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🎶💃 LA FIESTA WORKSHOPS — RHYTHM, DANCE & CULTURE 🥁🔥 Sunday 8 NovemberLa Fiesta continues on Sunday with a full day of intimate, hands-on workshops exploring the music, dance, rhythm and cultural traditions behind some of the artists appearing across the weekend.
🎟 TIX: https://events.humanitix.com/rhythm-dance-culture-workshops
Join visiting artists and musicians from SENES Flamenco, Suns of Mercury and iLe iLu, alongside Canberra collaborators, for extended sessions in flamenco, Cuban percussion and dance, batá, cajón, palmas, cante, pandeiro and Brazilian rhythms.
💃 FLAMENCO WORKSHOPS — 10:00am–2:00pm
Three connected workshops in flamenco dance, music and rhythm with live accompaniment: Beginner Dance, Intermediate Dance, Palmas + Cante.
🇨🇺🥁 CUBAN PERCUSSION + DANCE — 12:00pm–2:00pm
A hands-on exploration of Cuban percussion, dance and batá with Adrian Hearn, Aloy Junco and Rodolfo “Panga” Hechavarría from Suns of Mercury.
🇧🇷🪘 PANDEIRO: SAMBA & BEYOND — 2:15pm–4:45pm
Explore pandeiro, samba and Brazilian rhythms with Marina Da Silva from iLe iLu, assisted by Raio de Sol.
These aren’t just technique classes. Each workshop combines hands-on participation with cultural and historical context — an opportunity to understand where the music and movement come from, how the traditions have developed, and the communities that continue to carry them.
📍 Workshops take place across Latin Dance Canberra and Blank Cultural Platform, with options for beginners as well as more experienced dancers and musicians.
Come for one session, or make a day of it! MORE DETALS BELOW👇
💃 Flamenco Dance, Music & Percussion Workshops
10:00am–2:00pm 📍 Latin Dance Canberra
Spend the morning exploring the art of flamenco with SENES Flamenco, across three connected workshops covering dance, technique, choreography, rhythm and percussion and voice, all with live musical accompaniment.
10:00–11:30am — Beginner Flamenco Dance
Learn foundational steps and bodywork, explore basic flamenco rhythms and palmas, and bring them together in a short routine. Open to all ages, genders and experience levels, with no partner required.
11:30am–1:00pm — Intermediate Flamenco Dance
Build on existing experience with a more focused session in technique, choreography, musicality and expression. Participants will work more closely with flamenco rhythm and live accompaniment. Some previous flamenco or dance experience is recommended.
1:00–2:00pm – Cante Flamenco Singing + Palmas Workshop: Learn to sing Rumbas, a flamenco style shaped by the exchange between Spain and Latin America. Also includes palmas handclap techniques and a focus on singing, rhythm and wellbeing. Beginners welcome; no previous music experience required. Some Spanish is helpful but not essential. Bring a pen, paper and water bottle.
🇨🇺🥁 Cuban Percussion + Dance
12:00pm–2:00pm 📍 Blank Cultural Platform
Adrian Hearn, Aloy Junco and Rodolfo “Panga” Hechavarría from Suns of Mercury take you through an extended hands-on session combining rhythm, movement and percussion with the history and cultural context behind Cuban musical traditions.
Participants will be introduced to different rhythmic approaches, instruments and the relationship between percussion and dance, with plenty of opportunities to listen, play and move.
The final part of the workshop goes deeper into the Afro-Cuban traditions of the orishas — Yoruba nature spirits — and explores the ways these traditions are embodied through music, movement and batá drums.
🔥 Expect to listen, play, move and learn.
🇧🇷🪘 Pandeiro: Samba and Beyond!
2:15pm–4:15pm 📍 Blank Cultural Platform
Discover the versatility of the pandeiro, one of Brazil’s most iconic percussion instruments, with Marina Da Silva, director of iLe iLu, assisted by Raio de Sol.
Explore samba rhythms, then journey beyond through practical playing, movement and discussion of the instrument’s history, cultural context and place within Brazilian music.
🪘 Bring your own pandeiro if you have one. If you don’t, a limited number will be available to use during the workshop.
This participatory session combines technique, rhythm, movement and cultural understanding.
🎟 BOOK HERE: https://events.humanitix.com/rhythm-dance-culture-workshops
✨ Flamenco • Cuba • Brazil
✨ Dance • Percussion • Rhythm • Culture
✨ Sunday 8 November
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Blank Cultural Platform, Tobruk House, 15 Moore St, City ACT 2601, Australia, Canberra
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