THE TAHTIB – A RARE AND UNUSUAL WORKSHOP FOR MEN
THE GOLD ROOM, CENTRE FOR SCIENCE AND ART, 13 LANSDOWN, STROUD, GL5 1BB
SUNDAY 1 NOVEMBER 2-4PM
Funded by Stroud Valley Arts and part of the Stroud Dance Festival 15 October – 1 November 2015 this is an opportunity FOR MEN TO TASTE FOR FREE the exhilaration of dancing with the stick in the ancient ritualised combat dance of TAHTIB from Egypt .
The several years training in both Karate and Tai Chi gave me insights into the basic concepts of many martial arts – relaxed but focused attention, a low centre of gravity, balance, centredness and a peaceful attitude. During my long experience as a dancer and in my teaching and study visits to Luxor I came to understand how these elements are the basis for the improvised dance form, the TAHTIB, and how it is highly relevant to the dance shy men of the West. We will use large sticks and evocative music played on instruments unchanged over centuries to explore an art which goes back to pharaonic times.
The workshop is non contact and suitable for all men. You do not have to be especially fit, nor have experience in dance or in the martial arts, just an open and curious mind, and a willingness to have fun. Sticks will be provided.
PLACES ARE LIMITED. PLEASE BOOK BY CONTACTING ME. CLICK ON contact. Thank you.
See stroudartsfestival.org for the dance programme
PERFORMANCE OF RAQS SHARQI
by international performers and teachers, Liza Wedgwood, dancer, and Tim Garside, musician and percussionist.
Sunday October 25th at 6pm The Gold Room, Centre for Science and Art, 13 Lansdown, STROUD, Glos. GL5 1BB
This is for the curious, for the adventurous, for dance lovers, and musicians of Middle Eastern music. Driving rhythms, yearning melodies, the refinement of courtly classical as well as the earthy complexity of the Egyptian ‘Blues’, it is all in this unusual performance showing the rich but rarely seen diversity of Raqs Sharqi.
In the improvisational magical moment does the musician inspire the dancer or is it the other way around?
Tickets £7, Cons. £5 from Trading Post, 26 Kendrick Street, Stroud, GL5 1AQ Tel 01453 759116
or from Liza (click contact)
