Add a fresh new flavor to your dance straight from the streets of New York City and adapted for the world of belly dance. Learn how to pop, lock, and send waves and circles through the body in a way that will hypnotize and delight. This workshop will explore the drills and techniques it takes to pop, lock, and wave your arms, upper body, and hips like a pro. There will be plenty of repetition as the session will lead into a choreography using all of the combos and techniques explored.
9/4 The Ladies (2 hrs) - Saturday September 4th - 12:30 - 14:30- € 30,-
Kaeshi will teach a challenging and engaging choreography to the song "9/4 The Ladies" by the wildly popular Brooklyn based band, Balkan Beatbox. She will explain how to listen and clap (optional: plus play finger cymbals) to the famous 9/8 rhythm from Eastern Europe. She will explain the difference between the Roman rhythm and the Karsilama rhythm and will teach Turkish folkloric and gypsy dance steps and gestures along with their meaning. This choreography covers many popular Turkish movements including, basic Turkish step, pelvic drops, grapevines into hops, glut squeeze twist, box step, falling down step, heel in the mud, fist hits, too many bracelets, stirring the pot, greeting, floor work, knee spins, and technique and exercises to build up to a dramaticTurkish drop.
Learn a dynamic oriental choreography packed with useful combos to Djinn’s popular song Saskin. Optional use of finger cymbals.
“The End Again” Gypsy Fusion Choreography (3 hrs) - Sunday September 5th - 15:00 - 18:00- € 45,-
Learn Kaeshi’s fiery gypsy fusion style with step-by-step break down in technique and combos culminating in an enthralling choreography to Beatbox Guitar’s beautiful song “The End Again”.
Body Teasers: Drills, Layers and Combinations (2 hrs) - Saturday September 4th - 12:30 - 14:30 - € 30,-
Designed as a fun series of drills and combinations, this workshop is a continuous, challenging and upbeat marathon that is meant to improve technique and increase endurance. Drills, focusing on strong and muscular isolations, graceful and continuous arm patterns, layers and traveling steps, will challenge dancers of all levels. Be prepared to sweat. Recommended: bring water.
Ooey-gooey torso drills and combos (2 hrs) - Saturday September 4th - 15:00 - 17:00- € 30,-
This workshop is focused on drills, exercises and combinations designed to give you greater control over your abdominals and ribcage. We will start with a little bit of Pilates ab exercises, continue with dance drills that will explore slow vs. staccato muscular contractions and finish with combinations that will incorporate the torso work (such as belly rolls) with traveling steps and level changes. All levels are welcome; please bring mats for the floor exercise section of the workshop.
Learn an energetic, fast-paced and technically challenging Tribal Fusion choreography to an upbeat song by Upper Egypt Ensemble. The piece explores the fun side of Tribal fusion and incorporates some folkloric steps, intricate hip work as well as some audience interaction. Open Level: some bellydance experience required, however several layers of complexity will be taught for most moves, making them accessible to dancers of all levels.
Learn a slow to medium tempo choreography that fuses the aggressive elements of Tribal Fusion, and the elegance and poise of Cabaret bellydance. Our attention will be focused on muscular isolations as well as graceful and expressive posing. The technique section of the workshop will explore the difference between the two styles in a series of dance drills.
American Tribal Style Belly dance draws stylistic elements from Middle Eastern Folkloric dance to Flamenco and beyond. This extremely popular improvisational dance form creates incredible energy among the dancers which magnifies the viewers experience. This beginning workshop will explore the fundamentals of posture, basic dance vocabulary, cues and transitions, attitude, and connecting with your fellow dancers.
ATS Formation Foundation (2 hrs) - Saturday September 4th - 15:00 - 17:00 - € 30,-
American Tribal Style Belly Dance 'Beyond Basics' will take you to the heart of this brilliant dance form, in which you will learn the key points to group improvisation. We will discuss duets, trios, quartets and more.
Any tribal dancer can tell you that proper posture and strong arm movements are some of the most difficult things to achieve and do well. They also make the difference between a good dancer and a GREAT dancer. This workshop focuses on techniques to achieve healthy body alignment and awareness through discussion, drills, and exercises. Although the spine, shoulders, ribcage, and arms are the primary areas of breakdown and discussion, the pelvis, head, and feet will also be addressed in relation to the rest of the body. This workshop is not easy, as it is difficult to use certain parts of the body for extended periods of time, but the goal is to help you attain the tools and understanding for endurance and strength which, over time, will add wonders to your dance practice.
