Class Descriptions & Signup
- Ranya Renee in Phoenix!
Ranya Renee Workshops In Phoenix October 1-3
Children’s Classes Fall Session – Sign Up Now!
New Children’s classes starting. Sign up now. Have fun! Get Grace and Poise! Many new classes, top teachers, sign up, now!
Try one or more of these classes for kids: BellyDance, Hip Hop, Jazz, Bollywood, Ballet Jazz for Children.
Most Children’s Classes beginning week of September 6, 2011
602-997-4149 to reserve your place.
Foundational Ballet for Dancers
New Classes Starting JULY 7 —– July 7 is free as part of try a class week!
Wednesdays 7:30 to 8:30PM
Great Foundation for any type of dance
- Stregthening Barre Work and Stretches
- Open Floor Workouts
- Turns, posture and balance work
- 8 classes for $80 ($15 drop in class)
Sword and Tray Balance Workshop
Saturday June 5
10:30 Am – 12:30 AM
Dance Dance AZ!
12235 N Cave Creek Road
Phoenix, AZ 85022
Adayna will be teaching a workshop on balancing at DanceDanceAZ.
The workshop geared for balancing a tray for candles and dance maybe even play zills while balancing! Some of the topics covered will be getting to the floor, once there how to get up, some floor work and the secrets of balance.
Bring a sword or take a shopping trip to your closest Goodwill store and purchase a tray for balancing. You will need to purchase a tray that is not heavy at least 16 inches round. A candle plate or a charger is a good selection. If you would like to select what you would like to display on your tray please bring to class! Adayna suggests Goodwill so that you would be frugal in your purchase of first balance project. Please try the tray on your head in the store just to see if it feels like it is the right size and weight. Do not buy a heavy tray, headaches during performance is not pleasant.
Adayna is a experience dancer and teacher in the valley. Adayna makes classes fun. You will get a great foundation for balance and come away with many ideas to practice . Don’t miss this opportunity to study with Adayna !
$20 for workshop Be sure to reserve you spot!
Dahlena Workshop March 28
Mark March 28 on your calendars for the American Legend of belly dance Dahlena.
Dahlena is an icon in belly dance arts. She is an inspiring artist. And, she is a fabulous teacher. Dahlena is famous for helping dancers improve their posture, stage presence and power. Her workshops will always leave you inspired to learn more yet feeling that you have material to work on and have achieved success in several areas during her workshop.
11 AM to 1 PM – Regional Moves for Belly Dance! Technique and Combinations to regional muic. learn Gulf, Lebanese Dubke and Spanish Fusion moves for belly dance plus Essential Belly dance movement combinations that can be used with any style of music. Lots of hips and Shimmies!
Earlybird Price $25 -
2:00 PM to 4:00 PM – Modern Egyptian Steps and Combinations – Focus on Hips, shimmies, undulations plus traveling combinations in Dahlenas energetic and sassy style.
$25 Early Bird Price
SPECIAL Take both workshops $50
Sassy Egyptian Workshop & Gala Show Starring Jim Boz
January 23
Gala Show Starring Jim Boz
Jim Boz in Dance
Experience this rare opportunity to see a true professional Male Middle Eastern Dancer, Jim Boz. Jim has performed and delighted audiences coast to coast as well as internationally. He will be performing in Phoenix for one day only. Join this exotic journey of performance, Saturday, January 23, 2010 at 7:00 P.M. Joining Jim are some of the Phoenix area’s finest dancers and a live Arabic Band featuring Gabby Tawil. Included in the line-up are local students of Belly Dance; Egyptian Bellydancer Of The Universe 2008, Amanda Rose, Joumana Eclyspe Dancers and more.
Show will be at Dance Dance AZ Studio, 12235 N Cave Creek Road (Facing Cactus Rd), Phoenix, AZ 85022. Tickets are $10.00 each
Live Arabic Band Added
Jim Boz Dancing
January 23rd and 24th
Take Your Dancing to a higher level!
Hear the Music; Be the Music!
A Weekend of Quality Instruction in Basic moves and combos to advanced combos and how to integrate them into your performances.
Gala Show 7:00 PM $5.00
Stars Joumana, Sasha, Helena Vlahos Jim Boz & More
at BellyDanceShoppe Studios
12235 N Cave Creek Rd
Phoenix, AZ 85022
Phone (602)997-4149
Saturday AM 10:30 AM to 12:30 PM $40
this Class is almost FULL
Drills & Technique (All Levels Appropriate) – 2hrs – Exciting drills in the Jim Boz style which increase precision, not for dry expression of hip subjugation, but to allow the body to move in a variety of cultural expressions. All techniques taught in this workshop will build into more complex combinations later in the weekend. Suitable for all levels, we will focus on muscle control for a subset of movement vocabularies appropriate to Arabic and related dance forms that will be used for the entire workshop series.
Saturday PM 1:30 to 3:30 PM $40
Intermediate Technique & Combinations (Levels 2-Above Recommended) – 2hrs With a solid foundation in the concepts expressed in the morning workshop, we will construct more complex combinations and higher level techniques adding further layers and opportunities for individual expression. Phrasing and melodic content will add a deeper layer to the basic combinations. Variations & modulations of movement vocabularies will be introduced.
