Suhaila Salimpour Workshops & Sestraluna Show
Suhaila workshops
Saturday November 14 (workshop descriptions are below)
Level one technique-2 hour workshop
registration at 10:30
workshop at 11:00-1:00
Egyptian choreography-3 hour workshop
registration at 2:00
workshop at 2:30-5:30
Sunday November 15
Layering taqseem combinations-2 hour workshop
registration at 10:30
workshop at 11:00-1:00
Hard rock fusion choreography-3 hour workshop
registration at 2:00
workshop at 2:30-5:30
Sestraluna Second Annual Show Saturday November 14th
Doors open at 6:30 , show starts at 7:00
An array of performances ranging from Tribal, cabaret, Fusion and Kung Fu! Including of course the cast members of Sestraluna, and guest performances by Anisa, Naimah and Suhalia’s assistant.
Saturdays workshops only - both for $130.00
Sunday workshops only – both for $130.00
Both Saturday and Sunday workshops PLUS one ticket to the show $250.00 (best deal savings of $40)
Show Ticket $30.00
To purchase your workshops or tickets online go to http://www.sestraluna.com/workshops.html or contact Galena and she can give you more information.
Chesapeake Arts Center194 Hammonds Lane
Brooklyn Park MD 21225
When you enter the parking lot drive all the way around the right side of the building to the back. We are in the studios and stage at the rear of the building.
Workshop Descriptions
If you don’t know who Suhaila is because you are new to dance read the artical on her in the August Issue of Nafoura E-Magazine or go to her website at http://www.suhailainternational.com/.
Level 1 Technique
Here is your opportunity to focus on the material covered in Level 1 of the Suhaila Salimpour Belly Dance Format. Level 1 provides students with the building blocks to develop strength, endurance and knowledge; with these tools, students can progress to more advanced material. Students learn correct posture and positioning, movement internalization, specific muscle control, safe training and drilling methods, and the concepts of timing and downbeat. Be ready to work hard . . . and to walk away inspired.
Egyptian Style Choreography
From the creative mind of Suhaila, this Egyptian-style choreography is an exciting exploration of movement, pattern and musical interpretation. Be ready for muscle isolation, layering, timing variations, downbeat options . . . and those are just the starting concepts. Using her comprehensive and consistent format language, Suhaila clearly breaks down each move and choreography phrase into understandable pieces that layer and connect.
Taqseem Movements and Layering
You’ll never view a taqseem the same way again. In this workshop, students will learn to isolate muscle groups so different movements can be layered with variations in timing, downbeat, and movement quality. The combinations and possibilities are limitless, and students will learn the process of integrating layers with control and intent.
Tribal Fusion Hard Rock/Belly Dance Choreography
Whatever stylization you like, you’re going to love this Suhaila choreography. This piece has a tribal fusion hard rock feel, but it’s pure belly dance at the core. Be ready for muscle isolat ion, layering, timing variations, downbeat options . . . and those are just the starting concepts. Using her comprehensive and consistent format language, Suhaila clearly breaks down each move and choreography phrase into understandable pieces that layer and connect. Come to class ready to ROCK!
New Classes Starting November 2nd!
New Intro/Beginner Technique and Adv. Beginner Veil Classes starting November 2, 2009 through December 14th! We are skipping Monday the 23rd due to the Thanksgiving Holiday.
7-8pm – Intro/Beginner Technique
8-9pm – Adv. Beginner Veil (something special for Christmas)
Check out the classes page for more information.
All Hallows Hafla
All Hallows Hafla
Where the Dead Can Dance and You Can Too!
Workshop and Party location Galena’s House 907 Rose Anne Road Glen Burnie, MD 21060“Hand drums of the Middle East & Africa” Drumming Workshop $35
Costume Party $10
Kids under 2 are free but must stay with Parent at ALL times
Food, Spirits, Dancing, and more!
Pre-Register for the workshop and/or show by Paypal on website: www.sestraluna.com or Pay at the door!
