Panel Discussions
May 3-6, 2012
Lectures will be held daily at the Lithuanian House in the Seminar Room.
Please see the IBCC 2012 Featured Speakers for more details.
For more information on Lectures, Panel Discussions & Films, scroll below!
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IBCC 2012 Daily Events:
Wednesday, May 2
7:00pm – Registration & Tour
8:00pm – Opening Night Gala
Thursday, May 3
9:00- 10:45am, Dance Workshop (Main Hall): TITO - Shaabi
9:15-10:15am, Lecture: ALIA THABIT - “Midnight at the Crossroads: Has Bellydance Lost It’s Soul?”
9:30-10:30am, Dance Workshop (Lower Hall): T.B.A.
10:30am-12:15pm, Panel Discussion: “Competitions Pros vs. Cons”
10:45am-11:45am, Dance Workshop (Lower Hall): WILLOW CHANG
11:15am-1:00pm, Dance Workshop (Main Hall): KHAIRIYYA MAZEN – Ghawazi
12:00pm-1:00pm, Dance Workshop (Lower Hall): DAVID – Baladi to Sharqi
12:30pm-1:00pm, Lecture: ANDREA DEAGON: Oriental dance in France and the Path to Raqs Sharqi
1:00-2:00: LUNCH BREAK
2:00pm-3:45pm, Dance Workshop (Main Hall): NATALIA FADDA – Bellydance to “Ansak”
2:00pm-3:00pm, Lecture: SHIRA – Before Tahia
2:00pm-3:00pm, Dance Workshop (Lower Hall): TAMALYN DALLAL
3:15pm-4:15pm, Lecture: DR. GEORGE SAWA - The Power of Women Artists: Evidence from the Medieval Arabic Sources
4:00pm-5:30pm, EMERGING ARTISTS STAGE (Lower Hall)
4:15pm-6:00pm, Dance Workshop (Main Hall): MAHMOUD REDA
4:30pm-6:00pm, Film: PAOLA BLANTON – Raq’n the Roots with Malesh Roma”
Balkan Music & Dance of Maleshevo Region of Eastern Macedonia
Friday, May 4
9:00- 10:45am, Dance Workshop (Main Hall): APRIL ROSE
9:15-10:15am, Lecture: DR.ISABELLE GANGON - “Body language of the Oriental Dancer”
9:30-10:30am, Dance Workshop (Lower Hall): T.B.A.
10:30am-12:15pm, Panel Discussion: “Foreign Influences - All Directions”
10:45am-11:45am, Dance Workshop (Lower Hall): SASHAR ZARIF – Gossip: Cultural Body Language
11:15am-1:00pm, Dance Workshop (Main Hall): SAHRA SAEEDA
12:00pm-1:00pm, Dance Workshop (Lower Hall): PAOLA BLANTON – Macedonian Gypsy Wedding Chochek
12:30pm-1:00pm, Lecture: YASMINA RAMZY: Beyond Sequins
1:00-2:00: LUNCH BREAK
2:00pm-3:45pm, Dance Workshop (Main Hall): TITO – Shamadan
2:00pm-3:00pm, Lecture: KHAIRIYYA MAZEN – Q & A
2:00pm-3:00pm, Dance Workshop (Lower Hall): TEMPEST
3:15pm-4:15pm, Lecture: AURORA ONGARO - Anatomy for the Bellydancer
4:00pm-5:30pm, EMERGING ARTISTS STAGE (Lower Hall)
4:15pm-6:00pm, Dance Workshop (Main Hall): NATALIA FADDA –“Mezhanse”
4:30pm-6:00pm, Film: TAMALYN DALLAL – “40 Days and 1001 Nights, Seeing the Islamic World through the Eyes of a Dancer"
Saturday, May 5
9:00- 10:45am, Dance Workshop (Main Hall): SAHRA SAEEDA
9:15-10:15am, Lecture: KATHLEEN FRASER - “Scheherazade at large: then, now and forever … ?”
9:30-10:30am, Dance Workshop (Lower Hall): T.B.A.
10:30am-12:15pm, Panel Discussion: “Marketing BD as Fitness - How is this impacting the art?”
10:45am-11:45am, Dance Workshop (Lower Hall): LINDA RIYAD
11:15am-1:00pm, Dance Workshop (Main Hall): T.B.A.
12:00pm-1:00pm, Dance Workshop (Lower Hall): LEILA GAMAL
12:30pm-1:00pm, Lecture: ANDREA DEAGON - Oriental dance and danse du ventre in North America,
1890’s – 1910’s
1:00-2:00: LUNCH BREAK
2:00pm-3:45pm, Dance Workshop (Main Hall): APRIL ROSE
2:00pm-3:45pm, Lecture: MAHMOUD REDA (Lower Hall) – “Dancing is My Life”
4:00pm-5:30pm, EMERGING ARTISTS STAGE (Lower Hall)
4:30pm-6:00pm, Music Class: DR. GEORGE SAWA
Sunday, May 6
9:00- 10:45am, Dance Workshop (Main Hall): MAHMOUD REDA
9:15-10:15am, Lecture: THANIA MENESES-FLORES - “The Rhetoric of Dance: The Medieval Salome”
9:30-10:30am, Dance Workshop (Lower Hall): T.B.A.
10:30am-12:15pm, Panel Discussion: “Shaking A Coin - Surviving the Biz in Hard Economic Times”
10:45am-11:45am, Dance Workshop (Lower Hall): APRIL ROSE
11:15am-1:00pm, Dance Workshop (Main Hall): YASMINA RAMZY – Fearless Femininity
12:00pm-1:00pm, Dance Workshop (Lower Hall): KRANTI
12:30pm-1:00pm, Lecture: T.B.A.
1:00-2:00: LUNCH BREAK
2:00pm-3:45pm, Dance Workshop (Main Hall): KAHIRIYYA MAZEN
2:00pm-3:00pm, Lecture: STAVROS KARYIANNI – “Oriental Dance and the Politics of Artistic Expression”
2:00pm-3:00pm, Dance Workshop (Lower Hall): SHARA SAEEDA
3:15pm-4:15pm, Music Class, SULEIMAN WARWAR – Dumbek (Arabic Drum)
4:00pm-5:30pm, EMERGING ARTISTS STAGE (Lower Hall)
4:15pm-6:00pm, Dance Workshop (Main Hall): TITO – Oriental Song
4:30pm-6:00pm, Film: “My Mother is a Bellydancer”