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Learn some great belly dance moves that you can bring to any club dance floor -- this is the perfect workshop for newbies to belly dance -- and just in time for halloween! Plus, check out the Sunday night show to see the country's best dark electronica belly dance artists!
DCTribal proudly hosts The Durga Tour with Tempest & Sashi for a day of Gothic bellydance that's sure to inspire you!
registration, tickets and info at www.dctribal.com
Sunday Workshop
Join Tempest for an introduction to Gothic belly dance!
Sunday, October 1st
(times subject to minor changes)
11:00am - 11:30am: Registration
11:30am - 1:30pm: Dancing Darkly - Introduction to Gothic Belly Dance
1:30pm - 3:30pm: Strange Presence
Location
Dance Place
3225 8th Street NE
Washington, DC 20017
Dancing Darkly - Introduction to Gothic Belly Dance
Gothic Belly Dance is the union of Middle Eastern Dance with the aesthetic, sound, and emotion of the Gothic subculture. More than just a look or a sojourn into alternative music, discover the theatrical elegance and drama that truly gives "Raks Gothique" its soul essence, from Tempest - creator of the Gothic Belly Dance Resource (www.gothicbellydance.com). We'll focus on key elements for performance, including movement, attitude, aesthetic, and presentation. All levels welcome.
Strange Presence
It's all about bleeding your soul out to audience, serving it to them on a platter, and then eating THEM for lunch instead. Discover the key aspects of capturing your audience with your stage presence and develop your own onstage drama! We'll particularly focus on improvisational technique, and learning to be "in the moment."
Performance Details
Join DCTribal on October 1st for an evening of Gothic belly dance featuring Tempest and Sashi along with amazing Tribal Dancers from the D.C. metro region, including Asharah, Mavi, Ya Meena, Hilary of Shakra and more!
Location
The Jack Guidone Theater at Joy of Motion Dance Center
5207 Wisconsin Ave., N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20015
Doors will open at 6:30pm with the show beginning at 7pm.
About Tempest:
Tempest is an artist, designer, dancer, and writer currently based in the Bay Area of California. Although she enjoys studying what tradition has to offer, Tempest loves exploring the dance through unusual music and creative costuming, pulling on her visual arts background to "paint a picture" with the dance; engaging the audience through dramatic embodied storytelling, passionate expression, and sensuous, mesmerizing movement. She finds inspiration for her dances in many eras, places, and faces, from ancient cultures and spiritual myths worldwide, to the work of silent film star and original vamp Theda Bara, and turn-of-the-century dance goddess Ruth St. Denis.
Tempest is most well-known for her Gothic Belly Dance performances and instruction, and is featured on the first ever GBD performance DVD produced by WorldDanceNewYork entitled "The Darker Side of Fusion" and is set to release "Bellydance for Beautiful Freaks", an instructional DVD, this fall.
About Sashi:
(on tour from Indiana to Washington, DC)
Sashi is a talented performer, instructor and choreographer based in Orange County, California. Sashi has been a student of dance for sixteen years. She began studying African Haitian and West African dance while a student at San Francisco State University. She went on to further her experience of African dance by studying Congolese and West African drumming. In the years following, Sashi found Middle Eastern dance to be the style she was most drawn to as it spoke to her Semitic roots and aesthetic interests. She has studied many forms of Middle Eastern dance including American Tribal Style Bellydance, Tribal Fusion Bellydance, Gothic Bellydance, Egyptian and Lebanese Cabaret Bellydance, Israeli and Turkish Debke, Saidi, and Nubian Folkloric dances.
She is most recognized for her alluring and dynamic performances of Gothic Tribal Fusion Bellydance and Improvisational Tribal Fusion Bellydance. Her provocative and ritualistic performances convey her talent for expressing herself through her dance. Inspired by the "Spirit of the Dance", Sashi views bellydance as the honoring of the divine feminine by creating spiritual and physical unions through movement. This is evident as her ability to cultivate the energy that this dance evokes is translated to each audience member with a look, a gesture, a presence that is unmistakably unique to Sashi and the dance.
