Ganava workshop: music and tribal dance from Morocco.
The Gnawa belong to the Sufi stream and were brought to Morocco from West Africa as slaves. In singing, dancing and playing they conduct healing and transcendence ceremonies.
In the workshop we will learn the principles of the rituals, the rhythms, movement elements and the essence of the Genavis.
We will experiment with playing “Sagatim” with hand accords and response singing in Hebrew and Moroccan together with the dance. The movement language works with the weight of the body, with repetitious rhythmic steps, rotations and head trance.
With these earthy basic steps, we will keep the pace together as a tribe. We will learn to move from a place of listening, awareness and release. We will easily and gradually develop the skill of turning, we will ascend