On November 12th 2019, Friendship had organized a conference entitled “Restoring Dignity, Sustaining Hope: How much can a humanitarian organisation do?” During this very touching evening a video about music and dance in Bangladesh was shown. Here it is ! It shows that dreams can come true ! I’m looking forward with excitement to the …
First Open Floor Class in 2020
Where : Old church in Roodt-Syre, address: 10 rue d’Olingen, Roodt-SyreWhen : January 18th, 2020, from 10.30-13.00 I’m happy to start again with my Open Floor classes 2020 in the old church in Roodt-Syre. If I haven’t been offering classes during the last months, that doesn’t mean that I haven’t been dancing. In October I have had …
Meeting and moving with the paralegals of Friendship Inclusive Citizenship sector
Yesterday we went to Chilmari (up North from Gaibandha) to meet a group of Friendship Paralegals. It might be important to explain what their job is on the chars. Remote char communities are often marginalized, vulnerable and powerless. Unlike citizens of mainland Bangladesh, chars dwellers don’t receive the public services available to them. They’re often simply …
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Last day with children, youth workers and teachers: Jam session
Yesterday was our last morning with the children, youth workers and teachers at the Friendship Center in Gaibandha. And it was tremendous. Robert has had TOT (Train of Trainers) sessions since we arrived. At his last teaching class he had split the trainers into 4 groups. Each group should organise a small performance of maximum …
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3rd day sessions
This was my last session with the children from the char schools. That’s why I had decided that we would dance around the theme of JOY, keeping in mind the resource Expand And Contract from yesterday. We can use the body to express emotional sensations in a small, contained way, and then give them wide-open …
Second sessions in Friendship Training Center
Today Robert started with his session with the children from the chars. On my side, right from the beginning I had decided that I would take up in some way the topic Robert had been working on during this first session. I also had decided that I would prepare the first parts of my classes …
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First day sessions
Dance : This afternoon we had our first movement session with 18 young students of Friendship schools. They are in between 8 and 14 years, both boys and girls. We opened the floor with a very simple game that allowed everyone to show up. Yes, they had been shy at the beginning and this very …
Music and Dance in Bangladesh – How it all started …
Dancing in 2013 During the last year, I have been feeling the strong wish to go back to our friends in Bangladesh and open the floor over there. Oh, we had already been dancing together some years ago when Abbes and I had been living up in the North close to the nomadic islands. And …
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