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SATURDAY, MAY 15, 2010
YA LG 10:00-Noon Teacher: Gabriella Gabriella brings some very special moves and combinations
to you from her own style, Neas Fundamentals! You will jump
in and have fun with high-energy moves and combinations!!! We will use some exciting, fast-paced German Medieval music to bring you the power and excitement of the dance, German style! Come and experience the magic and beauty of Gabriella and her special Tribal Style. Gabriella’s Bio: Gabriella is the director and founder of Neas tribal, one of the first tribal troupes in Germany.
In 1999 she opened her own studio and she also began to dance Tribal Style Dance. She fell in love with ATS from Fat Chance Belly Dance and first learned from Video and then she organized workshops with FatChance teachers. She also liked Gypsy Caravan’s Tribal Style and learned from Paulette Rees-Denis. Paulette invited her and Neas Tribal to come to Tribal Quest North West. Gabriella and Neas Tribal were the first German Tribal dancers at the Quest in 2005. Gabriella also hosted many Tribal Fusion dancers from the USA and she learned from everyone. She created her own style, called Neas Fundamentals, which included some ATS from FatChance, some moves from Gypsy Caravan and a lot of her own creative things.
Her troupe, Neas Tribal, is very popular in Germany and Europe. They are on stage often and perform as well at Renn Faires all over Germany! Gabriella teaches all over Europe and is in high demand for her knowledge, dance technique and her happy, loving and supportive personality. She is excited to share her love for dance at Tribal Fest!!! Skill Level: Beginners to Professional! What to bring: water, perhaps a notebook What to Wear: Comfortable dance wear
YA LG 12:15-2:15 Teacher: Stefanie Masters Class Title and Description: BSBD Level 1 ~ Into The Web In this 2-hour workshop experience the power and strength that comes from being connected into the web of dance, going beyond the technique… Being completely in the moment, knowing a joy that transcends words. Being prepared for anything, yet holding no expectations. This is the web that connects us in this most beautiful and challenging art form that is BSBD-Style SGI* (formerly known as ATS). *Synchronized Group Improvisation Stefanie will take you deeper into the meaning of working together as a unit with her unique and powerful style of teaching. Stefanie’s extensive background as a holistic therapist and professional instructor for over 13 years will take beginners and advanced level students alike to new levels of understanding. By putting these concepts into the body and the mind we are able to create a powerful and beautiful presentation of dance regardless of our level of skill and expertise. This workshop will introduce beginning level techniques in Kajira Djoumahna’s internationally known KD/BSBD Format for SGI Tribal Style BellyDance. While technique will be broken down, this workshop will focus on helping the student to develop a sense of the WEB that connects us while we dance. Using innovative techniques through the use of breath, posture and energy projection, the student will gain a greater appreciation for In-The-Moment dancing, connecting to each other, dancing for transformation, meditation and raising energy as a group. Come and experience the beauty and power of moving INTO THE WEB, with Stefanie Masters! Stefanie’s Bio: Stefanie Masters is the owner of Dance For The Soul (DFTS), a holistic studio focused on healing the whole individual ~ body, mind and spirit. Stefanie is the creator and director of the DFTS Masters Method for Health, Healing & Living™ and The DFTS Format of Improvisational Middle Eastern Dance. She is an Award-Winning professional Belly Dance performer and has been featured in Time Magazine, Belly Dance, A Raqs Sharqi Magazine, M Magazine, The Journal Sentinel and The Wall Street Journal. Stefanie offers a 15 month Teacher Training program in her DFTS Masters Format. Stefanie is a professional dance instructor, performer, event producer & the director of her student troupe, BlackSheep BellyDance of Wisconsin. With over 14 certifications and licensing in holistic movement and healing modalities, Stefanie brings a unique whole approach to her classes and seminars, with a focus on breath, posture, technique and positive thought. In 2007 while working on a special project with the ladies of Trillium Troupe, Jennifer Nolan, Marie Kaplan, and Traci Roberts, Stefanie was introduced to American Tribal Style Belly Dance. She fell in love with the aspect of group improvisational choreography and began her search for a teacher. Kajira Djoumahna’s contributions to ATS, especially the use of both hips in this style, was optimal in