Spring Belly Dance Classes with Danielle

Celebrate the feminine in a way that is sensuous, graceful and powerful. Belly Dance Teacher and Performer, Danielle Davies shares her love for this beautiful discipline, offering precise instruction and understanding in a clear, engaging manner. Her training and experience in teaching various styles of belly dance allows for a great range of expression - enabling her students to find their true calling. Her goal is to share this passion and create a space in which her students feel strong, inspired and challenged; both physically and mentally.

Monday 8-9pm
Enamorarse Dance
Orient Dance & Music Center
East Beaver Creek, Richmond Hill
Toronto, Ontario
416.618.2551

www.enamorarsetorontodance.com

Wednesday 7-8pm
Earthsong Village
2436 Kingston Road, Cliffside Village
Toronto, Ontario
416.266.2787

www.earthsongvillage.com

Get certified with DivaGirl!

Belly Grooves celebrates the feminine in a way that is sensuous, graceful and powerful. In this 3-hour workshop, you will be introduced to the dynamic world of belly dance by focusing on posture and muscle isolation, which are the fundamental elements present in most belly dance movement. We will break down each movement and provide you with the proper technique, allowing you to teach a basic Warm-Up, Cardio, Strength and Cool-Down section of your dance/fitness class. You will have the tools to introduce Belly Dance movement into your fitness classes, leaving you and your students feeling strong, inspired and challenged.

Completion of the instructional workshop enables you to become a DivaGirl Licensee! Ask how you can become a part of our divalicious team!

WHEN: Sunday February 20 2011 from 11am – 2pm

WHERE: Can Dance Academy – 1575 Clarkson Road - Mississauga, ON

COST: $89

www.divagirlfitness.com

Custom Designs for Dancers - by Danielle

Custom designed costume for Valeska from Montreal!

Great costuming for dancers!

www.sweetthreadz.etsy.com

Great hand-made costuming for dancers, as well as items that can be worn off the stage!!!

An Evening of belly dance fusion featuring Audra
& Various Artists

Friday January 15 2010
La Sala Rossa
4848 St-Laurent Blvd.
8:30-11pm

$15

Tickets can be purchased online at:
http://divagirlfitness.com/author/giraffe
or
Contact Danielle Davies directly:
514.465.4421
normagene@rogers.com


“I’m not interested in how people move; I’m interested in what makes them move.” ~ Pina Bausch

After reading this quote I immediately thought about Audra Simmons and her approach to both teaching and performing. She often talks about the importance of emotion and expression and how these elements can bring ones dancing to a higher level. I am excited to announce that she will be returning to Montreal in January 2010. She will be featured in Katharsis: An Evening of Belly Dance Fusion on Friday January 15, followed by a two-day workshop on Saturday January 16 and Sunday January 17.

The performers in the show were given the definition of Katharsis, and asked to express this through their performance.

KATHARSIS: : the process of bringing to the surface repressed emotions, complexes, and feelings in an effort to identify and relieve them, or the result of this process

Featuring performances by:

Karen Gaulin
Mat Jacob
Heather Sara
Timora
Laya
Lisam & Ilona
Les Orchidées Rouges
Tribu Ghabal
Valeska
Ezzahra
Danielle Davies

Modern Belly Dance for Modern Women ~ Workshop with Audra Simmons

Sat Jan 16 & Sun Jan 17 2010
Studio Bizz - 551 avenue Du Mont-Royal Est


Saturday January 16 2010
1:30-5:30pm

Essential Arms and Hands
2 hours - suitable for beginners through to professionals

Audra is well known for her graceful and fluid arms and hands and in this workshop she teaches essential movements and exercises designed to help add poise and grace to these often overlooked appendages. We'll also look into how to integrate the arm and hand movements as we pair them up with torso and hip movements.

Drills 'n More Drills
2 hours - suitable for beginners through to professionals

It is through repetition of isolations and movements that dancers develop accurate muscle memory as well as strengthen and refine their movements. Using stationary and moving drills, fundamentals chest, torso and hip isolations will be drilled with focus or proper posture, proper muscle use and the refinement of isolations.

Sunday January 17 2010
10:30-2:30pm

Layering
2 hours - suitable for intermediate through to professional dancers

The layering of movements one on top of another can be just the right combination to go with your latest musical choice - but just how do you go about learning to layer? Not just putting a movements on top of a hip shimmy, this workshop with introduce a variety of levels of layering as well as some simple keys to unlocking how to work at achieving layers.

