BellyCon 2007 June 8-16
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How to Register |
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June 8 | June 9 | June 10 |
June 11 |June 12|June 13|June 14
Dancers!
BELLY CON printable one page flyer for convienience
and posting!
Downloadable Registration form
Welcome to Belly Con
This is the second year for our Belly Con week. Short for belly dance consciousness week. This celebration grew out of the focused awareness of belly dancing each June due in part to Delilah’s class presence in the Fremont Solstice parade. Each year women see the dancers dancing with pride in the parade and it inspires them to start belly dancing and make it their goal to be belly dancing with us in the next years parade. Totally doable!
Belly dance is diverse! Thus we celebrate by creating a banquette of fabulous workshops and classes taught by notable dancers in and out of town for all different styles and levels of experience from absolute beginner to advanced professional.
BACK to TOPPick a class, download a REGISTRATION FORM, fill it out and send it in with your check or money order at least 3 days before the class for the best discounted price and to ensure your space in class. Send to VDP Studios. You can register at the door for the list price. First come first serve. There are enough classes offered on this week end that there will be room at the door. Please pay cash the day of class. We do not take credit cards for classes but we do for merchandise. All are welcome. Check calendar before arriving to see if the class you want is a closed or open class.
BACK to TOPWith each Belly Con Class you will receive a corresponding $5 off coupon for either a future classes in Summer or Fall at VDP Studio, or $5 off a merchandise purchases when spending $20 or more. One coupon use per class or purchase.
BACK to TOPLocation:
VDP Studios
4128 Fremont Ave North,
Seattle Wa, 98103
Parking:
There is a lot of parking on streets. Please do not park in rear of building. That parking belongs to apartments.
June 8
Time 6:15-7:45 (90 minutes)
Levels Absolute Beginners - Intermediate
Instructors RAQS SERPENTINE Troupe (Leslie, Ellen and Kaori)
Each will dress in a different style of costuming and teach fundamentals connected to it’s performance and musical interpretation. Come have fun! Bring snacks and drinks to share if you want.
Cost $25 or $20 in advance
ADDITIONAL PERK Each dancer in attendance will receive a $5 off coupon good for classes or workshops after the parade and through fall 2007.
Location and Registration:
Download a REGISTRATION FORM and send with your check to VDP Studio.
About Raqs Serpentine
For three years now Raqs Serpentine have sponsored the ever popular Pyramid Lounge Showcase, on the first Monday night of each month, in downtown Fremont. The troupe performs new routines and promotes different guest dancers each month. The troupe was born out of Delilah’s advanced performance class. Each dancer has a unique and strong style that makes the group so much more then the sum of it’s parts.
http://www.raqsserpentine.com/html/main.html
June 8
Time: 8:00-9:00 (60 min)
Levels Anyone interested.
Instructor: Leslie Rosen of Pyrosutra / VDP Staff Member
Learn some of the fundamentals of combining the undulations of the flame with the undulations of the body; Archetypal poses, movements combinations and perform a short choreography.
Cost $20 or $18 in advance
ADDITIONAL PERK Each dancer in attendance will receive a $5 off merchandise coupon good towards merchandise sales of $20 or more; weight belts, hip scarfs, multiple Cd’s, costume pieces, cholies and more.
Location and Registration:
Download a REGISTRATION FORM and send with your check to VDP Studio.
About Leslie Rosen
Leslie’s imagination was captured by belly dance in 1995 and she hasn’t been able to escape yet! As a massage therapist and yoga practitioner her classes are designed with your bodies health and vitality in mind. She creates a warm, fun, community environment that is a wonderful blend of both the silly and sacred. Her lifelong passion for the circus led her to fire performance in 2001. She was honored with the opportunity to perform for the cast of Cirque du Soleil at the end of tour party for Vareki last summer. She has created many large scale fire performances for everyone from Bumbershoot to Burning man (and Delilah’s after parade parties!)
Leslie can be seen in performance with her belly dance troupe Raqs Serpentine and fire performance troupe Pyrosutra. She has been producing the Pyramid Lounge a free monthly belly dance show since March 2003.
Watch a performance:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUxoqQ5Umsg
She is also a staff member at VDP Studios.
http://www.leslierosen.com
June 9
(Saturday Morning)
Time: 10:00- 12:00 (120 min)
Levels: Intermediate to advanced
Instructor: Special Guest Katia Sahar
Warmup and work out with core review. Then exercises utilizing drama, strength, agility and contrasts.
Cost: $33 or $28 in advance
ADDITIONAL PERK Each dancer in attendance will receive a $5 off class coupon good for classes or workshops after the parade and through fall 2007.
