Spring focus – expression!

At our highest level of technique, we focus on deepening your skills and emotional connection as well as finding your own personal stylization. Deepen your understanding of key rhythms that are part of an essential belly dance repertoire, and fundamental knowledge of different belly dance styles.

Enjoy a class full of shimmies, drills, combinations, traveling steps and turns. Begin class with a comprehensive warm up to build core strength and flexibility. Emphasis is on layering personalized, stylistic expression over top quality movement execution, musical interpretation, with strong alignment, stamina, and whole-body awareness. Practice weekly conditioning for maintaining and improving a full movement repertoire for belly dance performance.

Components for raqs sharqi performance sets may be covered, including more advanced turns, drills, entrance veil work, cane, taqsim and drum solos.

Prerequisite: Mastery of Sahara Dance Intermediate (zills, cane and veil) and Advanced 1 and 2 material and / or permission of instructor.