Event Description
“Hand Drums of the Middle East and Africa” Drumming Workshop from 4 to 6 pm Hosted by Nate Stottlemyer www.NPStottlemyer.net Participants are invited to experience a variety of hand drumming traditions from the Middle East and West Africa. Participants will learn authentic techniques and rhythms. A limited number of instruments will be provided, primarily doumbeks courtesy of The Wright Hand Drum Company www.wrighthanddrums.com. These instruments will be available for sale following the workshop. Participants are encouraged to bring their own doumbeks, frame drums, djembes, or congas if they desire. Nate Stottlemyer endorses Wright Hand Drums.
All Hallows Hafla We will have a variety of bellydance performances with a Halloween theme. If you would like to have a dance slot email us at typhrodisia@aol.com
All dance styles welcome and some sort of a Halloween theme is suggested….be creative!
Costume Party from 6 to 9 is family friendly. After 9 pm, party becomes PG-13 because it gets darker, scarier and there is alcohol, so keep young children there at your own risk. Since the majority of the party is outside (although we will have a campfire and a heated tent) dress for the weather. Feel free to bring a dish or alcohol to share if you would like but it is not required. COSTUMES ARE REQUIRED. Be creative because there is a costume contest for those who would like to enter. $10 per person includes food, spirits, show and costume party.
Baby Sitter We will be hiring 2 young people to keep an eye on children who attend the party. Children under 2 are not permitted to be left with the sitter. The $10 fee for children ages 3-8 is to cover the sitter whether you use them or not.
Costume Swap Meet bring used costumes to sell or exchange
After Dark We will have open dancing and drumming around the fire at night! Bring your instruments.
New Classes Starting September 21
New Beginner/Adv. Beginner Veil Classes starting September 21, 2009 through October 26th! If there is enough interest this session we will split it into 2 classes. Since the session ends right around Halloween so we are going to do some fun fusion for the holiday.
Check out my Classes Page for more details!
Shimmies for the Cure
Galena & Sestraluna will be peforming at the Shimmies for the Cure event, a charity to benefit breast cancer.
What: SHIMMIES FOR THE CURE
When: September 12, 2009 1:00 PM
Price: $40.00 per person
Where:
Columbus Gardens
4301 Klosterman Ave
Baltimore, MD 21236
443-676-9038
A message from the organizer:
I am training with The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society Team In Training program to prepare for and run 13.1 miles in the Baltimore Half Marathon on October 10, 2009. This will be my 3rd event that I have fundraised and ran for the LLS. Last year I ran 26.2 mile in the Baltimore Marathon and 13.1 miles in The Disney Half Marathon while raising over $7,000 for the LLS. I hope to surpass that amount this year with your help!
I am running in memory for my grandmother LaVerne Virginia Mack, who passed away in March 2009 from brain cancer and my mother-in-law Valerie Ann Richardson who passed away in August 1990 from pancreatic cancer. And in honor of my friend Allyson’s son Connor Riggs an 8 year old boy, Connor who was diagnosed with ALL at the age of 3 and underwent 2 ½ years of chemo and steroids. And I am happy to say that Connor is winning his battle and is now in remission.
At this year’s event, the 2nd Annual Shimmies For The Cure, a fundraising Hafla (Belly Dance Show) on the date of Saturday, September 12th, 2009 from 1:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. at Columbus Gardens located at 4301 Klosterman Avenue, Baltimore, Md 21236. This event will feature a Buffet Dinner, a Belly Dance show, open dancing, DJ and a Silent Auction.
