Exclusively Online: More Than a Follower with Tania Mendonça

Due to COVID-19 situation, we cannot welcome Tania Mendonça in our Charlotte studio, so we are bring her extensive knowledge to you exclusively online to your LIVING ROOM via ZOOM video platform! This 8-hour intensive is the brain child of Tania Mendonca from her years of teaching in dance festivals. The workshop aims to share her knowledge of PALOP culture regarding Kizomba and Semba along with empowering the follower role, building up leader role and creating more empathy between partners in the dance. This intensive is OPEN to BOTH LEADERS and FOLLOWERS. The goals for the workshops are key to all of us who dance Kizomba while sharing relevant cultural and musical secrets straight from native carrier of culture and dance - Tania Mendonca SCHEDULE and TOPICS: ---Saturday, July 11 - 12PM - 4:30PM EST (New York time) 4 hours of workshops: 1- The Awareness- Posture & Balance Walk -European vs African Body Isolations, European vs Angolan Ginga/Banga 2- The principle of The Follower- Timing & Response Presence and Attitude Beat keeping 30-min break 3- Reverse Leading & Following Angolan Musicality vs Western 4 - Reverse Leading Part 2- masculine energy vs feminine energy --- Sunday, July 12 - 12PM - 4:30PM EST (New York time) 4 hours of workshops: 5- The delay- Angolan vs Western styles Syncopation, brakes, footwork 6- Kizomba vs Semba 30 min break 7- Semba Solos 8- Semba Solos - End Routine video POINTS to CONSIDER: - ZERO Hotel/Meal/Travel expense to get first-hand knowledge - You don't need a partner to participate - Online live session in Eastern Standard Time zone (New York time) - sessions taught in English - Live sessions will be recorded and available for later viewing for 7 days after the event. - Same great content you would receive in studio from a highly sought-after teacher - Interactive online format - you will be able to interact with Tania with two-way video, feedback and asking live questions - Zoom format will allow you to participate from your smartphone/tablet/computer COST: Limited $40 tickets: https://kizomba-alegria.ticketleap.com//tania-2020 Please send us a message with your Facebook account information if you want to be added to private Facebook for recorded session 7-day access after the event. Tania Mendonca Instructor bio: As most Angolans,Tania has danced Kizomba with family and friends most of her life, but it was in 2010 now resident in UK, that she started to share her knowledge and teach Kizomba outside the community. As a Angolan, Kizomba is more than a dance, it is her culture. Founder of Kizomba Reading, co-founder of Kizomba4Life charity and HBT events, Tania always took on the responsibility of spreading her culture not only by teaching the dance but with the main focus on the music and its artists, as it is the music and its lyrics the most important character of Kizomba movement. On her most recent project "About Kizomba", Tania shares the “ins” and “outs” of the history and its importance through the struggles of the Angolan people during the civil war and masses of immigration of the PALOP communities to Portugal. Twice nominated for best Kizomba teacher by The UK Lucas Awards, Tania is an highly reputable Instructor in the UK and Portugal, sought to teach Internationally at various Congresses and Festivals, focusing in sharing her knowledge of Kizomba in its most original form.