Not your Average Sword Routine: Dangerous Sword Improvisation for Duets and Troupes
Moves and cues for improvisational sword dance to fill your troupe sword dance with energy--and you can apply them to your solo sword performances as well. This class focuses on group sword dance using multiple balance points, clean isolations, and Sabine's own Dangerous Group Sword moves, like "Stalker", "Kayak Switch" and “the Raj wave” using cues and lead-and-follow format for improv. Attendees should bring a sword and a cotton head wrap. No battle-ready swords, please. Some swords available to loan.
Sabine
Sabine is a dance artist who has studied Middle Eastern Dance since 1988, and has been performing tribal style belly dance since 1999. She lives in Eugene Oregon where she owns Celebration Belly Dance studio. Sabine directs and performs with troupe “Tribalation!” in improvisational tribal style, and tours and performs as a soloist with her famous swords. Sabine has taught and performed at workshops and festivals across the USA and overseas, including events such as Tribalfest, Tribal Quest Northwest, Cues and Tattoos, Tribal Dreams, Hips and Blades, Totally Tribal, and more. Sabine and has been on the board of directors for the Middle Eastern Dance Guild of Eugene since 1999, and is active in producing belly dance and music events.
Sabine is in love with “Raks al Sayf,” the sword dance, where the grace and flow of the dance movements are contrasted by the huge Turkish Scimitars that she balances. Sabine draws on 20+ years of belly dance experience plus a dash of martial arts and theatrical styling to create her own “Dangerous Sword Dancing” where the swords become partners of the dance instead of props.
www.sabinedance.com
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As dancers we use FIRE to fuel both faster and slower movements. evoking raging flames or smouldering embers, and WATER to connect to deep emotions using fluid movement and seamless transitions with elegance and grace. By combining these two powerful opposites in the Fire and Water in Motion workshop, you will understand and explore the possibilities of exciting and challenging dark fusion belly dance, giving you both comprehensive dance technique and intuitive dance skills to deepen your fusion craft in both practice and performance.
In this unique workshop tailor-made for the Tribal and Trance 2012, you will explore the elements of FIRE and WATER with explorations and techniques within FIRE (Elysium Dark) and WATER (Elysium Occult) and learn new and exclusive Elysium format combinations. Together we will explore challenging and unique techniques for stunning improvisation and choreography for soloist and groups of all sizes. Elysium is the dark fusion format belly dance created by Australia's own Ma'isah and is designed to develop a deep haunting and ethereal dark fusion dance for soloists and groups, complete with cues and combinations. The Elysium format is featured in the annual PseudoSkirt project and is compatible with most tribal and tribal fusion styles and dancers of all belly dance backgrounds are welcome.
Suitable for all levels.
Ma'isah
Ma'isah is Australia's own dark fusion belly dance pioneer, creating and innovating her own unique dance format called 'Elysium – dark fusion dance for ethereal souls'.
During the course of a dance journey that began in New York in 1999, Ma'isah has developed a strong foundation of Egyptian Cabaret and Beledi, and from the beginning adapted this to create and explore dark/gothic belly dance. Over the years Ma'isah has incorporated foundation skills of ATS and tribal influences with the aim of creating a spellbinding and ethereal dark fusion format with a deep, connected and spiritual foundation that enchants audiences and enriches dancers.
Ma'isah has been the opening act for Jeff Martin and the Armada, performed in the renowned Melbourne Fringe Festival, and is a well-regarded guest performer and instructor at several Middle Eastern dance festivals including the WAMED and OMEDA Festivals, Gothla USA, Tribal and Trance, Fire in the Belly, Evernight and more. She has also appeared at the Bizarre Music Festival, Deviate, the Nocturnal Instincts fashion show, performing and teaching since 2006.
Ma'isah also created the innovative and now much-anticipated 'PseudoSkirt', a remote learning top-secret choreography project with multiple dancers that share online and via DVD a unique never-been-seen before choreography, based on the Elysium format, to be performed at a major festival or event. You can see the 2012 PseudoSkirt project 'V4: Sacrament/Sacrifice', for the first time in PseudoSkirt history showcasing two simultaneous choreographies on stage together, at this years Tribal and Trance festival as one of only three official PseudoSkirt hosts in 2012.
Constantly evolving and challenging, Ma'isah continues to develop innovation in Elysium, with the aim of sharing, inspiring and being inspired by all who choose the dark dance path.
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Russian Gypsy is known for its playful skirt work, balletic spins, and classical elegance. The Hush Gypsy sets these elegant sequences alight with the earthiness, sauciness and passion of other gypsy styles from Eastern Europe, Turkey and Spain, resulting in a unique format called Modern Gypsy.
The Modern Gypsy choreography in this workshop will focus on creating expansiveness to your head and neck movement, including through the upper carriage.
Contrasting powerful lines with the vulnerability of softer and off-centre lines, and using the principles of tension and release, this workshop will give you more than a list of new moves. It aims to unleash new confidence and trust in ourselves, as well as some fantastic laughs.
The workshop will include a section on remedial trigger point and stretching for the neck, which is especially important for dancers who carry a lot of tension in their neck and shoulders.
Bring a big skirt and prepare for a lavish and hilarious explosion of dance with one of the most outlandish performers around.
Open to all dance levels
The Hush Gypsy
Trained in American Tribal Style Bellydance, Cabaret Bellydance and Rom-inspired styles, Rita has been performing and teaching over the past decade. She has trained in five cities in three countries, including stints in the US to study with Jill Parker, Elizabeth Strong, Rachel Brice, Zoe Jakes, Frederique and Unmata. In Australia she was an early student of Sydney’s Hilary Cinis, and later one half of GypsyNoir with the charismatic FifiNoir. Her own format called Modern Gypsy Dance blends Spanish, Russian and Turkish gypsy styles. She taught and choreographed in this style for a dance troupe at the Canberra Dance Theatre over 5 years, and now lives in Brisbane. Rita has delivered workshops at the Tribal Trance Festival in 2010, and other festivals across the East Coast following strong demand for her fun, challenging and unique teaching style and personality. Rita is also a qualified remedial massage therapist.
