Workshops
April 22 - 25, 2010
IBCC Workshops will be held at the Hungarian Canadian Cultural Centre, April 22-25, 2010. Each day will feature a different combination of instructors and topics from your favourite teachers!
Find out about your IBCC 2010 Featured Instructors here
For more information on dance workshop topics and individual workshops, scroll below!
Individual Workshops
Availabilty for attending an individual workshop is not known until 10 minutes after the workshop has begun. Hopefuls may line up and depending upon space available in the room after all registered attendees have been admitted will determine how many people will be allowed to enter.
Cost per workshop ranges from $45 - $65 depending on the instructor. Please note that many of the dance workshops are likely to be sold out but you are welcome to line up and take your chances!
Register for IBCC 2010
$599 until Feb. 28/10
$699 Regular rate
SPECIAL BONUS: All IBCC 2007 & 2008 package registrants receive an extra $50 off per year registered!
* IBCC Full Conference Packages are non-refundable, but are transferable
Individual Workshops
Availabilty for attending an individual workshop is not known until 10 minutes after the workshop has begun. Hopefuls may line up and depending upon space available in the room after all registered attendees have been admitted will determine how many people will be allowed to enter.
Cost per workshop ranges from $45 - $65 depending on the instructor. Please note that many of the dance workshops are likely to be sold out but you are welcome to line up and take your chances!
Notices of Individual Workshop availability will be made in April, 2010
Dance Workshop topics:
Khairiyya Mazin: Ghawazi
Mahmoud Reda:
Thursday April 22 : Fallahin Style
Saturday April 24 : Nubian Style
Sunday April 25 : Layal Tewal, Andalusian Style
Sema Yildiz:
Thursday April 22 - Introduction 9/8 Gypsy style technique
Friday April 23-Turkish Roman Dance/ Facial Expression choreography
Sunday April 25- Turkish Classic Dance Improvisation (Please bring veil)
Hadia:
Friday April 23: Hadia’s Ultimate Body Logic Technique
Hadia’s Body Logic is a revolutionary approach to beautiful, graceful and effortless oriental dance that traces even the most complex movements and steps back to their essential, natural and simple movement patterns, then combines these with the fundamentals of Egyptian styling in a very unique and delicious way. Based on her training as a highly skilled therapist, Hadia specifically applies anatomy and kinesiology to guarantee surprisingly easy, pain free and joyful movement that both heals and strengthens the body.
Saturday April 24: Maximize your Music with Hadia
Would you like to understand and command your music, to know HOW to listen to and interpret its rhythms, instruments, phrasing and dynamics and to translate these into Movement? Hadia invites you to benefit from her 38 years of experience as an Award Winning Choreographer as the “Embodiment of the Music”!
Jillina:
Friday April 23: "Drum Roll Please " - Breakdown of Drum Rhythms & Technique
Various combinations with some unusual twist and turns. Dynamic drum solo using layered and percussive movements as well as numerous types of shimmies and strong hip technique. This drum solo will add a slap & tickle to your performance.
Drum Solo: New 2010 choreography
Sunday April 25: "Rockin Rak Sharqi"
Using upbeat, energetic music fusing folkloric and oriental movements with a unique blend of Jillina's own style of dance. You will learn a set of combinations and floor patterns that can be used in your own dance routines as well as the choreography learned in class.
Oriental: New 2010 choreography
Delilah:
Thursday April 22: Pharaonic Style and Ritual Belly Dance
Dance of Hetshepsute 1975, Dance to the Great Mother 1985, Calling up the Oracle 1987, Themis Mother of Oracles 1989, Lotus Pool 1990, Charge of the Goddess 1995, Hathor Movement Meditation 1997, Pyramid Project 2007; these are all important dances in Delilah’s career that are side lines of her traditional American cabaret experience. Delilah talks about her deep inspired call from another time and shares some of her favorite parts. These dances Delilah has created over the years involve focused attention and stylized, symbolic, hand and arm work and soul commitment.
Saturday April 24: Power Belly Dancing with Weight Belts.
(As seen on her online-class, visit her web site for more information)
Power Belly is a dynamic approach to belly dance that offers the dancer a sweaty workout, an ecstatic feeling of dancing together without much memorized choreography. It improves health, energy, muscle tone and stamina. You do not have to have a weight belt to gain teacher level skills out of this class. Delilah will demonstrate the techniques and theory behind this revolutionary innovation she has been cultivating in classes for 8 years. She guides you through the dance using descriptive imagery that takes you to different levels. EQUIPMENT? It is not necessary for this workshop but if you want you can order a weight belt ahead of time if you want to use one in class. Obviously, she can’t carry many on an airplane (average 10-12 pounds each) And because it’s US to Canada earlier is best! Order through www.visionarydance.com. Say IBBC and we will discount your order and try to combine shipping. We repeat; weight belts are not essential for this class.
Sera Solstice
Friday April 23: Pop n' Lock Artistry:
The isolations of the modern Bellydancer often incorporate pop n' lock movements that have crossed over from Hip Hop Dance. This workshop explores ways to integrate the look, feel, and specific techniques of pop'n lock movements, but from the sublime and sensual execution of the Bellydancer. Dancers will learn a challenging sequence of pops and locks that assist each dancer in developing the muscle control needed for successful execution of Pops n' locks. Dancers will learn how to frame smaller isolations with other parts of the body, how to direct energy of muscle contractions through the body quickly, how to maintain and finesse power within the body and movement. Overall, the control required to execute this choreography sequence will inevitably elevate the dancers ability to isolate with greater ease, control, confidence, and grace.
Saturday April 24: Solar Movement:
An in-depth journey into the powerful expression of Sera's Solar Movement vocabulary. Solar movement is focused on expansive, travelling, fast, deep bellydance movement. Hard-driving combinations develop strength, stamina, grace through quick weight-changes, and clarity of movement. Dancers activate inner-force, balancing trust in the body, and trust in the self to move confidently in dance and in the world.
Amel Tafsout
Thursday April 22: NUBA: a dance journey through the Maghreb ( TUNISIA, ALGERIA AND MOROCCO).
In this workshop Amel Tafsout will introduce the various dance movements that are specific to each country, such as the Tunisian hip twists, the Moroccan hips and belly drops the Algerian hip figures of eights and various steps. She will teach the similarities and differences in each dance, talk about costuming, give some background of each dance and teach some sequences for each style.
Saturday April 24: Introduction to the Amazigh-Berber dances with the focus on the 'Abdaoui fertility dance of the Aures Mountains
The Maghreb (North Africa) has always been a crossroad of cultures, a gate between the West and the East, the North and the South - Where Africa meets the Orient . In Maghrebi countries music and dance are associated partly with Middle Eastern culture (Arabic and Turkish) as well as Arabo-Andalusian elements of Medieval Spain , and partly with Amazigh and African roots
The dance is both a public and a personal expression, rich in symbolic dimensions that deal with universal constants in nature, fertility of Mother Earth and the communication between the Earthy and the Divine.
In Amazigh regions women’s singing accompanies any kind of work, such as the harvest. Festivals provide the opportunity to see dances as a Unity. Traditional Amazigh dances are mostly ritual dances. Originally they were a magical act, in order to obtain the fertility of Mother Earth or to ask for the rain in case of the drought. The worshiping of a Divinity or a spirit of Nature was used in order to gain its protection.
Yasmina Ramzy
Sunday April 25: The Creative Process: Creating Meaningful Choreography with Impact for Soloists and Ensembles in Many Styles of Middle Eastern Dance. As well, take part in an ensemble choreography with live music.