SOPEN STUDIO/drop-in classes  Spring 2012

What is "OPEN STUDIO"?

Classes in the OPEN STUDIO are flexible classes where you can drop-in for one class or several classes to suit yourself. This type of teaching is mostly directed at dancers with prior experience from either Gypsy/Flamenco or Tribal Style dance or Bellydance.

OPEN STUDIO is focused on the dance as an art form and participants can expect to be challenged in technique and creativity.

Classes can be offered at four different levels:

BEGINNERS level
Every one can participate - no dance background is required. But just as with the other "Open Studio" classes we go fast forward and these beginners classes will very fast take you through the basic technique before you enter the next level. It can be recommended to do a little home-studying :). For ATS level 1 is beginners class

INTERMEDIATE level
The level teaches the "essentials" of each dance style - but it is not to be mistaken for beginners-level. At this level you do not neccesarily need a lot of experience in Gypsy or Tribal style dance, but the teaching level is aimed at dancers with at least 1-3 years dance experience or similar other dance knowledge. 

ADVANCED level
This level is more demanding - aimed at dancers with at least 4-8 years of dance experience within Gypsy/Tribal dance. For the Tribal classes it is also important to notice that techniques and grounding are quite different from traditional bellydance and therefore it is not always possible to draw a parallelle in skills between the two styles. All Tribal Fusion classes requires knowledge of ATS®.

Very advanced technique, combos and a high teaching speed is offered here. The advanced classes do not aim to dwell on basic technique but to challenge the skilled dancers both in technique and expression.

PERFORMANCE level
This level is primarily for dancers with performance experience and and will be very advanced.

PLEASE ALSO NOTE the level required for the ATS-classes, you need to consult Dud if in doubt -  This is to ensure the quality of these group-dance classes.
 

Come as often as you like...
OPEN STUDIO is intensive classes and 100% focused on the dance art, technique and expression. This means that classes are structured as small independent workshops each week and every participants should feel they are given something new whether they come for one class or more.

There are no choreography-training, only combos/structures that can be done in one class. But there will be time and room for some  individual coaching.

DISCOUNT-cards can be used across levels and dance styles. The discount-cards are bought at the first class.  Discount cards are personal and cannot be shared between more people.

Discount cannot be granted "backwards" and please notice that unused discount-cards cannot be refunded at the end of the term. Cards bought during spring 2012  will expire as of June 25, 2012 (no transfers into next season)

PAYMENT: is done BEFORE classes start directly to Dud - please show up 10 minutes before to settle payment.

Sign-up:
Text cell phone: (+45) 40172051 or mail dud_dk@yahoo.com
if this is your first time in class, you are welcome to sign up by email or txt message. But our drop-in classes are working great as "drop-in", so you are welcome to just show up, but please arrive at least 10-15 minutes before class start to settle payment etc.

Locations:
DET BLÅ HUS:   Bille Brahesvej 2, 1963 Frederiksberg

STUDIO NIA:     Suomisvej 2, 1927 Frederiksberg

Organizer:  Dud Muurmand + Foreningen Tribaldance.dk

Where is it?
Det Blå Hus, Bille Brahesvej 2, 1963 Frederiksberg (Copenhagen)

COMING BY TRAIN:
- from Central Station continue to NØRREPORT station
- at Nørreport you change to the Metro going towards "Vanløse" only 1 station til FORUM station. Go to road level.
- walk approx 75 meter down "Rosenørns Alle," turn left on " HC Ørstedsvej"
- walk another 75 meter straight ahead turn left on "Bille Brahes vej "
- at the green door at no. 2 press the second top button on the left.
- Det Blå Hus (the Blue House) is situated in the center of the yard - please enter though the door on the left side of the house and go to first floor

GYPSY FUSION

Spins, turns, skirts whirling .. big feelings, small stories, drama of life. This is the essence of gypsy dance.

Using techniques from both the Balkans, Russia, Spain, India and many of the other gypsy influences gives this dance style a great variety.  In gypsy dance there is lots of room for personality and individual expression.

Classes will teach you attitude, expression, strong technique for turns, spins, skirtwork, shawl-work, dramatic approach as well as an introduction to new more modern approaches both in the dance as well as in the music!!

Technically we will drill on very advanced turns, skirtwork, dance flow and sharp figures from both the Flamenco and the Russian dance. We take in halfheight-moves and also floorwork. Techniques from trance and ritual dances will be included to create the atmosphere of calm mystique.

We only work the ritual aspects as a dramatic process to give this fusion styles its outglow - and a personal expression - it is the dance for all Drama-Queens!

Please remember to bring kneepads and your biggest gypsy skirt ...