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Join Kath and Lara from Las Hermanas and be inspired by some of their very own unique and creative combinations. They'll share with you a lot of diversity in this workshop with movement ranging from tribal, general belly dance technique to jazz and contemporary stylisations.
Some of the combinations will include basic tribal moves with variations that can be used in an improvisational setting and added to a tribal format. Incorporated within these combos will be a touch of general belly dance with a focus on upper body stylisation and structured arm alignment as well as body angling to ensure that tribal look and feel. We'll also look at some of Kath's fun fusion combinations that are inspired by jazz and contemporary styles of dance fused with belly dance and incorporating some very interesting and creative ideas for arm lines.
Students are free to utilise the combos and add to their own tribal and fusion formats or simply take ideas for movement and create their own uniqueness!
Las Hermanas
Kath and Lara have belly danced for over 15 years. Having trained with many reputable teachers within Australia and overseas as well as attending regular classes and workshops in a variety of dance genres, has given them a wealth of experience. It is this experience together with their warm manner, supportive and thorough teaching approach which has lead them to teach and perform at many high profile events and festivals within Australia and internationally. After teaching and performing at Tribal and Trance Fest 2010, both Lara and Kath are excited to do it all again and look forward to sharing their work with you. For more information about them please check out;
www.lashermanas.com.au
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Love both Oriental & Tribal styles? Well you don’t have to choose! Devi will share with you some of her latest combinations suitable for both genres of belly dance & will show you how to successfully fuse the two styles. You will learn combinations that you can seamlessly string together & if time allows we will drill it all into a short choreography. Devi’s new DVD with some of the combinations on it will be available for sale so you can perfect the steps at home.
BIO
Devi Mamak is troupe member and artistic director of the award winning Ghawazi Caravan, based in the Blue Mountains in N.S.W &. is one of Australia's premier American Tribal Style [ATS] dancers, teachers and choreographers having studied a variety of Middle Eastern dance styles for over a decade as well as Flamenco, Classical Indian & Ballet.
Devi Has travelled to San Francisco several times to study with the masters of ATS, Tribal & Oriental dance & has studied extensively with Carolena Nericcio with several of Ghawazi Caravan movements being accepted into the FCBD format.
Devi regularly performs at various functions ranging from community events, festivals, as well as private & corporate functions. Devi has also been invited to be a part of major funded productions such as Unmasked & "The Firebird" where she had the opportunity to work collaboratively with dancers and musicians of various styles including Mory Trarore, Emily Cooper, Colin Berryman,Pandit Ramchandra Suman, John May, Miriam Leiberman, Elizabeth Cameron Dalman and Keith Kempis.
In 2009 Devi & Ghawazi Caravan received a grant for their production ...'The Intertwine Project', which drew together dancers, musicians and artists of varied disciplines and styles, braiding their talents together into a compelling and cohesive whole, and presenting it in a theatre style environment.
Devi and Ghawazi Caravan are highly sought after for workshops and performances around the country, N.Z & Asia. Devi was also invited to perform & assist Carolena in teaching the General Skills Certificate in Taiwan.
As a teacher Devi has earned a reputation for being a patient and thorough. As a performer she is renowned for her strong stage presence, as well as her innovative and colourful choreographies.
ghawazicaravan.com
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The current trend in fusion and tribal styles of dance incorporates wonderful antique and vintage western stylings from the Victorian through to Art Deco periods blended with the exotic tribal textiles that we all know and love. Learn how to collect, match and create your own unique costuming look that spans and fuses these periods seamlessly. If you have some items that you want to incorporate into your costuming but aren't quite sure how or what, bring them along.
Make-up is often "assumed knowledge" for any dancer but for many it can be a traumatic experience. FiFi Noir (who has been applying performance makeup for almost as long as she has been walking) will take you through a full make-up tutorial including the essentials but with a particular focus on creating a look that works well for Vintage styled costuming. Learn some tricks of the trade & how to apply false lashes & liquid eyeliner with confidence. Bring your own makeup kit, a personal makeup mirror and facial wipes/ makeup remover.
*All levels.
FiFi Noir
Based in Canberra ACT, Fifi is a fusion bellydance artiste blending elements of bellydance with stylings from the Art Deco/Nouveau artistic period, Vaudeville, Burlesque, old school musicals, and the subcultures of Gothic, Neo-Victorian and Steampunk.
Fifi brings you over 30 years of dance experience & has trained extensively both here & overseas with a focus on Tribal Style Bellydance. She was certified by Kajira Djoumahna in Lvl1 BlackSheep BellyDance format and has also completed the General Skills Certification with Carolena Nericcio (Fat Chance Belly Dance format). She has extensive training from various other dancers including Rachel Brice, Kami Liddle, Jill Parker, Devi Mamak, Heather Stants, Sashi and many others.
Fifi is well known for her skillful use of a wide range of props to enhance the dramatic element of her performances. Fifi invites you to open yourself to new concepts in dance, challenge yourself, explore the boundaries of your expression and incorporate dramatic elements seamlessly into your dance.
Dangerous Sword Dancing (2 hrs)
Intermediate to advanced single sword work and presentation. Learn sword dance moves and technique for strong isolations, uncanny reverse energy moves, working different balance points, adding drama with powerful floorwork, and using Sabine’s signature moves and sword combos like “The Slice,” “undulating sneak” and “ghosting the sword.”
Drop-dead Sword Dancing (2 hrs)
Move beyond just head balancing! Intermediate single sword presentation including thigh and hip balance, arm & hand balance, flips and grabs, and sword manipulations like “tornado” and “scoop doubleback” to make for a sword dance that’s anything but routine.
Forays into Double Sword Dance (2 hrs)
You know how to work one sword, but what the heck do you do with two? Introduce a second sword into your performance and you will have the crowd in the palm of your hand! This workshop shows how to start a performance with one sword and then add a second sword (including ideas for how to even pick it up if you already have one balanced), then how to manipulate and balance a second sword using isolations, travelling movements, and even a little floorwork.
