Zafira Dance Company u Zagrebu!

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Lokacija:
Plesni Studio Fever, Radnička 1a
 

Subota, 16.10.

Space: The Final Frontier (14:00-16:00)
Zafira Dance Company is known for gliding movement and maximizing the use of space onstage.In this class we will develop our movement vocabulary with drills and combinations that are magnified with traveling steps, spins and changes in orientation. Skills that will be addressed: developing grace through strength, alignment,and coordination; traveling steps, spatial awareness, and timing. This workshop will help you break the ‘glued-to-the-floor’ habit and allow you to move around the floor for a more dynamic dance experience.

Killing Me Softly: Dramatic Accents w/ Softer Intentions (16:30-18:30)
The art of holding back in dance is a powerful performance device, but can be hard to control when you are excited. This class will focus on subtle yet surprising accents, dramatic pauses and pacing.We will build combinations that employ these skills in order to embody the music and inspire a powerful yet nuanced performance.We will then collect these combos in a small choreography sequence.

Nedjelja 17.10.

Supah’ Saucy2~Tribal Boogaloo (11:00-13:00)
Zafira’s most requested workshop is back by popular demand: bigger, badder and with more sauce!Kicks, spins, long extensions and locks are the signature of Zafira’s current repertoire. This workshop presents some fancy footwork and spins within several dance combinations. Couple these saucy moves with evocative music and emotion, and you are at the core of Zafira’s “Steal-Your-Heart” style of belly dance.

Lyrical Layers (13:30-15:30)
Don’t you just love to watch a dancer that perfectly expresses the music through her body?A layered approach to movement allows the dancer to more clearly express the music and the dramatic intention in her dance.This workshop focuses on musicality and composition using quintessential elements of belly dance: layered movements, level changes, traveling steps, and isolations to articulate the music.
*This workshop stands on its own, but is also builds on the ideas and concepts introduced in the following workshops: Space, Killing Me Softly, Supah Saucy.

O ZAFIRA DANCE COMPANY:

Zafira Dance Company's performances are opulent vignettes that combine Belly Dance with contemporary and ethnic dance forms. The result is an ornate performance that blurs the boundary between old and new; performer and audience, earthy and elegant.

Guided by the mood of the music, Zafira draws the viewer into each piece by shaping rhythm and melody into gesture and form. Liquid movements, staccato accents and textured choreographies capture a timeless beauty that expresses both the sensuality and strength of the female form.

Zafira Dance Company members work together as a collective. Christine Andrews, Maria Hamer, and Olivia Kissel have been teaching and performing together since 1996. Their friendship and love of dance shines through in each performance. Each member is a contributing artist and brings something unique to the company. This collective approach allows Zafira to offer a unique and powerful dance experience like no other.

Zafira teaches and performs regularly in venues that range from intimate café settings to full-scale theater productions in Pittsburgh and at dance festivals around the world. Zafira has won multiple awards in recognition of their innovative approach to ethnic and contemporary dance, including the honored Golden Belly Dance Award from Zaghareet MagazineOlivia Kissel

Olivia Kissel, raised the daughter of a Slovak Steel Worker and a German Go-Go dancer deep in the Rust Belt of Western Pennsylvania, Olivia Kissel’s love of bizarre music and dance began at a tender age. Intrigued by the world-renowned Binewski’s Fabulon, Olivia turned her talents to the circus arts early on. At first, she performed wildly exotic Senegalese and Guinean ritual dances. Then she was seduced by the sultry art of Tribal Belly Dance, where she found a band of exotic and passionate dancers who would later become known as Zafira Dance Company. Together they drew standing room only crowds in performance after performance across the nation. With a powerful gypsy flare, Olivia incorporated fire into her dance, mimicking the curve and heat of the flame in her every movement.

Olivia has traveled tirelessly to study, teach and perform her art all over the world, from intimate settings to theater performances, from elegant hotels to sticky bars, from beaches to raves. One of her favorite trips took her to Morocco, where she danced in the markets in Marrakech, Fez and Essouira with street musicians and Hennah girls, and drank Quilmes until dawn.

Olivia continues to astound audiences with Zafira Dance Company and in solo performances. Known for a fiery passion and her smooth technique, Olivia milks every note of the music. Her mesmerizing style brings emotion and elegance to every turn. Olivia’s saucy and sultry style will make you laugh… it will make you cry… it will make you pee your pants with glee.

Maria Hamer has studied, taught, and performed as a belly dancer since the spring of 1992. Her main focus is on Turkish and Egyptian belly dance disciplines, but she fuses and blends stylization and gestures of other eastern dance forms and modern western culture to create a very complex and vibrant performance.

She began her study of dance at a very young age with a variety of dance disciplines including ballet, tap, jazz, modern, gymnastics, character, with some experience in contact improv, Odissi Indian Dance, Northern Indian Gypsy Dance and West African. She was also lucky enough to study a Russian Gypsy inspired performance taught under the infamous master teacher of some of the most notable dancers in America, Mansur Kamaletdinov.

Her study of Belly Dance began with classes from her sister Christine Andrews, later having taken workshops and classes with some of the most famed belly dancers in America being mostly inspired by the works of Jill Parker and Ultra Gypsy as well a the teachings of Suhaila Salimpour.

Not just a dynamic soloist, Maria is able to combine her unique style with dancers of similar backgrounds to form energetic and colorful troupes. She began her professional career as a belly dancer in 1995 with the Ghawazee Middle Eastern Music and Dance Ensemble. In 2000, she and her dance peers, Christine Andrews and Olivia Kissel, started Zafira Dance Company. Later adding, West Coast’s, Tamara Nelson and her sister Jennifer Imashev to collaborate. Their performances are recognized for highly disciplined movement and impeccable synchronicity. This results in leaving their audiences spellbound and wanting more.

Cijene:

1 radionica: 250 kunas
2 radionice: 480 kunas
3 radoinice: 700 kunas
4 radionice: 900 kunas

Prijave na:
Susan, susanfrankovich@gmail.com
Natasha, vivekadance@gmail.com

www.susanfrankovich.com
www.vivekadance.com