Happy New Year!
Asharah
- New semester at Saffron Dance starts January 4! www.saffrondance.com (Photos from the winter gala in the Washington Times!)
- Three-day Asharah intensive at Saffron Dance, April 9-11.
- DCTribal Student show on January 17. Buy your tickets now!
- Workshops! Chesapeake Beach MD, TribalCon, Gothla US
- Performances! BrainDance (tickets here), Phase, and Danse Du Ventre in DC; and Columbia SC (featuring dancers from over 6 states!)
- European mini-tour in Switzerland and Italy
- Video private lessons and performance critiques - always available. Inquire for rates!
CLASSES AT SAFFRON DANCE, Arlington, VA.
Monday Nights
Saffron Dance, 3260 Wilson Blvd, Arlington, VA.
Session begins January 4, 2010
Register at http://saffrondance.com/classes/index.html
Drills! Technique and Refinement: 7:15pm – 8:15pm, $170 for 10 weeks
Thursday Nights
Saffron Dance, 3260 Wilson Blvd, Arlington, VA.
Session begins January 4, 2010
Register at http://saffrondance.com/classes/index.html
Tribal 2 (Technique): 6:15pm – 7:15pm, $170 for 10 weeks
Tribal 3 (Technique*): 7:15pm – 8:15pm. $170 for 10 weeks
*Finger cymbals are REQUIRED. Please being your cymbals to class every week.
ASHARAH INTENSIVE
April 9-11, Arlington, VA
Saffron Dance
By popular demand! Asharah will be teaching a special three-day intensive at Saffron Dance covering everything from technical foundations to becoming a polished and professional performer. More details to be posted soon at www.saffrondance.com. Pricing plans and host families available!
WORKSHOPS AND SHOWS
January 8, Washington, DC
Performance: Phase One, with students!
Come out to support Sammati Dance Company, my students, and me for this evening of dance and entertainment! Phase One, 525 8th Street SE, Washington, DC 20003.
January 9, Washington, DC
Performance: BrainDance 2 – Emergence
After the success of BrainDance, experiments in “intellectual bellydance” at Artomatic this summer, we are embarking on another brainy journey through bellydance. Come watch Ariel, Samantha Hegre, Anisa, Eugenia, Na’la and Hilary of Shakra, Shems, Belladonna, Mavi, and me present works that challenge the conventions of bellydance. This is not just a fusion bellydance show! This is post-modern bellydance. It happens at 8pm at the Jack Guidone Theater, 5207 Wisconsin Ave NW, Washington, DC. Tickets available at http://eugeniadance.com/brain-dance/
January 10, Chesapeake Beach, Maryland
Workshop: An introduction to Modern Tribal Bellydance
Come out to the Chesapeake bay for a day of dancing with Asharah and Kostana. Asharah will be teaching an introduction to her signature tribal fusion style, and Kostana will teach a workshop on foundations for Turkish 9/8 and taking Turkish Romani steps to to the stage. Chesapeake Beach (Northeast) Community Center in the Exercise Room, 4075 Gordon Stinnett Avenue, Chesapeake Beach, MD 20732 (right near the Water Park). To register, e-mail Carmen at BellyDan...@Comcast.net
4 to 6:30pm: Special technique workshop with Asharah
January 14, Palace of Wonders, Washington, DC
Performance at Danse Du Ventre: A Variety of Bellydance Show
Join a host of bellydancers of all styles and influences at the monthly Danse Du Ventre (French for “Dance of the Belly”) at the Palace of Wonders! Asharah will be representing tribal fusion bellydance in January’s show. Doors open at 9pm, performance at 10pm. $10 cover at the door. 1210 H St NE, Washington, DC.
January 17, Jack Guidone Theater, Washington, DC
DCTribal Student show!
Come see students of DC-area fusion and tribal bellydance instructors perform the pieces on which they’ve been working so hard! Students from both my Joy of Motion and Saffron Dance performance classes will be presenting my choreography to Maduro’s dubstep song “Situational Mythos”. Doors at 7pm, show at 8pm. The DCTribal student show always sells out, so get your tickets now!