Appropriate for intermediate and up dancers with some experience balancing a sword.
Attendees should bring one or two swords (we’ll trade and share!), a head wrap, and kneepads. No battle-ready swords, please. Some swords available to loan.
Sabine
Sabine is a dance artist who has studied Middle Eastern Dance since 1988, and has been performing tribal style belly dance since 1999. She lives in Eugene Oregon where she owns Celebration Belly Dance studio.Sabine directs and performs with troupe “Tribalation!” in improvisational tribal style, and tours and performs as a soloist with her famous swords. Sabine has taught and performed at workshops and festivals across the USA and overseas, including events such as Tribalfest, Tribal Quest Northwest, Cues and Tattoos, Tribal Dreams, Hips and Blades, Totally Tribal, and more.Sabine and has been on the board of directors for the Middle Eastern Dance Guild of Eugene since 1999, and is active in producing belly dance and music events.
Sabine is in love with “Raks al Sayf,” the sword dance, where the grace and flow of the dance movements are contrasted by the huge Turkish Scimitars that she balances. Sabine draws on 20+ years of belly dance experience plus a dash of martial arts and theatrical styling to create her own “Dangerous Sword Dancing” where the swords become partners of the dance instead of props.
www.sabinedance.com
Workshop Info
BodyTempleFuse explores how to incorporate various ‘focus elements’ to express dynamic, interesting and versatile combinations. Some of the material covered will include movement sequences that have a muscle focus, balance focus, spin/turn focus, shape focus and travel focus. Experience how transitioning from these various themes can create a different feeling within the self as well as an audience.
Intermediate level
Acushla Mkrtschjan
Acushla is based in Adelaide, South Australia and founder of Body Temple Dance Company. Her love for Middle Eastern dance & extensive training and performing in ATS (certified FCBD ATS teacher) over the past decade, has expanded to other styles such as jazz ballet, Bharatnatyam Indian Dance and Flamenco. This enthusiasm and devotion to creative expression through movement, has led to the development of The Body Temple Format. Her evolving stylized format has its roots in ATS and Middle Eastern dance movement and can be applied to Improvised Tribal Style, while also providing the foundation and key ‘ingredients’ for creative expression and exploration into Tribal Fusion movement. Her stylized format and passion for the dance has led her to teach and perform throughout Australia.
"The Art of Tribal belly dance" Volume one is the first of her DVD series to be released early 2012, and provides an introduction into her dynamically progressive wholistic format.
Acushla has also directed, choreographed and performed in numerous shows, including the successful 2010 Adelaide Fringe Festival show 'Ekata'. She has also provided training for dance students at the Tertiary Dance Festival 2010, hosted by Ausdance SA, in partnership with the Adelaide Centre for the Arts and the Tertiary Dance Council. Acushla currently teaches her format in SA, along with Sonia Jewer who is the first certified teacher.
Acushla feels that dance requires an endless dedication to the intention of refining and transforming the craft, so that it remains a nourishing lifelong practice.
For more information on Body Temple Dance Company please visit our web site:
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Suited to all skill levels and fitness this workshop explores foundations, applications and dance within the hoop. You will learn the basics, amp up your trickery and get the rest of the body moving while spinning with the hoop. With a combination of on body and off body moves as well as transitioning between the two zones you will learn how to hold your body and rock your body simultaneously. With a consideration of circus foundations, hoopdance applications and bio-energetic radial techniques you will learn to command the hoop with a strong and powerful spin.
Bunny Hoopstar
Bunny Star is a multi-dimensional artist, performer, writer and lover of life. She lives in Sydney, Australia and has been working as a Hoopstress for the past six years which is preceded by a further 10 years of hoop play prior to making it her full time job. She teaches, performs and makes hoops, traveling the world often in search of the ultimate hoopy time. When asked what got her into the hoop, Bunny says, "a captivating performance on a dance floor by a hoop goddess followed by a serendipitous meeting with a Circus Hoop Queen who showed me a few tricks of the trade and then full connection with the global hoop dance community culminating at Burning Man in 2006." Aside from being a super fun way to make a living, hooping for Bunny is about staying active and fit in a delicious way, meeting colourful people all over the world, channeling creative potential and transforming energy in motion through the bliss that comes with spinning, dancing and laughter. Her golden triangle in life is yoga, dance and hoopla. She is also an avid student of Western Sun Sign Astrology and the 13 Moon Mayan Dreamspell.
http://www.bunnyhoopstar.com/
http://www.hoopempire.com/
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A workshop for everyone interested in drumming for dance and dancers wishing to improve their understanding of rhythm. How do dancers and drummers improvise and make it look like they know exactly what is happening next? What are the main dance rhythms and how do they fit together? This workshop is for all levels of dancers and drummers and anyone interested in exploring ancient rhythm and dance traditions.
Marianthe Loucataris
Marianthe Loucataris is a multi skilled performer, musician and percussionist. She has facilitated drum circles and passed on her passion and knowledge of Middle Eastern drumming since 1996. Her specialty is Egyptian style inspired by her study with drum master Ibrahim el Minyawi who she studied with in London. She has drummed for workshops and performances with many dancers including with Suraya Hilal, Sarah Hamilton and Jacqueline Pepercamp. She plays frame drums and Egyptian tabla. She also records and performs music under the project name Mahri Autumn.
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Danielle of Byron Bay's one and only 'The Barefoot Gypsies' Tribal Belly Dance troupe will share with you a smorgasbord of cheeky combos to add some sass to your choreographies. Fuse them with your fusion or slip them into your ATS repertoire, these combos will fit seamlessly into whatever style you shimmy to. Danielle will work these combos into a short choreography so you will walk away with a new choreography and a whole lot of moves!
