2012 Workshop Schedule and Topic List
January
12-15th Bellingham, Washington
Contact: Ruby@DivineBelly.com
February
10th-14th Portland/Salem, Oregon
Contact: Ruby@DivineBelly.com
April
13th-15th Victoria, British Columbia: Canada
Contact: lauraefilipovic@gmail.com
27th-29th Chicago, Illinois
Contact: mahira_dancer@yahoo.com
May
25th-27th Henderson, Nevada
Contact: http://www.blackorchiddanse.com/2012-bad-boys-of-bellydance/
June
1st-3rd Austin, Texas
Contact: http://abdc.staceylizette.com/
8th-10th Portland, Maine
Contact: info@rosanoreen.com
July
20th-22nd Phoenix, Arizona
Contact: raqsava@gmail.com
26th-29th Bellydance Olympics (Southern Oregon)
Contact: http://devisafir.com/devisafir/middle-eastern-dance-olympics-2012.aspx
August
10th-12th Rochester, New York
Contact: http://www.goddesshour.com/
17th-19th Buffalo, New York
Contact: http://www.thebellydanceacademy.com/
24th-26th Pittsburg, Pennsylvania
Contact: lilgreendragyn@gmail.com
September
6th-9th Las Vegas, Nevada
Contact: http://www.bellydanceintensive.com/
15th-16th Jewel of the Sierra (Northern California)
Contact: http://www.namiraproductions.com/
October
11th-14th Camparet, Texas
Contact: http://www.bahaia.com/hot_sem.html
2012 Workshop Topics
NEW**PERFECT PRACTICE (2 hours)
In this workshop Ruby shares her secrets on how to practice and stay motivated. Lots of exploratory exercises and clever tricks are presented to keep your practice hours fun and productive!
NEW**VIVACIOUS VEIL (2 hours)
Expand yourself on stage and express the music with dynamic and dramatic veil transitions. Learn to use accents in the music to mystify your mechanics and make seamless sequences with your veil. Please bring both chiffon and silk 3+ yard rectangular veils.
NEW **ALL ABOUT ARMS (2-4 hours)
This workshop will reveal how to polish your performance with strong and innovative arm pathways and concepts. We will cover a full range of arm stylizations, combos and creative exercises to get your body and arms in sync with style.
NEW **DRUM SOLO TECHNIQUE AND COMBINATIONS (2 hours)
This workshop is full of clever isolations, creative transitions and clear technique for drum solo and musical accents.
SWIFTI CHIFTI (2 hours)
Get your Turkish style on with some fun, upbeat Chiftetelli combos and rhythm breakdown. We'll be breaking down the chiftetelli rhythm then exploring how to dance to it upbeat style with different props and a little bit of structured improvisation. Bring zills (optional for more advanced dancers) and Chiffon veil.
TURKISH ORIENTAL CHOREOGRAPHY (4 hours)
This fun choreography demonstrates how to use the Turkish styling when applied to Arabic music. We'll be dancing to a classic Arabic song Alf Leyla Wa Leyla...Turkish style!
ZILL DRILLS!!! (2 hours)
Get frustrated when dancing and zilling at the same time? Only have 4 patterns under your belt? In this fun and challenging workshop you will learn multiple zill patterns and step combinations. We will begin with finger cymbal pattern mastery and transition into layering isolation and step combinations with your zills.
EXPLORATIONS IN IMPROVISATION (2-4 hours)
Improvisation is at the heart of bellydance. This exploratory class will give you the tools to perform flawless improvisation on stage or in restaurant/clubs. Through staging technique, creative exercises and movement recall practices you'll be improvising in no time.
STANDING TAXIME (2-3 hours)
Standing taxime is one of the most challenging sections of the bellydance performance with an emphasis on deliberate and expressive improvisation to a single instrument. In this innovative class we begin with an intricate review of slow muscular isolations and steps then move into exercises in improvisation and self-awareness finishing off with ideas for interpreting individual instruments found in improvisational taxime.
FLOORWORK
This detailed class begins with a thorough pilates based warm-up, then leads into innovative descents and ascensions, floor technique muscular breakdown, combinations and tips on proper alignment and musical interpretation. Ruby’s pilates based approach guides you into a safe exploration of bellydance floorwork. Please bring kneepads and a pilates mat.
