intermediate
  • Advanced

Flexible payment options

Whether you want to join us for a single class or pay for a few weeks with a discount.

Start your Afro-Cuban experience with one of these classes

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We operate a ticket-free scheme. Your name will be registered on our list at the door.  If you prefer to the a transfer please email us with your name and class name or fill up the booking form at the end of the class you selected page.

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*Payment are not refundable neither transferable.
​**There are limited spaces available on this course.
***Drop in payment needs to be transfer minimum of 2 days in advance

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Time & Location

The Place Dance Studio
16 FLAXMAN TERRACE, 
London
WC1H 9AT


Saturday: 18:00 - 20:00

Testimonials

The best class I have ever been. An amazing energy and you feel liberated at the end !! Highly recommended. 
Absolutely love the expressive description that bring real meaning to the dances. Also appreciate individual corrections. Feel very comfortable with your willingness to be a free spirit. I like your straight talk, I find it helpful. A fun and enjoyable class that makes learning a whole lot easier and you make it more enjoyable with your lovely spirit. 
What is afro-cuban?
With live music, this class will reflect the historical and soulful connection between Africa and Cuba.
What does afro-cuban dance styles comprises?
Yoruba, Arara and Palo
The Afro-Cuban dances comprises dances with Yoruba Influences , know as Orishas/Orichas o Santeria,   Dahomeian influences, know as Arara and the ones with Bantu influences know as Palo.

Oricha/Orisha dances are religious manifestations of The Regla de Ocha (also known as Regla Lucumí/LuKumí) and are traditionally performed with Batá drums.
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Arara dances steps used by the slaves while going to work  in the coffee plantations and sugar cane fields.

Palo dances involve many pelvic and torso movements. Palo, Makuta and Yuka came from the region of Congo west Africa Bantu religion.
Afro-Cuban Music 
Afro-Cuban music involves two main categories of music: religious and profane, 
  • Religious music includes the chants, rhythms and instruments used in rituals of the Afro-Cuban religious currents
  • Profane music focuses largely on the Rumba complex ( Yambu, Guaguanco and Columbia). Carnival music such as conga and comparsa,  as well as several lesser styles such as the tumba francesa.
  • If not all, most of the Cuban music has been influenced by African rhythms. Cuban popular music, and quite a lot of the art music, has strands from both Spain and Africa, woven into a unique Cuban cloth. The Son Cubano  is a typical example of this.

We try when possible to run our Afro-Cuban classes and workshops with live music as , with live music, this class will reflect the historical and soulful connection between Africa and Cuba. And is the way the"we" Cubans dance to this genre. 
AFRO-CUBAN Orishas ( GoDS) description 
Who is OGUN/OGGUN - the deity of iron, war, politics, and technology; he is aggressive, impulsive and arrogant. His colours are: green and purple. His dance movements are strong, masculine and energetic.

Who is OYA/YANSA -Warrior female orisha. Deity of the wind, the air, lighting, fertility and magic. Beyond destruction, Oya is the spirit of change, transition, and the chaos. She is associated with the marketplace, the gates of cemeteries (as opposed to the entire underworld), which reveal Oya in her aspect as facilitator of transition. Her crown talks of her character as a Queen. In Yoruba Oya literally means “She Tore”. She is also called “the one who wears pants to go to war“, and “the one who grows a beard to go to war”.

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