SATURDAY 18th January 2025 SATURDAY 25th January 2025 SATURDAY 1st February 2025 SATURDAY 8th February 2025
EACH WORKSHOP IS 1 HOUR ONLY. Price is per class you choose (1 hour).
18th January 2025:
Salsa Fusion 10am Bachata Fusion 11am Reggaeton Fusion 2pm Merengue Fusion 3pm Afrobeats Fusion 4pm
25th January 2025:
Belly Bolly Fusion 10am Soca/Dancehall fusion 11am Commercial Fusion 2pm Heels Dance 3pm Contemporary Fusion 4pm
1st February 2025:
Intermediate Belly Dance 10am Advanced Belly Dance 11am Drum Solo Belly Dance 2pm Veil Belly Dance 3pm Shaabi Belly Dance 4pm
8th February 2025:
Diva Dance Fusion10am Baladi Belly Dance 11am Tribal Belly Dance Fusion 2pm Floorwork and Turns Belly Dance 3pm Shimmies Belly Dance 4pm
Styles descriptions below:
18th January 2025:
SALSA FUSION (General Level) 10-11am
Learn this dance form with origins from Cuba as the meeting point of Spanish (European) and African cultures. Learn Salsa dance timing, postures, arms, footwork and flourishes. This workshop that captures everyone from the get go because of the addictive music, Latin flavour, powerful rhythmic patterns and interesting footwork. A workshop that will leave you feeling like a diva! Passionate, fierce and sensuous.
BACHATA FUSION (General Level) 11am-12pm
Bachata is danced with soft hip movements and a tap or syncopation (1, 2, 3, tap/syncopation). A style of social dance from the Dominican Republic which is now danced all over the world. Dance moves or step variety strongly depend on the music, setting, mood, and interpretation. The music is mesmerising and the movements of both Bachata and Belly Dance combined are a wonderful combination of sways, waves and sensual hip fluctuations.
REGGAETON FUSION (General Level) 2-3pm
A Puerto Rican dance form strongly influenced by Latin American, Caribbean, and hip hop music. It’s a fun, full of flavour and a free-spirited style of dance popular for its body waves, lower body isolations, locks, pops, groove and attitude! Large movements that compliment Belly Dancing accurately and a full body and mind workout that will leave you sweating and glowing with confidence. You can’t help but move your body rhythmically when you hear this music!
MERENGUE FUSION (General Level) 3pm-4pm
Merengue is a fun, fast and easy dance made up of simple steps. The typical signature rhythm figure of merengue is the 'quintillo'. The 'Merengues' are fast-paced songs with a 2/4 beat pattern.
Merengue, originating in the Dominican Republic and Haiti, strongly influenced by Venezuelan and Afro-Cuban musical practices and by dances throughout Latin America. Originally, and still, a rural folk dance and later a ballroom dance, the merengue is at its freest away from the ballroom. Come and have fun in this fast but fun and easy to follow class.
AFROBEATS FUSION (General Level) 4-5pm
Afrobeats dance is a diverse and fascinating style originating predominantly form Sub-Saharan Africa. It is an evolution from traditional African dance styles following the creation of Afrobeats music. Combine the energetic fluidity and melodious rhythm of afrobeats with belly dance and you create a wonderful concoction of movements and an enthralling dance style.
25th January 2025:
BELLY BOLLY FUSION (General Level) 10am-11am
An energetic, rhythmic, fun fitness dance exercise to great music. Combining several forms of Indian and Bollywood dancing combined with Belly Dance that will have you moving and working your whole body! Higher and lower-intensity dance sequences to get you moving, sweating and smiling.
SOCA/DANCEHALL FUSION (General Level) 11am-12pm
Expel all your energy, move in ways you didn't think you could and have heaps of fun in this class. This music is what you play ay parties to get you up and dancing.
Soca dancing is an upbeat dance that combines elements of Caribbean and African styles. Soca is an unstructured dance that is largely interpretive. Soca literally means the '(So)ul of (Ca)lypso', and represents a fusion of African and Caribbean Kaiso and Calypso and South Asian rhythm.
Key elements of dancehall music include its extensive use of Jamaican Patois rather than Jamaican standard English and a focus on the track instrumentals (or "riddims"). Combine the two styles and you have the time of your life!
COMMERCIAL FUSION (General Level) 2-3pm
A commercial Modern dance involving elements of western dance styles to include Shakira and Beyonce like movements. Elements of Shaabi (the bellydance style), street, hip hop and modern dancing. This course will enable you to bring out your inner diva with big goddess like movements and you will be able to truly show off your skills with elaborate movements! You will also be able to expand on your arm and hand intricacies within dance.
