DANCE WORKSHOP WITH ANDREYA OUAMBADirector, Compagnie 1er Temps (Dakar, Senegal) IN NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT When: Friday, April 16, 2010, 11:00 AM - 1

FRIDAY, APRIL 16, 2010
DANCE WORKSHOP
WITH
ANDREYA OUAMBADirector, Compagnie 1er Temps (Dakar, Senegal)
IN NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT
When: Friday, April 16, 2010, 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM
Where: Broadway Loft Studios, 3rd Floor, 294 Elm Street, New Haven, Connecticut
Presented as part of GLOBAL MOVERS: A CONTEMPORARY DANCE WORKSHOP SERIES
Sponsored by World Performance Project-Theater Studies, Alliance for Dance at Yale, and Jonathan Edwards College
Workshops are open to the Yale and New Haven communities. The artists of Global Movers expose Yale students to a diverse range of movement ideas and vocabularies. Representing far-flung geographic and cultural origins, the workshops reveal the specificity and detail of movement in the hands of today's finest contemporary dance artists. In offering students regular access to dance techniques taught by professional artists, the class and workshop series supports both curricular teaching, research and writing, and extra-curricular dance at Yale.

For more information contact Prof. Emily Coates (Yale Theater Studies): emily.coates@yale.edu
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Andreya Ouamba, a dancer and choreographer, was born in Congo-Brazzaville and started his artistic career in 1993. He has worked with many international directors and choreographers. In 1995, his first choreography, L'HALEINE, won first prize at the Mabina-Danse Festival. In 2000, he started Compagnie 1er Temps, which has over the years traveled from Dakar to Abidjan, Burkina Faso, Johannesburg, Paris, Düsseldorf, Berlin, Bielefeld, Seoul, Denmark, Mali, Mozambique, and Cameroon. In 2007, the Compagnie presented a new creation, PALABRE, at theLimoges Festival Les Francophonies et Limousin, and toured Australia, Africa, and Oceania. Most recently he presented THE GOOD DANCE, created in collaboration with Reggie Wilson, in the Brooklyn Academy of Music's Next Wave Festival 2009.
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