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2 Day Intensive Workshop with Canada's Hadia

May 31, 2008 - June 1, 2008

Gala Performance featuring Hadia and a number of featured Bay Area artists! DMBD featured performance events feature our guest instructors and highlight some of the many fine examples of the dance that live, teach and make a living here in the greater Bay Area. Our goal is to support our dance community by bringing in high quality dance instruction, give our local dancers opportunities to show off their skills and creative spark and give the public a fabulous glimpse of this wonderful art we call Belly Dance. The dance line-up for the June performance will be posted once finalized. Feel free to contact us if you have questions!

Workshop - May 31, 2008 - June 1, 2008

Join Hadia for two days of technique, choreography, and drills for the dancer who's looking to improve their range, add to their tool box and learn the May

Space will be limited, contact DMBD for registration information or questions. Details will be posted soon! Special rates are under negotiation with local hotels. We hope to have all details, costs and other information finalized and available at our event next month.

Gala Event - May 31, 2008 | 7pm - 9:30pm

General Admission - $20.00

Senior - $15.00

Child (10 & under) - $7.00

FREE Admission for ALL workshop attendees!

Event location and room specials , Hayward La Quinta Inn, 20777

Hesperian Blvd, Hayward, CA 94545, (510) 732-6300

This is a Dance Master of Belly Dance Certificate Event!

Register by May, 1, 2008

Advanced Registration!

Per Day - $85 ($95 per day after 4/30)

Weekend Rate (Day 1&2) - $150

Saturday May 31st 10:00am - 4:00pm, Hadia's Body Logic Technique/Music Interpretation/Combinations & Transitions

Sunday, June 1st 11:00am - 4:00pm Oriental Technique & Rhythms/Choreography & Combinations

Full Weekend:

Dancing from the Inside Out!

All dance levels welcome!

Day 1 & 2 - A weekend with Hadia (May 31st & June 1st)

Saturday, May 31st 10:00am – 4:00pm
Oriental Technique & Rhythms/Choreography & Combinations
Sunday, June 1st 11:00am – 4:00pm
Hadia’s Body Logic Technique/Music Interpretation/Combinations & Transitions

AND MORE!

About Hadia

(See Hadia in action! Clip one - Clip two)

Hadia is a dancer’s dancer - in every sense of the word and truly one of Canada's natural jewels. She has the energy of a five year old, the wisdom of an old woman and the ageless spirit of a true dancer. In great demand as a performer, master instructor and choreographer, Hadia has achieved recognition and renown among her peers around the world as recipient of the prestigious global Woman of Vision – Arts, Entertainment and Culture, 2002, and the winner of the International Association of Middle Eastern Dance Best Choreographer Award 2000 and Best Modern Egyptian Dancer 2003, Middle Eastern Dance Lifetime Achievement Award, 2003 as well as the Giza Academy Award for Best Instructional Videos, 1999.

Her thirty year career as a professional dancer began with extracurricular studies of classical, contemporary, jazz and Middle Eastern Dance while completing her Theater Degree at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C., Canada. Initially inspired by the legendary Badawia of Jordan, she continued with the best instructors that the world of Middle Eastern Dance has to offer, including Nadia Gamal, Dina, Ibrahim Akef, Dr. Farideh Fahmy, Mona Said, Zohair Zeki, Raqia Hassan, Ibrahim Farrah, Ahmad Jarjour, and the National Folkloric Company of Egypt (Kohmeya). Frequent study and performing tours to the Middle East enabled her to further develop her skills and absorb the richness of Middle Eastern dance, music and culture within the countries of origin. She continues to perform and instruct throughout North America, Mexico, South America, Europe, The Middle East, The Far East, New Zealand and Austral ia.

Her choreographic brilliance has taken life through numerous works presented by her sophisticated and dynamic “Aiwa Arabic Dance Ensemble”. Amoung the most memorable of these was the “Journey on the Orient Express” in November, 2003. Hadia and her company shared the stage of the prestigious Jack Singer Theater with The Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra. Tchaikovsky’s “Arabian Dance” from the Nutcracker, “Dance of the Persian Slaves” by Mussorgsky and the “Bacchanale” from Samson and Delilah by Saint-Saens were transformed into a journey into the heart of oriental dance. She has also gained recognition for her ground-breaking fusion of Oriental, ROM and Flamenco Dance. Although Middle Eastern Dance remains Hadia’s first love, she continued to pursue jazz and contemporary dance through intensive training with Les Ballet Jazz de Montreal, as well as Phil Black, Luigi and Alvin Ailey of New York.

The Moorish influence so evident in Spanish music soon drew Hadia, into the world of flamenco. For the past twenty two years, this passionate and explosive art form has remained her “other” love. While living in Madrid for several years, she studied with flamenco’s greatest masters including Ciro, Merche Esmerelda, Manolete Amaya, La Tati, Eva La Yerbabuena, Manolo Marin, Antonio Granjero, Antonio Marquez, Maria Bermudez, Matilde Coral, Ana Maria Lopez and Maria Magdalena. In collaboration with Oscar Nieto, Hadia co-founded ‘Mozaico Flamenco’ Dance Company.

Hadia has also spent fifteen years studying African and Brazilian Dance, while Latin and Polynesian dance put the finishing touches on her exciting and eclectic career.

After so many years entirely devoted to dance, Hadia returned to Canada to become a Registered Massage Therapist. She now instructs accredited post-graduate seminars in Massage and Manual Therapy Techniques through Kine-Concept Institute.

Although Hadia is an exquisite performer of impeccable quality, her extensive travels and deep understanding of many forms of dance, combined with her thorough knowledge of anatomy, kinesiology and physiology make her an unparalleled master instructor. Her ingenious teaching skills blend careful disciplined technique, attentive application to rhythm and music and encouragement of artistic expression. She has a fullness and depth to her teaching that challenges, inspires and accommodates all levels of students from novice to professional. Dedicated to educating dancers, all that she knows she willingly shares.

Hadia is presently located in Montreal, Canada, although she continues to tour international invitations as a master instructor. Since 1999 she has been conducting intensive Retreats throughout North America and Mexico, which focus on Body Balancing, Injury Prevention and Teachers Training for Dance. In 2002 Hadia presented her first Annual “Festival of the Nile,” Canada’s First Festival of Middle Eastern Dance, Music and Culture featuring Jalilah. This extremely successful event features classes and performances by such internationally renowned artists as, Sahra Saeeda and Helene Eriksen, as well as classes and lectures in Middle Eastern music and percussion by Dr. Michael Frishkopf and history, traditional costuming and culture. Hadia also conducts dance tours to the Middle East. Her Annual "Turkey - Gateway to the Orient" Tour continues to be an enormous success and is sold out every year.

Contact DMBD / Angela Thacker
angela.thacker@comcast.net
17860 Hesperian Blvd. | San Lorenzo, CA 94580 | (510) 317-9875

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