Name: Sabar + Kutiro
Start: 2022-11-11T18:00:00-05:00
End: 2024-12-21T15:30:00-05:00
Location: Cumbe: Center for African and Diaspora Dance

Like Sabar, Kutiro is named after the type of dancing event, dance or drum being performed and celebrated in Gambia and Senegal.
About this Event
Class Description

[ Sabar] Express your joy with the fun, energetic movements of this upbeat dance from Senegal that is often performed at celebrations like weddings, naming ceremonies and other happy occasions. Class begins with a dynamic warm-up that incorporates Sabar technique. Students then get moving with choreography that will have you popping your lapa (wrap skirt) across the dance floor. Enjoy learning Sabar in this class with live drumming.

[Kutiro] Master teacher Ousmane Sall will be sharing the traditions and joys of the rare technique, Kutiro. Osumane brings warm energy to each class while encouraging students to feel at ease and open themselves up to the liberating rhythms of the Kutiro drum. There are three main drums of the Kutiro Ensemble: kutirindingo (small drum), kutiroba (large drum), and the canon shaped drum, sabaro. All drums are played with long sticks and hands; accompanied with singing.

Meet Your Instructor!
 Ousmane Sall

Ousmane Sall is a master dancer/choreographer and also a drummer from Senegal, West Africa.He excels in all of the Senegalese styles of drum and dance and has a particular specialty in the Kutiro rhythms. He was born in Senegal, to a traditional drumming and dance family and was formally trained at the National Dance Academy. He performed for many years in Senegal with the second national dance group of Senegal, National Ballet Senemew, and also Silimbo D’Adeane. Continuing his career in New York, Ousmane, has performed extensively in this area at such venues as: The United Nations, Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, Alice Tully Hall, Symphony Space, The Florence Gould Hall, The Jewish Heritage Museum, Town Hall, Lincoln Center’s Summer Stage and Damrosh Park. He has performed with many dance groups in this area, including Sing Sing Rhythms and Maimouna Keita Dance Company and later formed his own group, YAKAR Roots and Rhythms African Drum and Dance Ensemble. YAKAR has dazzled many audiences in the past five years including ZEYBRAH’s annual Moment In Time Festival at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black, History and Culture. Ousmane has performed and taught workshops at various schools, festivals and clubs in the NYC area and also throughout the United States. He appeared in Bruce Willis film, Tears of the Sun. He is a percussionist in the CD, From the Belly of Abraham by Hasidic New Wave. He has taught for many years at Fareta Dance Studio and Djoniba Drum and Dance Center in New York, and he currently teaches classes at various city venues and workshops nationwide. As a teacher Ousmane brings a warmth and presence into the classroom that encourages each student to feel at ease, inspiring the freedom to open themselves up to the rhythm, brings out the best in their learning abilities. He shows unending patience for his students whatever their age. His energetic dancing constantly defies the bounds of gravity. His sensual and mystical dance style brings at once to the audience or students - charm, strength, masculinity, and vibrant energy.