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