Stefanie’s opinion, to keeping balance in the body as well as the heart. Stefanie, after pursuing her own continued education, received certification in Kajira’s BlackSheep BellyDance Format as an instructor in both Level One & Level Two, and is now a proud member of BSBD Professional Troupe. Working closely with Kajira, Stefanie maintains a high level of integrity and continuity for the format, allowing her to help her students delve deeper into the aspects of building a connection to each other, opening their hearts and ultimately allowing healing to manifest in the body and heart through the dance. For more information on Stefanie Masters or classes and workshops, please visit her website at www.danceforthesoul.com or email her at Stefanie@danceforthesoul.com Skill Level: Some work with Synchronized Group Improvisation (SGI), whether in Kajira’s BSBD Format and/or Carolena’s FCBD Format (of which the most important innovation for dance, in Kajira’s opinion, is SGI) is helpful but not essential. Dancers of ANY group improvisational style will understand more of the deeper connections we forge via this style and all will benefit from this class! What to bring: Open mind, open heart, water and perhaps a notebook What to Wear: Comfy dance attire Note from Kajira: Stefanie has quickly become my most active, committed and communicative member of any of my Certified Teachers and of any member of BlackSheep BellyDance! Her spirit is uplifting and gentle, and comes across to others freely and unmistakably. She is also my teacher in many ways; due in part to her deep understanding, plentiful and well-earned Certifications and sought-after knowledge of so many forms of health and healing modalities. She has found ways to utilize this higher learning in her classes and workshops in order to maximize students’ dance training. She didn’t mention that she is also a certified Doula, a.k.a. Midwife, and teaches bellydance for pregnant women in addition to all of her other classes! I very much admire Stefanie and her dancing and teaching skills, and know you will be in GREAT hands in this class. I will also state how deeply honored I am that one such as she, a virtual jewel in a proverbial haystack, chose me to learn ATS from, which as of Nov. 2009 became, for BSBD and EEBD and all of our students and my Teachers, SGI. Thank you, Stefanie! (Stefanie also appears on my 3 latest DVDs, released in early 2009!)
YA LG 2:30-4:30 Teacher: Princess Farhana Pile it all on and put a cherry on top! Learn classic,
traditional belly dance foundations for crazy isolations,
and how to put it all together, so that every zip code in your
body is doing something different. Abdominal layers and crazy things to do with your mid-section, and use of speed: combinations mixing slow-into-fast movements with unusual angles and eye-catching level changes and turns. Princess Farhana’s Bio: Acclaimed international dancer Princess Farhana has performed, taught and written about Oriental Dance and Burlesque for nineteen years. She has appeared in Egypt, France, Switzerland, Belgium, Portugal, all over The United Kingdom, Mexico and Canada, and across the US. Named “Favorite Oriental Dancer 2006 & 2008” by Zaghareet! Magazine, Princess Farhana has been featured in numerous motion pictures, videos, television shows and dance documentaries, as well as many instructional and performance DVDs. Trained in Egyptian style by Raqia Hassan and Zahra Zuhair, among others, she is also known for her high-concept, theatrical fusion performances and dazzling stage presence. Her warmth, enthusiasm and adventurous spirit - on and off stage- captivates audiences and students alike. Contact Princess Farhana (Pleasant Gehman): (323) 460-4890 Email: pgehman@earthlink.net WWW.PRINCESSFARHANA.COM Skill Level: Open, though basic bellydance experience of any style would be helpful What to bring: Water What to Wear: Dance workout clothes and hip belt/scarf so you can see those shimmies! YA LG 4:45-6:45 The last day of Carolena’s 3-Day Intensive! (See Thurs. for class details.)
YA SM 10:15-12:15 Teacher: Heather Stants Class Title and Description: Movement Creation, Combinations & Staging Movement creation and staging for duet and small group interactive
performance. Heather leads dancers through creative exercises
to inspire new movements, combinations and staging. Heather Stants’s Bio: Heather Stants is a lifelong artist and dancer with a degree in photography and fine arts. Her career in tribal fusion dance began over thirteen years ago when she became the assistant director of Read My Hips (www.readmyhips.com) in Chicago, Illinois. In 1999 Heather moved to San Diego, California and launched the San Diego tribal movement through her classes and the formation of Urban Tribal Dance Company.
