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SUNDAY, MAY 16 YA LG 10:00-Noon Teacher: Paulette Rees-Denis of Oregon Define and sharpen your hips with variations on the shimmy,
and include other fast hip movements combined with tribal improvisational
drilling and a mini shimmy choreography to help you remember
and take it all home! Fun and invigorating. Paulette Rees-Denis has been a local and international cutting-edge dance force since 1991, with her innovative and inspiring style of dance - Tribal Belly Dance. Her part memoir, part experiential book, Tribal Vision: A Celebration of Tribal Belly Dance (Cultivator Press, 2008), has received glowing praise, telling her stories and sharing other dancer's tales around this dance. Based outside Portland, Oregon, Paulette teaches and performs at home, directing her performance dance and music group, Gypsy Caravan Dance Company and the Caravan Dance Collective, while taking her in-demand Tribal workshops, Collective Soul and Teacher Training intensive certification programs around the globe. Her Tribal Styling is an eclectic, invigorating, and elegant fusion based on urban, folk, ritual, trance, bellydance, and modern dances. With a classical dance background, Paulette has created this rich blend of contemporary improvisational movement which is esthetically pleasing, spiritually grounding, and physically rewarding. More info: www.gypsycaravan.us Skill Level: Great for all levels of dancers. What to bring: Cymbals (just in case, but not essential), and perhaps a notebook What to Wear: Comfortable dance class attire YA LG
12:15-2:15 Teacher: Martina Crowe-Hewett of Canada Class Title and Description: BADAZZ BELLYDANZ WARNING: BADAZZ attitude needed for this workshop. Martina’s Bio: Vancouver, Canada performer, Martina, has been performing and dancing ballet, jazz, tap and modern since the age of 3, but found her dance passion with Tribal Fusion Bellydance. In 2004 Martina became the founder and creative director
of Bellyfringe Bellydance which consists of classes, workshops,
sponsoring and producing. In addition to all that Bellyfringe
BD encompasses, Martina is also the choreographer and director
of the tribal fusion troupe, Ginger Blue. A big supporter of Tribal Fest, Martina is so honored to be instructing at Tribal Fest for the first time! (From Kajira: That’s because she kicks AZZ on stage every year in addition to her support of our event! We are honored to have her, too!) For more info on Martina, Bellyfringe Bellydance and Ginger Blue check out: www.bellyfringe.com Skill Level: Open to all What to bring: Water, perhaps a notepad What to Wear: Dance workout clothes
YA LG 2:30-4:30 Teachers: TribalTique of Colorado Class Title and Description: Fusion That Fits Are you an Improv Tribal Belly Dancer with a Tribal Fusion habit? Want to add a little spice to your dance vocabulary, while still maintaining cue-ability? Why not have the best of both worlds? Learn TribalTique’s saucy signature fusion style movements that you can utilize as a cue dancer or choreographer. Using slow, medium, and fast tempos, we’ll explore smooth, slinky, and funky steps that will satisfy all facets of your belly dance personality! TribalTique’s Bio: TribalTique was formed in the summer of 2004 by co-directors Julia DiVerdi and Molly McClellan in an effort to further explore and create a new vision of Tribal Style Belly Dance in Northern Colorado. Their unique style combines classic American Tribal Style posture, vocabulary, and improvisational cue dancing with polished technique and cutting edge Tribal Fusion. In addition to continued study with teachers across the nation, TribalTique completed the General Skills Certification in ATS with Carolena Nericcio in 2007. Molly and Julia have served as featured instructors and performers
at belly dance ~TribalTique Tribal Belly Dance Company~ an experiment in
tribal belly dance. Skill Level: Advanced Beginner to Professional What to bring: Water, notebook if you like What to Wear: Dance workout clothes This concludes TF 10’s classes in the YA LG room!
YA SM 10:15-12:15 Teacher: Tracy Windisch In this workshop we will be learning some of what gives Troupe
Satya their signature style. Director/Choreographer Tracy Windisch
will be breaking down what it is that sets her troupe apart.
We will be covering how to blend tight belly dance technique
and languid isolations, with flexibility and balance styles
gleaned from her classical ballet training. This unique
integration is guaranteed to give you combinations that most
belly dance fans have never seen before! Then we will be putting all these elements together in a segment of choreography that Troupe Satya will be performing that weekend. This workshop is highly recommended to anyone who has an interest in choreographing their own shows, as well as solo performers. The combinations learned in this class will spice up any dancer's bag of tricks. Don't miss this opportunity to broaden your knowledge of dance and take home these cutting edge combinations and styles! Tracy’s Bio: Tracy Windisch has been studying and performing belly dance for the past 14 years. She began her studies under TerriAnne and began her performance training with Troupe Joweh in 1996. She went on to start teaching her own style and to create and direct the performance group Troupe Satya at the age of 18. Tracy later continued her training under Suhaila Salimpour. She was a dedicated member of SSSD for about two years, and during part of that time was a performing member of SDC (Suhaila Dance Company). Tracy then went back to being Art Director and Choreographer of Troupe Satya which has gone on to become an award winning belly dance group. She has also studied ballet extensively for the past 4 years, and has dabbled in many other cultural dance forms such as East Indian and classical Balinese. Many of these techniques appear in her belly dance choreography, making it a unique style that completely sets her shows apart. In recent years she has gone on to found and artistically direct the circus and fire arts dance company Luminesque, which incorporates belly dance, ballet, martial arts and mixed fire modalities with aerials, stilt walkers, contortion and other classical circus arts. You can check out Luminesque as well as more pics of Tracy and her performance art at www.luminesquefiretroupe.com. Tracy has been traveling and performing with both these groups and others as well as teaching, training and working as a soloist for the past several years. Skill Level: Some belly dance experience recommended but not necessary. What to Bring: Water might be a good idea What to Wear: Dance workout attire (Note from Kajira: Tracy and Troupe Satya [and, back when we had fire shows, Luminesque] have been tremendous supporters of Tribal Fest annually. Each year they knock out our audiences with their different, highly-skilled performances. I am very excited to have Tracy as a teacher this year!) Space limited to 19.
