WORKSHOPS

Music Workshops

We have a host of professional Asian and World Music instrumentalists. We can offer workshops in classical North and South Indian Percussion and melodic instruments including Indian Folk Percussion plus Bhangra where we teach basic techniques & rhythms.

Once the basic skills of Asian Percussion have been taught, we can offer additional workshops in music technology, sampling, live improvisation, keyboards and music programming that can be fused with the Asian Percussion to produce original and innovative compositions to be recorded or performed live.

This work is particularly appropriate for young musicians or young people with some music skills and is very popular. Furthermore, we can also feed in Latin or African Percussion skills alongside Asian Percussion to explore World Rhythms as part of a curriculum project for Music or Geography in schools.

Dance Workshops

We offer Classical Asian dance workshops like Kathak and Folk Asian workshops like Bhangra.

DJ Workshops

We are currently offering DJ workshops for young people, especially for young women through our continued ‘spinovation’ programme.

Projects combine DJ skills with Asian percussion workshops. Working in close collaboration with professional djs, participants work in small groups of not more than sic per set of DJ decks. They learn about equipment, dropping beats, mixing and scratching and how to combine this with a live Asian percussion performance.

Participants have the chance to create their own Asina fused dance tunes, which are downloaded onto CD and performed, live as part of a professional ShivaNova performance.

Overall, we are keen to widen young people’s listening and music skills. One of our long-term aims is to support students identified with exceptional talent towards further training and possible a career in Asian music and/ or music technology..