Tickets are on sale now $40.00 per person. The buffet will include :
• Beer, Wine, Soda & Coffee
• Cash Bar for all other Alcohol
• Hand Carved Beef, Turkey and Ham
• Italian Meatballs
• Chicken Scampi
• Mini Cheese, Pepperoni & Sausage Pizza
• Vegetable Tray
• Cheese tray
• Dessert – Crème puffs, Chocolate Eclairs, Cookies & Cake
The show will begin promptly at 1:45 p.m. The line- up is amazing and is as follows:
• Bellydance Delight
• Carrie Shusta
• Damiena Dances
• Helena Zahra
• Karma
• Naimah
• Rayhana Rhea
• Sestraluna
• Shems
• Typhrodisia
If you would like to donate items for the silent auction, please email me at my3weiners@verizon.net or if you would like to make a monetary donation, you can donate directly to my fund at: http://pages.teamintraining.org/md/balt09/crichardson.
Please be aware that all donations are tax-deductable and our tax information is as follows:
Tax ID # 13-5644916.
Thank you for supporting our mission
Learn more here:
http://www.meetup.com/Baltimore-DC-Bellydance/calendar/10960830/
All Seasons Recap
The last All Seasons was amazing! So many wonderful dancers and so much fun! I can’t wait until they start up at their new venue.
Intro/Beginner Bellydance Classes
New Classes start on August 3rd, 2009!
College Park Woods Swim Club House 3545 Marlbrough Way College Park, MD 20740 Monday Evenings 7pm to 8pm
Introduction to Bellydance/Beginner Bellydance
Introduction to bellydance will give you a brief overview of American Style bellydance. You will learn the fundamentals and importance of proper posture, basic technique and dance etiquette. This class will get you up and moving and best of all, having a good time! This is a technique based class where you will learn individual steps and short combinations.
Check out the classes page for more information.
This session we will also be learning a very short drum solo choreography.
SUMMER SESSION SPECIAL! Bring a friend who signs up for class too and receive $10 off your session. Bring more friends and get more money off your first session.
Starlight Shimmy Recap
Starlight shimmy was wonderful. Thank you Zareen for continuously organizing a wonderful event.
Apparently there is a gap between the stage and the wall…..I was unaware of that until I stepped in the gap and lost my footing during our performance. Oh well, even the best of us make mistakes. I think I recovered quick enough though.
Starlight Shimmy
Galena will be performing with Sestraluna at Starlight Shimmy on August 1, 2009! (8:00pm – 10:45pm)
New Deal Café113 Centerway
Roosevelt Center
Greenbelt, MD 20770
301.474.5642
Directions:
From the Capital Beltway, take Kenilworth Avenue (exit 23 – MD Route 201) north. Turn right onto Crescent Road. Follow Crescent Road into Old Greenbelt until you reach Roosevelt Center on your right (2nd stop sign). Turn right on Centerway into the Roosevelt Center.
Sestraluna Performing at the All Seasons
Sestraluna will be performing at the All Seasons Hafla!
August 9, 2009
Cafe Spice, 321 York Rd. Towson, MD, 21204
DOORS OPEN AT 3:45!!
Tickets are $22 at the door-please bring cash to make check in go smoothly!
Word just in that this will be the last All Seasons Hafla at the Cafe Spice in Towson. They are currently searching for a new location. Come out and really support us at this wonderful event!
KIVA’s 20th Anniversary Reunion Concert
Sestraluna will be performing and dancing with the audience on August 8, 2009 — KIVA’s 20th Anniversary Reunion Concert at the Unitarian Church in Silver Spring, MD. Come One Come All! We’ve been a band (with lots of different members) for 20 years now — since 1989. Come see nearly all the folks that played with KIVA over the years in a giant extravaganza concert at the UU Church of Silver Spring. Entry fee will be sliding scale $10-$25. We’re paying premium rates for this location so please come, invite your friends, we’re using the big room! Doors open at 7:00pm and music starts at 8:00pm and goes until 11:00pm. Confirmed former KIVAites that are playing are: Lynn Cunningham, Nicole Cooley, Eve Jones, Izolda Trachtenberg and more. Current satellite members Jaqui MacMillan and Amikaeyla Proudfoot Gaston also plan to be there!
We’ll have vendors and dancers just like Cerridwin’s of old. Tell everyone! Share this with everyone!!! Send it to all the lists.
