Join Carolena Nerricio & Megha Gavin, Tribe Marrakech, Rachel Lazarus, and other performers TBA, as we dance and perform for you! Marrakech will host a performance followed by a club night of dance with live music by Tribe Marrakech, Eclectic Echo, and music by DJ Ricky at the Mercury Café Ballroom. We will end the evening with open drumming for everyone, so bring your drums, rhythm makers and dance costumes! Expect a wonderfully tribal night full of dance and rhythm! Doors open at 6:30pm, performances begin at 7:00pm. The Mercury Café is located at 2199 California Street, Denver.
Based on Using fun combinations, we’ll breakdown several basic movements and their correct technique from the Tribal vocabulary. You’ll walk away with mini-choreographies you can plug into your dance and effective setups for some of the faster moving steps and turns. This class will begin with an Indian Temple Dance warm up and stretch.
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***REGISTRATION***
To sign up for the classes, you can call Marrakech at 303-679-2814 or 1-888-674-2814
and use a credit card
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You can send a check with name, phone, full address, email,
and class info to: Marrakech 479 Deer Rd Evergreen, CO 80439.
(PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS IS OUR MAILING ADDRESS ONLY!)
After 5:30pm on Friday, July 14th, we will not be able to accept paypal registrations, but there is still room in most classes. You may register and pay for classes that are not full at the door. You may call ahead and register by phone as well!
Wimpy entrances and endings can kill your show! Learn how to command the audience’s attention with a powerful entrance and end your set with a bang.
(Dancers should know the basics of Shimmy, Arabic Basic, Egyptian Basic, Pivot Bumps and Choo-choos.)
The anatomy of bellyrolls and flutters, technique and application. (Dancers should know the basics of Taxeem, Bodywave, Hand Floreo and Arm Undulations.)
The beauty of East Asian and Indian esthetics combine to create beautiful new movements, complete with cues for tribal improv. Head, arm and hand positions combined with body placement take your tribal steps from average to amazing. Learn combos that can be strung together to create a beautifully flowing choreography. Focus on hand, arm, head and body positions. Learn basic steps and apply head, arm and hand movements to enhance them. Basic steps will be strung together to create seamless combos. Awareness of secondary leadership in groups and application in group improv for maximum utilization will be covered.
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ELEVATION TRIBAL BELLY DANCE WEEKEND!
WHAT:
Workshops & Show
WHO:
Carolena Nerricio of Fat Chance Belly Dance, Megha Gavin of Devyani,
Rachel Lazarus Soto of Blue Damsel, Jeremiah Soto of Solace
WHEN:
Saturday, July 15: Workshops & Evening Show!!
Sunday, July 16: Workshops all day!
WHERE:
CLASSES will be held in Evergreen, CO. Hosted by Marrakech.
Show will be held at the Mercury Cafe in Denver, CO
**11:45am – 1:45pm Workshop with Rachel Lazarus Soto of Blue Damsel
$35 ($40 Day of Class)SORRY- THIS CLASS IS FULL
Fluidity
The seamless flow of one movement in to the next are the trademarks of today’s most popular dancers. Learn beautiful tribal slow movement with techniques to meld them into one graceful stream of sensuality. Exercises to help isolate muscles necessary for fluid motion. Take your taxim to the extreme as you learn to layer and flow between slow movements to create the most fluid movement possible. Detailed focus given to the ‘Power Point’ of each movement, to accentuate the strongest part of the movement.
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Drum Class:
** 9:30 – 11:30am Embellishments for Middle Eastern Rhythms
with Jeremiah Soto of Solace $20 ($30 Day of Class)
Take your working knowledge of basic Middle Eastern Rhythms to new heights! Using the Classical Arabic style of playing well known rhythms Jeremiah will show you variations and embellishments that will take your playing from average to fantastic. Participants should have a basic understanding of basic rhythms such as beledi, maqsum, saidi and chiftitelli
This section will cover formations, setting up, entering & exiting the chorus, and appropriate chorus movements.
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Drum Class:
**** 11 – 1pm: Classical Arabic Technique & Rhythm for Doumbek with Jeremiah Soto $20 ($30 Day of Class)
Classical Arabic Style is passed down as an oral tradition. The technique is very specific, and aims to create a more defined vocabulary of sounds from the dumbek. This is accomplished by using specific hand positions and striking techniques. While using familiar and traditional Middle Eastern rhythms, the execution of the rhythms is different, in that it utilizes timing and space which, for example, distinguishes an Arabic beledi from an American beledi.
Intermediate Class— Intermediate technique: half-tek, slaps, snaps Exercises: right-left-right, triplets, rolls Rhythms in the Classical Arabic Style utilizing intermediate techniques: Adoni, Samai, Persian, Beledi, Dawr Hindi
Rachel is a dedicated teacher and performer whose enthusiasm, love, and passion for belly dance is apparent in her every move. She has a clear and concise teaching style, which lets even the beginning student feel comfortable and confident. Originally a student of American Cabaret, Rachel bases her dance in American Tribal Style, then infusing it with Asian dance forms. She was the founding director of award-winning Devadasi World Fusion Dance, and is now focusing on her new dance project, Blue Damsel, featuring Rachel as the director and principal dancer. Rachel serves as the President of the Inland Empire chapter of MECDA and is a co-organizer of Tribal Café, the largest tribal belly dance event in Southern California, now moving into its 3rd year. She has also co-founded Spiral, a company producing alternative bellydance and other events including Stiletto: A Burlesque Review, and Punk Raqs: an Alternative, Goth, Punk, Industrial belly dance event. www.bluedamsel.org, www.spiralhappens.com
Jeremiah M. Soto describes his musical endeavors "Solace," meaning comfort. In 1992, he and lifetime musical partner, Dann Torres, formed the group Eventide, where Jeremiah first experimented with the doumbek and realized his fascination and talent for Middle Eastern drum rhythms. To better his knowledge, Jeremiah attended classes in Frame Drum, Conga, and African poly-rhythms by world-renowned percussionist Ronnie Engle, and later studied Classical Arabic Style with master percussionist, Souhail Kaspar. In 1995, Jeremiah released the first Solace album Rhythm of the Dance. Since then Jeremiah as released eight Solace albums, with a new project due out on Auguest 2006. Jeremiah also has expanded Eventide Music Productions, his independent record label to include Tim Rayborn, Dann Torres’ Knossos, Ruben van Rompaey, and Maduro.
Jeremiah hopes to break the confines of typical Middle Eastern Dance Music & inspire others through his unique compositional style and love of Arabic rhythms and music. Solace music is not just great belly dancing music; it is a journey into the heart and mind, a journey where others fear to tread. www.empcds.com www.soundofsolace.com
Tribal Pura is the exclusive partnership of FatChanceBellyDance and Devyani Dance Co. Carolena Nericcio, directror of FatChanceBellyDance, began dancing in 1974. In 1987 Carolena began teaching and created Amercian Tribal Style Belly Dance. Megha Gavin began studying with Carolena in 1996 and in 2003 completed FCBD Teacher Training and opened up the Devyani Dance Co. in New Orleans,LA and then Birmingham,Alabama. Tribal Pura is an alchemy of art and science; using elegance of art and the science of anatomy to communicate the purity of this new tradition.-
Beyond Basics: Powerful Presence & Bellyrolls & Flutters 
