Workshops
Introduction to Bellydance Workshop with Sera Solstice
July 31st, 6-7:00 pm at Solstice Studio, 68 West 39th, at 6th ave, New York, NY
Come for a fun sampling of bellydance movements for absolute beginners. Class includes technical explaination of steps, lead/follow with teacher, and learning a short choreography to take home. Class is followed by performances from dancers of Solstice Studio from 7-10:30. Cost for class is $15.00 (if paid in advance via paypal, or stop by our studio to pay cash/check). $20 at the door. (Class fee includes entry to the party/performance afterwards). Reserve your place in class by emailing/send paypal payment to: info@boldbellydance.com
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Hip Hop Dance for Bellydancers Intensive
Saturday, July 31st, 2010
4pm-6pm
Solstice Studio
$30 (paid in advance by July 29th via PayPal or stop by studio with cash or check)
$35 (at the door the day of the event)
Learn a Hip Hop choreography in a fun, relaxed, environment from a teacher who will make you feel capable, challenged, and energized! A graphic designer, painter, dancer, and choreographer, Eunice Kindred is a long-time veteran of the visual and performing arts. Eunice began her study of ballet at two years old in the Philippines and later joining the Ballet New England company in New Hampshire. When she moved to Tampa, Florida, she took a break from ballet in order to focus her energies toward her flourishing career as a young competitive champion bowler. Eunice returned to dance in her first year at Harvard through Expressions Dance Company and over her four years there, choreographed twelve pieces for the company while also serving as the group's PR designer and aassistant director. Currently she performs with her troupe, isa [dance], choreographing and dancing for up and coming and established artists such as Vaneli, Irena Hart, Akon, and many more. She also serves as a fitness group instructor for Crunch gyms, making regular appearances on major television networks and shows. reserve your place in class by emailing: info@boldbellydance.com
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SOLAR BELLYDANCE with Sera Solstice
June 18th: 7:00--9:00pm
$40 in advance (reserve space by sending paypal to info@boldbellydance.com)
$45 at the door
In celebration of the Summer Solstice, Sera Solstice will lead dancers through the Solar movement vocabulary, featuring travelling movements, expansive energy usage, and a sexy choreography sequence. 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 the world.
Womens Circle: Solstice Ritual
June 18th: 9pm--10:30
Free (donations for space are welcomed)
An organized gathering of women to support each other in finding core strength, connection
to intuition, to re-set, reclaim, re-ignite desires, goals, ideas, love
and empowerment. We will meditate, write, share our thoughts, and perhaps dance a bit.
Please bring a light snack or drink to share. If you have a drum, please bring your drum!
Please note: this is not a religious gathering, however, we do honor spirit and seek our individual connection to spirit. We follow a Wiiccan format of recognizing elements and spirit. We call forth any and all deities that participants wish to welcome. There is no forced or expected participation of any sort. You will be asked for trust. Please leave all information that is shared by participants within the circle, never to be shared outside of the circle.
Freeform Dance with Meaghan Tiggrr Fearless
June 5th: 4:30-6:30pm at Solstice Studio, NYC
$20 in advance (Reserve your space by emailing info@boldbellydance.com and paying cash, check, or PayPal by Thursday 6/3.)
or
$25 at the door (cash only)
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 this workshop we will journey deep within ourselves to free it.
We will
create a safe, sacred environment in which we are encouraged to feel
our vulnerabilities and express our strengths, and will move through
guided meditations both in silence and with music. We will go forth
into the unknown, giving permission to ourselves to let go of the
rulebook and truly be danced.
Whether a beginning-level seeker, a
seasoned ecstatic dancer, or anywhere in between, this session will
inspire and empower your personal creative process. Hopefully we will
all have some fun along the way! Bring a notebook or journal; as time
and interest allows, we will share our experiences with one another.
Mz Meaghan Tiggrr Fearless is a longtime student of moving poetry. She
offers herself to the community as a performer, event producer,
teacher, and temple priestess with the intention of inspiring others'
self-expression thru mad dancefloor mojo. She is a founder of the
infamous Freek Factory artist collective, Church, and Body Temple, and
a core dancer with Gabrielle Roth's 5Rhythms Theater, CoSM, Akim Funk
Buddha's Dha Fuzion, Soul Fire and Sub Swara. She has also performed
ritual theater with the Mythmakers at Shambhala Music Festival, danced
onstage at Red Rocks with Spearhead, and pounded dancefloors and
headspaces at festivals and underground experiences too numerous and/or
weird to list . She offer limitless gratitude for all the inspiration.