Location and Registration:
Download a REGISTRATION FORM and send with your check to VDP Studio.
About Katia Sahar
For over 15 years, Katia has been loving and learning the art of Oriental Dance. The journey has taken her from the stages of Salt Lake City to Rhode Island to Spain, Paris and finally Seattle. A Certified Fitness Instructor since 2001, Katia teaches a weekly, high-energy Belly Dance class through the YMCA. She can be found in many of Seattle's local venues, performing as a soloist, or with the dance company: Fleurs d'Egypte. She is known for her crowd-pleasing style and grace, in addition to her fun and energetic teaching style. Schedule of performances and instruction found at Katia's website:
www.KatiaSahar.com
June 9
Time:12:45-3:15 (2 hours)
Levels: All Levels
Instructors: Dahlia Moon / VDP Staff Instructor
Work out the kinks in this double whammy workshop focusing on a definitive breakdowns of the most popular and beautiful snake and shimmy movements. Undulations, rolls, coils, freezes and more.
Cost: $33 or $25 in advance
ADDITIONAL PERK Each dancer in attendance will receive a $5 off class coupon good for classes or workshops after the parade and through fall 2007.
Location and Registration:
Download a REGISTRATION FORM and send with your check to VDP Studio.
About Dahlia Moon
Dahlia Moon is a popular night club performer in the Seattle area. She has won 2 major belly dance competitions recently; Oct 2006 Double Crown in Vancouver Wa and February 2007 Belly Dancer of the Universe in Long Beach Ca. and a second place as well in Belly Dance fusion in Long Beach. She is a popular staff instructor at VDP Studios on Wednesday evenings.
http://www.dahliadance.com/
Classes taught by Dahlia Moon at VDP
June 9
Time: 3:45- 5:45 (2 hours)
Levels: All levels (class will move quickly)
Instructor Featured Guest Nalini From Russia
The name Bollywood comes from the pun word for Hollywood. It is a dance style that evolved from the Indian film industry. It is energetic, exotic and expressive! If incorporates classical indian dance, folk, bhangra, arabic, latino, hip/hop and funky cheese!
Cost $35 or $28 in advance
ADDITIONAL PERK Each dancer in attendance will receive a $5 off class coupon good for classes or workshops after the parade and through fall 2007.
Location and Registration:
Download a REGISTRATION FORM and send with your check to VDP Studio.
About Nalini
Nalini is from Russia and moved here in 2004 . She won many awards for belly dance in Russia. She is a well trained out standing performer!
http://www.nalinidance.com/English-page/class.html
June 9 Saturday Nite
Time:6:15-8:15 (120 min)
(meet for a beer at the Buckaroo across street
afterward!)
Levels: Intermediate to advanced
Instructor: Special Guest Elisa Gamal
Five movement concepts to incorporate into every performance or choreography, giving you the key to making your dance well-rounded, visually interesting, fun, and professionally polished.
Cost: $35 or $30 in advance
ADDITIONAL PERK Each dancer in attendance will receive a $5 off class coupon good for classes or workshops after the parade and through fall 2007.
Location and Registration:
Download a REGISTRATION FORM and send with your check to VDP Studio.
About Elisa Gamal
Elisa has been a favorite trophy winning dancer in the
Seattle area for many years. She is an expert show
woman, sought after instructor and has a heart of
gold! One of Delilah's personal favorites!
June 10
Time: 10:15-11:45
Levels: Intermediate to Advanced
Instructor: Special Guest Sabura
Cost: $40 or in advance $35 (Limited to 12 students)
ADDITIONAL PERKEach dancer in attendance will receive a $5 off coupon good for classes or workshops after the parade and through fall 2007.
Location and Registration:
Download a REGISTRATION FORM and send with your check to VDP Studio.
About Sabura
Sabura began belly dancing with Delilah way back in the late 80’s. She became one of her most serious dance pupils. She flew all over the West coast, to study with some of the top professionals
in the business, won several awards, and still continues
to take workshops, to keep expanding her knowledge
and skills. Sabura is a very special dancer! Seattle is very proud!
http://home.att.net/~sabura/
June 10
Time: 12:15-2:15
Levels: All Levels
Instructor: Tayissa Blue / New Instructor!
Course Description; Wondering what all the Tribal Fusion bhuz is about? Come and check it out with Tayissa Blue. Tayissa will teach a short slinky tribal fusion choreography incorporating signature tribal fusion moves and aesthetic. Locks and pops, sidewinder, and other alluring combos will entice your audience and keep them enthralled with this new style of belly dance. Some experience in belly dance is needed to learn this choreography, but no tribal/ATS experience is required.