Directions: Unitarian Universalist Church of Silver Spring. From the northern side of the DC Beltway (I-495) take New Hampshire Ave. (Rt. 650) North, toward White Oak. Go exactly 1/2 mile and turn RIGHT onto Oak Lawn Drive. Turn right into the church parking lot.
Raks America
Sestraluna will be performing the Australian Tribal dance at Raks America June 20, 2009
Joe’s Movement Emporium 3309 Bunker Hill Road, Mount Rainier, MD 20712
Saturday, June 20 and Sunday, June 21, 2009
Free admission all weekend!
1:42 pm BOOKED by Sestraluna
Video Recap of the All Seasons Hafla
The All Seasons Hafla at Cafe Spice was AMAZING on Sunday! You missed a great show. Everyone was just spectacular.
Sestraluna Tiki Hafla & Fire Dancing Workshop
August 15, 2009 @ 3pm
907 Rose Anne Road
Glen Burnie MD 21060
Fire Dancing Workshop from 3pm to 5pm – Learn the basics of fire safety and how to dance with a fire staff or fire hula hoop. Workshop is outside. Water will be provided. Feel free to bring any staffs or hoops you have at home to practice with. Dance-A-Fire will also have fire staffs and hoops available for purchase. The workshop price is $35.00
Tiki Party Starts at 6pm. Attendees from the fireworkshop can stay and hang out from 5-6pm. From 6-8pm is family friendly. After 8pm the party becomes PG-13 so keep your young children there at your own risk. Entire party is outside – bathrooms only inside so dress for the weather.
Photo Shoot with JimmyC – Sign up for 1 hour timeslots for a photo shoot with JimmyC of LuminousImpression. 1 Hour Session includes 2 costumes and all the accessories you can fit in for $100.00. Proofs will be posted to a website within days and you choose up to 6 photos for post-processing!
Costume Swap Meet – Bring your used costumes to sell or exchange. We will have an area set up for changing and trying on costumes.
Silent Auction – Some of the members of Sestraluna are donating items for the silent auction. Please check the table out. You can find some really good deals including hip scarfs, costume pieces and even gigs and lessons!
Raffle – We will be raffling 2 tickets to the November Sestraluna Show featuring Naimah, Anisa, Mara Burke, Nilat and the kung fu artists from Jing Ying. Raffle tickets are $1- 1 ticket, $5 – 10 tickets and $10 – for 1 arm length
Featured Music – We will have some of the members of Kiva performing a live acoustic performance.
After Dark – We will have open dancing around the fire at night! If you would like to have a dance slot email us @ typhrodisia@aol.com. All dance styles welcome!
Cost:
$35.00 Fire Dancing Workshop only
$10.00 Tiki Party Hafla cover charge includes food from 6pm to 8pm (limited quantities available so come early to eat)
$15.00 Tiki Party Hafla and includes access to the keg until the keg runs dry
$100.00 1 Hour Photo Session with JimmyC
$5.00 for kids 6-12
Kids 5 and under are free
Send all payments through paypal to typhrodisia@aol.com
Parking: There will be limited parking in the front yard. Park along the street. Do not block neighbors driveways or the fire hydrant. Carpool if you can or park and ride with your friends from the bowling alley.
What will be covered in the workshop
For over a year now DC’s most spectacular Object Manipulators have joined forces, performed and taught under the title Dance Afire. Two of these talents, Surprise and Fractal, have put their heads together and come up with a two hour workshop that will introduce you to the expressions of two of our arts most dramatic tools, Hoop and Staff. Below you’ll find the basic sylabi Fractal and Surprise will use to explore first principles with you. What many outside of the practice do not know is that Hoop and staff though visually distinct, are from the wielders perspective very similar. This Workshop has been constructed to maximize your exposure to these similar techniques ensuring that you get the most out of your time with Dance Afire. As a dancer you know that technique is just the beginning. Using these first principles as a foundation Surprise and Fractal will share their unique insights as dancers on how these techniques may be integrated into your personal practice and used to accent your dance.
