WOMEN ONLY BELLY DANCE PARTY

BRIDAL SHOWER, BIRTHDAY, BACHELORETTE , WOMEN'S RETREAT OR ANY CELEBRATION!

INCLUDES BELLY DANCE LESSON AND SAMPLE BELLY DANCE PERFORMANCE. DISCUSSION ON HISTORY OF THE DANCE AND WOMEN'S SELF ESTEEM.

A FUN ALTERNATIVE FOR AN EVENING OR AFTERNOON OF FUN AND LAUGHTER. JINGLY BITS ARE PROVIDED FOR EACH ATTENDEE. (VEILS OR HIP SCARVES). PLEASE WEAR COMFORTABLE CLOTHS AND BRING A WATER BOTTLE.

Rates: $15.00 per person

Minimum 8 - 10 GUESTS

PLEASE CONTACT:

Private Lessons with Jasmine

Private lessons are a great tool to work specifically on accomplishing dance technique and form. Prior dance experience is recommended.

$35.00 an hour/minimum 2 hours (one student)

$45.00 an hour/minimum 2 hours (two students).

Contact: Jasmine jasmini44@yahoo.ca

Learn the magic of this ancient, sensual dance form. An excellent way to keep fit and feel beautiful. An exhilarating way to shed everyday stress and make contact with your essential feminine self! A fun, different and exotic form of exercise. In these sessions you will gain strength, grace, flexibility and a greater awareness of your body.

Beginner Level 1

A basic introduction to the magic of this ancient, sensual dance form.  This is an excellent way to keep fit and feel beautiful.  An exhilarating way to shed everyday stress and make contact with your essential feminine self!  A fun, different and exotic form of exercise.  In these sessions you will gain strength, grace, flexibility and a greater awareness of your body. Soft slippers are recommended.   Please bring a hip scarf and water bottle.  Suitable for all fitness levels. A short choreography and a Lebanese Debke (which means "to stomp") are included. 16 -20 hours. Two 8 session or 10 session classes.

Belly Dance - Veil - Beginner

An introduction to the veil.  The veil is a beautiful and mysterious part of the Belly Dance.  In order to work with the veil, you must first learn your steps and movements correctly.  You are doing steps and movements and simply adding the veil.  It is the most extended part of the dance.  Veils will be provided.  Soft slippers are recommended.  Please bring a hip scarf and water bottle.  Suitable for all fitness levels. A sensuous Rumba veil choreography is included. 16 - 20 hours. Two 8 session or 10 session classes.

Beginner Level 2

This is the class to choose if you have already taken Beginner Level 1. We will continue to explore and focus on Egyptian dance technique adding Folkloric Styles.  Enhance your self-image, self-confidence, grace and presence.  Isolate muscle groups gain strength and flexibility.  Suitable for all fitness levels. Please bring a hip scarf and water bottle. Soft slippers are recommended. A women's circle dance and drum choreography are included. 16 - 20 hours. Two 8 session or 10 session classes.

Intermediate Level 1

Learn to move with style and grace by building speed and stamina. This is a more intensive choreography and technique class. Exercises in body dynamics and Delsarte Technique (emotional expressions), combinations, transitions & merges, layering; history of music (awareness and rhythm) and Costuming will be explored. Introduction to Zills. We will incorporate some Spanish, Flamenco and Latin. Drum choreography will be taught. Please bring a hip scarf, water bottle and zills. Soft slippers are recommended. Higher fitness level is required. 16-20 hours. Two 8 session or 10 session classes. Prerequisite: 48 hours of Beginner Level 1, Level 11 and Beginner Veil.

Intermediate Level 2

The focus of this class is on improving shimmies, challenging isolations, extension of arms and hands. Flexibility and coordination of movements with correct posture and alignment. We will polish existing moves and learn additional sequences. Discussions and drills on connecting with your audience through expression and knowing the mood of your music and projection. Zill drills moving with the rhythm of the music. We will explore the use of candle, cane, sword and Isis Wings. Higher fitness level is required. 16 - 20 hours. Two 8 session or 10 session classes. Prerequisite: Intermediate Level 1.

