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Dance Class: Solo Jazz with Ramona Staffeld
10:47 CAT | 3 December 2020
Dance Class: Solo Jazz with Ramona Staffeld
Date and Time: Sunday, December 20 2020 at 09h00
Host: Hodi Maputo Afro Swing, Makwaela HODI
Watch: Facebook
About Event
In support to Hodis Gofundme campaign, Ramona Staffeld dance teacher from Australia, will give a very special dance class in Solo jazz.
Join us on Saturday 12 December at 9PM Maputo Time. The class will be live streamed on Maputo Afro Swing's FB page. this is a donations based event, please donate here: https://gf.me/u/yjtth8
Join us on Saturday 12 December at 9PM Maputo Time. The class will be live streamed on Maputo Afro Swing's FB page. this is a donations based event, please donate here: https://gf.me/u/yjtth8
Ramona Staffeld is the picture of the sound. She is music embodied. She loves vernacular jazz dance, jazz music, swing music, history, and tap dance, and you will know about it. Improvisation, self expression, and generosity are central to her dancing. Ramona is one of the highest profile Lindy Hop and Authentic Jazz dance teachers in the world, performing and teaching at such major events as Herrang (Sweden), Swing Out New Hampshire (USA), Swingtime Ball (Beijing), Paris Jazz Roots (France), Sugarloaf Stomp (Brazil), to name a few.
She is known for her energy, presence, rhythm, and playful spirit on the dance floor. She is a champion dancer, holding first place titles from the Ultimate Lindy Hop Showdown, American Lindy Hop Championships, The International Lindy Hop Championships, and the World Lindy Hop Championships. Ramona is at the forefront of Lindy Hop, telling her story, while preserving and passing on the legacy of the dance to the next generation. As African American culture, it is not hers, but she is a part of it.
Ramona was 14 when spotted by one of the founding fathers of Lindy Hop, Frankie Manning. Still in her early teens, Manning asked Ramona to open with him at the Midsummer Night Swing series at Lincoln Center in New York City. What Ramona values and prioritizes in class, on the social dance floor, on stage, and in life, came very much from working with and being around Frankie. She has been dancing The Lindy Hop, Charleston, and jazz era social dances for the past 25 years. Her classes are fun, empowering, heartfelt, and informed by years of lived experience.
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