HEELS DANCE (General Level) 3-4pm
It is a highly technical artform which when perfected creates a one-of-a-kind, dazzling display of passionate dancework.
Heels Dance is an art form for empowerment, developing strong dance techniques as well as confidence and self-expression for its practitioners. Students will receive a brief warm-up that will get them comfortable walking in heels before learning choreography with a focus on musicality, lines, grooves, hair whips, and floor work. The class environment is designed to help you tap into your sensuality and self-expression as you glide across the floor.
CONTEMPORARY FUSION (General Level) 4pm-5pm
Contemporary technique. Working on sinuosity and flawless movement of the body. Freedom of expression, strength, toning and flexibility are all attributes ascertained within this fusion style. Connecting mind and body through fluid and wide-range dance movements, taking up space to create full expression.
1st February 2025:
INTERMEDIATE BELLY DANCE 10-11am
Push your skills further and challenge your technique, learn level 2 movements, strengthen muscles, refine isolations, learn various styles and combinations. Some belly dance experience required, but not essential.
ADVANCED BELLY DANCE 11am-12pm
Challenge yourself as a dancer with intricate movements, pops, locks and complex drills, fun combinations, precise isolations and learn advanced movements and learn what it feels like to be a true belly dancer!
Build your skills rapidly with travelling steps, footwork, isolations, contractions, precision of movements and greater fluidity that will all be taught in this challenging but fun workshop. A faster paced class with lots of layering, multiple technique, isolations, varied drills and combinations from smooth and flowy techniques to empowering pops and locks. Accumulate all the skills you have learnt in previous classes thus far.
DRUM SOLO BELLY DANCE (General Level) 2-3pm
This course covers moving your body percussively using pops and locks, accents and punctuations. The music is exciting which enables rapid sharp movements combined with softer shimmies, travelling movements and fluidity. Control isolations and learn belly dancing at a very fast pace through this mindful and intricate style of belly dancing. A drum solo piece can leave an audience in absolute awe
VEIL BELLY DANCE (General Level) 3-4pm
In this course your veil is your dance partner! Learn to dance gracefully with a veil: poses and postures, flourishes and turns. Your arms will be strengthened and you will learn how to create graceful movements with them. Your upper body strength and posture will also improve and you will get moving across the room and dance floor with true refinement, elegance and grace!
SHAABI BELLY DANCE (General Level) 4-5pm
Shaabi (meaning of the people) is the music and voice of the streets in Egypt and the lyrics of shaabi songs are usually about politics, personal life or love.
Dancewise, Egyptian Shaabi style is playful and flirtatious, a bit ‘cheeky’, with a strong folkloric influence. This style is full of feeling!
The movements are earthier without many spins nor big travelling steps; steps are mostly on flat feet and the style is funky, bouncy and upbeat.
8th February 2025:
DIVA DANCE FUSION (General Level) 10am-11am
Want to dance like Beyonce or Shakira? Inspired by all styles of dance including hip hop, jazz, funk, commerical and more. Learn styling, confidence, sensuality, empowerment and attitude and expand your dance repertoire with choreographies and exercises designed to bring out your inner Diva! A fun class you do not want to miss!
BALADI BELLY DANCE (General Level) 11am-12pm
Throughout Middle Eastern history, belly dance has been performed at special celebrations and occasions like weddings, birth announcements, and festivals. Learn this flowy and grounded style of beautiful belly dancing. Rhythm, flow, musicality, sensuality all describe the folk and social style of belly dancing.
TRIBAL BELLY DANCE FUSION (General Level) 2-3pm
Awaken the serpent energy in your spiine and move your body in a snake like manner with tribal fluidity, smooth sensuous motions and contrast this with sharp pops and locks! Extreme control of movements and strong isolations will be encouraged to enable you to move like water with precision, grace and deep expression. A beautiful dance that has been created from a combination of worldly dance styles with intense music and deep dark soulful sounds to rouse your spirit and divine energy.
FLOORWORK AND TURNS BELLY DANCE (General Level) 3-4pm
Perfecting the range of turns, to include paddles turn, travelling turn, step turn, speed control, core control, arms with turns and generally improving the precision and connection of turns with other movements.
Strength-based seamless floor-work maneuvers to showcase a dancer's range of skills and repertoire. Embellishment postures, safety techniques, transitional movements to get on and off the floor and sequences of layers and drills with floor-work.
SHIMMIES BELLY DANCE (General Level) 4pm-5pm
Exploring the vast range of shimmies to include, Egyptian shimmy, tension shimmy, shimmy layers, twist shimmies, hagalla 3/4 shimmies, Turkish shuffle, shoulder shimmies and choo choo shimmies!
