Tuesday, February 25, 2025, 6-8 PM

CID, Rehearsal and Performance Room, 185 Kent Street, Blacksburg

Free; registration required

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Open to all experience levels and genders. Wear comfortable loose clothes and light indoor dance shoes or dance barefoot. Bring a scarf that you can tie around your waist.

Join Moss Arts Center 2025-2026 season guest curator Esraa Warda in an immersive Raï dance workshop, delving into its origins, rhythms, and movements to embody Algerian cultural knowledge and experience Raï’s signature cathartic groove.

Raï, Algeria’s “rebel blues,” is a defining musical genre and counterculture of North Africa. Originating in Western Algeria, it explores themes of subversion, exile, love, and loss, reflecting the region’s social struggles.