POUGHKEEPSIE – Fusion Dance Workshop
- Arts Mid-Hudson
- 696 Dutchess Turnpike, Poughkeepsie, NY United States
Additional Information
Come try this energetic dance class and learn steps like salsa, merengue, bachata and more. This workshop is for everyone, no experience necessary. Its creative uses traditional music of each culture.
The class will start with a warm up of isolations of different body parts and then move into Latin steps such as, salsa, merengue, bachata movements to get the body moving faster and the heart rate up. Students will learn steps of each dance style and then a few different combinations. One is Flamenco/ modern fusion, African/latin fusion, Classical Indian/modern fusion. The workshop will end with cool down yoga stretches to calm the body down and a short Q&A session.
Age Range: 18 years and older
Price Per Class: $25 (AMH Members) $35 (Non Members)
Instructor: Anna Mayta
About Instructor:
Anna Mayta is a dance improviser, choreographer and teacher. She graduated from Empire State College in June 2001 with a BA in Dance in Education. November 2008 she got a certificate to teach yoga from Svyasa Swami Vivekananda Yoga University in Bangalore India. In 2006 she was awarded a dissemination award from the Dutchess County Arts Council in Poughkeepsie NY. She has been teaching, performing and choreographing for about 15 years. She has developed two programs one is teaching the Spanish Language through movement, second is fusion dance which is the incorporation of African, Classical Indian, Flamenco, Modern and Latin dance styles together as one. She has traveled for her work to Bangalore, Pune, Lucknow and Bombay in India. Taught for the National Ballet of Zimbabwe in Africa also in England and all over the greater Boston Area. Now she is currently working in upstate NY Hudson Valley area. (Photo Credit: Evangeline Gala)