2010 Classes & Workshops
Cera & Najla teach weekly classes in Bellydance, World Fusion Contemporary, Hip Hop, Improvisation & Performance Skills, Pilates, and Dance Conditioning. at DCDT's home-base, Shoebox Studio in San Francisco.
Classes focus on building strength, flexibility, musicality, and developing powerful, authentic stage presence. Warm up's integrate training in Pilates, Gyrotonics, and multiple dance disciplines to strengthen and stretch the body. Small, controlled isolated movements expand outward to turn, travel, jump, and roll, as well as build into combo's and choreographies that are built over one class, or several weeks. Student's will grow fast, learn fast, and laugh a lot!
Classes enjoy a twice yearly student recital, and Shoebox Studio has a number of performing options for Intermediate/Advanced Students.
Workshops for 2009-2010:
Funk Fusion Bellydance
Modern Fusion & Movement Invention for Bellydance
Conditioning for Bellydancers
Funk Fusion Bellydance
Funk Fusion Bellydance brings you Hip hop, Pop n' Lock, and Funk flava, with intense, high energy conditioning and choreography. Our warm up will focus on layered isolations including syncopated body rhythms, layering two and three dimensional movements simultaneously, and traveling shimmy layers. Then we'll move on to funk fusion combos that you can use, deconstruct, or use to create your own! Come away challenged, inspired, and with lots to work on at home.
Modern Fusion & Movement Invention for Bellydance
Modern Fusion & Movement Invention for Bellydance is all about destroying boundaries, incorporating gestural movement, and working contemporary staging, costuming, and choreographic techniques into your Bellydance vocabulary. Our warm up will focus on developing movements that start in Bellydance and then take a sharp left, exploring space and growing outward from the center. Then we'll move into modern fusion combos, and begin to develop our own movements that we can use in creating combos and choreographies. Come away challenged, inspired, and with lots to work on at home.
This workshop can be augmented with an additional "Choreographer's Module" for students who would like to focus more intensely on choreographic techniques.
Conditioning for Bellydancers
Conditioning For Bellydancers is a full body integration of Pilates, Gyrokinesis, Somatic Awareness, strengthening, stretching, and core integration for dancers. Whether your goals are to gain flexibility, build strength, develop long, lean muscle tone, improve balance, recover from an injury, or just keep your body at peak condition, this workshop will give you the tools you need. Can be taught in one or two hour formats.
This workshop can also be offered as an "Instructors Only" workshop, covering more in-depth anatomy and kinesiology, movement modifications, how to deal with students who have injuries and limitations, and how to work with students with varrying levels of fitness in one class.
Cera & Najla teach weekly classes in Bellydance, World Fusion Contemporary, Hip Hop, Improvisation & Performance Skills, Pilates, and Dance Conditioning. at DCDT's home-base, Shoebox Studio in San Francisco.
Classes focus on building strength, flexibility, musicality, and developing powerful, authentic stage presence. Warm up's integrate training in Pilates, Gyrotonics, and multiple dance disciplines to strengthen and stretch the body. Small, controlled isolated movements expand outward to turn, travel, jump, and roll, as well as build into combo's and choreographies that are built over one class, or several weeks. Student's will grow fast, learn fast, and laugh a lot!
Classes enjoy a twice yearly student recital, and Shoebox Studio has a number of performing options for Intermediate/Advanced Students.
Workshops for 2009-2010:
Funk Fusion Bellydance
Modern Fusion & Movement Invention for Bellydance
Conditioning for Bellydancers
Funk Fusion Bellydance
Funk Fusion Bellydance brings you Hip hop, Pop n' Lock, and Funk flava, with intense, high energy conditioning and choreography. Our warm up will focus on layered isolations including syncopated body rhythms, layering two and three dimensional movements simultaneously, and traveling shimmy layers. Then we'll move on to funk fusion combos that you can use, deconstruct, or use to create your own! Come away challenged, inspired, and with lots to work on at home.
Modern Fusion & Movement Invention for Bellydance
Modern Fusion & Movement Invention for Bellydance is all about destroying boundaries, incorporating gestural movement, and working contemporary staging, costuming, and choreographic techniques into your Bellydance vocabulary. Our warm up will focus on developing movements that start in Bellydance and then take a sharp left, exploring space and growing outward from the center. Then we'll move into modern fusion combos, and begin to develop our own movements that we can use in creating combos and choreographies. Come away challenged, inspired, and with lots to work on at home.
This workshop can be augmented with an additional "Choreographer's Module" for students who would like to focus more intensely on choreographic techniques.
Conditioning for Bellydancers
Conditioning For Bellydancers is a full body integration of Pilates, Gyrokinesis, Somatic Awareness, strengthening, stretching, and core integration for dancers. Whether your goals are to gain flexibility, build strength, develop long, lean muscle tone, improve balance, recover from an injury, or just keep your body at peak condition, this workshop will give you the tools you need. Can be taught in one or two hour formats.
This workshop can also be offered as an "Instructors Only" workshop, covering more in-depth anatomy and kinesiology, movement modifications, how to deal with students who have injuries and limitations, and how to work with students with varrying levels of fitness in one class.