Events Calendar

For more info phone Tania Mawhinney 03 4488782 or Dale Hutton 03 448 6217

URBAN STREET DANCE & STOMP

ANDREW CESAN from Identitiy Dance crew

Andrew has twice won awards for outstanding performance in TEMPO Dance festival and along with Simon and Richie, Andrew has had considerable success as a Hip Hop dancer as part of TMC Dance Crew who twice represented NZ at world Champs and currently he is a member of the 2013 and 2014 NZ champion team IDENTITY who also were the silver medalists at last years World Hip Hop Championship and will return to represent NZ again this year

Andrew is still completing his degree at Auckland University, trying to manage his last two papers around his considerable commercial commitments both in NZ and overseas. 

RICHIE CESAN 

Richie is a member of IDENTITY Dance crew who were NZ champions in 2013 and 2014 and gained the silver medal at the world Hip Hop championships in Las Vegas last August – and will again be representing NZ  this year. 

Richie has also gained recognition as a Choreographer and has been nominated three years for the TEMPO dance Festival Young Choreographer award winning this in 2009. He was also a principal choreographer for the Rugby World Cup opening in 2011.

Richie is now the primary teacher and choreographer for this company. As well as teaching in the private sector Richie teaches in several schools as an Itinerant teacher as well as fulfilling other commercial commitments.  

Check them out on YouTube: www.identitydancecrew.com

AFRICAN DANCE & TRIBAL DRUMMING

Robert Koffie Fugah

A professional African drumming and dance instructor and performer. He grew up in a village called Abor from the Volta Region of Ghana where traditional music and dance is part of the daily life. He under took professional African dance and drumming training in Accra, the capital of Ghana, at the Community Youth Cultural Centre under the government’s National Commission on Culture. He taught African dance and drumming for about 15 years in schools and to expatriates both in Ghana and abroad. During this time he continued to perform personally nationally and internationally at events such as NAFAC, KIDDAFEST and PANAFEST. He worked extensively in schools throughout Accra.

He taught large groups of children from the age of 5 up to secondary school students. Classes vary from weekly drumming or dance lessons through to preparation for large scale performances which are often filmed for screening on Ghana TV.

Last year he was interviewed and then performed on the TVNZ Good Morning show.  

Anna Robinson 

Anna has trained in RAD ballet and Jazz before moving on to contemporary dance.  After some time away from the dance community Anna was lured back to dance while living in Perth, Australia through a friend who was attending classes in African dance.  The rhythms, movement and stories that came with traditional African dance were irresistible to her.  This was followed by a four year study and exploration of African dance for Anna, with numerous traveling dancers and musicians  from West Africa making their way to Perth to share their love of dance and music through workshops and short study intensives.  Anna also studied this style of dance under several practitioners living in the Perth area and regularly performed at festivals, parties, dance events and special corporate events.

Since returning to NZ Anna has gathered all her experience and resources together to start dancing and teaching here.  The grooves are infectious and the moves beautiful, explosive and depictive of various aspects of life in traditional communities.

Thanks to our sponsors:
Alexandra Creative Communities Scheme,  Community Organisation Grants Scheme (COGS), Pub Charities, Central Otago Dance Development, Community Trust of Otago and the Lion Foundation

Dates:

• Sat, 12 July 2014 @ 9am to 5pm
  Saturday
• Sun, 13 July 2014 @ 9am to 5pm
  Sunday
• Mon, 14 July 2014 @ 9am to 5pm
  Monday

Location

CROMWELL COLLEGE