January 23, Columbia, South Carolina
Benefit for the Columbia Alternacirque home studio
This will be one rockin’ show. Join Asharah, Delirium Tribal, and Columbia Alternacirque for an evening of dancing, music, and mayhem.
Delirium Tribal and Columbia Alternacirque (Columbia, SC)
Ashley Bennett (Columbia, SC)
Ananda Dance Company (Knoxville, TN)
Mahsati Janan (Asheville, NC)
Lisa Zahiya (Asheville, NC)
Awalim Dance Company (Atlanta, GA)
Jahara Phoenix Dance Company (Atlanta, GA)
Fierce Fusion Dance Company (Augusta, GA)
Asim (Greenville, SC)
Asharah (Alexandria, VA)
Mab, Just Mab, D.C.’s sideshow Queen (Washington, DC)
Devyani Dance Company (Birmingham, AL)
Proceeds from the door will go directly to fund a home studio for Columbia Alternacirque. Art Bar, 1211 Park Street, Columbia, South Carolina 29201.
February 25 – 28, Atlanta, Georgia
Workshops and performance at TribalCon
A three-day convention of dance and music! I’ll be teaching a special workshop on the Salimpour legacy and how Jamila and her daughter Suhaila have influenced and shaped tribal belly dance. Other instructors include Ariellah, Heather Stants, Megha Gavin, Donna Mejia, Jennifer Speiden and more! www.tribalcon.com
March 4 – 7, Pomona, California
Workshop and performance at Gothla US!
Come celebrate the darker side of belly dance with a host of fabulous teachers and performers! Three days of dark and gothic-inspired performances, workshops, and of course, shopping! I’ll be teaching my popular “Dancing Your Demons” workshop, and performing on Saturday night in the gala show. For registration and more information visit the Gothla website. www.gothla.us
Saturday, 9:00am-11:00am – Dancing Your Demons
March 13, Lotzwil, Switzerland
Workshops at Tanzkult
I am so excited to announce a special day of workshops in Lotzwil, Switerland. Details coming soon. Keep an eye on asharah.com and tanzkult.ch.
March 20 – 21, Milan, Italy
Workshops and performance at Gothla Italy!
Asharah and Morgana will be teaching and performing at Gothla Italy this March! The festival weekend includes twelve hours of instruction with the two of us as well as professional performances and an open stage. For registration and more information visit the Gothla Italy website. www.gothla.it
Friday, 2:00pm-5:00pm - Technique Intensive for tribal fusion bellydance.
Saturday, 2:00pm-4:00pm – Pops, Locks, and Tick Tocks
Sunday, 11:00am-1:00pm – Danse Mécanique
Don't Forget: Video private lessons and critiques!
For those of you who aren’t in the DC area, or who might have missed one of my workshops, I am now offering video private lessons (via Skype – a free webcam service) and performance critique. Video private lessons are priced per hour and are meant to bring out the best in YOU as a dancer and performer while refining your technique, expression, and alignment. When I teach private lessons, I draw on my background as a competitive figure skater when I worked one-on-one with my own coaches, and I hope to bring that same level of mentoring and guidance to my students that my coaches did for me when I was younger.
Performance critiques are priced by the length of the performance, and they include feedback on the following criteria:
•Technique (including control, fluidity, traveling movements, etc.)
•Musicality (Expression of the music’s style, character, rhythm)
•Expression (physical, emotional, intellectual involvement)
•Music selection and editing (flow, cohesiveness)
•Costuming (fit, style, construction, fit with music and theme of piece)
•Appropriateness of performance for venue and type of show
•Presentation (use of space, concept, etc.)
•Use of props (if applicable)
•Finger cymbals (if applicable)
If you’re interested in either setting up video private lessons or a performance critique, send me an e-mail
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asharah - modern tribal bellydance
www.asharah.com
703-405-5410
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