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TABÚ OO1 - AFRODANCE EXPERIENCE
- Date
- Show
- 7:00 PM
- Venue
- Laguna Lab
- Admission
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About
TABÚ 001
AfroHouse Dance Experience
Presented by The Human Frequency Project
Hosted by DJ Timotéo Gigante & Olissa Francisco
A monthly dance gathering exploring underground rhythms, movement traditions, and contemporary dance cultures from around the world.
Hosted by DJ Timotéo Gigante, TABÚ follows a different thread each month—tracing connections between music, movement, and cultural traditions across the globe.
From AfroHouse and global club sounds to the dance cultures of Brazil, Colombia, and the Caribbean, as well as jazz, hip-hop, and other movement traditions, each gathering follows the threads that link underground dance floors around the world.
Each TABÚ gathering includes dance instruction, food and shared flavors, live music and DJs, immersive artistic elements, and a night of dancing that moves between learning, listening, and movement, ending on a full dance floor.
For over twenty five years, Timotéo Gigante has worked as a DJ, collector, traveler, and builder of dance spaces. TABÚ brings those threads into one room.
Opening and Dance Class with Live DJ 7pm. $10 add on
Dance party 8-LATE
TABÚ 001: AfroHouse
We begin the monthly rotation of TABÚ with AfroHouse
7:00 PM
AfroHouse Dance Class
Led by Olissa Francisco
Olissa is is one of TABÚ’s resident dance leaders, joined throughout the year by guest instructors.
8:00 PM – Late
Music by
K.LA.V (Oakland)
Timotéo Gigante (Laguna Lab, The Human Frequency Project)
K-LA V
Description: K-la V, from the San Francisco Bay Area, has been a respected DJ for over 15 years. From a young age, she has been inspired by the unique rhythms and sounds of many genres.
K-la V's style has an international flair, with House music and Afro-Caribbean Beats being among her go-to favorite genres to DJ and dance to. However, K-la V plays it all, from Hip Hop, Pop, Kizomba, Amapiano, to funky-soul-jazz tunes, and more, as long as good vibes are filling the room.
She’s opened up for major record label artists and has spun at corporate tech events, fashion shows, grand affair weddings, festivals, and cruise ships. She's DJ'd for brands like Neiman Marcus, Jimmy Choo, Salesforce, Amazon, and Google to name a few.
K-la V. is a resident DJ at the hottest club for international music in Oakland, CA, Zanzi Bar. You can also hear her regularly dropping sets at Chotto Matte SF and The Dirty Bird Lounge in Hayward, CA.
K-la V. also runs the blog site DJGURL.com where she discusses everything about DJ’ing from a woman’s perspective. Check her out on YouTube @DJGURL.
Website: K-laV.com
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@DJGURL
Blog: DJGURL.com
Instagram: @K.la.v; @djgurlworld
Facebook: K-la-v
OLISSA FRANCISCO
Afro-Fusion Warm Up Dance Class with Live DJ
Description: Afro-Fusion at its finest: Join for an uplifting and dynamic Grooves dance workshop designed to explore, integrate, and celebrate the vast and dynamic movements, expressions, and techniques across dance traditions from the African Diaspora and beyond! Bringing together traditional and contemporary styles from South Africa, West Africa, Brazil, Cuba and club culture into one beautiful and powerful flow. Expect sweat, smiles, and serious beats as we create collective dance floor magic.
This workshop will center on technique, stamina, and your own groove, with movements emphasizing power, celebration, and release, carried by the deepest sounds of AfroHouse! Designed for all levels, Deep Grooves is a community movement where all are welcome.
Olissa is a true energetic and celebratory force who uplifts and empowers through Dance, Energy Healing, Pilates, and immersive retreats. Having over 30 years experience in dance traditions from around the world, 12 years in Wellness Coaching, and 8 years in the Healing Arts.
TIMOTEO GIGANTÉ
DJ Timoteo Gigante is a DJ, producer, and cultural organizer with over 20 years of experience shaping global dance floors through funk, soul, hip-hop, jazz, dub, Latin, afrobeat, house, disco, and global club music.
He is co-founder of Laguna Lab, a West Sonoma County arts and culture space, where he curates TABU, a monthly Afro-diasporic dance series, and founder of the Human Frequency Project, a bicycle-based media initiative exploring culture, place, and belonging through field recordings, interviews, and travel.
With drummer Ethan Schiff, he co-leads Mood Swing, a live DJ + percussion project, and he is a co-founder of Motown On Mondays, a global soul dance movement that began in San Francisco. Recent work includes producing the DJ stage and performing at Analog Reunion Festival.
He has shared stages with artists including Erykah Badu, Questlove, Cut Chemist, DJ Spinna, Danny Krivit, Z-Trip, Mark Farina, and many others. He has performed at Hardly Strictly Bluegrass, Outside Lands, Sea of Dreams NYE, 1015 Folsom, Mighty, The Great Northern, Monarch, The Fillmore, and more.
His work centers on music as a living system connecting people, place, and collective experience.
Laguna Lab
117 Morris Street #300
Sebastopol, California
About The Human Frequency Project
The Human Frequency Project explores how music, food, craft, storytelling, and gathering shape our relationship to one another and the places we live.
Through radio, events, interviews, field recordings, and cultural documentation, it follows a simple question:
What connects us?
TABÚ is one place where that question is explored.
Come dance.