Danielle Sansom
Danielle's teaching style is technique focused without forgetting the fun! She has danced with troupes from Wollongong and Sydney, taught in Melbourne and Byron Bay and now has her very own troupe of dedicated dancers in Byron Bay. She has studied with Carolena Nericcio, Rachel Brice, Jill Parker, Heather Stants and Deb Rubin of the United States as well as Australia's premier teachers.
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Intro to the delectable percussive art of Middle-Eastern hipwork to become a resounding embodiment of rhythm. As the essence of Bellydance we'll be covering principle hip-work techniques underlying Tribal Fusion, including muscular isolation in preparation for travelling & adding up to 3 layering movements which will all be covered in a variety of stylizations, through folkloric, cabaret to Tribal Fusion, previously refered to as Tribaret Bellydance.
Suited to dancers of all bellydance persuasions seeking to take their dance into the next octave through exploring multiple layering of isolations & time signatures. Taught as both a foundational technique class with additional Tribal d'Orient's Improvised Tribal Fusion-style combinations. Incorporates yoga & intensive body conditioning specific for dance movement. As the hip region contains the latent kundalini within each of us, the exploration of embodied mysticism is encourage to be experienced.
*All levels
Giselle Sibyl
Giselle was first inspired to explore the fusion of traditional ethnic dance forms whilst researching the archeology of somatic-psycho-spiritual practices during a 5 month pilgrammage in Greece, Ancient Egypt & India. After attaining over 500 hours training in Mid-eastern and Tribal-style bellydance with her initial teacher, Melusina, she has devoted herself to Tribal Fusion. From 2009 onwards, Giselle has resided equally between Melbourne and San Francisco, attaining over 500 hours of intensive training with the leading U.S. pioneers of this new genre of middle eastern dance that is Tribal Fusion. Giselle is a primary student of Bellydance Superstars Rachel Brice, Zoe Jakes (Beats Antique), Kami Liddle,(Bellydance Superstars), Mardi Love, Jill Parker & Andrea Sendek (The Suhaila Salimpour School of Dance). Giselle is Level 1 Certified in the Suhaila Salimpour School of Dance and is one of the first ever Certification initiates of Rachel Brice‘s 8 Elements Training Program. She has also attended numerous classes & workshops with Fatchance Bellydance, Jamila Salimpour, Mira Betz, Elizabeth Strong, Heather Stants, Colleena Shakti & Miriam Peretz.
As a nomadic international dance ethnologist of sorts, Giselle is currently applying to gain recognition by the US government as an ambassador of tribal Fusion dance. She is delighted to be offering training intensives in Melbourne, Australia in comprehensive tribal fusion technique. She is the Director of Tribal d’orient Dance for which she has developed a unique tribal fusion format combining both Traditional tribal oriental bellydance and contemporary neo-fusion vocabulary. Giselle has been a featured Orientalist danseuse with The House of Burlesque and has performed at selected major Tribal Fusion events in North America alongside Rachel Brice, FatChance Bellydance and has been a guest dancer performing live with PENTAPHOBE.
She has a background in Health Sciences, specializing in Neurological Kinesiology (Psycho-Somatic-counselling), Clinical Hypnotherapy & Remedial & Holistic Bodywork and is researching the therapeutic effects of the advanced isolated layering,Shimmies & the intensive spinal movement inherent in Tribal Fusion.
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To have a healthy plant you need to encourage its growth at its roots. Back to basics for the experienced dancer wishing to go over old ground or discover a new way to look at ‘old’ movement. We will focus on the strong, uplifted and open frame so stylistic of Tribal Style Belly Dance while honing clean articulation throughout the body through simple dance based drills. Work on deepening undulations and rotations, diaphragm strength for flutters and elements of layering to free the feet.
Guided through imagery exercises based on Samantha's dance movement and theatre experience, you will embody graceful and confident roots, ready to move on with a solid foundation. Bring a Yoga mat for the warm up and cool down
Samantha Emmanuel
True to the original spirit of American Tribal Style, Samantha’s improvised Tribal Fusion routines combine skills gleaned from her studies with the creators of the genre in the USA with that of her own self taught background in the UK. Elegant and classic, strong in carriage: Fusing Victorian costume aesthetics, hip hop/modern dance movement strangeness, a respectful take on World Folk dances and professional versatility.
Starting her dance journey in 2005 thanks to Carolena Nericcio and Rachel Brice, she joined The Bellydance Superstars two years later, the first European to do so and has toured internationally full-time since 2007 also featuring on several BDSS DVDs.
She continues to travel globally, instructing intensive workshops and performs both solo and collaboratively with artists such as Zoe Jakes, Sharon Kihara and Elizabeth Strong.
Samantha is a committed teacher as well as performer and known for her accessible approach to teaching. She is fast becoming known for her fun, engaging performance style, making audiences the world over smile.
Last year Samantha became the first Tribal Fusion instructor to receive the new Fat Chance Belly Dance ATS General Studio Teacher Certification, Level One.
Samantha is happily based in Devon (UK) with Oscar and Spindle from where she now offers private tuition, coaching and workshops in her private studio on Dartmoor.
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Medium moves are an ideal way to incorporate a different pace into your dance, catch your breath and let your mind dream along with your body. Gypsy Caravan Dance Company format offers an enticing array of medium paced moves and juicy steps to spice up your dance and add variety - we'll be delving into some movements that will bring out the gooey hips, snakelike arms, and isolated frame that will enhance and accessorise your dance, regardless of your chosen regular dance format. These moves will resonate with your body's natural rhythm, the beautiful circles that turn, and others that enhance your body's natural breathing rhythm. Cues will be explained to help you develop an understanding of Improvisation and how it fits within the Tribal Bellydance approach, and the workshop will leave some delicious formations to incorporate within your existing dance journey. An understanding and appreciation of Tribal Bellydance will aid attendees to this workshop, if you are familiar with Gypsy Caravan Dance format or alternatively you may want to study Paulette Rees Denis's DVD series as an excellent reference to get you ready for this workshop, otherwise feel free to ask Dee direct.
