Rumba workshop in NYC with Roman Diaz

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If you are in the NYC area this Thursday Sept 22, 2011, this is a one time event at the Harbor in East Harlem. Roman Diaz will be teaching a beginners' drumming class and an advanced drumming class. This will be rumba not bata, bring a conga or cajon if you can. Email Yesenia Selier at oriselier@gmail.com to advance register or ask questions. This is real Cuban Havana style modern rumba, with not much influence from other styles of rumba in NYC, PR, or elsewhere. Here is the announcement flyer, although the website would not accept the photos of Roman and Rita. If you want to learn some rumba dance steps, Rita Macias is an outstanding dance teacher, also teaching beginner and advanced classes.


Ibiono Rumba Workshop
This Dance and Music workshop will take you on a exuberant journey exploring the three styles or forms of Rumba-Yambu, Guaguanco and Columbia. A unique occasion with Master Teachers Rita Macias y Roman Diaz.

Date: Thursday Sept 22, 2011 from 6-9 pm
Class Schedule:
• Percussion Beginners: 6-7 pm, Advanced: 7-8pm
• Dance Beginners: 7-8pm, Advanced: 8-9pm
Place: Harbor Conservatory for the Performing Arts
1 E. 104th St near 5th Avenue, New York, NY
Price: $20 per one hour class / $15 if you pre-register with an email to oriselier@gmail.com

About Roman Diaz:
Roman Diaz is a World Master percussionist from Havana, where elders in the fine arts of classic Afro-Cuban musical traditions trained him. He has performed with groups including Raices Profundas, Grupo T con E, Ochestra Sublime, Yoruba Andabo, and Grupo Anaki. In the U.S., Diaz has collaborated with many musicians including Horacio “El Negro” Hernandez, Paquito D’Rivera, Juan Formell, Pedrito Martinez and Orlando “Puntilla” Rios.

About Rita Macias:
Rita Macias is a renown veteran Afro-Cuban dancer, choreographer and teacher born and raised in Havana, Cuba. After relocating to New York with her family over 20 years ago she began her career as a dancer in New York becoming an integral part of a resurgence in Afro-Cuban arts in the 1980s joining the founding of Nueva Generación directed by the late Orlando “Puntilla” Rios, the Conjunto Afrocubano with Pedro Morejón, and Raices Habaneras a group that received a Grammy nomination She specializes in orisha and rumba Afro-Cuban styles and is one of the best Afro-Cuban female performers residing in the U.S.