November 29th- December 4th 2009

TAP DANCE

INTENSIVE

In MARRAKESH

@ Riad Sahara Nour

With international choreographer

ROXANE

BUTTERFLY

New York

Program :

(classes also open to local students are indicated w/ an asterix * )

- November 29th : Arrival

- Nov 30th, Dec 1st, Dec 3rd, Dec 4th :

7-10pm/ breakfast at the Riad

10-11.15am/ stretching for tap-dancers and rudiments *

11.15-12.30pm/ Tapping to Moroccan rhythms (w/ musician)

12.30pm- 2pm/ Lunch-break at the Riad

2pm-3.30pm/ Learn Djellaba Groove ‘s repertoire (w/ musician)

3.30pm-7pm/ Visit of the city

7pm-8pm/ Composition lab (Create your own choreography) *

- Dec 2nd :

7-10pm/ breakfast at the Riad

10-11.15am/ stretching for tap-dancers and rudiments *

11.15-12.30pm/ Tapping to Moroccan rhythm (with live musician)

2pm-3.30pm/ Learn the choreographies of Djellaba Groove

4pm- 7pm/ Master-class with Morocco based Oriental Dance master (tba)

8.30pm/ dinner with the teachers and students at the Riad

- Dec 5th : Departure

Fees :

- Housing/ meals : 345 euros/ person for 12 students + teachers housing at the Riad in double-rooms or suites (9 single beds, 3 db-beds available) and for 10 students + parents at the Douria (7 single beds, 3 large beds). Fees include breakfast every morning, lunch or diner, 2 tea breaks. Additional housing can be offered at nearby Hotel El KABAR).

- Classes : 250 euros/ per person for an all class pass (small additional fee may apply for the Oriental dance master-class, to be paid in dirham on site/ tba)

- Trip: If flights are booked on Royal Air Maroc from the USA, a van will be picking up the students at the Casablanca airport (Mohammed V) at no extra-charge. Students are to book their own flights with their own travel agency.

ROXANE BUTTERFLY

Founder and Artistic Director of Roxane Butterfly's Worldbeats

One of the most innovative tap-dancer of her generation, Roxane Butterfly has won recognition from both dance and music critics around the world. Selected as a Fellow choreographer by the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation in 2006, she is the only woman tap-dancer who ever received a Bessie Award (Outstanding Creative Achievement in 1999) as well as a NYFA Fellow Choreographer (2002), Arts International Recipient (2004), Manhattan Creative Arts Fund Grantee (2004 & 2005) and Lower Manhattan Cultural Council grantee (2005). She was featured as one of the "25 Best" featured in Dance Magazine in 2002. Roxane is more than a "dancer".

At home in the jazz and world-music scenes, she was baptized Butterfly by her legendary tap-mentor Jimmy Slyde who took her under his wing in 1991. Butterfly is a world-class citizen who mixes in her performances both her Mediterranean background and her New York reality. A member of Unesco's International Dance Council, her collaborations with handicapped children, her involvement against domestic violence and against the practice of female genital mutilation, are only a few of the many layers who give to Butterfly's world a unique consistency. Quoted as the 'Impresario of Tap' by The Village Voice she has toured solo throughout the US and Canada as well as in West Africa, Sri-Lanka, Korea, Israel, Russia, Slovania, Czech Republic, Switzerland, Italy, France, Spain, England, Holland, Austria, Spain, Germany, Israel and The Reunion Island

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Her dance credits include featured solo guest-appearances at the American Dance Festival (July '04), City Center ('Oct 04, NYC), Aaron Davis Hall (Nov 04, NYC), Jacob's Pillow,Town Hall, the Joyce Theater (with 'Jazz Tap Ensemble), Saint-Marks Church, the New Victory Theater (with 'Urban Tap'), the the Duke on 42nd Street, the NY NY Hotel in Las Vegas (with the spectacular Hip Hop Musical 'MADhattan'), the Ford Theater (Los Angeles), Le Theatre National de la Danse et de l'Image (Chateauvallon/France), the Tanzhaus of Dusseldorf (Germany) and much more... with a highlight in 1996 when she invited Savion Glover ('Bring In Da Noise') and Tamango ('Urban Tap') to perform in her own production at Le Theatre de Suresnes in France. She recently ended a 4 months engagement at the famous Teatro Zinzani in Seattle.

