MEDANZ Festival 2018 Workshops |
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Confirmed workshops. This will be updated as teachers come on board. For all workshops at a glance check out the timetable. For a list of tutors check out the tutor page. |
9:00am-10:30am Teachers' ForumA series of Q&A on topics that interest teachers. If you have a question for the forum to consider please contact the MEDANZ Committee.
10:45am-12:45pm Teaching Belly Dance to AdultsCurriculum creation, pacing, leading drills, keeping difficult students under control, and other essential things to avoid and things to include to keep your students coming back. Whether you are an experienced instructor or new to teaching the art, we cover important concepts and discuss the biggest problems. Tutor: Saqra Prerequisites: Please bring: |
8:00am-8:30am Morning Wake Up for Body and Mind – TribalDiva Style!Join Tracey & the TribalDiva Belly Dance Company team for a fun warm up designed to wake up your body with movement sequences aimed at gradually increasing the heart rate followed by some funky foot patterns and isolations to make sure your mind is ready for the day of dancing ahead – we’ll set you off with a smile! Prerequisites: None Please bring: Water bottle 8:45am-10:45am Pop, Snap, WhackLock, Pop, & Drop technique, plus tasty power combos for your drum solo work! Clean and crisp percussive accent movements and the ability to both create and learn combos PLUS how to create them on the spot! Tutor: Saqra Prerequisites: Please bring: Shimmy MadnessThere are SOOOOOO many shimmies and so little time! From soft ripples flowing across rows of beading, to sharp syncopated pulses moving heavy layers of fabric. From complex layered movements moving across the floor, to focused intense accents fixing you to the spot. Shimmies in all their multi layered, multi-faceted glory ... how to do them, when to do them and how to play with them. This workshop is about getting your shimmy on, keeping your shimmy going, travelling your shimmy, working your shimmy, hard shimmies, soft shimmy’s, constant shimmies, interrupted and accented shimmies ….. If you are already a shimmy queen and want a chance to get your shimmy on, or if you are working your way to up the shimmy ranks and want some new tricks and techniques - come a long, leave the rest of the world behind and enjoy a SHIMMY FEST. Warm up and cool down are included in workshop Tutor: Tanya Prerequisites: Intermediate level and beyond. Participants should be able to execute:
All level of dancers are welcome to come along, enjoy and give it a go; however, there will be no specific breakdowns of these movements in this workshop. Please bring:
Silk Fan Technique and Creative Combos (aka “fan veils”):Dancing with silk fans is more than just doing cool party tricks (although we will learn some of those too)! This workshop will include technique, and some options for how to dance creatively with silk fans. We will make short combinations based on participants’ favourite fan moves taught in the class. All genres of belly dance are welcome. If time allows, we will discuss context for fan dancing such as improv vs choreo, solo vs group, and fans for entrance/mid-song/finale. Tutor: Setsuna Prerequisites: Dance level: Beginner and up, in any belly dance genre. Prop level: No fan experience necessary, but beginner fan or intermediate veil and up is helpful Please bring: Bring your own silk fans. 1.5m length ideal, but any length will work. People without fans are welcome, though may not get as much out of the workshop. 11:00am-12:30pm Classical PersianGenres of Persian dance vary depending on the area, culture and language of the local people, As Iran’s population is comprised of many ethnic groups including Kurdish, Azerbaijani, Armenian, Lor, Khorasani and Georgian) What is recognized as classic Persian dance is a reconstruction of Safavid or Qajar court dances. In this workshop we will learn a classical routine. It is characterized by delicate, graceful movements of the hands and arms, neck and shoulders, simple footwork, many varieties of turns and beautiful traveling steps. While in belly dance wrist circles are limited to transition between moves, in classical Persian dance, they accompany almost every step. This is great practice towards building supple arms and hands that translate well into other styles. Tutor: Aida Oryantal Prerequisites: Suits all level ITS (Improv Tribal Style) a 90 min TasterITS by Amy Sigil and Unmata is a fast improv tribal style that uses common movements with a cue to allow dancers to perform together with no choreography. In this 90 min taster workshop we will look at some of the core movements and combinations, we will jump straight to the fun fast combos like Egyptian Tumbleweed, Grapies, Arabic with Twist in a Half Turn, Egyptian Twistback and Caravan Droppings, along with the essential fast moves. This is a great workshop for any level or type of dancer, oriental, beginner, folk, advance, come one come all and try something a little different. Pip has spent over 60 hours in workshops studying ITS with Amy herself. Tutor: Pip Prerequisties: a travelling ¾ shimmy will help, but you will be given a regression if you haven’t mastered this yet. Please bring: a pad/towel/mat for knee padding for lying on the floor during wamup/cooldown Millayah Laff
So what is a Millayah Laff? Where and what does this dance style originate from? What types of movement would you expect to use in this style of dance and how should you represent this dance style on stage? This workshop will cover some history and development of this quintessential Egyptian dance style, the wrapping and manipulation of the Millayah Laff, then apply this knowledge to a short choreography created especially for this MEDANZ workshop. Tutor: Angela Mott Prerequisties: Beyond Beginners + Please bring: Millayah Laff (if you have one) or a large veil (not silk), notepad and pen
2:00pm-4:00pm MusicalityExplore seven different ways to expand your approach and help you find the key to being the visual representation of the music. Really hear what the music contains and use that to BE the music. Tutor: Saqra Prerequisites: Please bring:
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8:00am-8:30am Morning Wake Up for Body and Mind – TribalDiva Style!Join Tracey & the TribalDiva Belly Dance Company team for a fun warm up designed to wake up your body with movement sequences aimed at gradually increasing the heart rate followed by some funky foot patterns and isolations to make sure your mind is ready for the day of dancing ahead – we’ll set you off with a smile! Prerequisites: None Please bring: Water bottle 8:45am-10:15am Sword Moves and Combos for Tribal Style Belly DanceThe addition of swords to a tribal style performance provides variety and is a guaranteed crowd pleaser! Swords can be used in both fast and slow pieces, either held by the dancers, or balanced on the head. This workshop will cover creative ways that a sword can be incorporated into a Tribal Style Belly Dance performance using slow and fast moves, along with dynamic start and finish poses and shapes, and some tips and tricks for balancing and handling swords during a performance. Notes will be provided. Tutor: Tracey Prerequisites: Tribal Style Belly Dance experience would be useful, but if you are new to the style come along anyway & we will buddy you up with one of the TribalDiva dancers for any extra help required. Please bring: A sword! There will be a couple available to borrow, please advise in advance if you would like to borrow one.
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