The Roja dancers will be performing with Egyptian Breeze at 8pm for The Foodbank Charity Fundraiser at the Soft Rock Café in Centerville to raise money for The Foodbank, serving Montgomery, Greene, and Preble Counties.

The benefit will run from 4:00p - 1:00a and will feature live bands (Shrug, C.Wright's Parlour Tricks, Absinthe Junk, Guy Farmer and the Ravens, Citizen's Unrest, and The Bronte Brothers, solo performers (Wes Tirey, Lyle and Jennifer Kuhre), Soft Rock Allstars, belly dance troupes Egyptian Breeze and Roja. It will be a festival of entertainment!

Cover is $10 at the door or $8 if you bring a canned good to donate.

Ages 21 and up only.

For more info visit:

www.thefoodbankdayton.org

www.facebook.com Soft Rock Cafe

www.facebook.com/cberry99 Berry Good Productions

or email cberry99@hotmail.com

 

Event Date:  Sunday, December 13, 2009 - 4:00pm - Monday, December 14, 2009 - 1:00am

When:
Saturday, November 07, 2009 from 7:00 PM - 10:00 PM (ET)

Where:
Cooper's Farm
3155 State Route 48
Ludlow Falls, OH 45371

Hosted By:
Mezzelli's Midnight Mirage

Mezzelli.com

Register for this event now at :
http://anightatthemuseum-rss.eventbrite.com

Event Details:

  "A Night at The Museum"

          Where art comes to life through music and dance.

Charity dinner theatre benifitting the Miami County Foster Children's Christmas Fund.

 

Saturday November 7, 2009 at Cooper's Farm.

Doors open at 7:00 p.m. for heavy hors d'oeurve buffet and desserts.

Soft drinks and coffee included, BYOB if you like.

Show starts at 8:00 p.m.

 

 

 

 

MARDI LOVE BELLY DANCE WORKSHOP - LOUISVILLE

Day: Sunday, November 8th
Time: 12pm - 3pm
Location: Ruric Amari Dance Studio
Mellwood Art Center (2nd Floor)
1860 Mellwood Ave • Louisville, KY 40206

Cost: $50 pre-registration $60 at the door.


PRE-REGISTRATION & QUESTIONS

** Tickets must be purchased no later than MONDAY, 11/2/09 for the early registration price of $50.00.
** All others may RSVP but day of event prices is $60.00.

HOW TO PRE-REGISTER

--Payment must be made either by check or PayPal no later than 11/2/09.

**PAYPAL: Payment can be made via paypal to "lulalicious@yahoo.com" *Make certain that you fill in your full name, contact number, and indicate it's for the 11/8 workshop.

**CHECKS: Contact Rebecca @502.417.2796 or Rhellemans2@gmail.com

SPACE IS VERY LIMITED and WILL FILL FAST. Class sizes is limited to 20 students.

NOTE: If the first class fills up, we will offer a second workshop starting at 4:00 pm - 7:00 pm. This class is NOT confirmed yet.

QUESTIONS and MORE INFO?
Rachel Kalis - lulalicious@yahoo.com - 615-944-0457
Rebecca Hellemans - rhellemans2@gmail.com - 502-417-2796


WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION: The Good Ol' Fashioned Tribal Shake down.

This workshop delivers drills and combinations for quicker tempos. Combination lend themselves well in improvisation, providing variety and contrast. They also prove handy as building blocks in choreography. Movements will be broken down and drilled. Combos will be joined together to form a short dance.

**** Some belly dance experience highly recommended *******


We are so lucky to have Mardi Love's workshop in Louisville!
This is an amazing opportunity to learn from one of the true greats in tribal belly dance today. If you're unfamiliar with her work, here is her bio...

