Angola’s 2011 kizomba & semba champion Gabriel Cabinda will be visiting Turku on Sunday, the 29th of September! This is a unique chance to get to his classes in Turku, Finland! He will be teaching with Ida Koho, who has been teaching kizomba and semba at Flama before.
The schedule for Sunday, September 29 11.00–12.30 Semba, advanced beginners (if you have danced kizomba before, you can join this class) 12.30–14.00 Kizomba, intermediate
Register for the classes now by sending an email to info@flama.fi. Follower spots are full at the moment but leaders and pairs can still sign up for the courses.
Prices: 1 workshop (90 min): 20 € 2 workshops (3 hours): 35 €
The workshops are held in English.
Gabriel Cabinda
Gabriel Cabinda was born and raised in Angola. He started his semba and kizomba journey in 2005, when he joined the União Classico do Semba Dance school. He did well and ended up becoming a master teacher there from 2010 to 2011. In 2011, Gabriel participated in a big kizomba and semba competition in Angola. Out of more than 5.000 candidates, he got the first place as the winner of the event.Since he could not travel to Europe like other champions do, he focused on promoting kizomba in Angola.
In 2012, he and other colleagues organized the project Kizomba na rua. In the same year, he organized the first workshop of kizomba dance in Angola. He also created a dance group for orphans, which worked to help these children in need. In 2015, Gabriel went to South Africa with a scholarship from Fundo Soberano de Angola to study Hospitality Management. He stayed for 3 years. While there, he was teaching dance to all his colleagues and he was nominated as the minister of culture for the school, with the responsibility to create events for his colleagues.
In January 2018, he got back to Luanda where he started working as Night Auditor at Skyna Hotel Luanda. Currently he is still teaching semba & kizomba and organizing the projecto Kizomba na Rua again. This is a big event in Luanda, a unique place where you can dance kizomba and semba every Sunday night.
Ida Koho, a great dancer of Angolan dances from Turku, has earlier taught kizomba at Dance Studio Flama. She has worked as an assistant for several teachers and been trained by several international female dance teachers in Europe and in Angola. In addition to kizomba, Ida has also taught semba at Flama.
Registration for Flama’s spring courses is now open! Take advantage of the early bird offer with the code TANSSIKEVÄT and get a 5% discount on all spring courses. The most popular courses fill up quickly, so be sure to register early!
Flama’s spring schedule once again offers a diverse range of dance classes for every taste. Registration for spring courses opens on Tuesday 10.11.—and with the Spring Anytime pass, you can book your places now.
