Afro Fusion (Adriano Oliveira)

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Adriano offers a course which takes you back through time treasuring every experience and every journey which has contributed to his unique style and training. He mixes different genres and styles of dance such as contemporary, modern and traditional west-African but he is always faithful to his Aaf

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The Brazilian descendants of Africa may have forgotten their original language, but their bodies still pass down through the generations the universal language of rhythm. Africa re-lived and recalled at a distance as an ancestral base in every melody and in every graceful movement.

Forget positions of the body which encourage conventional posture and let yourselves go to the rhythm of the drums which move the soul and can’t help but vibrate your body.

Think powerful flexing and pulsing of the torso, pelvic thrusts and shoulder rolls juxtaposed with undulations of the vertebrae and sensual body isolations.

Adriano offers a course which takes you back through time treasuring every experience and every journey which has contributed to his unique style and training.

He mixes different genres and styles of dance such as contemporary, modern and traditional west-African but he is always faithful to his Aafro-Brazilian roots.

Adriano’s main focus and objective is that his students feel the freedom to let go and connect with the music.

He isn’t interested in perfect, classical technique but rather that individual expression and interpretation of movement is evident from each student and most of all that they enjoy the most basic of gifts that each of us possesses within…DANCE!

  • Mayfair Branch

    16 Balderton St, Mayfair, London
  • Teacher's Name
  • Adriano
  • Teacher's Experience
  • From Porto Seguro, Bahia, Adriano Oliveira has since travelled far from where Brazil was first discovered. Following his training in both traditional African and Afro-Brazilian dance, he entered the dance company “Axè Odara” known across all of Brazil especially for its experimental research in Afro-Brazilian culture. In this same period, Adriano sought to broaden his training further and attended courses in Capoeira at the Capoeira Sul Da Bahia Academy and ballet. He also dedicated his time to leading community projects in areas of Porto Seguro for children, adults and senior citizens in dance and capoeira. In 2001 Adriano came to Europe via Paris before spending time in Berlin where he turned to studying modern dance with Wibke Janssen and Sabina Ferenc and also performing with Joao Carlos Ramos’s samba jazz company “Brazilian Follies Show”. Adriano then moved to Italy where he decided to concentrate more time on teaching. In 2003 he began work with several cultural associations with whom he travelled to Burkina Faso in Africa to deepen his knowledge and training in traditional west-African rhythms and percussion. That experience began a long-standing connection and relationship with Burkina Faso which sees Adriano regularly return to the country not only to refresh his training but also to share his own dance training with local artists. Adriano remained in Milan until October 2016 where he ran several dance, movement and fitness courses including Afro Fusion, Afro Contemporary, Afro House, Afro Fit, Forrò, Samba, Samba Reggae and Dynamic Gym. Adriano is now based in London where he teaches at Danceworks and until the first lockdown, Mountview. Since moving to London, he has been involved in three Arts Council funded projects as an invited artist and choreographer for Bambas Afro-Brazilian Festival, Afro Xplosion and Tambores Livres for Notting Hill Carnival. He also organised a non-funded Afro-Brazilian Arts & Dance Weekend VONTADE with the presence of members of the local community inviting external teachers and musicians and an African dance weekend festival in Milan ‘African Rhythms of the World’. Adriano has taught at Kingston University as a visiting lecturer specialising in African Dance and with foundation students at Mountview Academy. Since the onset of Covid, Adriano has continued to lead classes online of Capoeira and Dynamic Gym and in the summer months last year, he offered weekly Sunday Afro-Brazilian Fusion dance workshops with live drummers in Greenwich Park which is a project he will continue again this Summer, location TBC.
  • Gender
  • Male
  • Teacher's Nationality
  • N/A

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