Performance 101
2 hours - suitable for beginners through to professionals

Engaging and successful dancing involves so much more than learning technique. This workshop gets students and dancers of all levels and all styles feeling more comfortable with performance fundamentals. Audra will guide you through drills designed to increase confidence, boost your attitude and leave your audience amazed. Aspects such as entrances & exits, presence, attitude, 'walking' and eye contact will be addressed.

$90 for one day
$150 for two days
$10 off if you register before Dec 1st 2010

Please contact Danielle to register in advance
normagene@rogers.com
514.465.4421
Register online at http://divagirlfitness.com/author/giraffe

Audra’s Bio:

Audra Simmons is a Toronto based dancer, choreographer and teacher of modern belly dance & is an innovative force within Canadian belly dance. She is the founder & artistic director of Lavish Dance Company and The Dark Side Studio (Toronto) which specializes in non-traditional belly dance and is the first of its kind in Canada.

Audra has trained extensively with many of the most critically acclaimed dancers in her field such as Rachel Brice, Suhaila Salimpour and Carolena Nericcio (San Francisco) as well as Yasmina Ramzy (Toronto). Audra is in high demand as a teacher in her own right and travels throughout Canada teaching & performing her cutting edge style.

www.thedarksidestudio.com

Come out and celebrate the lunch of DivaGirl Fitness in Montreal! DivaGirl Fitness is a female community dedicated to help women get fit, have fun and feel sexy! We offer various sexy dance and fitness-based classes and workshops. We also provide you with up-to-date information on exciting dance/fitness trends, exercise tips and self-confidence to lead a healthy and divalicious lifestyle!

DivaGirl Fitness Montreal Launch Party

Saturday November 14 2009
1-4pm
Studio Metronome
4557 St-Laurent Blvd. Suite 300

Sexy Dance Workshops

1:00-1:30pm – Sweet n’Spicy Belly Dance with Danielle Davies
1:35-2:05pm – Zumba with Laura Furtado
2:10-2:40pm – Sexy Dance Grooves with Danielle Davies
2:45-3:15pm – Sexy Hip Hop with Laura Furtado
3:30-4:00pm – Love Movement with Marina

Pre-register with Danielle Davies
danielle@divagirlfitness.com
http://divagirlfitness.com/author/giraffe
514.465.4421

All 5 workshops for $35 or 1 workshop for $10
The first 30 Divas to pre-register will receive a gift bag!

Class Descriptions:

Sweet n’ Spicy Belly Dance: Danielle Davies
Belly dancing celebrates being a woman in a way that is sensuous, graceful and powerful. In this class, you will combine movements that incorporate both the Lebanese and Egyptian styles. Students will explore movements from head to toe, focusing on isolation and muscle control. Don’t be surprised if you discover muscles that you never knew you had! All levels are welcome!

Zumba: Laura Furtado
ZUMBA is a fusion of Latin and International music - dance themes that create a dynamic, exciting, effective fitness system! The routines feature aerobic/fitness interval training with a combination of fast and slow rhythms that tone and sculpt the body. Zumba utilizes the principles of fitness interval training and resistance training to maximize caloric output, fat burning and total body toning. It is a mixture of body sculpting movements with easy to follow dance steps.

Sexy Dance Grooves: Danielle Davies
Sexy Dance Groves is dance class designed to highlight the important aspects of fitness, dance and fun. In a unique way, women have the opportunity to experience different styles of dance such as Salsa, Hip Hop, Strip to Fit, Jazz, Bollywood, Belly Dancing and more! Dance Grooves is a high-energy, cardio lovin’ class that fuses various styles of dance to help you get fit and have fun! The class offers custom, basic choreography, to get you movin’ and groovin’! Regardless of what style you do, you’ll be dancing! This is class is open to all levels; you DO NOT have to be a dancer!!!

Hip Hop: Laura Furtado
Get ready to “funk it up-” hip hop styles!! The Hip Hop class consists of a heart-pumping warm-up with body isolations to get the mind and body moving and grooving to some popular beats. We then sweat to top 40 music including Hip Hop, R & B and Reggae, as we learn a fun and sexy choreographed routine! This session is great for those women who are looking for a cardio workout that is different, fun and sexy!

Love Movemnet: Marina H.
Marina H. from local dance troupe “Love Movement” brings forth the high energy and rebellion in choreography which defines her crew. In this class, you will explore the flow and movements created by different sounds and emotions. You will learn how to release the love within your soul in a very sexy and high energy dance. You will get fit while learning how to explore and read sound through aerobics-based principles to gain your confidence on the dance floor.