Dance Workshop

Drawing on various flamenco styles, this workshop builds upon Yinka’s extensive experience as a flamenco dancer and her more recent work in Embodiology—an African-inspired improvisational practice developed by Dr Ama S. Wray, which shares fundamental values with flamenco. Both are rooted in the idea that dance and music are inseparable.

During this workshop, participants will be guided to awaken their expressive, receptive, and communicative bodies through rhythmic exploration, group work, and composition. This work will help dancers already familiar with the art form to renew the commitment to their own creativity within flamenco, whilst offering newcomers an accessible way to approach the genre.

♥ A FLAMENCO NÓMADA RECOMMENDATION / FEATURED IN THE THÉÂTRE DE VIDY PROGRAMME

Lead Artist: Yinka Esi Graves
Location: Théâtre de Vidy-Lausanne - Salle 76 (La Passerelle)
Date: Wednesday 11 February
Time: 10:00 – 13:00
Prices: Check the theatre website

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  • Yinka Esi Graves is a British flamenco dancer and practitioner whose work explores the intersections between contemporary dance, flamenco and Afro-diasporic movement. Based in Spain for over a decade, she has developed a unique choreographic language that uses the body as a site of research into identity, memory and visibility.

    Her critically acclaimed production, The Disappearing Act, highlights her ability to blend traditional flamenco structures with experimental performance, questioning the historical presence of the Black female body in the art form. Yinka has collaborated with internationally renowned artists and institutions, establishing herself as a pioneering voice in vanguard flamenco. Her dance is characterised by a profound groundedness, rhythmic complexity, and a constant dialogue between the seen and the unseen.