Dee Thomson
Dee Thomson is the Director of Tribal Blossoms Bellydance, and has been captivated with Tribal Bellydance since 2004, after a childhood full of ballet slippers and tights. Dee has focused solely on Gypsy Caravan format since 2006, a journey which has seen her travel all over Australia and the USA to attend countless workshops, complete Levels 1, 2 and 3 of the intensive Collective Soul certifications, and also Teacher Training studies. Dee focuses on providing tuition and technique that allows dancers to move within an improvised approach, inherent within the Gypsy Caravan format. Dee teaches primarily in Brisbane, Queensland, and travels regularly to share her method of Tribal Bellydance to groups and communities and has delighted in sharing her dance knowledge with dancers all over Australia and New Zealand.
Dee also hosts the Tribal festival Feast of the Senses in Brisbane which supports and showcases the Australian Tribal dance community. This year's Tribal Trance Festival will see her joined by fellow Gypsy Caravan Certified Teacher and Dancer Nina Martinez from Gypsy Rain in North Qld, having performed improvised Tribal Bellydance together at 2011's Unearthed Festival Dee and Nina are again delighted to have this opportunity to perform together as Rain Blossom...sharing their love of their chosen dance format utilizing their love for Improvised Tribal Bellydance.
http://www.tribalblossoms.com/home.html
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Jacqueline and Tribal Jewels Dance Co introduced these stunning Grand Piano Shawls as a prop into Tribal Style Bellydance & delighted the audience at the Red Carpet Night in 2010.
Jacqueline has a unique & creative approach within her workshops and you will be delighted with the content and knowledge you will gain from adding this stunning prop to your dance repertoire. You will be introduced to several new steps and combos: The Ana Ole, Matador, Amelias Combo & The Tam. In no time Jacqueline will get you twirling, whirling & spinning....Ole!
Traditionally from Spain, Mantons are heavily embroidered and made of silk. First created for the purpose of covering ‘Grand Pianos’, later of course worn in Women's fashion (Shawl) & by Flamenco Fusion Dancers, creating visual movement with the EXTRA long tassels.
What to bring: Large Piano Shawl is ideal or a shawl made of wool or similar. Alternatively if you're a true penniless Gypsy why not bring an extra full circle skirt as a substitute!
Note:To keep your Shawl fringing in tact, keep all your jewellery, earrings and flowers at bay.
Jacqueline Peperkamp
Jacqueline is the Artistic Director of Illawarra's premier Dance Troupe, Tribal Jewels Dance Company (created in 2004) having initially pursued a career in the Performing Arts, Film & Theatre. Jacqueline was peer pressured to 'sign up' for Bellydance in 1995 and is still wondering whether she should look back or not! She was pleasantly surprised and fortunate to receive a Bellydance Teacher's award from Amera without knowing she had been nominated! Highly sort after for workshops nationwide, personal training, gigg-ing 'out & about' and supporting charities, she continues to teach locally on a weekly basis whilst researching global and contemporary dance here and overseas. Jacqueline is currently working on releasing a series of instructional DVDs titled "Jewel Box" Treasured Moves.
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Flag poi are a great accompaniment to any tribal repertoire, adding colour and vibrancy to a performance whilst filling the stage. Come learn the basics of flag poi, the technique to ensure a strong performance or build on your current skills. A small number of flag poi will be available for loan. Please contact Debra if a set is required.
Debra Napier
Debra knew she'd found her true love when she watched a FatChanceBellyDance video (yes video!) and spent the next hour trying to work out how to do a floreo. Since that day in 2004 she has spent a remarkable amount of time obsessing over her hands, elbows and every Fatchance nuance she can identify. She initially danced with UrbanTurban, then Urban Qabila and is now Director of Musa Tribal Belly Dance. Props are her specialty. She is a true community spirit having organised the first NSW Tribal Student Soiree and now Directs the Australian Tribal and Trance Festival. Debra considers herself an eternal student, having studied under every tribal teacher she has come into contact with. She has a Bachelor of Arts with a Major in Education, a classical music background and a passion for sharing her great love with others.
www.musa.vpweb.com.au
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As lush and diverse as the darker emotions that fuel it, learn what sets Gothique or Gothic Fusion apart from other styles of Belly Dance. Using theatrical development techniques blended with movement, Fifi Noir will take you on a journey to the Underworld. Learn to identify, focus and harness your darker emotions and expose them in a safe and supportive environment. If you have a personal art or written journal/diary, please bring it otherwise a notepad and pen. Please be open to share and support your sister dancers as we dance on the dark side!
FiFi Noir
Based in Canberra ACT, Fifi is a fusion bellydance artiste blending elements of bellydance with stylings from the Art Deco/Nouveau artistic period, Vaudeville, Burlesque, old school musicals, and the subcultures of Gothic, Neo-Victorian and Steampunk.
Fifi brings you over 30 years of dance experience & has trained extensively both here & overseas with a focus on Tribal Style Bellydance. She was certified by Kajira Djoumahna in Lvl1 BlackSheep BellyDance format and has also completed the General Skills Certification with Carolena Nericcio (Fat Chance Belly Dance format). She has extensive training from various other dancers including Rachel Brice, Kami Liddle, Jill Parker, Devi Mamak, Heather Stants, Sashi and many others.
Fifi is well known for her skillful use of a wide range of props to enhance the dramatic element of her performances. Fifi invites you to open yourself to new concepts in dance, challenge yourself, explore the boundaries of your expression and incorporate dramatic elements seamlessly into your dance.
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Samantha's favourite brain teaser session: The art of layering separate movements over one another. Definitely a drills focused class, we will slowly work our way up to layering elementary movements over one another whilst stationary and traveling. Strengthening techniques for key isolations included, honing muscle memory for that clean technique we all strive for. Bring a Yoga mat for warm up and cool down.
