The hottest Cuban dancers will take the audience on a musical journey through pulsating beats and Cuban rhythms bringing the Havana spirit to London. Starting on the 30th of May the event is part of the Uderbelly Festival in town until the 8th of July. Featuring mambo, salsa, rakatan and cha cha cha, the show written by the director Tony Gough promises to transform the Southbank Centre into proper Cuban atmosphere full of sensuality and vibrating dancers.

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30th May – 8th July

Havana Rumba

Southbank Centre

Udderbelly Festival

Belvedere Road
London
SE1 8XX

Tickets: £25 £20 £15 £10

The audience will also have the chance to review the huge 2010 programme hit, nominated for both an Olivier Award and a TMA Award, George Céspedes’ Mambo 3XXI, as well as Carmen?! from choreographer Kenneth Kvarnstrom. With more than 280 premières since its formation in 1959 Dance Contemporánea de Cuba is a must-see dance show full of intensity, sensuality and exquisite dancers.

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29th May – 1st June – 7.30pm

Danza Contemporánea de Cuba

Sadler’s Wells

Rosebery Avenue,

London

EC 1R

Tickets: £12, £16, £22, £25, £32

Making their UK premier at the Peacock Theatre on April 25th, Ballet Revolución is an Havana-inspired show with 18 hot dancers throwing hip-hop steps into contemporary dance and jazz movements produced by acclaimed choreographers Aaron Cash and Roclan Gonzalez Chavez.

And if Ben Elton’s opinion as advertised on the theater’s website is enough to make you go, you will become a regular: ”Witty, passionate, sexy, jaw dropping. If you see one dance show in your life, see this. Then see it again and again”, says the playwright.

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Wednesday 25th April – Saturday 19th May
Ballet Revolución
Peacock Theatre
Portugal Street
Holborn
WC2

Ticket Office: 0844 412 4322
sadlerswells.com

Each visitor can take home a specially-commissioned artwork by Brazilian artist Bruno 9Li (whose work is pictured above) and take part in a samba flash mob in the Grand Entrance, with dancers from the Paraíso School of Samba. London-based collective Braziliality will produce a telenovela soap opera entitled The Adventures of Vitoria & Alberto in Brasil which will star visitors as its cast and will be transmitted live in the Museum.

Brazilian design studio Flour will create a giant table football game where visitors can compete for prizes and Rio de Janerio-based practice Super Uber will be at the Museum with their digital installation game which takes inspiration from Pelé. Curitiba-born, London-based illustrator Clayton Junior will host a workshop in which visitors can stencil their own ‘Brazilian Modernist’ designs on to canvas bags to take home. Further highlights include screenings of Jared Levy’s Grafitti Fine Art a film exploring the street art of Sao Paulo and Waste Land, an award-winning documentary about communities living at the world’s largest land-fill in Rio de Janeiro, by Lucy Walker.

Stuart Baker, author and founder of London record label Soul Jazz, will present a selection of Brazilian album covers, discussing the stories behind them. There will also be specially-commissioned installations around the Museum, panel discussions, caipirinhas, food and music from DJ, musician, and producer João Brasil.

27th January 18.30 – 22.00, Admission Free
V&A Friday Late: Hot Brazil
Victoria & Albert Museum
Cromwell Road
London SW7 2RL
Tel. +44 (0)20 7942 2000
vam.ac.uk/fridaylate

Originally created by Todd Twala and Thembi Nyandeni as a way of a reminding a new generation of South Africans of their heritage, UMOJA, meaning ‘togetherness’ in Zulu, has won critical plaudits and collected multiple awards since its premiere in 2000. From the potent rhythms of tribal music to the joy of gospel and the pounding energy of contemporary kwaito, UMOJA unites 30 singers, dancers, drummers, marimba players and musicians, who represent the best of South Africa’s young performers.

Tuesday 31 January – Sunday 19 February (Performances: Tue-Sun 7.30pm, Sat & Sun mats at 2.30pm)
UMOJA
Peacock Theatre
Portugal Street
Holborn
WC2

Tickets: £15 – £42
Ticket Office: 0844 412 4322
sadlerswells.com

Mojo reunites Theatre-Rites Artistic Director Sue Buckmaster with choreographer Arthur Pita, winners of the 2008 TMA Achievement in Dance Award for Mischief. Co-produced by the Barbican and the Salzburg Festival, Mojo is performed in the Silk Street Theatre and runs from Friday 16th December until Saturday 31st December.

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Friday 16th – Saturday 31st December, 12pm, 7pm (7pm only on 16 and 21 Dec, 12pm only on 31 Dec)
Theatre-Rites’ Mojo
Barbican
Silk Street Theatre
London EC2Y 8DS

Age: 5+
Tickets: £15
Children under 16 come half price
Groups of 10 or more save 20%

barbican.org.uk/theatre/event-detail.asp?ID=12503

Paso Pa’lante seek to represent a new generation of cross-culture flamenco artists who are at the forefront of breaking the prejudices against foreign flamenco artists that still exist in Spain today. They seek to explore the the influences on flamenco from Moorish, Jewish and Gypsy cultures. Paso Pa’lante demonstrates that flamenco is an all-inclusive language powerful enough to bridge the divides of cultures and reach people of all backgrounds. The company’s work deals with universal themes of love, death, poverty and celebration.

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15th & 16th November, 7.30pm, £12/10
Adentros: Paso Pa’lante
Rosemary Branch Theatre
2 Shepperton Road,
London N1 3DT
Tel: 020 7704 6665
rosemarybranch.co.uk

Tickets and more info:branchingoutfestival.com/#/adentros/4556065764

The event is being referred to as:

A night of delight with Umbela Arts, bringing Afro-Brazilian music and dance from Brazil to the heart of London, with top bands, DJ’s and dance performances.

The event will be held at Rich Mix and will be split into two parts. The London-based groups Maracatu Estrela do Norte and Bloco-Afro ERI OKAN will lead students (in open rehearsals) through workshops in Maracatu drumming dance before giving performances of their own. The event will form part of their preparations for Notting Hill Carnival 2012.

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Sunday 30th October, 1-5pm (Workshops), 6pm (Free Concert)
Festa Umbela
Rich Mix
35 – 47 Bethnal Green Road,
London,
E1 6LA
richmix.org.uk

Here’s how the line-ups look:

Drumming:
1pm-3pm Maracatu drumming
3.30pm-5.30pm Samba Reggae drumming

Dance:
1pm-2.30pm Maracatu dance
3.30pm-5pm Afro Brazilian dance

Classes are £6 each (£10 for two, if also participating in another class on the same day).

Festa Umbela is part of LIFEM 2011.

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Monday 10th October, 7.30pm, £15-250
Venezuela Viva
London Palladium
Argyle Stret
seetickets.com/reallyuseful/calendar.asp?e|artist=VENEZUELA+VIVA&filler1=reallyuseful&venaudit=palladium

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Sunday 25th September, 7:30 – 9pm
flamingofeather curate an evening of theatre, dance and music
Chisenhale Dance Space
64-84 Chisenhale Road
London
E3 5QZ
Tel: 020 8981 6617

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