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Belly Dance Technique Training Level 1
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Learn belly dance with fun and success!
This 3-day intensive seminar is aimed at all those who want to work on their dance technique and improve it and who want a solid and well-founded basis in middle eastern dance / belly dance. It is aimed at dancers of all levels who want to drill, polish and refine their technique and want personal corrections and feedback.
You will learn step by step how the movement repertoire of oriental dance is structured and put together. Lots of effective technical training and lots of theory and practice are waiting for you!
In order to ensure intensive and individual work, the number of participants is limited to 12 people. The extensive teaching material (manual, videos, music) makes it possible to continue practicing at home. Each participant also receives a detailed certificate of completion.
CURRENTLY 16.09.2024: Only 4 spots left!
Instructor
Djamila is the director of the OF-Dance Academy and works full-time as a dancer, teacher and choreographer for belly dance / oriental dance. She can look back on more than 20 years of international dance career. In the course of her many years of teaching, she trained many dancers and teachers who are now successful themselves.
Most important information
DATE:
Sat 09/30/2023/
Sun 01.10.2023/
Mon 10/02/2023
TIMES:
Sat 3:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m
So 11:00-17:00
Mon 10:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m
(incl. breaks)
LOCATION:
OF dance academy
Goethering 54
63067 Offenbach
Arrival & overnight stay
TARGET GROUP:
Women who want to train intensively and improve their basic technique.
PLEASE NOTE:
Maximum 12 participants
LEVEL:
From good beginners in middle eastern dance open to all interested.
PARTICIPATION FEE:
early bird price
until 01.09.23 only 299 €
Normal price €329.
Price includes VAT certificate and all teaching materials.
10% discount for OF-Dance Academy students with flat rate!
Djamila will teach in german & english.
The further training takes place exclusively in person training in the studio in order to optimally support and correct each participant individually.
Contents of technical training level 1:
Basics
- warm up
- Basic posture and body alignment
- Feet & Plie – Proper Load and Execution
Theory
- System of movements of oriental dance
- The 6 basic positions of the arms
- The 6 basic positions of the feet
- The most important 4/4 rhythms in oriental dance
Belly dance movement theory
- The basic movements of oriental dance
- Common mistakes & how to recognize and correct them
- Combinations with Steps & Weight Shift
- Effective variations
Basic dance elements
- Basic Shimmies: Hip, Knee, Egyptian and Shoulder Shimmies
- Basic turns: 3-step turn, cross turn, tip turn
- Basic Steps: Basic Step, Alternating Step, Repositioning Step, Run, Cross-Tap, Cross-Step, etc.
Training & Feedback
- Practice Tips
- technique drill
- Individual corrections
- Effective exercise combos for polishing & refining
Teaching material:
- Extensive skript with detailed movement descriptions
- Videos to practice at home
- Certificate of Participation
What our students say
Technique training 1 was really great for me. I learned a lot & the weekend gave me a lot of positive energy. My expectations were exceeded?.
Sarah-Belinda Koro
This training was just what I needed with lots of practical knowledge and plenty of theory that illustrated so much. Thanks to Djamila for this wonderful weekend, for your effort and dedication.
Ira Born
Thank you for an instructive lesson and yet a great relaxed atmosphere. The comprehensive teaching materials are very helpful for repetitions. See you again at online classes!
Elvira Fekete
Participation fee:
Early bird price until 09/01/23 only 299 €, normal price 329 €.
Price includes certificate and all teaching materials.
10% discount for OF-Dance Academy students with flatrate!
Payment options:
By Paypal, bank transfer or direct debit up to 14 days before the event date.
Conditions of Participation
The registration is binding and obliges you to pay the participation fee even if you do not participate.
Cancellations up to 4 weeks before the event date are free of charge. After that, the participation fee is payable. A substitute participant can be provided. In the event of illness and proof by a doctor’s certificate, the training can be made up for at a later date.
What to bring:
- training clothes
- writing utensils
- Enough to drink and a snack for the breaks.
Location:
OF Dance Academy
Goethering 54
63067 Offenbach
Several cheap & nice hotels in a walking distance from the Studio!
The training takes place only once a year. Secure your place now for 2023!
Date planned for 2024!
Online registration
The basics of belly dance
You can never practice enough the basics of oriental dance. They form the foundation of our dance.
The clearer and cleaner they are executed, the easier it will be for all subsequent movements later on. Conversely, mistakes or imperfections later continue in all compound movements that contain the respective basic movement. So it pays to train and polish the basics again and again. The best dancers work on it again and again and constantly drill their technique and isolation.
A good and solid basic technique also ensures that we can dance in a body-friendly and health-oriented manner and have fun dancing for a long time!
In addition to the training in the dance hall, the theory forms an important basis for understanding the basic techniques and learning how the movement system in oriental dance is structured. This is especially helpful later on, in order to be able to analyze and implement even complex movements.
Oriental dance consists of just 6 basic movements. That doesn’t sound like much. But together with steps, turns, arm position and foot positions, combined with shimmy, isolation and simple accents, there are endless possibilities and variations, so that it never gets boring and you always discover new challenges!
With the basic elements you can already create beautiful dance combinations up to complete choreographies. It is better to dance a simple sequence of movements beautifully and cleanly with joy than to carry out a complicated combination half-heartedly.
Despite all the concentration on the technique, one should not forget that it is only the first step! It is our foundation and prerequisite for being able to dance well. Every writer naturally knows the alphabet and spelling. But only vocabulary, grammar, formulations, feeling for language, writing style and much more put him in a position to be able to write a novel.
In other words: If you learned everything you need to dance in one week, then Monday would be devoted to technique – and Tuesday to Sunday would be other important topics on the program.
In addition to technique and dance implementation, expression is what counts! Technology impresses – expression touches. No layman will be able to say whether a seesaw is correctly executed. But he will see immediately when expression, smile, joy and passion are missing. Because technology is not everything – but without technology everything is nothing.