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Dance + Breath Call-and-response Workshop with Angela Sebastian
August 25, 2024, @ 3:00 pm - 4:30 pm HST
In-person only
Sunday, August 25, 2024
3:00 – 4:30 pm HST
$29 for single workshop
$50 for two workshops
Members’ & Students’ Discount: $25/workshop
View Saturday’s Workshop: Centering through Movement: a Tai Chi-Inspired Dance workshop with Angela Sebastian
August 24, 2024, @ 12:30 pm – 2:00 pm HST
Dance + Breath Call-and-response Workshop
Groove to the rhythm in this call-and-response movement workshop. Explore your own creative, imaginative movement flow. Move in ways that feel right for your body.
In this class we will start with simple movement and breath work exercises and transition to dynamic rhythms and pattern-making exercises. Our goal is to find grounding and emphasize the importance of connecting to our breath while trusting the body.
As we exchange movements with one another, we open our senses and foster a strong sense of community.
Come move with us!
Students – please bring your student ID to the front desk to apply your student discount.
Angela Sebastian
Angela Sebastian is a Filipina Dance Artist. Her students love her “kind and encouraging feedback” and “level of challenge” in her technique classes. Students enthuse: “Her combos are fun, and her energy made me excited the class every time,” and “Angela creates a safe space for us to be ourselves.”
Angela actively collaborates and teaches in dance schools in the Philippines, Hong Kong, and Hawaiʻi. Her connection with each community remains strong. Her current research is in Philippine Dance, titled ‘How traditions flow through time, spaces, and body’. It’s a testament to her commitment to perpetuating the significance of art and ensuring it remains a vital part of our cultural conversation.
Angela acquired her MFA in Dance with a focus on choreography and performance from the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, where she, as a Student Affiliate and a Foundation Scholarship Recipient at the East-West Center, actively participated and created community projects such as Creative Movement classes, for all ages. She also performed and choreographed for local dance companies, such as Convergence Dance Theatre, IONA Contemporary Dance Theatre, and other independent dance projects.
Angela currently teaches as a dance instructor at Western Washington University (WWU) in Bellingham, Washington. She’s an active participating artist with the Kuntz and Company.
In the Philippines, Angela was a member of Airdance Philippines Contemporary Dance and Aerial Arts Company and the University of the Philippines Dance Company. She performed the works of renowned Filipino choreographers like Denisa Reyes, Myra Beltran, and Ma. Elena Laniog-Alvarez, across countries in Asia, such as Taiwan, Malaysia, and China. After graduating with a Bachelor of Music, majoring in Dance at the University of the Philippines Diliman (UPD), Quezon City, she worked for a year and a half for Hong Kong Disneyland as a Parade Dancer. She won the Best Female Award for I-Dance HK 2019 contemporary dance competition.
We welcome Angela as a well-suited guest artist to Still & Moving Center’s richly multi-cultural ‘ohana.
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