Cost $28 or $20 in advance
ADDITIONAL PERK Each dancer in attendance will receive a $5 off coupon good for classes or workshops after the parade and through fall 2007.
Location and Registration:
Download a REGISTRATION FORM and send with your check to VDP Studio.
About Tayissa Blue
Tayissa Blue performs and teaches Gothic,Medieval, and theatrical Tribal Fusion Belly Dance. Venues include outdoor events, Seattle and Portland clubs and wherever her feet take her.
www.tayissablue.com
June 10
Time: 2:30-4:30
Levels: All Levels
Instructor: Special Guest Amelia Moore
This is a folk art of the Romani People (Turkish Gypsy )
Cost: $35 or $28 in advance
Location and Registration:
Download a REGISTRATION FORM and send with your check to VDP Studio.
About Amelia Moore
Amelia is famous for belly dancing with Children of the Revolution. However a few years a go Amelia moved to Turkey and fell in love with the Turkish style of gypsy dance and became a devotee. A fabulous opportunity to learn something new and special!
June 10
Time: 5:00-6:30 (90 Min)
Levels: Intermediate-advanced
Instructor: Tsarina / New Instructor
Special Note: No swords are needed. We will start by balancing books. So bring a hard cover book (you don’t mind dropping). Then you will work up to dowels and then try Tsarina’s sword.
This is a snaky balancing class. Tsarina will talk about the history of sword dance and direct you to how and where to shop for a good sword. Give you tips on favorite sword dance music and costume tips.
Cost: $25 or $20 in advance (Limited to 12 students)
ADDITIONAL PERK: Each dancer in attendance will receive a $5 off class coupon good for classes or workshops after the parade and through fall 2007
Location and Registration:
Download a REGISTRATION FORM and send with your check to VDP Studio.
About Tsarina
Tsarina has been dancing for 11 years. She was a member of Mish Mish’s Khanel Khalili Dance Troupe, has been in the Solstice Parades, Delilah’s Garden of Allah shows and the Pyramid Lounge show cases. She recently began teaching girls at a youth center near her house. Sword dance is her passion. She loves the trance it puts her in.
June 10
Time: 6:45 - 8:45 (2 hours)
Levels: All Levels, anti-burlesque dancers welcome!
Instructor: Laura Rose
Burlesque is a hot topic amongst belly dancers these days. Are you still wondering what this "burlesque" is? Are you are intrigued by this "bad girl" sister to belly dance, but don’t know if that’s ok? This is the perfect class to learn what burlesque, its roots, its motivations and its appeal to you really are. The first half of this class will be a talk and forum about the common roots and modern uses of both dances. Laura Rose will also discuss ethics and how to walk the line as a performer who wants to respect both brands of entertainment while also respecting oneself as an artist. The second half of this class will be an instructional in performance and body language using a simple choreography. We will use physical belly dance mechanics, but play with the stage presence and flirtatious attitude of burlesque and the art of teasing.
Cost: $28 or $22 in advance
Location and Registration:
Download a REGISTRATION FORM and send with your check to VDP Studio.
About Laura Rose
Laura Rose has grown up in the belly dance world and
made her professional debut on tour with Delilah and
Sirocco in 2003. Comfortable in all kinds of venues,
she dances to both live traditional Middle Eastern
music and more experiental fusion accompaniment like
techno, industrial, and heavy metal. She has
performed American Classic style and Gothic style
bellydance around the US and in Korea and Japan. Also
in 2003, Laura Rose adopted the name Evilyn Sin Claire
and began performing as a character member of a
burlesque troupe. Today she is a proud burlesque
artist and member of the troupe Sinner Saint Burlesque
which can be seen every thursday at the Noc Noc club
in downtown Seattle.
June 11th
Time: 6:00-7:00
Level: Anyone curious
Instructor: Delilah
First we fire up the furnace to burn level and then under go a concentrated dose of belly conditioning followed by abdominal isolations; vertical and horizontal belly rolls, triple rolls, diaphragm flutters, torso waves and undulations, lower belly pops, diagonal roll, Delilah’s famous coin trick!
Cost: $24 or $20 in advance
ADDITIONAL PERK: Each dancer in attendance will receive a $5 off merchandise coupon good towards merchandise sales of $20 or more; weight belts, hip scarfs, multiple Cd’s, costume pieces, cholies .
Location and Registration:
Download a REGISTRATION FORM and send with your check to VDP Studio.
About Delilah
Delilah owns VDP Studios. She in a world famous award winning belly dancer known for her live instructional workshops as well as her series of Instructional DVD’s. Her style is uniquely her own but most closely related to American Classic. She is a dramatic and enthralling performer!
