International day of body music, February 6 2022
Online workshop New Balkan rhythm of odd beats/irregular rhythms
From 7 to 8.30 PM CET
Duration 1.5 h
Early bird fee: 10 EUR (for payments before 30th of January)
Fee: 15 EUR (for payments until 5th of February)
Teachers: Alice in WonderBand, Ana Vrbaski and Marko Dinjaski
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The International Day of Body Music is an effort to promote the art form and grow the Body Music community on all levels – local, regional, national and international. International Day of Body Music will be held the First Sunday of February annually from 2022. This event also commemorates the anniversary of the passing of Fernando Barba, the creator of Barbatuques. It is established by International Body Music Festival.
We offer you New Balkan Rhythm workshop of odd/irregular rhythms online on Zoom platform. The workshop will start at 7 PM and last until 8.30 PM CET.
Alice in WonderBand are duo of music and theater performers and educators. The only artists from the Balkans who have been developing a very specific type of performing arts, they use unity of music, theater, dance, movement and acrobatics with body music and body percussion. They teach music from Balkans and irregular rhythms or odd beats on New Balkan Rhythm workshops.
On this online workshop, starting from the basics, you will understand how to play different odd beats (7/8, 9/8, 11/8 etc), different ways to make body percussion arrangements for them, you will learn one song from Balkans in two melody lines and connect it all into a body music arrangement for the song you can perform right away!
Find out more about Alice in WonderBand here
Find out more about New Balkan Rhythm workshops here
Alice in WonderBand perform world music concert as well as musical theater. They live near the forest of Fruska gora national park, just outside the picturesque small town of Sremski Karlovci. ARTE TV (Germany/France) made a TV show about their life and cousine of Vojvodina, northern part of Serbia.