Events organised by Mersin or Sara:
SPRING 2010 -
"A day of Workshops, Performance and Joy !"
Spring 2010 -
With Rebekah
12th June 2010 – Day of Dance
Our biggest event of the year, featuring workshops with the best local teachers and a fantastic evening Hafla.
Autumn 2010 -
A mix of shorter workshops to give dancers the chance to try a style without having to study it in depth. Followed by a Hafla with Performances
December 2010 -
Treat yourself to some you time and celebrate the holidays by joining us for a Hafla
with a mix of performances, group improvisation and fun games. -
Performance slots are very limited and often book up six months in advance. Contact your teacher if you are interested
When using PayPal please also email me at info@letsbellydance.co.uk to confirm your order has arrived. NO tickets will be issued, but please bring your confirmation email with you.
Mersin presents:
A DAY OF DANCE !!
A DAY OF WORKSHOPS, FOLLOWED BY HAFLA
10am til late at Oakridge Hall for All, Basingstoke
Saturday 12th June, 2010
Aimed at dancers of all levels Mersin’s Day of Dance gives everyone the chance to try out new styles of Dance in a happy and relaxed atmosphere all in one venue. Looking to push the boundaries ?, we can offer everything from Hip Hop to Lebanese, Latin to Book Club !
- 10.15am til 11.45
- Bellydance Book Club with Catherine or Hip Hop Bellydance Fusion with Melissa
- 12 til 1.30pm
- 1001 fig 8s with Poppy or Exploring Latin Rhythms with Julie
- 1.30 til 2.30pm
- Premiere Performance Platform. Your chance to perform !
- 2.30pm til 4
- No Sew Skirts with Sara or Get Balanced with Jo
- 4.15 til 5.45pm
- Super Stretches with Jo or Lebanese with Emma
- 7 til 10pm
- Hafla with all today's teachers plus wonderful group numbers.
Workshops £15 each, Hafla £5 (Performers £4), Early Bird( Before June 1st):
All day tickets £45
*Cheques Made Payable to S.Shrapnell.
*Please bring a dish to share
*NO tickets available on the day !!
*PayPal available below. Please click the link to order then email
info@letsbellydance.co.uk to confirm the booking and workshop choices
About the Workshops :
Bellydance Book Club with Catherine: —Eat, sleep, dream bellydance ?, now read all about it too !, Catherine will introduce you to a huge array of books on Bellydance, both fact and fiction, and share her views on which to pack for holidays and which to pass on to the dustbin men.
Hip Hop Bellydance Fusion with Melissa: —Learn some popular street dance and hip hop moves and how to incorporate them into bellydance by learning a fun choreography to Bounce by Tarkan. This workshop is fun and energetic but suitable for all as no previous experience of street dance is required.
1001 fig 8s with Poppy:-
Exploring Latin Rhythms with Julie: —Learn the basic steps of 2 Latin American dances and dance them to some strict tempo Latin music. Then, using these new found skills, learn how they can be put together into a simple choreography, incorporating the Latin rhythms with some Middle Eastern music. Recognise the Latin rhythms and interpret them in your future dancing. All steps can be done bare feet or with jazz shoes but some heeled dance shoes, if you have them, would be ideal'.
No Sew Skirts with Sara: —Please bring two or three meters of material that doesn’t fray, thick elastic to match, iron on hemming and any embellishments you want to add.
Get Balanced with Jo: —Where is your centre of balance? What happens if you move
it? How would you move it? How can you improve stability in your dancing to avoid
wobbles and that teetering look? Turning without falling; travelling with speed or
balance; undulations -
Super Stretches for Suppleness and Style: -
Lebanese with Emma :-
About the Teachers :
- Emma is a well established teacher and performer based in Reading. After studying Egyptian for many years she decided 5 years ago to specialise in both Lebanese and tribal.
- Sara has been a full time bellydance teacher now for more than 10years, teaching in Basingstoke, Reading and now Bracknell she is known for her fun technique focused teaching style.
- Jo has been dancing since she was a child and belly dancing for nearly 10 years. Mostly training with Sara, yet taking in as many additional teachers as she can Jo has developed her own style and now teaches regular popular FunBellyDance classes in her new home in rural Devon. Jo was lucky enough to get to dance on TV as part of her acting work and has been an occasional dancer with one band (multicultural folk) and a regular dancer with two others (space rock and an indie duo). Her most recent fun gig was being a last minute fill in for an Olympic event in Plymouth dancing in the Afro Bhangra Ceilidh performance with 7 other trained dancers. Jo recently qualified as a sports coach with Somerset College.
- Julie has been dancing Since the age of 7 firstly Ballroom and Latin American, later becoming qualified to teach. She is interested in exploring how to fuse her years of dance experience with her much more recent love of belly dancing
- Melissa started street dance classes back in 2003 and ever since has tried her hand at around fifteen other dance styles including bellydance since 2004. She loves fusing all styles with bellydance and creating fun choreographies which she enjoys sharing with others. Her workshops are fun yet relaxed
- Catherine 'Catherine has been studying belly dance for ten years, loves to read and has an interested in Egyptian culture
Poppy started Bellydance classes at the age of 12, and last year made it to the finals of the Young Miss Bellydancer at Raqs Britannia judged by the Bellydance Superstars. A popular workshop teacher she hopes to start regular classes in the area very soon.