THE • BODY • ELECTRIC workshop series
- Fast Start Workshop:
- Designed for beginners and for dancers who want to brush up on the fundamentals. Learn (or relearn) percussive hip movements, shimmies, undulations, traveling steps, and a short choreography to an upbeat Egyptian song! Whether you want to widen your dance horizons, boost self-confidence, get some exercise, or show off on the dance floor, belly dance has something to offer everyone!
- The Queen of Wands
- Move beyond awkward arms, weak arms, and even strong-and-graceful-arms, to authentic and eloquent arms! Being able to isolate and choose the origin and shape of your hand, arm and finger movements is key to communication with your audience and to your ability to get and stay 'in the zone'. Come explore the impact of different kinds of movement and how to develop truly eloquent arms and hands.
- Be One with the Drum
- Drum solo dances are a favorite with audiences and dancers alike! This workshop focuses on understanding, responding to and traveling with the distinctive drum tones and rhythms of drum solo music. Ruric teaches and drills the percussive movements, shimmies, body pops, effective arms, and ATTITUDE that make drum-solos such an effective change of pace. A short choreography is taught.
- Improvisation & Stage Presence
- Take risks with confidence and become a goddess on stage! Every dancer wants to be able to express herself through improvisation to music. Ruric will teach you how to turn technique into dancing.
- Indic Idiom
- Bharatanatyam and Oriental Dance, when combined with respect, offer a new freedom and range in dance. The flowing musical movements of Oriental Dance, with its complete torso control, become the perfect complement to the ancient, exactly balanced science of Bharatanatyam, drawing its power from earthy feet and expressive eyes and hands. You will learn a break down of Bharatanatyam-inspired foot patterns, traveling steps, poses, hand gestures and head movements, then layer them with movements from oriental dance to create powerful and expressive combinations.
- Turkish Delight
- To explore Turkish dance you must understand the unusual 9/8 rhythm, allow it to loosen your feet from the ground, and evoke a joyous Roma attitude. Explore cross steps, side steps, and back steps which let you make the most of your space and smoothly transition from one combination to another. Add delightfully Roma hand gestures and soft pelvic motions to your normal repertoire of shimmies and hip isolations to produce a joyful expression of dance.
- The Basics of 'Ote'a, A Tradition of Tahiti.
- Learn the distinctive Tahitian layering, coordination of feet to hip articulations, and how to recognize and interpret the fast paced Tahitian drumming. Each student will learn a short drum solo that incorporates their new knowledge.
THE • PROPERTIES BASICS • for DANCERS workshop series
- The BASIC BASICS
- This first workshop will introduce you to the possibilities of a full range of dance properties (zills, spoons, skirt, candle, basket, and sword) and then present a brief introduction to veil and cane dancing. This workshop surprises and delights students of all levels with the amount of information that is common to using all props.
- The Veil as Your Luminous Body
- Ruric-Amari is arguably Kentuckiana´s most accomplished veil dancer, performing regularly with one, two and four silk veils to canned and live music. No circus pony tricks, but real melt-in-your-mouth dancing! She will set you on the path to DANCING with a veil! Includes a short choreography.
- Zills as a Musical Instrument
- Zills establish your presence on stage and add pulse, complexity and delight to your dance performance. Being able to dance WITH your zills is an indescribable thrill and essential for the accomplished belly dancer. Don't fear them! You CAN learn to play them faster than you think! Come be inspired.
- Point of Balance
- Swords, candles, canes and baskets: they all require that the dancer understand and control her center of gravity and be able to shift it around her body freely and without restraint or hesitation. She must then become comfortable with the different balance points throughout the body and use these points to explore isolation in a new way. If you are ready to learn to move beneath, with, and around any prop used for balancing then this is the workshop for you. Again, no circus pony tricks here. The goal is eloquent, passionate, effortless dancing.
- Illumination
- Illumination!!! Learn the subtle and dramatic art of candle dancing. Explore candle dancing technique, including how to
hold, frame, balance and choose the best candles to achieve the effect you desire.
- Earth-Wind-Sky Dance Theatre
- Most of what Americans think of as "Gypsy" dance is not authentic Roma but it all makes for great dance and great entertainment!
Learn several unusual skirt dance combinations and then adapt them to interpret a broad spectrum of rhythm and emotion using what Ruric calls "the range of intent." Learn how to keep the skirt from controlling the dance and to express whatever the music calls for: slow sorrow to passionate exhilaration. Your skirt might become your favorite prop!
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Past Workshops Gallery
Ruric-Amari's first workshop, 2004.
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