This week is designed to make dancers grow in their technical, improvisational and performing skills. We will approach Anasma’s signature style “liquid fusion”, through the spectrum of the elements: WATER, FIRE, EARTH, AIR and WOOD. This will enable dancers to tap into different types of energy and give variety to their interpretation of motion and emotion. Each day will be based on one element. The first part of the day will focus on technique, drills and exploration, and the second part of the day we will turn combos into a choreography, based on the work done early that day.
DAY 1 – WATER
Water symbolizes what is flowing, flexible, harmonious, unified and connected.
oPART 1 - TECHNIQUE, DRILLS AND EXPLORATION
Moving from the liquids of the body , we will explore wavingtechnique and theory applied to each body part: arms, legs, torso, back, the brain! etc. in order to create endlessly flowing movements
Play with dynamics, speeds, intentions: become Water my friend! From a calm river, turn into a cascade, widen into an ocean, and explode as a tsunami.
oPART 2 – COMBOS AND CHOREOGRAPHY
Choreography created with the flow of the inspiration and Anasma’s signature moves.
DAY 2 – WOOD
Wood is a symbol of solidity, rigidity and lines.
oPART 1 - TECHNIQUE, DRILLS AND EXPLORATION
Moving from our bones, we will strike strong lines and geometrical angles and shapes, creating boxes and thinking out of the box.
Techniques used:Tutting, Voguing in order to become“Queen Tutenkamen”
We will also explore the usage of space
oPART 2 – COMBOS AND CHOREOGRAPHY
Group composition and choreography
DAY 3 – EARTH
Receiving our weight, Earth is the base of our construction. It is the symbol of stability, and creating roots below.
oPART 1 - TECHNIQUE, DRILLS AND EXPLORATION
Using the energy for the ground, we will first focus on the lower part of the body, sending our center of gravity and awareness downwards: Hips, knees, feet. ..
Playing with our weight shift and using different body parts to hold ourselves on the ground, we will dance standing, sitting, laying down. The exploration will be vertical and horizontal. We will use floorwork techniques and De Rose Method ( a yoga style) called by Anasma “Liquid Belly Break Yoga”
Bring your kneepads
oPART 2 – COMBOS AND CHOREOGRAPHY
Catwoman choreography ("Theatrical Bellydance : Character Embodiment and Development ”)
DAY 4 – FIRE
Fire is the symbol of heat, that changed the humanities’ experience on earth. Fire is also a source of destruction and danger.
oPART 1 - TECHNIQUE, DRILLS AND EXPLORATION
Moving from the muscles, Fire will inspire explosive moves. Technical content will include fiery pops and locks, dime stops.
Moves will be practice with an emphasis on speed and power.
We will also create some fast and furious traveling moves
oPART 2 – COMBOS AND CHOREOGRAPHY
Choreography “Big Bang Drum Solo”
DAY 5 – AIR
Air is the symbol of light weight flow. Graceful and volatile is this element.
oPART 1 - TECHNIQUE, DRILLS AND EXPLORATION
Dancing against gravity, we will focus on floating techniques and footwork.
We will explore raising the center of gravity, o the spot or across the floor, with traveling moves
A veil floorwork section will be proposed , as en encounter between Air and Earth – bring your veils and kneepads
oPART 2 – COMBOS AND CHOREOGRAPHY
Choreography “From earth to sky”
The “Anasma Intensive Week Certificate”
A certificate will be handed out after the intensive week, mentioning that you successfully took part in this training and with a special mention that you achieved 20 hours with me… !
Total for this intensive weeklong is € 350,-
This amount can be paid in 2 parts.
- € 100 at the registration
- € 250 before February 15, 2012 (you will get an invoice after February 1st )
Minimum number of students is 15 (by February 1st, 2012)
Classes are from March 28 until April 1st from 13:00 to 17:30 (incl. 30 minute break) in Amsterdam (address to be announced).
Total hours of teaching is 20 hours!
Because these tickets are very exclusive, there will be no possibility for refunds, extreme circumstances excluded. It is not possible cancel the subscription or the second payment, once the first payment is made. Tickets are personal and can NOT be re-sold or traded to other people without our approval. The weeklong is open to all levels, although we advice advanced dancers and up, to take part in this workshop.
Payments can be made by bank, creditcards and Paypal!
Anasma’s biography:
Anasma is a Dancer, Teacher, Choreographer and Artistic Director. To her, dance is an expression of the self and of the soul that enables each dancer to share their deepest emotions and to be in the Now.
Drawing from her cross-training in multiple arts forms (Bellydance, Hip Hop, Acting, Salsa, Wushu, Flamenco, Modern Jazz, Contemporary Simonson technique). Half Tunisian and half Vietnamese, living between Paris and New York City, Anasma was naturally drawn to mixing art forms to express who she is through performance and teaching. Thus her World Dance fusions (Hip Hop Bellydance Liquid fusion, Wushu bellydance, Salsa bellydance…) are a mix between the ethnic and the urban components of her personal background and her present life.
Seen in five continents and more than twenty-five countries, Anasma currently tours Europe, North and South America and Asia to teach and perform. Anasma is featured in numerous performance DVDs, instructional DVDs and CDs.
Since 1997, Anasma has performed and taught in dance festivals, intensives, theater shows, TV shows and concerts. From 2006 to 2009, Anasma worked with Bellyqueen as one of their principal dancers. In 2008, Anasma co-founded the New York Theatrical Bellydance Conference with Ranya Renee, and she is currently co-directing the second annual large-scale conference scheduled for July 2011. In 2011, she is awarded by the Unique Arts Award for the “Most creative solo performance”.