June 11th
Time: 7:15-9:15 (120 min)
Level: Anyone curious
Instructor: Delilah and Staff
Come see if belly dance is for you? This is a great jump start into the techniques of belly dance. Try on a hip scarf and learn to shimmy like your sister Kate. Delilah will instruct and some of her students will demonstrate and assist you individually in class. Don’t need to bring anything just wear comfortable clothes for movement and fun!
Cost $28 in advance $24
Location and Registration:
Download a REGISTRATION FORM and send with your check to VDP Studio.
June 12
Time: 10:00-11:15am
Instructor: Dahlia Moon
This class is a part of our Belly Con Festival and is a $15 in advance or $18 at the door.
We have been offering a morning class series called "Belly Dance Smorgasbord" (named for it’s wide variety of experiential delights) the series has been a rotation of instructors each week with very different musical tastes. Join Dahlia Moon on this morning for a 1 hour 15 minutes sampler class. It will begin with a warm up, a bit of philosophy, rudiment exercises and then a combination dance workout put to her favorite belly dance music. A great morning workout in our beautiful Fremont studio!
Cost: $15 in advance $18 to drop-in
ADDITIONAL PERKStudents will receive a $5 off VDP merchandise coupon
Location and Registration:
Download a REGISTRATION FORM and send with your check to VDP Studio.
Special Discount Summer Session
Belly Dance Smorgasbord
Tuesday Mornings 10-11:15 AM
Series Starts Tuesday June 19
11 classes for $100, only if you sign up before June 16th
Value note: each class is under $10 The regular price is $140 for 11 classes, (75 min each).
$15 each drop in or $78 for 6 consecutive classes June 19-July 24th)
Rotation of VDP Studio instructors; Dahlia Moon, Laura Rose, Kristine, Delilah, Katia Sahar.
Location and Registration:
Download a REGISTRATION FORM and send with your check to VDP Studio.
June 13
Time: 3:15pm-4:30pm
Instructor: Christine Hamby
Cost: $18 or $15 in advance
ADDITIONAL PERK!Students will receive $5 off VDP merchandise Coupon
Christine Hamby has been teaching a successful afternoon belly dance class for the past couple months. Her students are responding very positively to her loving and supportive approach. If you feel like an odd duck in the world of belly dance and movement arts in general, Christine has a magical gift for making you feel at ease. Good vibrations, gentle work out and excellent instruction!
Location and Registration:
Download a REGISTRATION FORM and send with your check to VDP Studio.
About Christine Hamby
Christine Hamby has been diligently studying belly dance from tribal, and American Classical perspectives for over 10 years. Zanbaka, Delilah and more. She is a regular dancer in many of the Visionary Dancer projects such as Solstice events and Garden of Allah shows and has been a TA in Delilah’s teachers training. Kristine often guests at Raqs Serpentines "Pyramid Lounge", a belly dance performance night down at the High Dive in Fremont on the first Monday nights (of most months).
NOTE: Her next 6 week series begins July 11!
July 11th 18, 25, Aug 1, 8, 15
$68 or $60 in advance
$15 cash drop-in
Location and Registration:
Download a REGISTRATION FORM and send with your check to VDP Studio.
June 14th
Time: 10:00am – 11:30am ( 90 min)
Level: All teens, ages 11-20
Instructor: Delilah
A class just for you! Come, be comfortable. See if belly dance is for you? This is a great jump-start into the techniques of belly dance. The next week it will be an official 8-week series. You don’t need to bring anything wear comfortable low riding jeans and a summer top. We have hip scarfs.
Cost: $25 or in advance $20.
Series to follow will be 75 min class for 8 weeks. $100 starts June 21st
ADDITIONAL PERK: Each dancer in attendance will receive a $5 off merchandise coupon good towards merchandise sales of $20 or more; weight belts, hip scarfs, multiple Cd’s, costume pieces, cholies .
Location and Registration:
Download a REGISTRATION FORM and send with your check to VDP Studio.
NOON-3:00
www.fremontartscouncil.org
3-9 PM in Gasworks Park
Solstice Pageant
4-5PM
Don’t miss this Special Performance and come see our Pyramid!
AN HOUR LONG BELLY DANCE SHOW
on the main Stage next to the beer gardens in Gasworks Park.
6-7 PM
Delilah, Dahlia Laura Rose and the Billion Bellies with musical accomompaniment by House of Tarab. Come picnic in the park!
Sustainable Solstice is a new idea festival with the theme of sustainable living on our planet. It’s a Fremont Arts Council fund raiser! It takes $45,000 to put on the parade this year. Come support our local arts.