IFE-ILE Afro-Cuban Dance Festival

July 18th - 20th, 2008

Join us this summer in sunny Miami, Florida for the event the dance family is waiting for…our 9^th annual Afro-Cuban dance & drumming
workshops all levels (advance levels require over 2 years experience in the style) and Dance Gala Performance (July 19^th)

Featuring:

IFE-ILE's renowned professional instructors Yanitzia Mizrahi, Yanier Trigoura, Yosvany Gonzalez, Neri Torres

Guest instructors: Janete Silva (Afro-Brazilian Orixas), Mestre Alegria (Capoeira/Modern), Mano Menezier (Haitian) and more…

 

Discounted pre-registration available until July 1^st

Register now!
http://www.ife-ile.org/festival.htm

E-mail: ifeiledanceompany@...

Or call: 305. 476.0832/ 305.796.1125

 

Location: Arts & Mind Center, 3138 Commodore Plaza,

Coconut Grove, FL 33133

(1 block away from Cocowalk)

 

Note: Join our mailing list at afrocubandance@yahoogroups.com if you want to network with past festival's participants, a great way to find a hotel roommate, a dance partner or even a friend while in Miami.

 

 

FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS

·                                 Workshops : Taught by Local & Visiting Master Artists (Guaguanco,  Orisha, Son, Casino Rueda, Congo, Arará, Samba, Batá Drumming and more) for beginners and advanced levels.

·                                 After Party (July 19th) Featuring DJ Melao and IFE-ILE umba jam

 

·                                 The Arts & Mind Center, where this year's festival workshops and Gala will take place, is a gorgeous, Havana-style building with sun-filled dance studios, balconies and a spacious courtyard for outdoor events. It's located in the heart of Coconut Grove, two blocks from Coco Walk (a popular outdoor mall). Coconut Grove is an eclectic village and artist community made up of funky open air cafes, cool stores and ethnic restaurants, infused with sidewalk artists, an exciting nightlife and cultural activities.

Renowned Afro-Cuban choreographer and dancer Neri Torres founded the IFE-ILE Afro-Cuban Dance Festival in 1998. She began the festival to reflect the multiple ethnicities of South Florida, and include other dance traditions that share African roots. Says Torres, "Our festival gives people of all backgrounds -- whether they're dancers or not -- the opportunity to enjoy, learn and engage in a celebration of the folk traditions of the African Diaspora in Latin America and the U.S."

 

IFE-ILE's 9th Annual Afro-Cuban Dance Festival offers more than Afro-Cuban dance and drum workshops and events. Here in Miami, Cuban and other African, Caribbean and Latin American cultures thrive and pulse in the neighborhoods. Culture is in the everyday here and now, and not something you will find just in the workshops.