TRIBAL STYLE DANCE

American Tribal Style®: Group improvised dance, where no choreography is used - but instead formations and moves are shifted during dancing without words between the dancers. To do this, all steps are standardized into small 2, 4 or 8 counts cued by hands, head or body moves. Moves and step are influenced from Flamenco, Oriental folkore and contemporary dance.

Dud teaches by the FatChanceBellydance®-format as invented by Carolena Nericcio (USA)

For ATS® classes we will drill on technique, precision and synchronization - all the fast & slow moves, the formations, how to lead and follow.  All aspect demands a lot of practice to work in practice - but it is so much worth the drills and the efforts - and so much fun!

This style gives you fantastic strenght and ability to work together with other dancers, to refine yourself and your technique and to be creative in a group.

Also, this style is also the sound dance foundation if you want to work with tribal fusion styles later on.

ATS® is danced with zills - please bring your own zills to all classes.

It is important to complete the training of the different levels before moving up to next level. Please ask Dud before entering a new level.

Tribal Fusion:

Slowmotion body-control, Hiphop/contemporary dance-input, smooooooth, refined and surprising.

Tribal Fusion is the hotteste trend within  bellydance right now. With this style we drill on core strength, muscle work and extreme refinement.

As the Tribal Fusion has a strong foundation in ATS® it is highly recommended to take classes in BASIC-ATS in order to understand the style and the technique behind.

Dark Tribal Fusion/Gothic
The dark side of fusion takes in expressions and feelings from the Gothic culture … working with halfheight-moves, floorwork and more dramatized expressions. In this fusion style we can go deeper into self expression and also work with dark characters like vampire, vamps, bitches, nocturnal creatures ...

Burlesque Fusion:

Tribal Style Fusion with the 1940-cabaret touch.

Technique includes jazz dance combinations, dramatized expression/"cirkus"-performance and basic "tease-elements" which means working with our feminin power to capture our audience. Also we will do a little very innocent stripping - getting rid of our gloves, feathers ....so please bring these props to release your inner Gypsy Rose Lee!

Technique include classical jazz style work on toe, tribal style strengthening to do some small acrobatic figures, kitty-kat-teasing working with every feminin fibre you got - and a little touch of gypsy style dance.

When these classes are offered at advanced level they require some backgound in either tribal style or gypsy fusion. For beginners/intermediate level it is enough to have basic dance skills from ex bellydance.

Please bring dance pants or a SHORT skirt for these classes.

Afro Tribal Fusion

A fantastic mix of afro, tribal style and a touch of deep grounded ghawazee. This is dance of the Amazones!

The technique is very bouncy and heavy - and we loose a lot of sweat!

This is the very special fusion style that Dud has developped herself and which has been performed by the Gypsy Mystique Dancers.

This style does not include group improvisations.

BALADI

The Egyptian Baladi dance is for women with both feet in the soil!

This very authentic dance style is danced with heavy hips and lots of happiness. It is bellydance from the time before  time. The dance of the people.

We train attitude, grounding, how-to-make-them-heavy-hips, to control the simplicity of our moves in order to make it easy - and fun - to improvise. And of course also to use our personality and self expression in dance.

Dud will base the classes on both Modern Balady and traditional Baladi-structures. We will look into this style also as a way to work in oriental fusion.

The Baladi classes will also include music interpretation/basic rhytm recognition - and in general the Baladi classes will be a good place for both oriental, gypsy and tribal dancers to technically get-back-to-the-roots.

Ghawazee

The first oriental dancers described  in history was in fact the Ghawazee (sing: Ghaziya). This was the arabic gypsy dancers who the English and the French travellers also met on their journeys to Egypt around the period of 1850.

Usually the ghawazee dancers would be hired for weedings and big gatherings and therefore they had only one focus in their show: ENTERTAINMENT ... this means that they knew how to improvise and put up a party for several hours non-stop - and they mastered playing zills and dancing with sticks (saidi) to impress.

This dance style will show you the oriental dance in its basic nature: Flat feet and heeeeavy hips - but also oldfashioned 3/4-shimmies, foot stamping and jumpy steps.

TUNESIAN DANCE

Fascinating twist-combos and beduin-steps … also good for inspiration for Tribal ! This elegant folkloric style is danced primarily on toes and with arms raised high. It can be danced both solo and in groups - and a traditional prop is the water jug balanced on the head or on the shoulder. The Tunesian rhytms have a different structure than the arabic rhytms we know from Oriental dance, which makes it an even more fun challenge - and it is worth the work. The Tunesian classes are always very popular - simply because it is fun!

Please remember some long scarfs for the hips .. and perhaps your tribal fringes :).

Dud Muurmand, DK: dud_dk@yahoo.com   phone: (+45) 3811 3718  cell: (+45) 4017 2051  

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