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Master Class Workshops & Performance – St. Louis, Missouri

Masterclass Workshops – St. Louis, Missouri

August 29th & 30th, 2015

Sponsored by Nisaa

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For information regarding the registration process & prices for the workshops please visit Belly Dance with Nisaa.

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Sahra will be teaching a workshops on

Entrances and Traveling Steps

Saturday from 10:00 am – 12:00 pm

Taqsim, Tarab, and Saltanah

Saturday 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm

Sa’idi for Oriental Dancers

Sunday 10:00 am – 12:00 pm

4 Ways to Dance Shamdan

Sunday 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm

Performance

Performance will take place Saturday Evening @ 7:00 pm. Visit Bellydance with Nisaa’s website to learn more.

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Master Class Workshops – Washington D.C

Masterclass Workshops – Washington D.C.

June 26th – 28th

Sponsored by Sahara Dance

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For information regarding the registration process & prices for the workshops please visit the Sahara Dance Website

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Sahra will be teaching a workshops on

Belly Dance History

Friday from 6:30 – 8:30pm

The Classic B & W Era

Saturday 1:30 – 3:30

The “Golden Age” Classic Black and White Cinema Era was a special fusion of Egyptian star dancers with an international aesthetic of “glamour” all reinforced by the promise of plenty of work and fame in a Hollywood Film Industry centered in Cairo. The charismatic stars of the era demonstrated refined movements layered on the soft strength of Egyptian dance.

Essential Reda Combinations

Saturday 3:45 pm – 5:45 pm

Mahmoud Reda is the pioneer of theater-stage Egyptian folkloric dance. His artistic vision is still the movement base for the Reda Troupe of Egypt, as well as many Egyptian dance teachers touring the world.  Once these combinations get into your repertoire of movement, it is difficult to choreograph without them.  We start simple and get into some challenging Reda-signature combinations.

Transition Era Dances

Sunday 12pm – 2pm

After the Classic Black and White Cinema Era, Egypt had a new generation of film stars that had started in the end of the Hollywood films. But now that Egypt had taken over their films, story plots changed and dancing no longer followed the musical theater model. Egyptian audiences wanted dancers who danced more like Egyptians. This fascinating Transition Age was highlighted temporarily by a shared vocabulary of steps and movements as Egyptian dancers tried to find themselves in this new world. As the Transition Era matured we see how the star dancers of the time bloomed into the “Modern Egyptian” Era

Modern Egyptian

Sunday 2:15 pm – 4:15 pm

In the Modern Egyptian Era often the stages would be large and dancers could fill them with new traveling steps, exciting audiences and extending the character you wish to convey.  As well as the shared Modern Egyptian style, the different dance stars each had their own signature traveling steps, of which we will learn many, increasing your vocabulary of movement.  Fun, informational, energetic!

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Sa’idi Retreat – Philadelphia, PA

Sa’idi Retreat – Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

May 1st – 3rd, 2015

Sponsored by Najia

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For more information about this event, including pricing, times, and registration please visit the registration page.

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Join us on a journey into the Sa’id. Exclusively offered in Philadelphia at a private retreat center on 11 secluded acres on the river!

This intensive retreat is the precursor to Sahra’s book on Sa’idi dance. Sahra Saeeda has been researching Sa’idi dance in depth in Egypt since 1993 when she was a performer in Cairo. She has made regular trips to Egypt once or twice a year for her research ever since she moved to the United States. This June she will be traveling to the Sa’id gathering more information as in this in-depth Certification. She will be teaching dancers information that has never formally been taught outside of the Sa’id. This will be the first in a series of JtE-In depth Intensives into folkloric dances of Egypt.

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