YA SM 12:30-3:30 Please note that this is a Special 3-Hour Class! Class Title and Description: Creating More Decadent Dancing!
With this special 3 hour intensive, we are able to dip into Deb’s signature dance therapeutics/yoga repertoire, AND apply it as necessary foundation for bringing more decadence, power, and control to your dancing. We will focus on upper spine, shoulders, side body, and core, as a foundation for achieving maximum articulation, grace and control in the upper body, improving belly dance technique, arm work, and spinal extension, fostering healthy back bending, and building the necessary skills and isolations to make complex layering simple. We will apply it directly to dancing with core-integrated drills, partner work, and new tribal fusion combos. This small group format allows for individualized attention, and hands-on adjustments, with injuries and personal questions addressed. Intense focus on arms, shapes, accents, and articulating from the head to the fingertips, helping to embody the slinkiest, most decedent, fluid dancing and posturing possible - at any tempo. Space limited to 19. Deb’s Bio: Deb Rubin has been a life-long dancer and performer, trained in many styles, including Salsa, West African, Modern, Jazz, Ballet, Hip Hop, 5-Rhythms, Contact Improv, Gymnastics, and Tribal Fusion Belly Dance. She was a 5+year core member and co-choreographer with the trend-setting Ultra Gypsy Bellydance Theater, until Fall, 2007, and a regular sub for Jill Parker’s classes. Deb has also studied extensively from, and been creatively influenced and most inspired by Rachel Brice and Mardi Love, as well as Zoe Jakes, and Heather Stants. She also holds a level 1 certification from Suhaila Salimpour School of Dance. A sponge for learning and a seeker of continually deepening her repertoire and relationship to the dance, Deb is well versed within the tribal fusion genre, having also studied with Kami Liddle, Frederique, Amy Sigil, FCBD, Cera Byer, and others. Currently, Deb teaches and performs internationally, offering her yogic approach and unique stylization of Tribal Fusion Belly Dance. Most recently, she assisted Rachel Brice in her 5-day Tribal Massive intensive 2008, performed with Heather Stants and Urban Tribal at Tribal Fest 2008, and co-taught a retreat with Sharon Kihara in Hawaii, Dec. 08. She also produces SF Mecca Immersion, the first Tribal Fusion Belly Dance retreat/immersion event in the heart of the San Francisco. (www.sfmeccaimmerison.com). As a performer, Deb is honored to have collaborated and shared the stage with amazing artists such as: Balkan Beat Box, Beats Antique, Brass Menazeri Balkan Brass Band, EOTO, Vibesquad, Lynx&Janover, Hamsa Lila, Goddess Alchemy Project, Ultra Gypsy Bellydance Theater, members of the Yard Dogs Road Show, Urban Tribal Dance Company, Mira Betz, Gaudi, DJ DragonFly, Lucia Comnes Band, Knowa Knowones, ANA SIA, Rose Harden, Mystic Family Circus, Sofiah Thom, and more - in studios, speakeasies, theaters, and festivals throughout this hemisphere. A holistic health counselor, somatic educator, yoga teacher, and integrative bodyworker, Deb is also the founder of SattyaBodyHealingArts and Dance Collective. She teaches classes, workshops, and retreats fusing women’s health and empowerment with yoga, tribal belly dance, nature, and creative expression. Deb has taught at Kosmos world music and dance camp, the Omega Institute in NY, the Quest for Global Healing Conference, in Ubud, Bali; as well as other festivals and healing/sustainability conferences around the globe. This is her second year teaching at Tribal Fest. As a massage therapist and yoga therapist for the past 9 years, she specializes in injury rehab for dancers and women’s health. She is greatly influenced by her studies of Traditional Thai-Yoga Massage in the hill tribes of Northern Thailand under the lineage of Asokananda, her vision quest experiences in the Northern California Desert, and her Yoga teacher trainings and study with Integrative Yoga Therapy, Acroyoga, Darshana Weil, Shiva Rae, and Gary Kraftsow. She is currently working on an upcoming DVD of her dance therapeutics material. Deb has a B.A. in Pre-med and Psychology from Princeton University, and an M.A. in Holistic Health Education from JFK, with an emphasis on mind-body medicine and somatic psychology. You can find her writings published in Yoga Journal Magazine. Currently, she is continuing her Yoga studies in the Viniyoga Tradition with Gary Kraftsow and with Rachel Brice; immersing in her belly dance studies with Rachel Brice, Suhaila Salimpour, Zoe Jakes; and continuing to study modern, hip hop, folkloric, and contact improvisation dance forms in the vibrant dance community of the San Francisco Bay Area in which she lives. For more info on Deb, pls. visit: www.sattyabody.com Skill Level: Intermediate and Advanced dancers, please. What to bring: Please a bring yoga mat, strap, and journal to take notes. Water is recommended, as 3 hours is a long time. What to wear: Dance workout attire. |
