In this workshop, and using both modern and traditional music, we will explore very simply some of the danced archetypes of Egyptian culture and their responding moods.
How we dance has almost more impact than what we dance. Although technique is important, it is often not enough as an expression of the music, the culture and who we are as dancers. Music from Egypt and the Arab world with it’s yearning melodies and earthy, often exuberant rhythms, sometimes beautifully simple, sometimes richly complex, is why we dance and how we dance. So there comes a time when we want to come closer, in a deep and creative way, to that what we love about Raqs Sharqi.
Raqs Sharqi has infinitely more colour than the smiling, jolly persona that is the usual depiction in the West. There is the possibility of subtle feelings which the music invites us to express, our genuinely joyful celebration but also our sense of beauty, wisdom, drama, sorrow, femininity, courage, contemplation and others. Taking a few of these, this workshop is for everyone to enjoy who has some basic experience or who comes from another style of Arabic dance.
Saturday 5 December 2015 1.00 – 6.00pm
The Courtyard Clinic Studio (Beautiful warm studio with mirror!)
The Old Post Office, Parsonage Street,
DURSLEY Glos. GL11 4DR
(Opposite The Courtyard Cafe and next to the church. The studio is at the back of the small car park)
Cost: £35 Please contact me to book
liza wedgwood dance 