Her former dance-music ensemble "BeauteeZ'n The Beat" has been invited for three consecutive years at Symphony Space, and has appeared at the Houston Wortham Center (TX), Saint Peter's Church , Joe's Pub, Tribeca Performing Arts Center, Saint Clement Theater, Miller Theater, NYACK Performing Arts Center, Jamaica Center For Arts and Learnings, Brooklyn Children's Museum, Makor and many more...

Her music credits include performances for the National Performing Arts Convention with vocalist Bobby MacFerrin at the Byham Theater (Pittsburgh) Montreal Jazz Festival, the Clifford Brown Jazz Festival (Delaware), a guest appearance at La Cigale (Paris) with vocalist Elizabeth Kontomanou, the Wheatland Festival (Michigan), Festival de Jazz de Terrassa (Spain), The Berks County Jazz Festival (PA), the Nice and Toulon Jazz Festivals (France), the Duke Ellington Sacred Concert (with both the New York Virtuosi and the Stamford Symphony Orchestras), the Cab Calloway Orchestra and the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra (to name only a few). She has been invited to sit in with many bands led by renowned musicians such as saxophonist Ravi Coltrane, guitarists Stanley Jordan and Les Paul, pianists Barry Harris and Cheik Tidiane Seck (from Mali), moroccan oudist Tarik Banzi and more... She has also shared the bill with bassist Ron Carter, Aldo Romano trio, experimental bassist Barre Philipps and vibraphonist Stefon Harris along with dancers such as Gregory Hines, the Nicholas Brothers and the Original Hoofers.

Her film credits: Roxane is currently featured in the documentary "Touch The Sound" by Thomas Riedlsheimer. Butterfly is featured in the motion picture "An Interrupted Conversation" on the life of drummer Denis Charles (by Veronique Doumbe), as well as in the B.B.C Special "Fascinating Rhythm" (by Iann Leese) and was broadcasted on WBGO (radio Jazz 88 ). She also coached the great Pablo Veron in the tap-sequences of Sally Potter's "Tango Lesson" (Winner of the Hollywood-Best-Choreography-in-Motion Picture Award/1998).

Her teaching credits include on going classes at Sarah Lawrence College, Steps on Broadway, the 92nd Street Y, a new tap-program starting in the Falls of 2004 at Dance Space, and the numerous jam-sessions she originated in Europe and NYC, allowing many younger dancers to grow in the irreplacable context of live-jazz performances. She presented tap-seminars at the New York Library, the universities of Virginia, Houston, Stephens College and was a guest-speaker on gender-inequalities at the last Dance/USA national roundtable. Gaining attention as a writer, she was recently published by Jazz Hot, the International Tap Association and in the readers section of The Nation.

Conditions d’inscription

Arrhes : pour confirmer leur réservation, les stagiaires sont tenus de remettre à l’intervenant dernier délai un mois et demi avant la date du début du stage :

1- Pour l’enseignement : un chèque de 33% du montant du stage ( montant à confirmer par l’animateur)

2- Pour l’hébergement : un chéque de 180 euros , libellé au nom de « Riad Sahara Nour »

Ce chèque pour l’hébergement ne sera pas encaissé par Riad Sahara Nour et sera rendu à son propriétaire à son arrivée contre la remise d’une somme en espèce et en euros correspondant aux frais d’hébergement de toute la durée de son séjour

Aucune inscription ne sera prise en compte sans la réception de ces deux chèques par l’intervenant

Conditions d’annulation

Pour les participants : annulation possible maximum 30 jours avant la date du début du stage. Dans ce cas les chèques seront rendus à leur propriétaire.

Au-delà de cette date, les chèques de réservation seront automatiquement encaissés par l’organisateur et par Riad Sahara Nour

En cas d’annulation du stage par Riad Sahara Nour (nombre insuffisants d’élèves) ,

tous les chèques reçus, non encaissés seront restitués à leur propriétaire .

IMPORTANT : PASSEPORT VALIDE 

Nous portons votre attention sur la nécessité pour les participants d’être en possession d’un passeport valide pour l’entrée sur le territoire marocain, la carte d’identité ne faisant pas office de document officiel pour l’entrée sur le territoire marocain

Address :

Centre de Création Artistique Riad Sahara Nour

118, Derb Dekkak, Bab Doukkala

40 000 MARRAKECH MAROC

Tel 00 212 524 37 65 70

www.riadsaharanour.com

More info on Roxane Butterfly at http://worldbeats.free.fr