Workshops

Sing songs in different languages, crafting instruments, dancing, drumming and getting to know music from different countries for a day or even a week? Under the direction of Christian Fotsch, Ssassa offers this in individually designed workshops adapted to the age: After the one-hour “opening concert”, the children are divided into groups and immerse themselves in an exciting world for a day or a whole week. They sing songs in languages spoken at home of many participating children (albanian, portugese, spanish, english, french, italian, arabe, turkish…. In a brilliant final party with a visit to parents, the children present dances, sing, drumming and catering themselves with treats, which they or their parents have baked and cooked.

Whatch a film on Youtube in HD quality:
Ssassa Interkulturelle Musikprojektwoche – Teil 1: Workshops

Info & booking: Christian Fotsch, 056 491 01 20, christian@ssassa.ch

The children decide in advance which worshop they’d love visiting intensively during the week and with which they will perform a small show at the final concert with parental visit.

Children and students learn to sing songs in different languages. The repertoire is based on the CD Schnabelwetzer 3. The songs are composed in such a way, that they can be learned easily. To teach difficult passages of lyrics Christian Fotsch knows all sorts of tricks such as speeking choirs, gestures and educational games. At the latest, when Christian invites individual children to make their first experiences with the microphone, the choir gets going!

Drumming is a wonderful way to dive and be part of something bigger. On instruments such as Darabuka, Def and Shakern, the children learn to listen to each other and play with each other. It is always amazing how quickly they can play rhythmic pieces and songs! Franzsika Heusser and Denis Zekirov regularly discover children in their drum workshops who turn out to be true rhythm talents.

Assala Ibrahim takes the children into the world of Raks Sharki. They dance to oriental music and learn simple sequences of movements to Arabic-oriental sounds. With silk scarves, veils, colour fans and sticks, she creates a simple, audience-effective choreography, which is performed at the final party to live music by Ssassa.

Mirjam Barakar develops with students a contemporary choreography with sequences of movements from the jazz dance repertoire to hip-hop!

Nadia Saba develops a hip-hop choreography with students. This workshop is also very popular among suS. Compared to Breakdance it’s more easy, a lot more suitable also for the little ones.

At the end of the week, all parents and children are invited to the final concert. For more than an hour, the children sing in spanish, albanian, turkish, swiss and other languages, they are drumming to serbian, live-played kolo and they present oriental dances, breakdance and so on. A “finger food buffet” prepared by students and parents with delicacies from many countries is always well received!

In addition to the workshops of Ssassa, we recommend to paint flags. They can be used at the final concert when going on stage with all the kids and also they can be used as stage decoration.

The flute “Robifon” was invented by Robi Rüdisühli. With this link you find the manual. The instruments can be used at the final concert. Manual to Robifon