Tika Morgan Dance teaches folkloric and contemporary dances from the African lineages of Cuba and Brazil in a powerful workshop September 20-23 at Dancers’ Workshop. Open to the public for movers of all abilities and ages 16+, classes including Latin, Reggaetón, Samba and Brazilian Fusion. Tika “is not teaching ‘pop culture/sexy’ for the sake of sexy – it’s deeper than that”, says Kate Kosharek. The most important thing for Tika is that people understand that they are dancing the human story. Denise Faicco says “Tika Morgan paints a picture of the lineage, culture and the purest form of meaning behind each individual movement.” What makes the dances so rich is the “combination of celebration, playfulness, sensuality and historical awareness.”
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More About Tika Morgan Dance Workshops
Tika Morgan Dance workshops are centered around dance as a way of life. Working with Cuban and Brazilian dance from the sacred to the celebratory, from contemporary to folkloric, Tika is highly skilled at bringing in the larger context of these dance lineages while pointing back to their West African roots. She explores the extraordinary way our body language retains it’s essential nature and is then passed down through a community. Tika’s work is about embodying and celebrating the power available within us. By working with traditional and popular movement, her workshops offer an opportunity to delve into discovering our body’s potential as we move. Participants are guided to explore, at any level, the interplay between form and freedom and the power of moving as one. Both reverent and joyous, dancers will experience historical and symbolic references for even the most basic steps so that we experience what she calls our “dancing our human story”.
