Katie's Belly Dance Masterclasses
Upcoming Belly Dance Masterclasses
Katie's Belly Dance Masterclasses are designed to push your dancing to new heights! Each 3 or 4 hour workshop will be focused on a different topic within raks sharqi (belly dance) - everything from oriental to mordern dance styles to folkloric dances to prop work. Every lesson we'll be mastering intricate combinations for you to put into your own choreographies, learning a full short choreography created by Katie and perfecting technique and transition steps used in the choreography too. Stretching and conditioning training will be key in the classes to help you become stronger and more flexibile, which will improve all areas of your dancing. Lastly, we'll be targetting improving your stage presence, performance technique, and styalising your own choreographies! After each class you'll be given practise worksheets to take away with you to help you with your home self practise too :)
The Baladi Series:
Taqsim Improvisation
With Katie Alyce
Sunday
18th October 2020
10am till 1pm
Base Dance Studios, Vauxhall4 Tinworth Street, London SE11 5EJ
The Taqsim is a solo instrumental performance which usually precedes the performance of Arabic, Middle Eastern and Turkish compositions. Generally the Taqsim would be improvised (if performing with a live musician) where the dancer is translating the melody of the instrument being played through her movements. Meaning this masterclass is all about how to dance to an instrumental solo! Katie will help build your confidence in improvisation by giving you useful tips, ideas and examples of dance movements and transitions used to translate instrumental solos including the accordian and the qanun! All this will be wrapped up with strengthening, conditioning and drilling key movements used for Taqsim improvisation!
For this 3 hour workshop we will be covering:
Hip improvisation technique, movement drilling and transitions
Shimmy improvisation technique, movement drilling and transitions
Learning example combinations to give you ideas for your own improvisation
Strengthening, stretching and conditioning training
Performance technique and stage presence
Tips and tricks and advice for your own self practise
Taqsim Improvisation £33
The Baladi Series:
Travelling Steps and Working the Stage
With Katie Alyce
Sunday
2nd November 2020
10am till 1pm
Base Dance Studios, Vauxhall4 Tinworth Street, London SE11 5EJ
This masterclass is going to focus on how to really work the stage and how to properly put together traveling steps and sequences! Travelling steps are vital, particularly when it comes to making an entrance and also for moving around the stage artistically. Katie will teach you some of her own, technical combinations and movement patterns. We'll also be covering strengthening and conditioning to help train your muscles to have clean beautiful movements!
For this 3 hour workshop we will be covering:
4 x intricate travelling step combination patterns
Drilling core travelling step movements
Learning how to properly link travelling steps, transition steps and turns together
Strengthening, stretching and conditioning training
Performance technique and stage presence
Tips and tricks and advice for your own self practise
Travelling Steps and Work the Stage £33
The Baladi Series:
Baladi Choreography
With Katie Alyce
Sunday
29th November 2020
10am till 2pm
Base Dance Studios, Vauxhall4 Tinworth Street, London SE11 5EJ
In this workshop we're going to be learning and mastering a beautiful Baladi choreography! We'll be building on the techniques we've learnt from the 2 x previous workshops - taqsim improvisation techniques and travelling steps and combinations to really work the stage! Don't worry we'll be starting the choreography from scratch in this workshop if you're unable to attend either of the 2 previous workshops! :)
For this 4 hour workshop we will be covering:
Mastering a Baladi Choreography
Intricate travelling step patterns and combos
Gorgeous taqsim improvisation
Strengthening, stretching and conditioning training
Performance technique and stage presence
Tips and tricks and advice for your own self practise
Baladi Choreography £44
3 Workshop Pass Limited Offer £79
*Only 11 available*
Past Workshops / Masterclasses / Retreats
1st March 2020 - Stage Worthy Arms - London, UK - SOLD OUT
29th February 2020 - How To Put On A Show Masterclass Series: Travelling Steps and Working The Stage - Hosted by Helen Santa Maria - Reading, UK - SOLD OUT
16th February 2020 - Oriental Belly Dance Workshop - London, UK - SOLD OUT
8th February 2020 - How To Put On A Show Masterclass Series: Stage Presence - Hosted by Helen Santa Maria - Reading, UK - SOLD OUT
5th January 2020 - Perfect Your Turns Masterclass, Katie Alyce and Kasia Mazurek - London, UK - SOLD OUT
8th December 2019 - Saidi Workshop - London, UK - SOLD OUT
20th October 2019 - Drum Solo Workshop - London, UK - SOLD OUT
3rd October - 7th October 2019 - Katie's Belly Dance Retreat - Marrakesh, Morocco - SOLD OUT
29th September 2019 - Shaabi Workshop - London, UK - SOLD OUT