Samantha Emmanuel
True to the original spirit of American Tribal Style, Samantha’s improvised Tribal Fusion routines combine skills gleaned from her studies with the creators of the genre in the USA with that of her own self taught background in the UK. Elegant and classic, strong in carriage: Fusing Victorian costume aesthetics, hip hop/modern dance movement strangeness, a respectful take on World Folk dances and professional versatility.
Starting her dance journey in 2005 thanks to Carolena Nericcio and Rachel Brice, she joined The Bellydance Superstars two years later, the first European to do so and has toured internationally full-time since 2007 also featuring on several BDSS DVDs. She continues to travel globally, instructing intensive workshops and performs both solo and collaboratively with artists such as Zoe Jakes, Sharon Kihara and Elizabeth Strong.
Samantha is a committed teacher as well as performer and known for her accessible approach to teaching. She is fast becoming known for her fun, engaging performance style, making audiences the world over smile.
Last year Samantha became the first Tribal Fusion instructor to receive the new Fat Chance Belly Dance ATS General Studio Teacher Certification, Level One.
Samantha is happily based in Devon (UK) with Oscar and Spindle from where she now offers private tuition, coaching and workshops in her private studio on Dartmoor.
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For the Industrial enthusiasts, this workshop is full of non-stop drill action. Includes layering, movement, speed and musicality defiance. Taking the concepts learnt through Industrial bellyance technique, including fluid movement, popping, ticking, strobing and movement initiation, we'll combine this into many drills and combos for use and to solidify your understanding. These drills are designed to push your mind and body to the next level.
Aradia
With over 29 years experience from a huge range of styles including ballet, jazz ballet, tap, salsa, ballroom, street latin, african, bellydance, bollywood, hip hop and contemporary, Aradia has a wealth of knowlege of not only various dance forms but also teaching methods.
Aradia is influenced by some of the best dancers internationally such as Rachel Brice (USA), Azziza Raqs (USA), Zoe Jakes (USA), Despina ( Australia), Shemiran Ibrahim (Australia), Hush Gypsy (Australia), Urban Tribal, Ansuya (USA) and Fifi Abdou (Egypt) - (just to name a few).
Aradia now specialises in her own created style - Industrial Bellydance which is an intense fusion of bellydance with various styles of dance encompassing a strong focus on the industrial technique of execution danced to ambient industrial random sound. Aradia is also the director of the latest dance fitness program ~ HumanFusion®.
Industrial bellydance is not so much about the style but about the execution of your movement. Aradia wanted to create a more self aware dancer who is completely in control of every movement initiated. Industrial bellydance focuses on the 3 teaching methods taught by Aradia - muscular, skeletal and weight transfer. Her industrial bellydance technique can be applied to any style of dance.
Aradia teaches in the Gold Coast studio based in Southport and regularly teaches workshops both nationally and internationally. Aradia is in the process of launching 'The Goddess Series' - a program for the feminine spirit which she aims to take into schools, corporate offices and dance schools to reconnect women both to others and to themselves.
Workshop Info
In this workshop, Emily will teach a beautiful choreography weaving traditional West African dance with ATS. The class will be done to live music - and it will be lots of fun!
The traditional West African style of dance is inherently joyful and approachable, suitable for all ages, and no previous experience will be necessary for this workshop. Aesthetically, the style appears looser and more outwardly energetic than the elegance and subtlety of ATS.
The aim of this workshop will be to weave ATS and West African in a way that makes aesthetic sense, feels enjoyable to dance and maintains the integrity of each style. We will explore how the points of intersection and contrast between two very different styles can be used to create interesting and exciting choreography.
*Bring a water bottle and dress to move.
Emily Cooper
Emily Cooper is co-creator of Hands, Heart & Feet and also dances with Ghawazi Caravan. She holds a Bachelor of Arts majoring in Contemporary Dance (UWS), graduating with the Dean’s Medal of Honour, and has studied dance in Africa and America. Emily’s performance credits include directing and performing in The Half Girl & The River (touring festivals and schools in 2011/2012) as well as The Firebird (presented at The Carriage Works and touring major Western Sydney venues). She also danced with Ghawazi Caravan in Intertwine (official selection of the 2010 Sydney Fringe Festival), The Singapore International Storytelling Festival in Singapore, the Sekeguchi Ballet Company in Japan, as well as numerous street parades and festivals. Emily is a passionate, fun teacher, who loves connecting with all ages and walks of life through dance. She's very excited to teach a workshop incorporating two styles of dance that she loves so much.
Workshop Info
Too scared to even put those zills on let alone try & dance with them?! Problem solved! Using her classical music background, Devi will take you step by step through several of the basic zill patterns & will have you moving & finally dancing with them in no time. Devi will prescribe you a short but effective daily zill & movement choreography [complete with handouts] based on the zill patterns that you will learn in this workshop which will have you zilling & dancing with ease in a matter of days or weeks. Zill phobia cured!
*Suitable for dancers of all styles from Oriental, ATS, Tribal & beyond.
BIO
Devi Mamak is troupe member and artistic director of the award winning Ghawazi Caravan, based in the Blue Mountains in N.S.W &. is one of Australia's premier American Tribal Style [ATS] dancers, teachers and choreographers having studied a variety of Middle Eastern dance styles for over a decade as well as Flamenco, Classical Indian & Ballet.
Devi Has travelled to San Francisco several times to study with the masters of ATS, Tribal & Oriental dance & has studied extensively with Carolena Nericcio with several of Ghawazi Caravan movements being accepted into the FCBD format.
Devi regularly performs at various functions ranging from community events, festivals, as well as private & corporate functions. Devi has also been invited to be a part of major funded productions such as Unmasked & "The Firebird" where she had the opportunity to work collaboratively with dancers and musicians of various styles including Mory Trarore, Emily Cooper, Colin Berryman,Pandit Ramchandra Suman, John May, Miriam Leiberman, Elizabeth Cameron Dalman and Keith Kempis.
In 2009 Devi & Ghawazi Caravan received a grant for their production ...'The Intertwine Project', which drew together dancers, musicians and artists of varied disciplines and styles, braiding their talents together into a compelling and cohesive whole, and presenting it in a theatre style environment.
