DANCE & SINGING WORKSHOP
Sunday 01st February 2026
09.30am-10.30am Dance Workshop
10.30am-11.30am Singing Workshop
Edward’s Lake Park Reservoir, Victoria (Parking on Griffiths st)
Online Via Zoom option available: Purchase your ticket and email info@dancetherapymelbourne.au or message 0468 968 195 to confirm you would like zoom, to receive your link (Melbourne Timezone)
Experience the vibrant heartbeat of West Africa in this Dance & Singing Workshop led by Guinean Master Aboubacar Camara.
Before there was choreography, before drum patterns were named and refined, there were songs; carrying history, language, meaning, and social purpose.
From the songs emerged the dances, and from the dances the rhythms that now travel the world.
Traditional Songs give context to:
Why a rhythm exists
When it is played
Who it is for
How it should be expressed
When we learn Guinean drumming and dance without fully learning the accompanying songs, something essential is lost.
In many fast-paced classes, songs are rushed, simplified, or treated as background. Words are approximated, rhythms memorised without meaning, and movement separated from its cultural voice. While this can be understandable, when the song is embodied, the drum speaks differently. When the words are known, the dance carries purpose rather than imitation.
Learning the songs properly means:
Taking time with pronunciation and meaning
Understanding call-and-response structures
Feeling how melody, language, rhythm, and movement are inseparable
Open to all levels, whether you are a drummer, a dancer wishing to deepen your learning, or you are neither & would just like to sing, this is an authentic and uplifting opportunity to feel the power of song in community.
Bookings:
DANCE WORKSHOP 27.50
Enquire: Meagan 0468 968 195