Specialty Classes
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**Specialty classes are meant to supplement the dancers' training. The specialty classes are additions to the program at Solstice Studio, meant to to add further depth to your core training.
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Bellydance work-out:
Saturdays: 11:30-12:40pm
Connect to your Ancient Feminine and train like a pro at Solstice Studio!
Recommended for Beginner II level and above: Practice essential movements of bellydance in a non-stop flow of fun, short dance-sequences. This practice-flow creates a high-energy workout and provides greater ease and confidence in dancers. If we want to find ourselves in a place of enjoyment in our dance, practicing movements in-depth will bring the body to take over so we can focus upon the heart. This class offers more then just dance-training: it is designed to activate the innate energy within, and burn calories as a result. Start your Saturdays with “dancers' high”!
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Free-Form Dance
with: Mz Meaghan Tiggrr Fearless
Mondays:
8:30-10:30pm
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We all have a dance living in our bodies which does not belong to any one discipline, which is absolutely unique to each of us. In Fearless Waves, we will boldly journey within ourselves to free that dance, allowing the opportunity for more authentic movement in our lives. In this investigation, the 5Rhythms Wave will be our map.
What are the 5Rhythms? The 5Rhythms are a movement practice, discovered by Gabrielle Roth, which celebrates our own bodies, whatever shape they're in, as a spiritual path. We practice the 5Rhythms by getting downright down and righteous on the dancefloor. By name, the 5Rhythms are: Flowing, Stacatto, Chaos, Lyrical, and Stillness. The Rhythms follow one after the next, in Waves. The Wave is our map, but the territory is ourselves, and the moves are our own. We dance the Waves without dogma, without choreography, through whatever is real, to whatever is true.
Our own body is
our compass. Fearless Waves is an invitation to shake our selves up, to
orient ourselves again, to come home. When we come home to our own
body, we gain access to the power of our inherent creativity.
Each Fearless Waves class will focus on a different Rhythm or aspect of the practice, and each 6-week block is designed to offer a well-rounded foundation in the practice. Drop-in participation is welcome, signing up for the full session is encouraged.
Let's see if we can remove the inhibitions in the way of our most creative, most empowered essential dance! Let's get Fearless!
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Hip Hop For Bellydancers:
Thursdays:6:30-7:30pm
We have to sneak Hip Hop class in as a sub for other bellydance classes just to convince you that you will love it. Hip Hop is here in our studio for a reason. Dancers who are committed to this class find a greater sense of coordination, control, creative ideas for movement, a different approach to bellydance isolations, and a release of dance energy that you may not feel in regular classes. If you are interested in going deeper into East Coast Tribal styling, increasing your agility and coordination, developing Solar styling, moving like a bad-ass, then get your ass into this class.
Solstice Project: Hip Hop Choreo: East Coast Tribal Salon: Landscapes of the Body 06/25/11
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Dark Tribal:
Explore the darker side of tribal
This class will meander through basic tribal movement and vocabulary with a flare of the daring and dramatic. You will learn moves into movement into choreography both
spontaneous and directed. We will engage in the performer aspect of our dance. What does this choreography mean to you? How does it make you feel? What would you like your audience to learn from it? Meld this knowledge with that of our personal dance to create hauntingly beautiful choreography.
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Yoga with Darshan:
Tuesdays: 8:15-9:15pm
Yoga is how you will tune the instrument of your dance. Discover your strengths and improve your imbalances, unite mind and body, flexibility and strength, creativity and wellness. Make your body love your dance even more with the ancient practice of yoga.
Darshan is a certified Bikram Yoga teacher since 2009, and a multi-yoga practitioner for many years. She teaches privately including several sessions with Lady Gaga, as well as corporate yoga and regular hot Bikram Yoga classes throughout the city and elsewhere. Also a massage therapist and personal trainer, she has a deep sense of the variety of bodies and characters and what they might need to achieve through their practice.
Fusion Integration:
Tuesdays: 9:15-10:15pm
Fusion Integration class description:
An active blend of combination drills and choreography integrating references to other dance forms including samba, ITS, salsa, Egyptian and modern bellydance, Indian, flamenco, yoga and more, smoothly into the tribal fusion sentiment, with attention to the details of healthy and graceful alignment, expressive presence, and a strong stance. Bring zills.
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Urban Fusion:
Wednesdays: 8:30-9:30pm
Urban Fusion is an exciting, energetic class where bellydance collides with complementary dance styles including African, hip hop, Latin, house, and dancehall. This class utilizes fusion drills, freestyle dance segments, upbeat world dance music, and a relaxed, non-competitive atmosphere to cultivate individuality in students and to challenge the body and mind to enjoy the act of dance and expression instead of focusing on getting the moves ‘right’. Expect to sweat and leave feeling more confident in your freestyle fusion abilities. Get ready to have fun!
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Modern Dance:
Thursdays: 8:30-9:30pm
This class provides the safe environment to process and grow. Pulling from the many forms of Modern dance, we learn a combination of improvisation, structure awareness and creativity along with basic technique to help strengthen the belly dancer as a performer and as an artist.
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Tribal Teens:
Thursdays: 5:30-6:25pm
We have talked for a long time about how we want to get more young people involved in Bellydance. We have two awesome instructors and a great space to support our teen dancers. Do you know any teens who would like to take a bellydance class? East Coast Tribal Style of course! Tribal Teens Move with mystery, beauty, and strength in this bellydance class reserved just for teens (ages 12-20 years). Instructors Angelys and Heather bring experience in teaching dance to young adults, drawing from Tribal Fusion bellydance, Hip Hop, and Modern dance. Develop grace, posture, strength and self-confidence. Learn a fun choreography that you can perform with/for your friends. Instructors request full 5-week enrollment in order to teach a choreography. Make-up class options are available in the case of absences. Please enroll at info@boldbellydance.com
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Children's movement:
- (6-class session: meets Jan 16th-Feb 20)
Children Dance classes:
- 4:30-5:15 (3 and 4 year olds):
- 5:20-6:05 (4 to 7 years old):
Childrens movement classes are intended for girls and boys who are interested in dance, and for parents who want to provide an activity that will allow their kids to learn through fun exercise and movement. We at Solstice Studio, feel there are some key elements that kids can begin learning to develop dance basics, but more importantly, we must preserve the spirit of the individual expression through movement. Our classes celebrate the individual and encourage self-expression through movement. We introduce ways to move, but do not base dance ability upon skill, but rather upon willingness to express ones self via movement. It is also our intention to keep the class moving and provide a good work-out. We will start and finish the class with basic stretching and light yoga.