Saturday February 13th

9:30-11:30: Finger Cymbals with Karim Nagi

  SAGAT ("ZILL" finger cymbals): Karim has developed a comprehensive zill method that utilizes drum techniques, and an Ambidextrous approach. He uses the Egyptian Sufi Zikr aesthetic with multiple sounds, open and closed, sizzle and rapid combinations. Students will learn the Arabic rhythms by name and how to play them while dancing! Dancers will learn to use the cymbals to communicate rhythms to a band and accent solo dancing and body movements. Dancers and percussionists of all levels are welcome. He will also teach dance combinations, solo patterns, train the dancer in musicality, and teach when-and-when-not to play within an Arabic song. Karim promises to transform dancers into musicians with his finger cymbal teaching approach.

Early Registration Price ONLY $20! After 12/31/09:  $26; at the door: $30

11:30-12:00 Lunch break

12:00-2:00 The Dangerously Intriguing Art of Tribal Sword Dancing

with Elizabeth Ostteen has been cancelled.

2:30-5:30pm Rhythm & Drum Solo for Dancers & Drummers

with Karim Nagi

This workshops bridges the gap between rhythm and dance.  Karim teaches each rhythm using the three-sound clapping approach. Karim then performs sample rhythms on the Tabla. Students will learn each rhythm by name, "dum-tak" vocalization, and clapping. Afterwards the dancers will learn choreography segments to help gain bodily control with the sample rhythm, putting theory into practice. The student will then learn "Dancer-Drummer Communication." Students will learn how interpret sound into movement by aligning body parts and motions with drum sounds and riffs. Once the movement-to-sound coorespondence is established, students will prepare to perform to drum solos. The six-part drum-solo will be explained, theme by theme. Students will then perform to any combination of these 6 major drum solo themes. Students will learn how to both lead and follow the drummer by maintaining the common language, and by telegraphing accents that the drummer can respond to. Improvisation skills will be encouraged, and the daunting prospect of dancing to a LIVE drum solo will be demystified. This dance workshop can also be configured to include drummers as well.

Early Registration Price 3 hour class ONLY $30! After 12/31/09: $36; at the door: $38

Saturday Night Spectacular!  7pm doors open/7:30pm show

Come join us for the Saturday night show at the Buffalo Rose, featuring Karim Nagi and special guests. Karim, in addition to performing some of the traditional and contemporary dances of his Egyptian fatherland, will also spin tunes as the DJ Turbo Tabla, and lead us all as we get up and get down for his famous & rowdy Bhangra Boogie Get Down. This show will feature plenty of open dancing, merriment, and tom foolery. Don’t miss it!  All ages UNTIL 9PM ONLY!

Early Registration Price ONLY $15! After 12/31/09: $19; at the door: $20

All tickets will be held at the door in registered name,

no ticket will be mailed.

Sunday February 14th

9:00-10:30 Sharpening Your Sword Skills Advanced Sword Class with Elizabeth Ostteen Has Been Cancelled

11:00-2:00 Arab Folk Dance Intensive with Karim Nagi

This class is an intensive introduction to the traditional group dances from the Arab world. These dances are primarily unisex, and emphasize synchronicity and group cohesion. This workshop includes Dabka Line Dance, Basic Tahteeb/Assaya Cane Dance, and the group-healing ritual motions found in Zikr and Zar practices. Each dance is taught efficiently as an introduction to the style, and is an initiation into possible future study. These dances are less glamourous than the performance-oriented heroism of the solo dances found in the Arab world. These are the dances done by "The People" in social, celebratory, and spiritual group settings. They can be taught to dancers at any level, as both a cultural and artistic experience. The group movements and concepts can later be extrapolated into performance-calibre skills and themes.

Early Registration Price 3 hour class ONLY $30! After 12/31/09:  $36; at the door: $38

Karim specializes in the connection between dance and music. He teaches Dance and Music Workshops such as Arab Folk Dance, Musicality for Dancers, Segat ("Zill" finger cymbals), Dabka (Arabic Line Dancing), Percussion for Dancers (rhythmic literacy and basic drum technique) and Dancer-Drummer Communication (dancing to drum solos and interpreting sound into movement.)

Karim's recordings under Karim's "Turbo Tabla" name are in every belly dancer's standard library. TURBO TABLA is a dancer's epiphany. Belly dancers from New York to California choreograph to Turbo Tabla songs. It has the magical ingredients: the rolling and sharp pops of the Arabic Tabla, the intoxicating Eastern microtonal melodies, and a techno house groove

In his own words..."Ok, so I am a drummer, and a DJ, plus producer/composer. But Dance is the final ingredient. And dance is where acrobatics are encouraged. I love the stomping Dabkaat of Palestine/Lebanon/Jordan/Syria. And the stick twirling Egyptian dance Tahteeb is so intense. Plus the Sagat/Zill finger cymbalisms. I love percussive dances. Thankfully I figured out that music and dance are practically the same activity. And when done with sincere syncronicity, they become one wholistic ritual. And I am lucky enough to travel internationally to teach this ecstatic cohesion of sound and movement from the Arab world."

KARIM NAGI "Tradition Reimagined"

Drummer . Composer . Recording Artist . DJ . Folk Dancer . Teacher of Arab Music Dance & Culture

Valentine's Weekend Event

For Lovers of Rhythm and Dance!

FEBRUARY 13 & 14, 2010

in Golden, Colorado

Hosted by Tribe Marrakech, at the Buffalo Rose

ELIZABETH OSTTEEN

PRESENTS TRIBAL SWORD STYLINGS

Elizabeth Ostteen teaches and performs nationally as Tribe Marrakech and also as a solo tribal fusion artist. She is the founder and director of Tribe Marrakech, and has taught and performed nationally and in Colorado since 2002. Elizabeth focuses her dance on strength, technique, and smooth passion. Elizabeth is currently living in Florida. 

UPDATE: ELIZABETH WILL NOT BE ATTENDING OR TEACHING AT THIS EVENT. SHE IS SORRY FOR ANY INCONVENIENCE, AND WILL MISS BEING THERE.

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