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Saturday, April 17, 2010 at 10:00 AM - Sunday, April 18, 2010 at 2:00 PM (ET)
Tribal Carnivale
East Coast Style Belly Dance Workshops with Maria and Olivia of Zafira and Elizabeth of Tribe Marrakech
April 17th and 18th
Several Dancers Core
registration limited to 30 people!
Register early and get the entire weekend for $120, catered lunch from Nicola's optional for $12
Make checks payable to Lisa McKinney, PO Box 831, Pine Lake, GA 30083
Event will sell out
Tribal Carnivale- East Coast Style!
April 17th
Red Light Cafe 9pm, doors open at 8
$12 at door
www.awalim.com
404 581 0199
Tribal Carnivale
East Coast Style Belly Dance Workshops
with Maria and Olivia of Zafira and Elizabeth of Tribe Marrakech
Saturday April 17th
10am-noon
Liquid Layers w/ Zafira $35
Bring the belly back in belly dance! Build combinations of liquid layers and torso work that roll and ripple through your belly, back, hips and shoulders. Then, add arms and footwork to frame and enhance some of your most elegant moves.
1-3pm $30
Dangerously Intriguing Tribal Sword Dancing w/ Elizabeth of Tribe Marrakech
The Dangerously Intriguing Art of Tribal Sword Dancing. If the idea of brandishing a sword with strength and precision appeals to you and the thought of balancing a sword on your head makes you smile, welcome to the dangerously intriguing art of tribal sword dancing. Learn the basics of caring for, handling, and balancing your sword along with helpful hints and tips that every new sword dancer needs to know. We will teach beginning skills that include balancing and brandishing, and intermediate skills that add to your technical dance moves. You’ll also learn a few dramatic combinations that will whet your appetite for more and make your audience gasp. All students must have a sword for class. Wearing a thick hair band or a scarf will provide a little cushion between your head and the sword and help you to balance it.
3-5pm $35
Cabaret Macabre w/ Zafira
Boring dance routines got you down? Are you looking for something to resuscitate your creativity? Well, let Zafira help you breathe life into your dance practice. Drama, musicality and technique are addressed in this workshop. First, we will build several tribal fusion combinations that incorporate contemporary dance with bellydance torso work- focusing on technique and alignment. Then, we will use these combos to experiment with musicality, emotion, and nuanced gestures in order to bring these young Frankensteins to life.
Sunday April 18th
11-2pm $40
Supah’ Saucy w/ Zafira
Kicks, spins, long extensions and locks are the signature of Zafira’s current repertoire. This workshop presents some fancy footwork and spins whithin several dance combinations. Couple these saucy moves with evocative music and emotion, and you are at the core of Zafira’s “steal-your-heart” style of bellydance.
Olivia Kissel of Zafira
Raised the daughter of a Slovak Steel Worker and a German Go-Go dancer deep in the Rust Belt of Western Pennsylvania, Olivia Kissel’s love of bizarre music and dance began at a tender age. Intrigued by the world-renowned Binewski’s Fabulon, Olivia turned her talents to the circus arts early on. At first, she performed wildly exotic Senegalese and Guinean ritual dances. Then she was seduced by the sultry art of Tribal Belly Dance, where she found a band of exotic and passionate dancers who would later become known as Zafira Dance Company. Together they drew standing room only crowds in performance after performance across the nation. With a powerful gypsy flare, Olivia incorporated fire into her dance, mimicking the curve and heat of the flame in her every movement.
Olivia has traveled tirelessly to study, teach and perform her art all over the world, from intimate settings to theater performances, from elegant hotels to sticky bars, from beaches to raves. One of her favorite trips took her to Morocco, where she danced in the markets in Marrakech, Fez and Essouira with street musicians and Hennah girls, and drank Quilmes until dawn.
Olivia continues to astound audiences with Zafira Dance Company and in solo performances. Known for a fiery passion and her smooth technique, Olivia milks every note of the music. Her mesmerizing style brings emotion and elegance to every turn.
Maria Hamer of Zafira
Maria Hamer has studied, taught, and performed as a belly dancer since the spring of 1992. Her main focus is on Turkish and Egyptian belly dance disciplines, but she fuses and blends stylization and gestures of other eastern dance forms and modern western culture to create a very complex and vibrant performance.
She began her study of dance at a very young age with a variety of dance disciplines including ballet, tap, jazz, modern, gymnastics, character, with some experience in contact improv, Odissi Indian Dance, Northern Indian Gypsy Dance and West African. She was also lucky enough to study a Russian Gypsy inspired performance taught under the infamous master teacher of some of the most notable dancers in America, Mansur Kamaletdinov.
Her study of Bellydance began with classes from her sister Christine Andrews, later having taken workshops and classes with some of the most famed bellydancers in America being mostly inspired by the works of Jill Parker and Ultra Gypsy as well a the teachings of Suhaila Salimpour.
Not just a dynamic soloist, Maria is able to combine her unique style with dancers of similar backgrounds to form energetic and colorful troupes. She began her professional career as a bellydancer in 1995 with the Ghawazee Middle Eastern Music and Dance Ensemble. In 2000, she and her dance peers, Christine Andrews and Olivia Kissel, started Zafira Dance Company. Later adding, West Coast’s, Tamara Nelson and her sister Jennifer Imashev to collaborate. Their performances are recognized for highly disciplined movement and impeccable synchronicity. This results in leaving their audiences spellbound and wanting more.
Maria teaches and performs throughout the United States. She has performed in a wide variety of events, from private parties to theater productions.
Elizabeth Ostteen of Tribe Marrakech
Elizabeth Ostteen teaches and performs nationally as Tribe Marrakech and also as a solo tribal fusion artist. As the founder and director of Tribe Marrakech, she has been teaching and performing professionally since 2002. Tribe Marrakech has morphed through the years and has encompassed Elizabeth's solo dancing, duets with Chris Chambers, and up to 20 dancers. It has included drummers, musicians, and members of her student troupe. During her years in Colorado, Elizabeth consistently taught up to 8 belly dance classes a week at her studios/stores Paprika & Marrakech and directed her student troupe, Tribe Marrakech Express.
In April 2010, Tribe Marrakech hosts Elevation in Golden, CO, an event which has been bringing tribal style teachers and performers to Colorado since 2003. Elizabeth is currently living in Florida.
Elizabeth’s credo is built upon the belief that hard work is worth it, inspiration and
guidance always come through, and that finding the joy of the dance is the most important part.
It is a joy to learn, grow, and create in dance, and a blessing to share that experience with others.
Elizabeth is also has a line of fashionable clothing titled Ashner by Elizabeth, that can be worn on and off the stage and is made For Those Who Move.
www.EvergreenTribalArts.com
Saturday, April 17, 2010 at 10:00 AM
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Sunday, April 18, 2010 at 2:00 PM (ET)
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