SAKAD Festival - South Australian Kizomba & Afro Dance Festival

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Date:

March 12th - 14th, 2021

Location:

The Adelaide Rowing Club

Call Us:

+61 (0)419 818 147

Email Us:

enquiries[@]sakadfestival.com.au

Kudzi & Claudia

Australia’s newest dance partnership! Claudia has been dancing Kizomba for over 2 years and has now joined Kudzi teaching in Sydney Australia, to bring us their beautiful take on this dance. Kudzi has been dancing kizomba for more than 5 years. He started with salsa and bachata but kizomba stole his heart. Being such a […]

Susan Kizomba / DJ Mousai

Susan, otherwise known as DJ Mousai, has a deep passion for kizomba and all its related genres. She discovered kizomba while at a Cuban Salsa festival in Sydney and instantly fell in love with the dance and music. Since then she has travelled around Australia and Europe developing her dance and musical knowledge, dancing as […]

MTR The Artist

MTR (Marie-Therese Rushwan) grew up in a family where music and dance was everywhere. ‘You learned to dance before you could walk!’. She was greatly influenced by French, Middle Eastern and African, music and dance styles. Bellydancing, Contemporary, Ballet, Ballroom (dancesport) and Street Latin are some of the dance styles she studied. Then came Kizomba and […]

Jean-Marc Agbogba / The Sun of Africa

Jean-Marc Agbogba is an African dance artist, choreographer and musician from Ivory Coast, West Africa, who has had over a decade of experience in his chosen field. He arrived in South Australia in 2010 and established his own Dance Company “Sun of Africa” in 2011. During his career in Africa he was joint director and performer […]

Andrea Fernandez

Andrea is a passionate dancer and instructor from Darwin. She began teaching Salsa, Bachata and Casino De Rueda in 2015 through her dance company Free2Dance.She has attended numerous Latin dance festivals and has undertaken private lessons to further her knowledge on Salsa, Bachata and Casino De Rueda.She is proud to be part of only a […]

Dilhan Hewa

Dilhan is a Kizomba and Bachata instructor at Paradizo School of Latin Dance in Brisbane, Australia. Also known as Double D, he shares his knowledge of Kizomba, Urban Kiz and Bachata with an enthusiastic and a playful attitude. Dilhan’s started his dance journey in 2014 under the guidance of World famous bachata artists Carols and […]

Amie O’Neill

Amie is an Assistant Instructor in Bachata, Kizomba and Salsa, as well as the Manager at Paradizo School of Latin Dance in Brisbane, Australia. She loves to share her enthusiasm and passion of latin dance with the Brisbane dance community. Amie started her love of dance in 2009 with Salsa and Zouk. Along her journey […]

Lynley Gladdis

Lynley has been involved in the Art’s for most of her life. A trained Ballet dancer, Yoga, Pilates and Chi ball Master, there isn’t much she has not accomplished. She has travelled extensively all over the world to teach, train and dance with the world’s best. Lynley is also a sought after Stage Manager and […]

Carlos Betancourt Hernandez

Has worked as a Cabaret dancer for many years, as well as running his dynamic AfroCuban and Folkloric Dance school in Cuba and bow in Adelaide. In Varadero Cuba, he not only worked as a dancer, he also was the leading Choreographer in various Hotels such as Brisas del Caribe, Playa de Oro, and Las […]

Cubalia Afro-Cuban Dance School

Rob SaborSon

Robert, was trained in Afro-Latin dances, performing arts and as choreographer in Cali, Colombia, from where his journey teaching and performing dance throughout the World began. Previously based in France, Germany, Switzerland and Japan, he founded Up’n Dance Kizomba in the Gold Coast, aiming to promote Afro dance (Kizomba, Semba, Urban Kiz and Afrobeats/house) in […]

DJ Alex B

DJ Jim

DJ Dahdah

Jason C White / DJ B-Roc

Jason grew up surrounded by the sounds of Jazz, Soul and R&B. This inspired him to do more with music growing up. Starting with vinyls back in the 90’s, home practising and understanding equipment. He took inspiration from DJ Jazzy Jeff with changing the flavour of R&B music together with HipHop. After many years of […]

Friday 12th March 2021 - 8:30pm

Saturday 13th March 2021 - 9:30am

Saturday 13th March 2021 - 8:00pm

Saturday 13th March 2021 - 9:30pm

Sunday 14th March 2021 - 10:30am

Sunday 14th March 2021 - 9:00pm