Preparing for next semester of bellydance
Aug. 25th, 2014 10:03 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mekyriaI officially have a holiday! I took this week off to teach a belly dance summer camp, that unfortunately only had three people who enrolled. I am using this week to prepare next semester and to take a short trip to Antwerp with my habibi as a sort of honeymoon.
My beginners will get a basic choreography with some Iraqi styled moves to Tala min Beit Abouha by Ellie Atie. It is a very catchy version of the traditional Iraqi song. I will not put a lot of hairography in it because I want to protect the necks and spines of my beginners, but there will be some hair flipping going on. If I can finish this choreography tomorrow, I can videotape it before our practice on Wednesday night.
And on to the lustrum production! I wanted a choreography that is very challenging and I messaged Aziza about using the choreography that she taught us during Dreamcamp in Belgium last year. She said (and I quote):"Go for it!. Aziza is super duper awesome. Also, since we went into the rhythms in the song in depth, I have someone's dad who can drum and might be able to drum while we dance.... That would be an awesome experience for the students.
As the drum solo is over 7 minutes, I doubt that we can get another choreography in. I estimtate 1 class per minute of choreography, we have ten classes, two extra rehearsals during the weekend, the final rehearsal and four evenings of performing (crazy, right?). so I thought: why not use the beginners choreo as a back-up song: if we have time, they can learn it and I can add more spins and headturns and stuff. And if both groups know the song, I could have both groups perform the song together for the student recital.
This song begs for cute folk dance like moves and combinations. Squee!!!
My beginners will get a basic choreography with some Iraqi styled moves to Tala min Beit Abouha by Ellie Atie. It is a very catchy version of the traditional Iraqi song. I will not put a lot of hairography in it because I want to protect the necks and spines of my beginners, but there will be some hair flipping going on. If I can finish this choreography tomorrow, I can videotape it before our practice on Wednesday night.
And on to the lustrum production! I wanted a choreography that is very challenging and I messaged Aziza about using the choreography that she taught us during Dreamcamp in Belgium last year. She said (and I quote):"Go for it!. Aziza is super duper awesome. Also, since we went into the rhythms in the song in depth, I have someone's dad who can drum and might be able to drum while we dance.... That would be an awesome experience for the students.
As the drum solo is over 7 minutes, I doubt that we can get another choreography in. I estimtate 1 class per minute of choreography, we have ten classes, two extra rehearsals during the weekend, the final rehearsal and four evenings of performing (crazy, right?). so I thought: why not use the beginners choreo as a back-up song: if we have time, they can learn it and I can add more spins and headturns and stuff. And if both groups know the song, I could have both groups perform the song together for the student recital.
This song begs for cute folk dance like moves and combinations. Squee!!!