Learn some great belly dance moves that you can bring to any club dance floor -- this is the perfect workshop for newbies to belly dance -- and just in time for halloween! Plus, check out the Sunday night show to see the country's best dark electronica belly dance artists!
DCTribal proudly hosts The Durga Tour with Tempest & Sashi for a day of Gothic bellydance that's sure to inspire you!
registration, tickets and info at www.dctribal.com
Sunday Workshop
Join Tempest for an introduction to Gothic belly dance!
Sunday, October 1st
(times subject to minor changes)
11:00am - 11:30am: Registration
11:30am - 1:30pm: Dancing Darkly - Introduction to Gothic Belly Dance
1:30pm - 3:30pm: Strange Presence
Location
Dance Place
3225 8th Street NE
Washington, DC 20017
Dancing Darkly - Introduction to Gothic Belly Dance
Gothic Belly Dance is the union of Middle Eastern Dance with the aesthetic, sound, and emotion of the Gothic subculture. More than just a look or a sojourn into alternative music, discover the theatrical elegance and drama that truly gives "Raks Gothique" its soul essence, from Tempest - creator of the Gothic Belly Dance Resource (www.gothicbellydance.com). We'll focus on key elements for performance, including movement, attitude, aesthetic, and presentation. All levels welcome.
Strange Presence
It's all about bleeding your soul out to audience, serving it to them on a platter, and then eating THEM for lunch instead. Discover the key aspects of capturing your audience with your stage presence and develop your own onstage drama! We'll particularly focus on improvisational technique, and learning to be "in the moment."
Performance Details
Join DCTribal on October 1st for an evening of Gothic belly dance featuring Tempest and Sashi along with amazing Tribal Dancers from the D.C. metro region, including Asharah, Mavi, Ya Meena, Hilary of Shakra and more!
Location
The Jack Guidone Theater at Joy of Motion Dance Center
5207 Wisconsin Ave., N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20015
Doors will open at 6:30pm with the show beginning at 7pm.
About Tempest:
Tempest is an artist, designer, dancer, and writer currently based in the Bay Area of California. Although she enjoys studying what tradition has to offer, Tempest loves exploring the dance through unusual music and creative costuming, pulling on her visual arts background to "paint a picture" with the dance; engaging the audience through dramatic embodied storytelling, passionate expression, and sensuous, mesmerizing movement. She finds inspiration for her dances in many eras, places, and faces, from ancient cultures and spiritual myths worldwide, to the work of silent film star and original vamp Theda Bara, and turn-of-the-century dance goddess Ruth St. Denis.
Tempest is most well-known for her Gothic Belly Dance performances and instruction, and is featured on the first ever GBD performance DVD produced by WorldDanceNewYork entitled "The Darker Side of Fusion" and is set to release "Bellydance for Beautiful Freaks", an instructional DVD, this fall.
About Sashi:
(on tour from Indiana to Washington, DC)
Sashi is a talented performer, instructor and choreographer based in Orange County, California. Sashi has been a student of dance for sixteen years. She began studying African Haitian and West African dance while a student at San Francisco State University. She went on to further her experience of African dance by studying Congolese and West African drumming. In the years following, Sashi found Middle Eastern dance to be the style she was most drawn to as it spoke to her Semitic roots and aesthetic interests. She has studied many forms of Middle Eastern dance including American Tribal Style Bellydance, Tribal Fusion Bellydance, Gothic Bellydance, Egyptian and Lebanese Cabaret Bellydance, Israeli and Turkish Debke, Saidi, and Nubian Folkloric dances.
She is most recognized for her alluring and dynamic performances of Gothic Tribal Fusion Bellydance and Improvisational Tribal Fusion Bellydance. Her provocative and ritualistic performances convey her talent for expressing herself through her dance. Inspired by the "Spirit of the Dance", Sashi views bellydance as the honoring of the divine feminine by creating spiritual and physical unions through movement. This is evident as her ability to cultivate the energy that this dance evokes is translated to each audience member with a look, a gesture, a presence that is unmistakably unique to Sashi and the dance.
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