Mardi Love is assistant director, choreographer, and part time costumier for internationally-renowned dance company The Indigo. Mardi began dancing in San Diego with Heather Stants, and was a founding member of Urban Tribal Dance Company. She relocated to the Bay Area where she connected with the likes of Rachel Brice, Michelle Campbell, Sharon Kihara and Zoe. Mardi has toured extensively with The Bellydance Superstars. These days she dances with Rachel Brice and Zoe of The Indigo and the Le Serpent Rouge revue.

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Black Rose Caravan is excited to announce that Deb Rubin will be teaching workshops in Indianapolis in November. Whatever style of belly dance you do, you will get a lot out of these workshops as they are focused on dance wellness so it is an ideal gift for your body! An early Holidays gift, maybe?

Schedule is as follows:

Saturday
9:30 am - 10:30 am: Registration
10:30 am - 12:30 pm: Dance Therapeutics for Upper Body
12:30 pm - 2 pm: Lunch
2 pm - 4 pm: Dance Therapeutics for Lower Body

Sunday
9:30 am - 10:30 am: Registration
10:30 am - 12:30 pm: Fancy Footwork and Flow

Fee will be 40$ for each workshop if paid via cash, check, or money order or 41.50$ if paid via Paypal.
Full meal deal (i.e., all 3 workshop) will be 100$ if paid via cash, check, or money order or 103$ if paid via Paypal.
Prices will go up to 45$/46.50$ and 120$/125$ after Nov. 10.

If sending in payment via snail mail, please make payment out to the following:
Isabelle Murray
1605 Hoyt Ave
Indianapolis IN 46203


There will be vending by The Red Camel (tribal jewelry and adornments) and Ambriehl (Dahlal International items and some Flying Skirts items).

The workshop web site will have the paypal buttons and these details later this week. However, please feel free to contact me here or at celeste_brc (at) yahoo.com for any questions.
www.blackrosecaravan.com/workshop2009.html



Here is Deb Rubin's bio:
MA, CMT, RYT has been a life-long dancer and performer, trained and proficient in many styles, including Salsa, West African, Modern, Jazz, Ballet, Hip Hop, 5-rhythms, Contact Improv, Gymnastics, and of course Tribal Fusion Belly Dance. She has been a 5+year core member, and co-choreographer with the ground-breaking, trend-setting Ultragypsy Bellydance Theater, until Fall, 2007, and a regular sub for Jill Parker’s classes, who is known by many as the founder of tribal fusion. Deb has also studied extensively from, and been creatively influenced by Rachel Brice and Mardi Love, as well as Zoe Jakes, Mira Betz, and Heather Stants. She also holds a level 1 certification from Suhaila Salimpour School of Dance. A sponge for learning, and a seeker of continually deepening her repetoire and relationship to the dance, Deb is well versed within the tribal fusion genre, having also studied with Kami Liddle, Frederique, Amy Sigil, FCBD, Cera Byer, and others. Currently, Deb teaches and performs nationally and internationally, offering her yogic approach and unique stylization of Tribal Fusion Bellydance. Most recently, she assisted Rachel Brice in her 5-day Tribal Massive intensive 2008, performed with Heather Stants and Urban Tribal at Tribal Fest 2008, and co-taught a retreat with Sharon Kihara in Hawaii, Dec. 08. She also produces SF Mecca Immersion, the first Tribal Fusion Belly Dance retreat/immersion event in the heart of the San Francisco.

A holistic health counselor, somatic educator, yoga teacher, and integrative bodyworker, Deb is also the founder of SattyaBodyHealingArts and Dance Collective. She teaches classes, workshops, and retreats fusing women’s health and empowerment with yoga, tribal belly dance, nature, and creative expression. Deb has taught at Kosmos world music and dance camp, at the Omega Institute in NY, at the Quest for Global Healing Conference, in Ubud, Bali, as well as other festivals and healing/sustainability conferences around the globe. She is a founding member of CAST (Creating a Societal Truth).

