About Hip Hop Duende
Stomp, clap, click, clap and tap!
Hip Hop Duende is Annalise Friend (or Slapsista) and Claudia Chambers. Two experienced performers, facilitators and teachers, they bring together artistic influences that range from performance poetry and body percussion, to flamenco dance and funky box drum cajons. Their interactive shows, workshops, team building sessions and ice breakers share the magic (duende) of rhythm, movement, and spoken word.
Hip Hop Duende have performed at Viva la Gong, Feastability, Bankstown Bites festivals, and for schools such as Canberra Grammar, Northmead High, MLC School Sydney, and primary schools such as Katoomba, Bidwell, Curran, and Blakehurst. They have facilitated professional development sessions for teachers, mentored upcoming drummers, ignited rhythmic fun for International Women's Day and delivered successful workshops in boys' juvenile detention and for accessible arts festivals. Hip Hop Duende highlights include twice rapping, clapping and tapping with audience and listeners as a part of ABC Radio's 'Knit In', culminating in a Guinness Book of Records attempt for the largest knitting-needle-percussion ensemble!
A unique duo of Australian female rhythmatists, Hip Hop Duende express and inspire!
About Claudia
After a year of playing for local Flamenco dancers in Barcelona, she was offered touring work with Mexican guitar virtuosos, Rodrigo y Gabriela. Moving to Ireland to record with them on their album, Re-foc, Claudia then began to work with other artists such as jazz duo, Zrazy, Spanish group, Viento y Fuego and Irish folk legend Luka Bloom, as well as working with American contemporary dance choreographer, Paul Estabrook as live percussionist.
Since moving back to Australia in 2005, Claudia has collaborated with Los Carmonas, Flamenco Dreaming, Flamenco Fire, Gipsy Rhythms, Gian and many others.
A registered secondary teacher, with a dance teaching qualification, and a Workplace Category 4 Trainer, Claudia has over 15 years’ experience teaching and facilitating people of many ages, backgrounds and abilities.
About Annalise (Slapsista)
Slapsista has performed movement, spoken word, body percussion and percussion at festivals such as Woodford Folk Festival and Newtown Festival, at many gigs including poetry slams. Annalise has taught and facilitated courses, workshops, icebreakers in body percussion, improvised movement, and drumming with infants kids to executives, and grandmas to teenagers. She has completed a Community Coach Training and a Kalani Drum Circle Music (DCM) Facilitator Training.
Meanwhile, her love of writing has culminated in her double degree with distinction, majoring in English Literatures and Creative Writing. Following from her First Class Honours thesis on Pacific hip hop, Annalise is now working towards a PhD on hip hop artists from Australia and New Zealand, as well as developing her poetic MC-ing.
Annalise loves sharing her passion for rhythm, movement and words, such as when a stomping good body percussion rhythm becomes a big, tight, group sound.