About the Intensive:

This comprehensive weekend intensive will include Technique, artistry, and therapeutics from studio to stage, and how to stay healthy in the process.

Rooting the weekend in a strong foundation of crisp, clean, core-integrated technique (isolations, layering, arms, posture, traveling steps) to build our dance vocabulary, we will then move beyond technique into the realms of Artistry and Performance Quality, exploring ourselves and our own artistic voice through the mediums of dance, theater, writing, yoga, and somatic inquiry excercises. Special workshops on:

• Musicality: Cultivating your Ear and Your Improv
• Stage Presence/Performance Quality, and Creating more Decadent, Dynamic Dancing from the head to the fingertips (including pacing, pauses, stillness, audience interaction, etc.)
• Costumery and Creative Process Cauldren on "creating the whole package": (Pls. bring any ideas or projects you are working on) 

The weekend will finish out with Modules on Dance Therapeutics: Saving Your Belly Dance Body, including Lower Body, Upper Body, & Healthy Backbending, Personal Practice,  Hot Topics in the community, and Tips for Teachers on how to incorporate some of this material into their classes.

Please bring your water bottle, yoga mat, and journal. 

This intensive is for those dancers looking to take their practice to the next level, challenge themselves beyond their 'safety' zone towards thinking and dancing outside the box,  and dive in to the creative cauldren of self-exploration through this art form.