April
21st-25th: Sera Solstice teaches and performs at the International
Bellydance
Conference of Canada, Toronto
April 29th: Sera Solstice teaches at Spring Caravan Festival, Somerset NJ, 10am-1pm: Drum Solo Choreography
April 30th: Sera Solstice teaches at Spring Caravan Festival, Somerset NJ,
12:30-2:30pm: Artful Isolations
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June 14th-17th
Mardi Love and Zoe Jakes
NYC intensive:
SOLD OUT: NO SPACES AVAILABLE
June 14-17 2010
Location: Solstice Studio
Cost: $475.00
To register: now accepting paypal payments.
$475.00
This is an intermediate level workshop
Workshop schedule and topics:
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Monday, June 14th, 10am-1pm
Zoe Jakes
The art of making it weird (slow, lovely, and strange)
We are going to ride the edge between exquisite and strange in this slow movement workshop. All that ooey gooey stuff that is so fun and delicious to watch and do will be focused on, using elements from the head down through to the fingertips. We will be focusing on super slow isolations, extreme undulations, and upper body technique. Hand work, elbow work, wrist work, posture, oblique strengthening (to get that horizontal pull that makes mayas and hip slides so exquisite and strange) , belly rolls with emphasis on stomach musculature. And of course the elusive flutter!
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Monday, June 14th, 2-5pm:
Mardi Love
new combinations for quicker tempos
mardi brings a few original combinations to add to your repertoire. class will begin with a few isolation patterns to challenge the mind and body. movements are carefully broken down and drilled. mardi will also discuss how she approaches the audience and stage presence.
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Tuesday, June 15th, 11am-2pm
Mardi Love
fluidity, subtlety and creating slow pieces with interest
this class will touch on several aspects of slow dancin' technique, and students will take home a couple of slow combinations, but we'll also delve into the nuances of a piece that give it heart and keep it interesting .... using the stage, creating mood and facial details.
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Tuesday, June 15th, 3pm--6pm
Zoe Jakes
pretty arms, ridiculous rolls, and crazy spins
Pt. 1. Step by step this class will train your body to correctly execute a fluid and completely muscular roll, Arms and Hands-getting more flexibility, fluidity and strength, making your arm work look effortless and smooth.
Pt. 2-just like the title says, all
those spins ya love and how to do them....kick spins, off balance
spins, whip spins, reverse turns, double whip spins.....Whew! and a
spin heavy combination to top it off!
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Wednesday, June 16th, 11am-2pm
Zoe Jakes
Fast and furious drills
This Workshop will use specific pilates and yoga based exercises to strengthen the core muscles necessary for backbends, belly rolls, and tight hip work. Hip, head, shoulder and chest isolations will be drilled, as well as working on smoothing transitions from move to move. We will go over lots of pop-lock technique, as well as fluidity of movement, stressing on posture and upper body awareness.
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Wednesday, June 16th, 3-6pm
Mardi Love
- traveling movements and combinations and formations
while we prefer dancing in small spaces, we are sometimes presented with quite a large stage to use.
in this class mardi will present a few new combinations that will help you fill a stage. movements will be carefully broken down and drilled.
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Thursday, June 17th, 10am-1pm
Mardi Love
original choreography
.... just like it sounds. we'll begin class with a few drills, then move right into a new choreography.
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Thursday, June 17th, 2-5pm
Zoe Jakes
Layering with Shimmies-Zoe style
Zoe pulls all the shimmies from her book for this one. Shimmies powered by the glutes, oblique shimmies, and chooches, 3/4 shimmies....but then adds chest slides, hits, pops, figure 8's, and bellyrolls. Your legs and your brain are gonna get a serious workout!
