Developing Choreography

$425.00

Hone the essentials for creating a belly dance solo or small group choreography with Rachel!

Do you have a bit of inspiration, a fragment of a dance that you’d like to develop and bring to the stage? You can start with even the smallest hint of inspiration – a costume, a prop, a favorite song – or just the desire to explore the creative process of developing a choreography! Delve into your creativity to discover and practice your own style of movement. Receive teacher and classmate feedback to guide your choreographic process through revision to a polished finished or work in progress piece. Sahara Dance guest teachers will also be brought in to offer feedback and perspectives on the choreographic process.

We’ll explore song selection, musical interpretation, transitions, diagramming music, costuming and other keys to creating a dance that dynamically reflects and highlights the music. Create a new piece or revise and update a previously performed solo work. Join us for a fun and a playful project to get in touch with your muse, express your inner artist and deepen your creativity in dance!

Each dancer will receive individual feedback and will prepare and have the opportunity to perform their finished pieces in the Sahara Dance Fall Caravan on December 15th. Traditional, theatrical, and experimental belly dance pieces are welcome! Students select songs, concepts, and provide their own costuming with teacher guidance.

Prerequisites:
1) Intermediate and above
2) Sahara Dance technique or specialty class

Sahara Dance Fall Caravan

Get excited to perform twice at our most intimate shows of the year:

Sahara Dance Fall Caravan
December 15th
4:00 pm and 7:00 pm
Imagination Stage, Bethesda

Enjoy the camaraderie and magic of being part of two, intimate, black box belly dance productions!

Fall Focus: Technical Mastery

The focus for company dancers will be on technical proficiency, curriculum mastery, and artistry in dance execution. In preparation for our 20th Anniversary Under a Desert Moon, let’s hone our craft, and repertoire, all within a more relaxed Fall season of dance.

Fall Caravan is the perfect opportunity to have fun performing in a cozy black-box setting setting, and twice! Practice all the performance elements you have been wishing to work more deeply on before we take the stage in the Spring of 2025 for a grand, 20th anniversary show.

Company members may have additional performance opportunities at festivals, including Tenley Art All Night.

Enjoy the camaraderie, growth, and dance mastery that comes with a full semester to learn a new choreography, consistently practicing dance development, and building cohesion with your troupe mates!

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SKU: Fall24:SDC: Developing Choreography Performance, Wednesdays 6:30-7:25 pm Category: Tag:

Description

  • Limited Availability for In-Person (Hybrid) Classes: In-person (Hybrid) class spots are first come, first serve, with limited space available.
  • Your hybrid performance class registration secures your physical spot in the studio for all classes within the semester. You may attend the class live, in person, or virtually, live-streaming.
  • Miss a class? No problem! Registered students have access to video recordings of each class for the duration of the semester, so you can dance on your own schedule.
  • Curious about the curriculum? All registered students receive a password to access to the Sahara Dance curriculum for each level, including class choreography sheets.
  • Classes are held at our Sahara Dance studio in Tenley: 4433 Wisconsin Ave, NW, Washington DC.
  • Performance Classes will culminate in a performance that is open to the public, at a local venue to be announced at the beginning of each class series. (Venue locations change throughout the year). Save the entire day for tech rehearsal and performance(s). It is possible there will be two shows.
  • The DC-MD-VA local region has many festivals and there will likely be additional performance opportunities for company members, including the Fiesta Asia Street Fair in the summer and Tenleytown Art All Night in the fall.
  • Concurrent enrollment in a technique or specialty class is required for all performance students.
  • >75% live attendance (in-person or live-streaming) is required to perform; extended absences need approval from the teacher to be included in the performance. Please communicate absences to the teacher in advance, when possible.
  • In-person attendance will be required in select classes to set blocking. Required in-person class attendance dates will be set by the teacher during the first two weeks of class, after polling enrolled students to accommodate schedules as best as possible.
  • Costumes for performance classes are selected by the teacher, in consultation with company members. Costumes are individually purchased and owned. Performance companies almost always reuse costumes for multiple semesters. Sometimes costumes may be borrowed, or purchase used, from previous dancers. Efforts are made in coordination with the company members to keep costume costs reasonable and styles flattering for all bodies.
  • Registration confirmation and Zoom link will be sent approximately one hour prior to class. The class Zoom link will remain the same each week. Registration will remain open up until 30 minutes prior to the class start time, or as spaces remain available.  The live-streaming access to classes are offered through Zoom and are Eastern Standard Time zone.
  • Classes are non-refundable and non-transferrable.

 

Additional information

Day

Wed
Teachers

Rachel
Time

6:30-7:25 pm
Status

Available
Class Type

Registration

Hybrid
Studio

Small Studio