As a massage therapist and yoga therapist for past 9 years, she specializes in injury rehab for dancers, and women’s health. Some of her Bellydance clients have included: Ansuya, Jill Parker, Sharon Kihara, Aubre Hill, Rose Harden, Sarah White, & Susan Frankowich. She is greatly influenced by her studies of Traditional Thai-Yoga Massage in the hill tribes of Northern Thailand under the lineage of Asokananda, her vision quest experiences in the Northern California Desert, and her Yoga teacher trainings and study with Integrative Yoga Therapy, Acroyoga, Darshana Weil, Shiva Rae, and Gary Kraftsow. She is currently working on a upcoming DVD of her unique dance therapeutics material. posted in Ohio, Indy, Kentucky Bellydance Events - 4 replies

"A Night at The Museum"

   Where art comes to life through music and dance.

Troupe Roja will be performing at Mezzelli's fabulous annual charity dinner theater show to benefit the Miami County Foster Childrens' Christmas Fund! Other featured performers include Sandstorm Dance Company, Mezzelli, Raq Dolls, and Mezzelli's Midnight Mirage dancers.

Saturday November 7, 2009 at Cooper's Farm.

Doors open at 7:00 p.m. for heavy hors d'oeurve buffet and desserts.

Soft drinks and coffee included, BYOB if you like.

Show starts at 8:00 p.m.

See http://anightatthemuseum-rss.eventbrite.com/ to purchase tickets and for more info!

    

Event Date:  Saturday, November 7, 2009 - 7:00pm - 10:00pm

Roja dancers Asiya and Nafretiri will be performing with Egyptian Breeze at the Yellow Springs Street Faire at 12pm and 2pm!

See http://www.yellowspringsohio.org/street_fair.html for more information.

Event Date:  Saturday, October 10, 2009 - 9:00am - 5:00pm

 

Roja will be performing as the featured guests at the Nile Gallery's Halloween Hafla in Sharonville, OH

AND Zattana will be slinging some lovely henna there as well!

http://www.nilegallery.com for more information. From the website:

"Join us the last Friday of each month from 7-10pm for our Diva Hafla! Diva Hafla is a “party for women.” Come enjoy belly dancing, great music, food and fun! No cost or registration required. Open house style, come anytime between 7-10pm. A great way to meet our instructors and other students and give belly dancing a try. If you are an existing student, bring a friend who may like to give it a try as well. (women only please)."

Event Date:  Friday, October 30, 2009 - 7:00pm - 10:00pm

 

Roja will be performing as the featured guests at the Nile Gallery's Diva Hafla in Sharonville, OH, AND Zattana will be slinging some lovely henna there as well!

See http://www.nilegallery.com for more information. From the website:

"Join us the last Friday of each month from 7-10pm for our Diva Hafla! Diva Hafla is a “party for women.” Come enjoy belly dancing, great music, food and fun! No cost or registration required. Open house style, come anytime between 7-10pm. A great way to meet our instructors and other students and give belly dancing a try. If you are an existing student, bring a friend who may like to give it a try as well. (women only please)."

Event Date:  Friday, September 25, 2009 - 7:00pm - 10:00pm

Roja dancers Nafretiri and Asiya will be performing with Egyptian Breeze at the annual Beavercreek Popcorn Fest! Come out for some food, fun, dancing, and--of course--POPCORN!

This is a FREE and family-oriented event.

Egyptian Breeze will be performing at 3pm.

Event Date:  Sunday, September 13, 2009 - 3:00pm - 4:00pm

Wright State University Campus Recreation

 FALL BELLY DANCE RECITAL
***FREE & OPEN TO THE PUBLIC***
Oct 22, 2009  ~ 6:30-8:00pm
STUDENT UNION ATRIUM

~~This is a family-oriented event & suitable for all ages ~~

Performances by the Campus Rec Belly Dance class lead and choreographed by Kathleen A. Hennessy.

Additional performances by...

 

~~Special Guest Artists from the local community~~

Bronwen from Dayton

Safia & Nezmia from Columbus

1st place winners in the Personal Best Dance Competition, Troupe Roja

1st place in Folkloric category of the Personal Best Dance Competition, The Al Kahina Dancers.

