The method

All courses follow traditional style teachings: no theory, textbooks, and the like, as they are strictly oral teaching traditions. This doesn’t make it harder to learn! In fact, it will make you develop other areas of learning. Observing and listening are the basic principle upon which our teachers, and their teacher, and so on for several generations, learned.

Afro-Diasporic, and African music, for example, have numerous micro-timings, which can’t be written in western musical notation. This is one small proof that to preserve culture, we must preserve the learning principles of said culture.

There is a technical part that is basic for beginners and intermediary players, where they will build and strengthen their abilities. Traditional arts also have core skills that may be developed in many ways, which are needed to develop the skills needed to perform artistic expressions. They are important so that you won’t feel inapt or face frustration, and even to avoid injuries resulting from incorrect movements.

Traditional music, dance, and all other forms of art all require technical ability. While this technical repertoire is not written, as in guitar scales, the characteristic of traditional arts is practicing slowly the core movements, in the same way as scales. This is the base that makes up the unique fluidity in movements observed in all of our teachers.

In Opanije technique can be presented in body movements or by oral phrases that synthesize a core skill