Afro-Jazz Roots Workshop 2026
Schedule
Fri, 12 Jun, 2026 at 06:45 pm to Sun, 14 Jun, 2026 at 02:00 pm
UTC-05:00Location
Saturn Jive Dance Space | Huntsville, AL
Advertisement
Register at SaturnJiveDanceSpace.com The Afro-Jazz Roots Workshop is a weekend devoted to the history and continuity of African Dances in the diaspora of The United States.
This is a Swing Dance Lindy Hop community event but we also will have classes in hip hop and modern dance that are also influenced by african dances in American history. And African Dances with Paté Nassalang of course!
Paté has danced for his whole life and is a professional African Dances as well as swing dancer and it is the purpose of this event to explore the movements, the languages and the cultural connections in LINDY HOP, SWING AND JAZZ that are the memory and prevailing remnant of the African Dances brought to the country so long ago. And those Dances survived the unthinkable and we are still dancing them in ballroom, studios, hip-hop music videos, clubs, and on concert hall stages.
SCHEDULE
Friday night RENT party (included)
Saturday Classes
1015am a Dancers warm up session w/Josephine
1100 African dance with Paté
1200 Afro Lindy with Paté
100 Freedom of expression with Rachel
2-330 lunch
330 Personal voice with Rachel
430 3rd Class / Pate
7pm MadJam dance w/ po boys nola sound band. (Not included $20)
Sunday
11am lindy hop kinesthetic technique with Josephine
12pm listen and speaking w/rachel
1pm 4th Class w/Rachel
Lunch
2pm hip Hop for swing Dancers
3pm Kathrine Dunham and or aliven aliey modern dance taster for swing dancers
The weekend is about that memory and honoring that heritage.
schedule will be up soon.
Instructors are
Paté Nassalang
Rachel Pitner
Derrell Underwood
Nalani Hogue*
Advertisement
Where is it happening?
Saturn Jive Dance Space, 2008 Seminole Dr SW, Huntsville, AL 35805-3810, United StatesEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
Know what’s Happening Next — before everyone else does.