Zoe jakes Bio:
Zoe Jakes is a proud member of The Indigo, recently touring their new show Le Serpent Rouge. She has been touring with Bellydance Superstars since the fall of 2005 and can be seen performing on their new Tribal Fusions DVD. She recently finished filming her debut instructional DVD. Combining talents with David Satori and Tommy Cappel to form the fabulous band Beats Antique. When not with The Indigo, she tours with The Yard Dogs Road Show, and has been seen tearing it up with the Extra Action Marching Band. Zoe is an inarguably innovative dancer, whose unique take on Tribal belly dance takes influence from Art Nouveau, tango, Break dance, and Indian classical dance.She loves unicorns and has never once doubted their existence. www.ZoeBellydance.com
Mardi Loves bio:
Mardi Love is assistant director, choreographer, and part time costumier for internationally-renowned dance company The Indigo. Mardi began dancing in San Diego with Heather Stants, and was a founding member of Urban Tribal Dance Company. She relocated to the Bay Area where she connected with the likes of Rachel Brice, Michelle Campbell, Sharon Kihara and Zoe. Mardi has toured extensively with The Bellydance Superstars. These days she dances with Rachel Brice and Zoe of The Indigo and the Le Serpent Rouge revue.
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February 7th: Sera Solstice teaches and performs in Florence, Italy
March 4th: Sera Solstice and Solstice Ensemble Perform at Tribal
Massive, Las Vegas
March 10-14th: Sera Solstice teaches and performs at Rakassah West, CA
March 18th-21st: Sera Solstice Teaches and performs at Festival Isis,
Dominican Republic
March 27th-29th: Sera Solstice teaches and performs in Monterrey, Mexico
Womens' Mysteries
New Moon Ritual for Women
Saturday, February 13th, 7pm
Facilitated by:
Mz Imani (SoulFire, Rhythm Shamans)
and Sera Solstice (East Coast Tribal, Rhythm Shamans)
Ritual for the urban woman...a time of connection to the intuitive self, to set forth desire and goals.
On this new moon, we harken back to the days of the Red Tent, where
women gathered privately to find nourishment with sharing of stories,
art, music, dance, healing and sisterhood. The purpose of this time is
to connect to our innate wisdom, to re-frame our individual challenges
into opportunities and envision ways to grow our dreams. Through
guided meditation, trance, writing, drumming, song and dance and
ritual, we work to clear a path to our own hearts.
Mz Imani has
offered New York an amazing gift as a facilitator of CoSM's full Moon
and new moon gatherings. We are honored to have her presence monthly,
as a shaman, priestess, elder, drummer and facilitator for one of the
core events at Solstice Studio.
Womens' Mysteries is a ritual
which is intended to support each woman to find core strength, connect
to intuition, to re-set, reclaim, re-ignite desires, goals, ideas, love
and empowerment.
Please meditate on what you want to build in this upcoming moon cycle, so that you are clear about your intentions.
Please
bring a small healthy snack to share, such as one piece of fruit that
can be sliced up, a bowl of Quinoa or brown rice, raw veggies, etc.
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Portal Trainings with Mz imani
Potential + Practice = Personal Power
@ Solstice Studio in NYC
Dates:
Feb 19th-21st, 2010
March Friday 19th-21st, 2010
April 16th-18th, 2010
May 14th-16th, 2010
If you have ever felt as though you would like to develop your
potential as a seer of spirit and a helper of humanity, or as a
musician of magic, we invite you to consider studying with Mz. imani.
Her fierce compassion has proven her to be one of the finest new world
alchemists that we know of and Solstice Studio is proud to host her
shamanic services and training programs, in NYC.
Mz. imani will be offering a mentorship program called The Portal
Trainings. In addition she will be available for one to one support
sessions, individual and group ritual and shamanic healing and private
drum lessons.
Mz. imani has long been recognized as a shaman of the drum, a priestess of the heart and a singer for the soul. Starting in February of 2010, Mz. imani will be returning to Solstice Studio as a teacher and facilitator of shamanic arts. We are very excited for her willingness to support our goal of being more proactive in supporting the spiritual
practice and prowess of our community.
For more information about partipating in this these workshops, please send an email to Serasolstice@gmail.com.
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MARCH 27-29 , 2010: Sera Solstice teaches and performs in Monterrey, Mexico
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