Devi and Ghawazi Caravan are highly sought after for workshops and performances around the country, N.Z & Asia. Devi was also invited to perform & assist Carolena in teaching the General Skills Certificate in Taiwan.
As a teacher Devi has earned a reputation for being a patient and thorough. As a performer she is renowned for her strong stage presence, as well as her innovative and colourful choreographies.
ghawazicaravan.com
Workshop Info
An interactive workshop for dancers of all levels and dance backgrounds to familiarise themselves with "working the stage". Bring your solo, group formations to life with a more theatrical use of space. With a strong background in Contemporary dance and theatre production, Jrisi will take you through new ways of creating movement, giving you the choreographic tools to create a truly innovative fresh masterpiece. Combining dance styles in Oriental, Flamenco, Classical Indian and Contemporary dance, this workshop will give you the tools you need to make your next choreography a "Masterpiece". Participants are asked to bring one personal "item" to use as part of the "choreographic lab". No experience in Flamenco, Classical Indian or Contemporary dance needed. We will go through the basics.
*All levels.
Jrisi Jusakos
Jrisi is one of the few dancers in Australia who has devoted her life to dance. She has obtained a Bachelor of Arts in Dance degree majoring in Contemporary dance and choreography. A passion that turned into a career taking her around the world.
An award winning choreographer and dancer she is the only "Oriental" Dance artist in Australia to be given a Australia Council for the Arts grant which took her on a year long dance journey to Egypt, Lebanon, New York and Germany.
Not only is she a highly respected Oriental dancer/choreographer/teacher but she is one of the very few professionally trained dancers who works closely with world fusion dance styles such as Flamenco, Latin, Bharanatyam, African. She is currently working with three leading World Fusion live music artists, Masha's Legacy, Davood Tabrizi and the Far Seas and Flamenco Red. She was also lead dancer in Antonia Varga's (from Strictly Ballroom fame) Mosaic Dance Company.
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Cue-able formations and multidirectional ATS for troupes of all sizes, adaptable for challenging and squeezy performance spaces.
Cinnabar Red Dance Collective's professional troupe, Ruby Dhatura, has performed weekly at Adelaide’s premier world music club for the past two years and during that time have developed their own signature dialect based on necessity. How to dance around drinks, drunks, tables and tapas and still present a varied, dynamic and powerful improvisational ATS performance, with audience on all sides, in a very up close and personal space!
Learn such performance techniques as round ups, reenies, pods, echopraxia, travelling teams, dangerous duelling duets, trios and quartets - all fabulous ways to have the whole troupe dancing at the same time! We will also touch on the ‘care and feeding’ of a professional troupe and the business etiquette that will help you obtain and keep that regular gig, after all, ‘a regular gig in a known environment is the best way to hone your troupes skills’ (Carolena Nerriccio in Tribal Talk, Nov 2000)
Evangeline Feary
A self confessed ATS® nerd, Evangeline, who has never been good at multitasking, on rediscovering dance at a late age ceased to do anything else, including housework. Evangeline is the director of Cinnabar Red Dance Collective and professional performance troupe Ruby Dhatura (which she sometimes likens to herding cats, an experience both exhilarating and exasperating). Cinnabar Red Dance Collective has recently relocated to a shiny and new studio in the Bowden Arts Precinct which is serendipitously and rather delightfully close to their favourite Spanish Deli and pub! On Saturday nights you can find Evangeline performing with the gorgeous Ruby Dhatura girls at Adelaide's premier world music club where they have become exceptionally skilful at dodging tables and tapas whilst dancing.
Evangeline has done all the usual workshops with all the people that you are supposed to, like everyone else, but possibly has spent longer drooling over antique Indian jewellery than you have. She is also creator of wearable and unwearable art as the Lion, the Bitch and her Wardrobe, purveyor of all things sparkly and lavish to adorn yourself in. When not dancing, she is worrying about not dancing.
Evangeline Feary
www.cinnabarred.com
Workshop Info
PseudoSkirt is a dark fusion belly dance project, uniting dancers as they learn an original top-secret choreography, then meet and perform for a festival or event in Australia. PseudoSkirt is created using Ma'isah's Elysium format for hauntingly beautiful and ethereal dark fusion belly dance.
In 2012 the PseudoSkirt project “Sacrament/Sacrifice” will have TWO simultaneous groups performing unique and separate choreographies together on stage at the same time, for the first time in PseudoSkirt history. Introducing Elysium Initiates, for beginner to intermediate level dancers with 'Sacrament' and Elysium Priestesses as Intermediate to Advanced dancers and select PseudoSkirt Alumni with 'Sacrifice', including a surprise performance prop [top secret]. The ONLY place you will see PseudoSkirt live in 2012 is at one of only three festivals Australia wide. We are proud to announce that the 2012 Tribal and Trance festival in NSW is a host for PseudoSkirt 2012 V4; Sacrament/Sacrifice.
Ma'isah
Ma’isah is Australia’s own dark fusion belly dance pioneer, creating and innovating her own unique dance format called ‘Elysium – dark fusion dance for ethereal souls’.
During the course of a dance journey that began in New York in 1999, Ma’isah has developed a strong foundation of Egyptian Cabaret and Beledi, and from the beginning adapted this to create and explore dark/gothic belly dance. Over the years Ma’isah has incorporated foundation skills of ATS and tribal influences with the aim of creating a spellbinding and ethereal dark fusion format with a deep, connected and spiritual foundation that enchants audiences and enriches dancers.
Ma’isah has been the opening act for Jeff Martin and the Armada, performed in the renowned Melbourne Fringe Festival, and is a well-regarded guest performer and instructor at several Middle Eastern dance festivals including the WAMED and OMEDA Festivals, Gothla USA, Tribal and Trance, Fire in the Belly, Evernight and more. She has also appeared at the Bizarre Music Festival, Deviate, the Nocturnal Instincts fashion show, performing and teaching since 2006.