Veil - Intermediate - Level 3

Continuing explorations with the veil. Different sizes and materials are demonstrated and the use of each one. A veil choreography is included with both slow and fast sections as well as a demonstration of dancing with seven veils. Instruction includes double veil technique. 16 hours. Completion of Intermediate Level consists of 48 hours.

Mixed Level

This fun class is geared to those who have taken basic or beginner level belly dance classes. Choreography's are taught including debke, circle dances, veil, cane, candle and drums. Movements are learnt while doing the choreography. Suitable for all fitness levels. Please bring a hip scarf and water bottle. Soft slippers are recommended.

PASSPORT TO BELLY DANCE MOVEMENT INTRODUCTION

Fitness and fun in a different type of belly dance class.  We will use the basic building blocks of Egyptian Dance technique to your own musical interpretation of arms, hands, neck, head, hips, shimmy and traveling steps. The focus will be on ad-lib and inventing your own style to different tempos of Egyptian music.  You will learn the 9 basic Egyptian rhythms and be dancing within the first few lessons. Please bring a hip scarf and water bottle. Soft slippers are recommended. Suitable for all fitness levels.

PASSPORT TO BELLY DANCE MOVEMENT CONTINUED

We will continue to explore and focus on Egyptian dance technique. Enhance your self-image, self-confidence, grace and presence. Isolate muscle groups, gain strength and flexibility.  Suitable for all fitness levels. Veil and drum choreography.  Pre-Requisite – Beginner Course with any instructor.

CLASSES WITH JASMINE

BOOT CAMPS Mirrored private studio - Maximum 9 students per class.

Winter 2010

Registration:

Divas On The Loose Studio

#107 - 420 Des Meurons
Phone:  (204) 777- 3482
www.divasontheloose.com

NORDALE SCHOOL – St. Boniface

No Mirrors – Maximum 25 students per class - Gymnasium

Winter 2010

Contact:  Louis Riel School Division
Continuing Education –237-8130

www.rielsd.org

Gwen Sector Creative Living Centre
1588 Main Street
Winnipeg, Manitoba

City of Winnipeg Registration: 986-5663

Mirrored dance studio - Maximum 14 students

Intermediate Level 3 - Private Mirrored Studio

Maximum - 6 students

Starts Wed. Jan.13, 2010 - March 3, 2010

7 - 9 PM - Contact : Jasmine jasmini44@yahoo.ca

FAQ's What to bring?

Soft dance slippers/bare feet (floors may be cold so soft slippers are best) Hip Scarf, Water Bottle, Comfortable Clothing Notebook and Pen. Try not to eat at least 1-½ hours before starting.

What kind of Workout?

Physically the dance form can be quite demanding. One of its chief features is isolation of the body parts. The dancers must learn to separate their rib cages from the rest of their abdomens thus using muscles they may never have before. Aerobic - for cardio vascular and Calonetic - stretches all the muscles gently.

Will I have a sore stomach? No - but possibly abdominal's as you generally do not use them, hips, rib cage, diaphragm, and arms.

Spirituality?

The dances origin is in sacred ritual. It is a holistic philosophy of body/mind awareness. In primitive cultures, abdominal dances were part of the fertility rites that encouraged and gave thanks for procreation. In a matriarchal society, which centered on a nurturing Earth Mother goddess, these dances are said to have been very empowering to women. But the spiritual and ritualistic focus of the dance form, does not advocate a return to paganism. It simply helps students to develop a positive dance persona. Hence, one does not teach solely dance steps. The dance extends a feeling of personal consciousness. Students, see in their minds-eye, patterns of shape and direction in the creation of dance. They visualize their own natural connection to the earth and to their creative process.

Ages:

Part of the fascination of Belly Dance is that it speaks to all women regardless of their ages and body types. A BD's career is not over at the age of 30 as it is often with other dance forms. 14-83!!!!! The BD is something you can't achieve without having an under degree of feeling, both emotionally and physically. Nevertheless the art of BD can be a positive experience. Women come away feeling more positive about their bodies and souls. They have raised their energy levels, gotten in touch with their feminine sides, and they are just happy about being a woman.