Below you can find the tour dates and schedule of Havana Rakatan for the next months. I will update the information on new cities, venues and dates as they become available. To find out about a particular show, just click on the venue for further information on availability and prices. A list of past shows [...]
9. July 2010
Sissi joins Havana Rakatan!
Sissi has joined Havana Rakatan to perform during the summer and autumn tour of the company during 2010. Sissi visited Rakatan in spring 2009 where she collaborated as a visiting dancer. At the beginning of this year, she received a kind invitation to join the company, which she was extremely happy to accept. Sissi is [...]
5. December 2009
Terminology used during “Rueda Cubana” classes
The following table presents the salsa figures I have covered during the last couple of months in my salsa classes on Wednesdays. The aim of this list is to help the student to familiarise with the terminology and understand their translation. A final column highlights whether changing partners occurs when conducting the figure. I will [...]
3. December 2009
Studio Session – Eco Cloths
The following series were prepared and photographed by Robert Viglasky and Ela Partyka. The topic was Eco-Clothes and we created the dresses with plastic bags, papers and a lot of imagination in a very entertaining day. The photographers were working with a Hasselblad medium format camera of 30 years old and they also did some [...]
27. November 2009
Cuban Salsa Bands List
Find below a non-exhaustive list of fantastic Cuban salsa bands to listen to and pratice the salsa moves you have been learning during our classes. I have done a quick search and there are loads of albums from these groups in iTunes, amazon and HMV. The perfect gift for Christmas! I will update this list [...]
26. November 2009
“Mirage” from Point Zero Physical Theatre Oxford
Over the last two months I have collaborated with the Oxford-based Physical Theatre Point Zero. The company has recently being created under the direction of Danny Scott and I had the opportunity to dance and act with a young crew with a lot of energy that included Barbara Baer, Anja Meinhardt and Hannah de Cancho. [...]
20. November 2009
Mask Making with Point Zero Physical Theatre
I collaborated with the Physical Theatre Point Zero based in Oxford in a piece called “Masquerade” written and directed by Danny Scott. As part of the training to prepare the performance we created masks to experiment the sensations of being trapped within in ourselves. The process was very rewarding and the sensations unique, in particular [...]
20. November 2009
Movie stills project
The following series were created for a project aiming at developing compositions skills and storytelling. The sequence was written and directed by the visual artist Robert Viglasky. I also had the opportunity to collaborate with Mario Mage and Oliver Tellechea. We shot the whole series over two days in the evenings and it was one [...]
26. July 2009
Collaboration with choreographer Nickely Burke
I have recently had the opportunity to collaborate with the Oxford-based dancer and choreographer Nickely Burke during a performance at a Montessori School. Another ten dancers participated in the piece. We rehearsed during two weeks and it was a fantastic feeling being part of this group. The performance took place in a open air garden [...]
18. July 2009
Collaboration with Dani K
On Saturday 4th of July, I had the opportunity to collaborate with the london-based latin dancer Dani K. We danced in a demonstration performance class in Beaconsfield near London. We prepared some casino, rumba and improvisation and these are some of the images of the evening. I have uploaded a video with a sample of [...]
21. July 2010
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