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Lula Washington Dance Theatre
TOUR DATES 5-19 OCT
Dance Classes
Featured Events
Evolution Dance Studio NoHo
Sounds of Blackness
Sounds of Blackness || Africans in America
Saturday 5th October
Showcase 8-10pm
Barnsdall Art Park
4800 Hollywood Boulevard
Los Angeles, CA 90027
Sunday 6th October
Workshop 11:30am-1pm
Animo Western Middle School Gym
12226 South Western Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90047
EVOLUTION STUDIOS
Address: 10816 Burbank Blvd,
North Hollywood, CA 91601
Phone: (818) 754-1760
LIMIT 25 PER CLASS!!
FRIDAY 11th OCT ||
6PM-7PM
7PM-8PM
SUNDAY 13TH OCT ||
2:10PM-3:10PM
3:20PM-4:20PM
4:30PM-5:30PM
FRIDAY 18TH OCT ||
2:10PM-3:10PM
3:20PM-4:20PM
4:30PM-5:30PM
Lula Washington Dance Theatre
Taste of Soul
Taste of Soul || Dance All Day
Saturday 19th October
Lula Washington Dance Theatre Stage
Crenshaw Boulevard
Los Angeles, CA 90016
LULA WASHINGTON DANCE THEATRE
Address: 3773 Crenshaw Blvd,
Los Angeles, CA 90016
Phone: (323) 292-5852
SATURDAY 12TH OCT ||
3PM-4:30PM || LWDT Students +
Non-registered students
5PM-6PM || Professional Dancers
6PM-7PM || Open Community
B O R N and R A I S E D in Reunion Island, Katy Toave is a formidable custodian of MALOYA.
Katy has been able to give voice to her passion as the lead vocalist with SIMANGAVOLE, an all female Maloya group who embody the spiritualism, regalia, dance and rhythm of the small island off the coast of Madagascar that holds a distinct fusion of French colonialism alongside African, Indian and Malagasy slavery.
She has toured worldwide with her dance and music and is a strong advocate for womens rights and the struggles of oppressed peoples worldwide.
Dance
An example of a Maloya Dance class, led by Katy Toave, lead performer in Simangavole.
Participants will be taken through a class of 1hour, learning the fundamentals of Maloya.
The will connect the music and rhythm of Maloya to the fusion of its Creole link, a meld between African and Indian roots.
Origins
The indigenous music and dance form of Maloya was often presented as a style of purely African origin, linked ancestral rituals from Africa ("service Kaf" and Madagascar (the "servis kabaré"), and as such a musical inheritance of the early slave population of the island.
More recently, however, the possible influence of the sacred drumming of the Tamil religious rituals has been introduced which makes Maloya' heterogeneous African Malagasy and Indian influences more explicit.
Traditional instruments include:
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roulér - a low-tuned barrel drum played with the hands
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kayamb - a flat rattle made from sugar cane tubes and seeds
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pikér - a bamboo idiophone played with sticks
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sati - a flat metal idiophone played with sticks
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bob - a braced, struck musical bow
Maloya was forbidden by the French Government until the seventies because of its strong association with Creole Culture and its expression as protest.
The Catholic Church violently disapproved because it was used in servis kabare ceremonies, in which participants say they enter a trance and come face to face with their ancestors.
Performances by some maloya groups were banned until the eighties, partly because of their autonomist beliefs and association with the mantra of the Communist Party. There are known artists in the community who were imprisoned for practicing Maloya however, in 2009, Maloya was inscribed on the Representative list of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity of UNESCO.