Their creativity has twice earned them the title of "Troupe of the Year" in Zaghareet! Magazine's Golden Belly Awards. In addition to teaching several weekly classes in San Diego since 1999, Heather Stants and Urban Tribal Dance Company tour extensively sharing their love of modern tribal fusion dance with dancers in the U.S. and abroad. Urban Tribal Dance Company can be seen in DVD releases produced by The Bellydance Superstars and Hollywood Music.
Skill Level: Any type of dance experience helpful, from modern dance to fusion bellydance. Heather’s classes can be quite athletic! What to bring: Please bring a notebook and knee pads. What to Wear: Form-fitting dance workout clothes please, to better see those lines!
YA SM 12:30-2:30 Teacher: Heather Shoopman Would you like to take your dance to a different level? Challenge yourself physically and mentally? Come work it out with Heather Shoopman and company in this fun-packed class of drills, thrills and bumpin' loud~n~dirty bass! (From Kajira: Well, as loud as the TF boomboxes can go without harm to their little speakers, that is!)
Strengthen and condition those muscles as we experiment with momentum and get crazy with the layers. Be ready to sweat, laugh and holler.
Heather Shoopman’s Bio: Heather Shoopman is an LA-based dancer, teacher and choreographer.
She defines her bellydance as an organic movement integrating
classic dance form with pure, heart-rooted creativity. Heather
is inspired by life’s many sources. She believes dance has the
power to heal, awaken and delight body and spirit. She has studied bellydance in Egyptian, Turkish and American Tribal styles. Choreography has been a love and present in Heather’s life for many years, from shows for mom and dad, to high school half-times, to a short independent film, to stage/theatre productions. Heather’s work has included educating and performing in private
schools, retirement homes, private parties, children’s birthday
parties, corporate environments, film and TV sets, farmer’s
markets, street fairs and other community events. She has been known to co-teach with Mesmera, her first teacher and belly dance "mama". She teaches regular classes at LA's Dance Garden, Hollywood YMCA and Pasadena's California Institute of Technology. Heather’s plan is to continue to teach and delight as long as her life allows. Skill Level: Open, though prior bellydance experience will be helpful What to bring: Water (notebooks and “sweat rags” optional) What to Wear: Dance workout attire
YA SM 2:45-4:45 Teacher: Sashi In this workshop you will learn the application of the fundamentals
of Tribal Fusion Bellydance as well as deeply explore Sashi’s
signature technique: The Ascend Tribal Format. The concept of proprioception and kinesthetics will be explained and applied to an intermediate level of Ascend Format movements and combinations providing you with technique and control that will set you apart from the crowd as a dancer. Sashi’s Bio: Sashi is an internationally recognized performer, instructor and choreographer based in Orange County, California. Sashi has been a student of dance for over twenty years and began studying African Haitian and West African dance while a student at San Francisco State University. In the years following, Sashi found Middle Eastern dance to be the style she was most drawn to as it spoke to her Semitic roots and aesthetic interests. She has studied many forms of Middle Eastern dance including American Tribal Style Bellydance, Tribal Fusion Bellydance, Gothic Bellydance, Egyptian and Lebanese Cabaret Bellydance, Israeli and Turkish Debke, Saidi, and Nubian Folkloric dances. She is most recognized for her alluring and dynamic performances of Gothic Tribal Fusion Bellydance and Improvisational Tribal Fusion Bellydance. Inspired by the “Spirit of the Dance”, Sashi views bellydance as the honoring of the divine feminine by creating spiritual and physical unions through movement. This is evident as her ability to cultivate the energy that the dance evokes is translated to each audience member with a look, a gesture, a presence that is unmistakably unique to Sashi. You can see her perform solo or in collaboration with internationally acclaimed performance troupes in many venues, settings and shows. Information on her upcoming performances, workshops, tour dates and collaborations can be found at www.ascendtribaldance.com Skill Level: Knowledge of basic Tribal Fusion and The Ascend Tribal Format is helpful but not required. All levels are welcome. This class involves 10-15 minutes of cardiovascular movement. What to bring: Bring athletic shoes, a yoga mat and water What to Wear: Supportive clothing |
