Return To Roots: African Dance

Schedule

Sat Jun 17 2023 at 06:00 pm to 08:00 pm

Location

Lizard Yoga Wellness Spa and Retreat Center | Austin, TX

This event will begin with a root chakra focused yoga warmup leading into African dance taught by Jean-Claude Lessou with live music.
About this Event

This event will begin with a root chakra focused yoga warmup leading into African dance taught by Jean-Claude Lessou and accompanied by live drums. African dance involves a low gravity center to ground and connect us to the rooted support of rhythmic earth energy. We will end with a relaxing and restorative sound bath meditation to soothe the body and integrate the resounding vibrational cadence of the spirited movement.

Jean-Claude Lessou was born and raised in Abidjan, Ivory Coast in West Africa. He began dancing professionally at age 15, and performed with the Dante Theater Company for five years before touring the U.S. as principal dancer with Ballet Jolem. He regularly performs and teaches at dance camps and festivals throughout the U.S. He produced a special event for children at the Kennedy Center, performing masked dances from his own village. During the past 10 years, he taught at Lisangua Ya Bato Dance and Drum Camp in Woodstock, New York and worked with students and faculty at Goddard College, Saint Michael’s College, Middlebury College and Norwich University in Vermont. For the past three years, he has choreographed and taught classes at “Africa in the Ozarks”, a West African dance camp in Eureka Springs, Arkansas. He was also the lead choreographer for the Lannaya West African Drum and Dance Ensemble in Austin. Today he works regularly with high schools and dance studios around Austin to choreograph professional and student performances.

Jennifer Guillory is an Austin and Tantra based yoga teacher, sound and song therapist, musician/dancer and tantric sex educator. She is a local member of Lannaya West African Drum & Dance. You can access her public class offerings at Lizard Yoga.

Where is it happening?

Lizard Yoga Wellness Spa and Retreat Center, 2919 Menchaca Road, Austin, United States
Tickets

USD 50.00

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