First Hour, Staff:
Basic Rotors: Hip Rolls, Figure Eights, (Thumb work)
Hands: Finger Rolls, Hand Rolls
Horizontal Plane Wk: Neck rolls, Helicopters
Arms: Wraps, conveyor belts and Steves.
Second Hour, Hoop:
Waist: The Secret, Basic Spin, Earth & Sky Angles
Hand Hooping
Lifts and Returns
Arm Accentuation
Introduction to Bellydance Classes Start June 22nd
New Classes starting on June 22nd, 2009!
College Park Woods Swim Club House 3545 Marlbrough Way College Park, MD 20740 Monday Evenings 7pm to 8pm
Introduction to Bellydance
Introduction to bellydance will give you a brief overview of American Style bellydance. You will learn the fundamentals and importance of proper posture, basic technique and dance etiquette. This class will get you up and moving and best of all, having a good time! This is a technique based class where you will learn individual steps and short combinations.
Check out the classes page for more information.
SUMMER SESSION SPECIAL! Bring a friend who signs up for class too and receive $10 off your session. Bring more friends and get more money off your first session.
Summer Solstice Hafla
Galena will be performing with Sestraluna at Troupe Hip’notic’s 3rd Annual Summer Solstice Hafla in southern Maryland.
When – June 13, 2009
Gates open at 5:00, show begins at 5:30
Where - The Woodland Amphitheater, Kings Landing Park in Huntingtown, MD. (If rain – Patuxent Hall at Kings Landing
**Rain plan**
If the forecast is for gloom and doom, the show WILL go on – just be moved inside.
Other things to bring:
- A lawn chair or blanket to sit on
- Bug repellant
- You can bring a picnic dinner, too!
Fee – $5/person
Galena Mini Workshop
The College Park Woods is having a craft fair fundraiser on May 2nd at their pool, College Park Woods Swim Club House 3545 Marlbrough Way College Park, MD 20740 from 10am-5pm. Free Entrance.
Galena and a few members of Sestraluna will be providing a short demonstration and mini-workshop event. It is a great way to come sample bellydance before you decide if it is right for you. There aren’t too many events with free entry these days so take advantage.
“Come enjoy a great family oriented craft fair to help raise funds for the local pool. There will be a story time give by the Usbourne representative at 11, 12:30, 2, and 3:30. A kids craft table will be opened all day for kids to come and make that special mother’s day gift for a small fee. You can enjoy some free cake samples by Confections and More. Take home some yummy treats from the bake sale table and enjoy a Belly Dancing demonstration by a local belly dancing troupe.
Other vendors include: Penelope Spa selling wonderful soaps and lotions, a Creative Memory vendor selling scrapbooking material, Quilting Bee selling quilts and taking special orders, and Michelle’s Arts.”
Sestraluna Performing @ Starlight Shimmy
Sestraluna will be performing at Starlight Shimmy on April 4th. I unfortunately won’t be there because I have a prior private engagement. I do hope you all will go out there and support my sisters of the moon.
All Seasons Hafla @ Cafe Spice
I will be performing at the All Seasons in June! Not sure what numbers I am going to do yet. I am thinking about trying out some double veil. I guess you will just have to show up and see!
$22 includes show and all you can eat Indian buffet. Tips and cash bar are extra.
Cafe Spice – 321 York Road, Towson MD.
Performing at the MD Faerie Festival
So I just found out that I will be performing with Sestraluna at the Maryland Faerie Festival. I am really looking forward to it. I will update as soon as I know what our timeslot will be.
Update: Looks like we will have 2 20 min timeslots, one on Saturday and one on Sunday. Both Shows will be at 1pm.
Performing at Shiver Me Shimmies
Galena will be performing with Sestraluna at Shiver Me Shimmies Hafla on March 14th. It is a nice, inexpensive little hafla. Come on out to support us! You must buy tickets ahead of time. There will be no tickets sold at the door.
