Tribe.net. Local Connections Vadalna http://bellydance.tribe.net/thread/94503c07-5866-4048-a589-abdea16390e1#4c46db93-5206-4b1f-922a-fe79381d698f 2009-06-09T15:00:38Z 2009-06-09T15:00:38Z

Vadalna Tribal Dance Co. presents a workshop with THE AMAZING, THE STUPENDOUS... ZOE JAKES!!!!!!! Saturday, June 13th!!! PRE-REGISTRATION WILL CLOSE THURSDAY, 5:00pm!!! Saturday, June 13, 2009 Zoe Jakes offering two AMAZING workshops: Knock 'em Dead: 11-1pm The Art of Making it Weird: 1:30-3:30pm Jose Mateo Ballet Theatre 400 Harvard Street Cambridge, MA 02138 $55 per workshop in advance/$60 at the door To register or for more information visit, www.vadalna.com For more information contact: Kali Das or Naraya at vadalna@yahoo.com WORKSHOP DESCRIPTIONS: Knock 'em dead! What works on stage, you ask, especially those bigger ones with the fancy lighting, back stages, and sound guys? This class is for those wanting an understanding of what really carries all the way to the back rows. Get ready for big fantastic whip-sharp moves supplied with clear and concise explanations for graceful and flawless execution. Tips and concepts to make you hip work bigger, sharper, and more polished (thus more effective on stage), and how to improve speed while not loosing clarity of movement. The Art of Making It Weird (Slow, Lovely, and Strange) We are going to ride the edge between exquisite and strange in this slow movement workshop. All that ooey gooey stuff that is so fun and delicious to watch and do will be focused on, using elements from the head down through to the fingertips. We will be focusing on super slow isolations, extreme undulations, and upper body technique. Hand work, elbow work, wrist work, posture, oblique strengthening (to get that horizontal pull that makes mayas and hip slides so exquisite and strange), belly rolls with emphasis on stomach musculature. And of course the elusive flutter! ABOUT ZOE JAKES… Zoe is a proud member of The Indigo, which recently was on the road touring their new show Le Serpent Rouge. She has been touring with Bellydance Superstars since the fall of 2005 and can be seen performing on their new Tribal Fusions DVD. Her first DVD, a drum solo choreography, will be coming out this winter. Combining talents with David Satori and Tommy Cappel to form the band Beats Antique, Zoe has just release their second album with CIA records, Collide. When not with The Indigo, she tours with The Yard Dogs Road Show, a cartoon circus sideshow of wacky dimension, and has been seen tearing it up with the Extra Action Marching Band. An innovative dancer, Zoe has been said to have her own unique take on Tribal bellydance. She takes her influence from Art Nouveau, tango, Breakdance, and Indian classical dance as well as all things vaudeville. Zoe was nominated for Zaghareets best interpretive artist 2007, and The Indigo recently won best troupe 2008. She loves unicorns and has never once doubted their existence.

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