A massive THANK YOU to everyone who donated to last week’s sponsored drum event and to everyone who was able to attend.
It was a BIG success! Artistic Director Bawren Tavaziva managed to drum for the entire hour and our beautiful dancers entertained the small audience with excerpts from the new piece ‘Sensual Africa’. John Baraldi CEO at the Bernie Grant Arts Centre where the company are based acted as the official adjudicator and counted down to the start of the event. The small audience were treated to some sweet rhythmical percussive sounds from Bawren’s traditional drums. Bawren shared the space with his spirited dancers, before they retired to the wings in order for the full beat to once again be felt and heard by the audience. The minutes ticked away with ease as the rhythms began to build, it was almost trance like.
It was a BIG success! Artistic Director Bawren Tavaziva managed to drum for the entire hour and our beautiful dancers entertained the small audience with excerpts from the new piece ‘Sensual Africa’. John Baraldi CEO at the Bernie Grant Arts Centre where the company are based acted as the official adjudicator and counted down to the start of the event. The small audience were treated to some sweet rhythmical percussive sounds from Bawren’s traditional drums. Bawren shared the space with his spirited dancers, before they retired to the wings in order for the full beat to once again be felt and heard by the audience. The minutes ticked away with ease as the rhythms began to build, it was almost trance like.
The energy in the room was incredible as Bawren’s drumming gained momentum; the audience showed their support and appreciation with cheers, chants and swaying from side to side in their seats. With only ten minutes remaining the dancers returned to the floor as Bawren’s drumming got louder, the dancers showed off their energetic free-style dancing with the Tavaziva classic twist. Jackie Richards from the 60+ Creative Dance group gave an impromptu dance which added to the celebratory feel of the evening. Jackie was then joined by another member of the 60+ group, the energy and excitement was great as the dancing continued lifting the spirits. John Baraldi was then joined by the dancers and the audience as they began the ten second count-down which ended in raptures applause as Bawren had completed the task in hand and drummed non-stop for the entire hour!
Bawren was incredible and kept everyone captivated his hands were very red and sore at the end of it but he ended the event with a big grin on his face...clearly pleased with his achievement.
We raised £965.61 in total which will all go towards the cost of live music for our Spring 2012 Tour of ‘Sensual Africa’.
The whole company have been overwhelmed by the level of support we received for the event, your generosity is very much appreciated!
We do hope that you will get to see the full performance of Sensual Africa when it tours next Spring. Tour dates coming soon!
Click on link below to see some footage from the event,
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