Sunday AM 10:30 to 12:30 PM $40
Sunday AM 10:30 to 12:30 PM $40
Expressing Egyptian Dance: Modulations & Musical Phrasing (Levels 3-Above Recommended) – 2hrsBased on the philosophy that Arabic dance is much more than just a sequence of movements, we will take our combinations further to touch and express the soul of the movements. We will refine the same combinations with additional advanced techniques, subtle modulations, to add variety and excitement.
Sunday PM 1:30 to 3:30 PM $40
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Advanced Techniques/Combinations/Expressions (Levels 4-Above Recommended) – 2hrs Bringing all of the information from the previous 3 workshops together, we will take our concepts to the highest level: Performance, whether for individual enjoyment, professional performance, choreography or improvisation. Using Samra Ya Samra as an example (which through the previous 3 workshops you will have aquired an excellent familiarity), we will cover Music Mapping for mood modulations, choreography for large & small stages, improvisation techniques, spot choreography and end with an intimate understanding of our personal expressions and relation to the phrasing and development of the piece.
Special Saturday all Day $75
Special Sunday all Day $75
Special Whole Weekend $145
Comments on Jim Boz
One of my favorite instructors will be here Jan 23 and 24. His sense of humor relaxes me and he has so many funny little ways to help me get a move and memorize it that I get a lot of out of his workshops. He helps me feel and understand the music . I am especially looking forward to the improvisation and spot techniques portion of his workshop. … That is one of the things I always get f rom him but this time it is actually a part of his workshop. I think that every dancer even a beginner will love that about these workshop. Hope you can join me.
A Gala show has been added for January 23. Dancers taking the workshop will be given first priorty. Sign up for a class and let Helena Vlahos know that you want to dance in the Show. More details about the Jim and the classes are above.
I am getting so excited! Hope that you can join us
1904 Belly Dancer!
Here’s a great old video. And she is really bellydancing
A Man? Belly Dance?
Jim Boz, The Man
Several years ago, while in Austin, Texas, taking a workshop, I noticed an unusually large male student at the back of the class. Others in the class seemed to know him. I quickly dismissed him as a local beginner student. That evening while waiting to perform. I was fortunate to meet him. I found that his name was Jim Boz. He was the most delightful man, concerned that my students and I hadn’t had dinner and if our accommodations were satisfactory. I was surprised that he was no beginner, he was actually performing. However, since he danced right after our group, I missed his performance. Next morning, Yasmina Ramzy, was discussing refinement of hand and arm moves in classical Raks Sharki, then said. “Like Jim Boz in his performance last night”. I was definitely taken aback as I turned and looked at this larger than life man. That evening, I was able to watch the entire show and found out how wrong my assumptions were. Jim Boz chose an exciting classical piece. He was exciting, refined, and articulate! His walks and spins were masculine. His muscular contractions produced rippling body waves and fantastic accents that would be the envy of any Raks Sharki dancer, male or female. In the years since, I have come to know Jim as a teacher. Jim is just as good at teaching. He helps the dancer discover the place within her body that the move comes from, how to give the move different looks and textures. Because of his uses experience and observations that we have all experienced, the students leave the workshop with a better understanding and retain more of what they have learned. Fans of Jim know that Jim’s his wit and sense of humor make his classes fun and memorable. Experience a weekend of classes with Jim in Phoenix. January 23 and 24 at DanceDanceAz studio. You can sign up on line at http://www.gobellydance.com/JimBozWorkshop.html or call 602 997 4149
Dance with For Stress
A few years ago I was stressed out by my stressful Real Estate job. In one month alone, four sales did not close because mortgage companies did not process the loan promptly and points expired or though some other problem. Not only I wouldn’t get paid, but, now, I had to explain this to my customers, one who had already sold their home. With a family to feed, I was stressed to the max. I needed a break
I thought that I didn’t have time for myself. My stress was obvious. My boss, a kind perceptive man, Lon told me she had to take time for myself! “Go hike, take a trip, do something. Just tell your customers that you have an appointment. You have to make an appointment for yourself and your family.”, he said.
I didn’t have money for the trip. Then I remembered that in the past, I had thought about taking belly dance. I could even bring my teen-aged daughter along. So, I signed up for an 8 week class. I took a bout 5 classes, then let work get in the way and missed a week. That’s when I first noticed it. I felt worse when I didn’t go to dance class.
Dance worked! It was a Fun Way to improve her posture & get some exercise and most of all it helped the stress. Now, Naj is teaching belly dance at Dance Dance AZ.
See for yourself! Take Belly Dance with me, Naj. During the holidays I will be adding 10 minutes of veil play to each of my classes, my special way to combat stress. And as a special Holiday gift, if you sign up for 8 classes, I will give you a gift of a chiffon veil. (new students, only) See my schedule upper right corner (look for the classes taught by Naj or call 602-997-4149. My email is Naj@BellyDanceShoppe.com
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