Very special guest - Manal from Kuwait!

Event Date:  Thursday, October 22, 2009 - 6:30pm - 8:00pm

Roja will be OPENING the show at Kira's much-anticipated Oasis Halloween Hafla!

This annual event features dancers from all over Ohio and beyond, showing off their most freakish, frightening, silly, and FUN Halloween routines. Costumes are encouraged and the ticket cost is only $5! Among the performers are Laylia and the Naughty Navels (as seen at the Ohio Renaissance Festival), the ever-fabulous Anaya Gypsy, the Oasis Dancers, and Azara's tribal dancers (new to Kira's Oasis).

See www.kirasoasis.com for more information.

Event Date:  Friday, October 9, 2009 - 7:30pm - 11:30pm

Calling all Bellydancers- Egyptian, Tribal , American Cabaret, Goth- Beginners and Advanced

This seminar will start off with a strengthening and technique class focusing on posture and combinations that can be used in class during drills or to add to your choreography library. These strengthening combinations will help bring power to your movements while improving body line.
The second half of the seminar~ Floor Show Choreography
Lets bring back the Classic Cabaret Performance! No matter what your style Sherena will teach a complete floor show and showcase 3 different forms in which it can be performed. Class will include Opening number choreography, veil, Drum Solo and Finale
* Students please bring veil
* CD of seminar music will be included in seminar package!

Check her out!!!: www.Sherena.net
TIME: Saturday, September 12th, 12:00 - 4:30pm
COST: $40 in advance, $45 at the door
She will give a performance at the Friday, September 11th, Hafla at Kira's Oasis.

See www.kirasoasis.com to register!

Event Date:  Saturday, September 12, 2009 - 12:00pm - 4:30pm

Zattana will be slinging some fabulous henna body art at Kira's Oasis monthly bellydance hafla, featuring special guest SHARENA of the Belly Dance Super Stars AND special guest live band Il-Troubadore!

7:30pm - 11:30pm, $5 entry

There will be open dancing, several performances, and other vendors set up as well.

Bonus points, Kira's booked Sharena to teach a workshop Saturday Sept 12th from 12:00pm - 4:30pm! See her website for more details:

www.kirasoasis.com

 

Event Date:  Friday, September 11, 2009 - 7:30pm - 11:30pm

Dayton's Original Halloween Workshop and Boo Bash is back! Watch local belly dancers cut loose for Halloween and perform completely out of the box.

MC is Dr. Creep

Special guests:
Faten Ali-Munger
Leila Gamal
Michael Groomes, SMAG Contemporary Dance Company
Deniz
Jennifer Rose
Chandara
Laylia
Sandstorm MEDC
and more...



When: Saturday, September 26th, 2009
Workshop registration starts at 9am (Faten Ali-Munger from 10-1pm, and Leila Gamal goes from 2-5pm)
Doors open for the evening show at 7pm - Show starts at 8pm and runs till Midnight!
Faten will be teaching beginning Flamenco and Leila Gamal will be teaching classic Orientale' styling.
Where:Pisanello's Pizza, 3rd Floor Ballroom
355 S. Main Street (corner of 4th and Main)
Franklin, OH 45005
How Much: Early Bird (9/20/2009) Workshops are $30 each in advance or $40 each at the door, or $50 Early Bird for both in advance or $60 for both at the door.
The Belly Boo Bash is $10 at the door.

There will be all sorts of raffles and donated items up for auction. This year's charity is the Fistula Foundation. www.fistulafoundation.org.

For more information or to download the workshop registration, go to:

http://www.caravanworkshops.com/events/?view=small&dcDate=09262009#smallSearchJump

For more information, please contact Deniz at 937-602-3788. Please remember that this is a PG13 event. posted in Ohio, Indy, Kentucky Bellydance Events - 3 replies