Dance
Dancing and drumming, the perfect combination! Drumming may lie at the heart of Doris, but dancing embodies the rhythms and brings the sounds to life. At Doris you can dance as much as you like! Dance in the early morning light, dance on your way to the showers, dance while you’re waiting for your food in the cafes, dance round the fires and under the stars, oh and in the myriad workshops too! Dance styles, techniques and parties from around the globe.

“If you hear a different drummer – dreamer take a chance. The road you choose to travel means the difference in the dance.” D. Morgan

There’s always a lot to choose from - feet on the grass African style, whirling to the beats or the soft melodies from improvisations on a Brazilian theme, reaching into the unknown and naming your animal spirit, salsa stepping, hip shaking, welly stomping, workshops and dance parties everyday. As always our dance classes are accompanied by live music from some of the best drummers around.

The Moroccan group Jil Gnawa will be sharing their dance in a workshop as well as bringing us a Lila - a healing ceremony with trance dance. We welcome back the energetic Mariana Pinho who will be bringing us samba reggae and maracatu dances from Brasil.

Then theres Dr Olu Taiwo, with his unique and profound Animal Spirit dance workshops, tribal bellydance with Michelle Pender , gumboot dance from Zimbabwe, flowing contemporary African dance with Denise Rowe, not to mention the wild and passionate Flamenco dance taught to us by Felipe de Algeciras and much more. We promise that advanced dancers will be stretched this year by maestro Nii Tagoe and new for 2011 is Egyptian stick dance for men and klezmer dance with Guy Schalom. Watch these pages for regular updates to our 2011 programme...

Different styles and different levels from across the globe, with something for everyone. Classes you can drop in just to try them out and classes you can follow all week to stretch yourself and learn deeply with talented and award winning teachers.

You'll get a chance to be inspired by the teachers when some of them perform at the African Party night. Watch Ballet Nimba with their new show and other inspiring dancers and musicians ignite the night!

Warm up and warm down are an essential part of the classes so try to arrive on time to look after yourself and don’t forget to bring your costumes to enhance the dance experience. There are also stalls where you can buy African cloth, and jingles, jangles and floaty scarves for Arabic style.

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"Any problem in the world can be solved by dancing.”

James Brown