Ma’isah also created the innovative and now much-anticipated ‘PseudoSkirt’, a remote learning top-secret choreography project with multiple dancers that share online and via DVD a unique never-been-seen before choreography, based on the Elysium format, to be performed at a major festival or event. You can see the 2012 PseudoSkirt project ‘V4: Sacrament/Sacrifice’, for the first time in PseudoSkirt history showcasing two simultaneous choreographies on stage together, at this years Tribal and Trance festival as one of only three official PseudoSkirt hosts in 2012.
Constantly evolving and challenging, Ma’isah continues to develop innovation in Elysium, with the aim of sharing, inspiring and being inspired by all who choose the dark dance path.
Workshop Info
Samantha is known for liquid mercury movement contrasted with sharp articulated isolations. Lock and Flow. In this class progress through her original and dynamic tribal fusion combinations embodying elegance and flair with a dash of humour thrown in for good measure. Group work is included to encourage you on your own journey in a safe environment, creating and developing new movement combinations, in unique and imaginative ways supported by Samantha's various dance and theatre based concepts.
Bring a Yoga mat for warm up and cool down.
Samantha Emmanuel
True to the original spirit of American Tribal Style, Samantha’s improvised Tribal Fusion routines combine skills gleaned from her studies with the creators of the genre in the USA with that of her own self taught background in the UK. Elegant and classic, strong in carriage: Fusing Victorian costume aesthetics, hip hop/modern dance movement strangeness, a respectful take on World Folk dances and professional versatility.
Starting her dance journey in 2005 thanks to Carolena Nericcio and Rachel Brice, she joined The Bellydance Superstars two years later, the first European to do so and has toured internationally full-time since 2007 also featuring on several BDSS DVDs.
She continues to travel globally, instructing intensive workshops and performs both solo and collaboratively with artists such as Zoe Jakes, Sharon Kihara and Elizabeth Strong.
Samantha is a committed teacher as well as performer and known for her accessible approach to teaching. She is fast becoming known for her fun, engaging performance style, making audiences the world over smile.
Last year Samantha became the first Tribal Fusion instructor to receive the new Fat Chance Belly Dance ATS General Studio Teacher Certification, Level One.
Samantha is happily based in Devon (UK) with Oscar and Spindle from where she now offers private tuition, coaching and workshops in her private studio on Dartmoor.
Workshop Info
Ever wonder how Ballet Dancers glide across the stage, have such beautiful carriage and graceful lines? Come along to learn some techniques to incorporate into your Tribal Dance.
The first half of this session you will experience a traditional ballet lesson. Beginning at the bar and moving into centre work. The focus of our time together will be on line and posture. We will then move into a more expressive realm where we will explore and incorporate the use of word, expression, interpretation and connection while still continuing to focus on line and posture. Looking forward to creating with you!
Nikki Beech
NIkki's dance career began with ballet at the age of 4 and she hasn't stopped dancing since. She initially pursued a classical career and was then drawn to the contemporary world. As a professional dancer she held contracts at the Moulin Rouge in Paris and an esteemed theatre in Korea among others. Later on she returned to Australia to teach dance in Primary Schools throughout Sydney. She has an unfathomable passion for dance and a great joy in sharing her knowledge with others.
Workshop Info
Fast paced with plenty of humour, Samantha teaches an original choreography featuring spins, layering, retrograde and fancy footwork. We will discuss finer details regarding technique and musculature through short drills. Ooze self confidence and grace in a supportive environment, consider how best to use the stage and also develop tips and tricks to make your audience smile. Bring a Yoga mat for warm up and cool down.
Samantha Emmanuel
True to the original spirit of American Tribal Style, Samantha’s improvised Tribal Fusion routines combine skills gleaned from her studies with the creators of the genre in the USA with that of her own self taught background in the UK. Elegant and classic, strong in carriage: Fusing Victorian costume aesthetics, hip hop/modern dance movement strangeness, a respectful take on World Folk dances and professional versatility.
Starting her dance journey in 2005 thanks to Carolena Nericcio and Rachel Brice, she joined The Bellydance Superstars two years later, the first European to do so and has toured internationally full-time since 2007 also featuring on several BDSS DVDs. She continues to travel globally, instructing intensive workshops and performs both solo and collaboratively with artists such as Zoe Jakes, Sharon Kihara and Elizabeth Strong.
Samantha is a committed teacher as well as performer and known for her accessible approach to teaching. She is fast becoming known for her fun, engaging performance style, making audiences the world over smile.
Last year Samantha became the first Tribal Fusion instructor to receive the new Fat Chance Belly Dance ATS General Studio Teacher Certification, Level One.
Samantha is happily based in Devon (UK) with Oscar and Spindle from where she now offers private tuition, coaching and workshops in her private studio on Dartmoor.
Workshop Info
Perfect your timing with spins and turns, Sandy shares some best kept secrets. Sensational new hip combos and smooth as silk arm lines made so easy in Sandy's popular fusion combos. String them together and create your own choreo or use these moves to enhance your Tribal/ Oriental/Fusion performance. Perfect timing for spins and sexy arms, Sandy shows how easy it really is to look your Tribal/Fusion finest on stage.
Beginner to Advanced levels, for tribal sisters and Fusionists.
Sandy Burrow
Sandy is one of the most experienced Tribal and Fusion dancers, teachers and choreographers in Australia, having brought fast sword, double veil and her own popular fused concepts in Tribal today. Her passion for sharing her works is renowned, only matched by her simplistic method of teaching perfection in Tribal and Fusion styles alike.
Sandy has a wealth of experience, having learnt from the tribal and fusion masters in the USA and Australia and New Zealand including Carolena Nericcio, Devi Mamak, Paulette Rees Denise, Susan Brown, Jill Parker, Kajira, Rachel Brice and many more.
Once qualified fitness instructor, yoga student, Las Hermanas performer, Certificate IV trainer with over 9 years of teaching Tribal to her troupe Aziff, Sandy has much tribal wisdom to share!
