Join us for an exciting West African Dance Workshop with Lashawnda Iya Ifanike Batts! This event offers a hands-on learning experience about traditional West African dance, music, and rhythms. No matter your skill level, you'll be guided through the basics and feel the joy of movement.
About the Instructor
Lashawnda Iya Ifanike Batts is a multi-hyphenated creative who anchors her work in uplifting, inspiring, and empowering people. She is the founder of Daughters of the Baobab, a performance development intensive centering African and African-American girls. Iya Ifanike has been able to exercise and continuously hone her talents as an artist and a teacher. She has studied dance forms such as ballet, jazz, hip-hop, modern, Afro-Caribbean, and traditional West African. Iya Ifanike has studied under a variety of masters from various backgrounds, such as Marie Minto, Peter London, Garth Fagan, Jawole Zollar, Joan Myers Brown, Camille A. Brown, E. Gaynell Sherrod, Lineen Farmer, Millicent Johnnie, Guy Thorne. She has received various awards for her artistic talents and has choreographed several concerts, written and directed her own musical, and built up a dance program in an elementary school. The teaching arts program where a mutual exchange was created between teachers in Nigeria and teachers from the US. Iya Ifanike is a very busy lady on a mission to do all she can to make her contribution in the world.