Tribal Fusion Part I (3 hrs) - Sunday September 5th - 15:00 - 18:00 - € 45,-
Pop 'n Lock technique has become quite a craze in the Tribal Fusion community. Take home some basic drills to successfully apply this technique to your practice, and learn some fresh new moves and combos that will integrate that mesmerizing flow with sharp hits and accents.
Anasma
Workshops € 35,- to € 50,- / All workshops € 240,- for 16 hours!!
Salsa Bellydance Fusion : "Latin flavor, musicality, footwork and LAYERING for bellydance" - Friday October 8th, 2010 - 14:00 - 17:00 - € 50,-
Technique, layering, combos and choreography - Advanced beginners to Advanced dancers of any background- 3 h
We will bring a fiery explosive Latin flavor to our sensual soft and suave bellydance. By listening to the music differently, dancers will create a new rhythmic frame to the sound of the clave. Dancers will comprehend Bellydance with a Salsa vocabulary and discover exciting footwork to enrich their range of motion and offer them new challenges for layering.
After working on the Latin rythms and methods of counting, dancers will learn some basic salsa posture, attitude, footwork and combinations. To these, we will layer bellydance hip work. Fun drills and combinations.
Hip Hop Bellydance Liquid Fusion: “Michael Jackson’s shimmies and undulations” - Saturday October 9th, 2010 - 9:30 - 12:30 - € 50,-
Technique and layering + choreography - intermediate-advanced 3h
Have you always wanted to know how to Moonwalk and shimmy at the same time? To Michael Jackson’s music, we will revive our memories of the King of Pop with a bellydance flair : learn different how to moonwalk, airwalk, side floats, float and turn into space, embellish with leg waves...) and how to layer all of the above to bellyrolls, figure eights and shimmies...
NB: this workshop will build up on what we have seen in Dec 2009 bringing many new elements.
Hip Hop Bellydance Liquid Fusion: “bellytutting” - Saturday October 9th - 13:00 - 15:00 - € 35,-
Technique, drill , exploration and combos- all levels 2h
Explore each concept of tutting and apply them to bellydance.
-90 degree angle: thinking outside of a box, inside of a box
-Tracing lines: frame the lines of flow crossing through the arm
-Switching : tilting the whole structure 90 degrees
-Bouncing: transition with a “jump” or “bump” from a movement to the other.
-Placing: one body part places the
-Immobile body parts: freeze one body part while the rest is moving
-One thing at a time
-The wrist connection
Hip Hop Bellydance Liquid Fusion: "WAVE EXPLOSION!, EVERFLOWING MOVES” - SaturdayOctober 9th - 15:30 - 17:30 - € 35,-
Drills and choreography - Intermediate & advanced - 2 h
Discover an ever flowing creative inner and outer movement. Dancers will apply advanced Hip Hop waving techniques to bellydance as they learn a new choreography.
NB : this is a good complement to the “Bellydance Hip Hop Liquid fusion Introduction” Workshop, to advance more the exploration of the concepts.
"EXPRESSIVE Bellydance: emotions, gestural movement, cHaracter development and storytelling" - Sunday October 10th - 10:30 - 12:30 - € 35,-
Techniques and exploration - all levels - 2 hours
This class allows dancers of all level and movers of any background to share any message beyond strict dance vocabulary and to have fun! While using their current dance technique, dancers will be invited to reflect upon the meaning of their dance and the choice and symbolism of their movement. Dancers will learn miming techniques, how to transform everyday life gestures into dance movements, develop specific characters and tell stories through their face and body, as a soloist and as a group.
"Special Character focus: beauty and the beast” - Sunday October 10th - 15:30 - 17:30 - € 35,-
Character an emotions applied to Modern and Tribal fusion Bellydance Choreography - all levels 2h
We all have a good and a bad side in us. Embrace the duality and accept your holy wholeness. Anasma will teach her choreography the “Beauty and the beast” featured in the “Bellydance Experience” DVD.
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