Maghreb dance 2007 workshop held by Badiaa Lemniai

For a third year running the Intercultural Institute of Comparative Music Studies has organised an intensive workshop focused on the traditions of Morocco. The workshop will be given by the celebrated dancer Badiaa Lemniai, who has popularised dances with a 1000-year-old tradition, distinguished by their highly refined form.

Born in Marrakech, Badiaa first learned popular Moroccan dances in family circles and then in the local music school. After moving to Europe, she continued to study with leading world choreographers from the Arab world, such as Mahmoud Reda and Farida Fahmy, pioneers of Eastern dance. For many years now Badiaa Lemniai has been teaching Eastern-Arab dance in Europe, South America, Australia, Morocco, Tunisia and Egypt. She has taken part in various festivals and has held workshops in several towns in Switzerland and at Bar-le-Duc, France, where she trains students at the Centre d’Initiation Musicale as part of the series of East-West initiatives. She teaches regularly at the University of Mulhouse, at the Oasis Centre, Basel, the Lausanne Arab-Swiss Centre for Cultural Exchanges and the Atelier d’Ethnomusicologie, Geneva.

Venice, Island of San Giorgio Maggiore
30 March – 1 April 2007

Friday, 30 March 10.00 – 12.00 14.00 – 16.00
Saturday, 31 March 10.00 – 12.00 14.00 – 16.00
Sunday, 1 April 10.00 – 12.00 14.00 – 16.00

Information
Intercultural Institute of Comparative Music Studies
tel. +39 041 2710357
e-mail: musica.comparata@cini.it