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Belly Dance workshop with Gina Bruno on Saturday, October 2. It will be held at Transformations Gym in South Reno, from 1:00-3:00 and will be $30 at the door, $25 in advance. She will be teaching layering and taqseem – fun, hot choreography – don’t miss it!

Comments (1) Aug 03 2010

Got this exciting notice in my email this evening:

Diavolo Dance Theater will be offering a Master Class in Reno as part of their contribution to this month’s Artown Festivities.

Class will be held Thursday July 29, 2010 at
Fascinating Rhythm School of Performing Arts
9736 S Virginia Street,  #E,  Reno, NV  89511
775.425.3222

Time: Noon – 1:30 pm
$10 registration fee or free with purchased performance ticket
[ class size will be limited to 30 dancers ]

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Comments (0) Jul 14 2010

Back from Kosmos!  This year’s experience was saWeet!  Many new and wonderful faces and some amazing moments connecting and re-connecting with great folk from all over the region. Am so glad that I decided to go again this year – it was a break that was sorely needed.  Great instructors, good food, amazing rustic accommodations made for an overall immensely fantastic retreat.  Of course I didn’t manage to do all that I had hoped; took a drum for a class with Faisal – didn’t unpack it once; took a camera but only managed this parting shot on departure day…  What?!Back from Kosmos!  This year’s experience was saWeet!  Many new and wonderful faces and some amazing moments connecting and re-connecting with great folk from all over the region. Am so glad that I decided to go again this year – it was a break that was sorely needed.  Great instructors, good food, amazing rustic accommodations made for an overall immensely fantastic retreat.  Of course I didn’t manage to do all that I had hoped; took a drum for a class with Faisal – didn’t unpack it once; took a camera but only managed this parting shot on departure day…  What?!

Shelly DeCant of Unmata was awe-inspiring! La Fibi, pure grace and poetry; loved Paco Gomes Afro-Brazilian class, as I did Joti Singh’s Bollywood, Jordan Wilson’s Salsa Rueda, and Rafaella Falchi’s Samba classes!  I also give grateful thanks to Brendan Furey’s Morning Yoga classes for keeping me grounded.  6 dance classes per day, plus some very choice and wonderful performances each evening made the whole event worth a million dollars! particularly enjoyed it when students from each training class joined the performances of the instructors in displaying their new found skills. Amazing talents all around.

It was amazing and well worth it.

 ::  Kosmos Music & Dance – Full Staff

Comments (0) Jun 17 2010

is fast approaching.

The warm summer days at Kosmos Camp are filled with music and dance. Our inspiring open-air venues host both Dancers and Musicians, as they learn and perform with authentic world-class professional teachers in a wide variety of styles from different cultures around the world. Kosmos is more than a camp; It’s a celebration where friends bond their passions and talents.

Dance Classes include:
Bellydance
West African
Bhangra and Bollywood
Modern Brazilian
Flamenco
Morrocan Berber
World Fusion
Salsa Rueda

Music Classes include:
Arabic Drumming
Flamenco Rhythms
West African Drumming
Persian Ensemble
Latin Percussion
Samba
Morrocan Ensemble
Balkan

Comments (0) May 30 2010

Golly! I’m surprised that I haven’t posted this by now. Finally, a long week-end to help catch up with the mountain of project details…

I am very pleased to announce that as a co-founder of the dAdima SEEDs Program that our inaugural Summer Session has been launched. SEEDs represents Self-esteem, Empowerment, and Education through Dance, and is a mentoring program for young women that integrates programming that promotes self-discovery self-esteem and self-actualization through mentorship, and by teaching life skills to aid young women in attaining the skills necessary to achieve independence in all phases of their lives. Our mission is accomplished through the vehicle of dance, specifically Improvisational Tribal Style (ITS) dance, talking circles, journal writing and presentations.

SEEDs The Summer Session is intended to be a two-week taste of what the overall year long after school program is designed as. The sessions begin July 12th and runs three days per week through the 24th at the Achieve Fitness Studios on Center Street, near downtown in Reno. It will be a quick course, but the youth will also have the opportunity to share their new experience and debut at Kami Liddle’s Hafla on the 30th for family and friends.

Here’s the image of the postcard that’s being distributed around town:

Comments (0) May 30 2010

New local beginning Bellydance & Zumba classes being taught by Namira in Carson City starting June 1st – W00t!

Call Namira for more info @ 530.318.2142

Here da deets from the flyer:

Beginning Zumba – Tuesday @ 4:30p
Zumba – Tuesday @ 5:30p
Beginning Bellydance – Tuesday @ 6:30p

Carson City Community Center
851 E Williams Street/ HWY 50
Carson City, NV 89701

Comments (0) May 24 2010

On Friday, April 9th, 2010 members of HipSwitch and the performing class of Truckee Meadows Community College presented at the University of Nevada, Reno’s “Night of All Nations [NOAN] Festival. The class is taught by our Asha’s own Minya bint Tahari and Kendesh.

It was so much fun to watch! Video capture was recorded by our very own Super Supporter MJ.

Comments (0) Apr 12 2010

Goodness to come:

Comments (0) Mar 27 2010

I am leaving tomorrow for Santa Fe to catch Pomegranate Studio’s annual Spring Festival “Invaders of the Heart.” I will also be taking two workshops with Puerto Rico’s Arish Lam.

Don’t know too much about his work other than what I’ve seen on YouTube, but with workshop titles such as “Belly Salsa Combos” and “Fast and Forward,” how could it not be fun?

:: Arish is the dancer with the smooth pate and plenty of stage presence.

Comments (0) Mar 16 2010

Almost beside myself in anticipation. By the end of the week, I’ll be in a Weekend Retreat with Donna Mejia!

From her website:

“Donna Mejia is a choreographer, lecturer, teacher, administrator, and performer specializing in contemporary dance, traditions of the Arab/African Diaspora, and new fusion traditions in world electronica. Donna is amongst a handful of artists authorized to instruct the Brazilian Silvestre Modern Dance Technique (an esoteric, codified system of contemporary dance technique).”

I posted video back in October, and since then a few more have been posted on her YouTube Channel. Cannot explain it completely, but having only encountered Donna through the digital medium, I’ve come to admire and respect this artist like I have never before. “Authenticity” comes to mind, but that only scratches the surface of what watching her perform evokes. There’s an earth honesty that flash for me whenever I see her energy move.

Add to that that she is the founder and director of the Sovereign Project:

“The Sovereign Collective: A Complete Re-Visioning of a Traditional Dance Company

“Sovereign” is a movement arts and social action collective pledged to elevate social consciousness toward a reverent connection to the human body. This project is an effort to mobilize concerned citizens around an issue that can seem too large for an individual to take on: sovereignty of the human body.

Transgressions against physical self-determination manifest across international, cultural, religious, political and economic lines in a multitude of practices: genital mutilation; legally sanctioned infantile marriages; elder abuse; sexual servitude; censorship of sexual information; slavery; honor killings; media-influenced distortions of body-image; domestic violence; military torture; inaccessibility to affordable healthcare; forced medical intervention or end of life management; etc.”

…and I am reduced to a puddle of awe.

Comments (0) Feb 28 2010