Workshops with Amel Tafsout and Dalia Carella- Nov 15-18, 2018
Over the past 20 years, many dancers have influenced Rakadu's dancing style through the knowledge they have imparted. Two of our biggest inspirations and influences will be here in Lexington to once again share their wisdom and their expertise in folkloric dances from the middle east, fusion, and dance oriental. We can't wait to welcome back to Kentucky:
AMEL TAFSOUT AND DALIA CARELLA!!!
We will celebrate a long weekend with them over November 15-18th, finishing the celebration with our 1001 Nights show at The Lyric Theatre on Sunday evening, November 18th, 7pm
SCHEDULE OF WORKSHOPS:
Thursday November 15th
Workshop with Amel Tafsout - SUFI WHIRLING 6-8pm
SACRED SUFI HEALING: Whirling
Raised in Algeria, Amel grew up with traditional healing practices of her native country. With a research in dance anthropology and coming from a Sufi spiritual tradition, Amel combines traditional healing with sacred dance. With a long training in various healing practices, her knowledge in music and dance and coming from a lineage of a spiritual Sufi tradition, Tafsout developed her own workshop in sacred dance.
She combines her traditional healing background with her learning experience in Sound healing and Zikr, breath work, whirling and trance.
The workshop includes body and breath work, sound healing and chanting (Zikr), leading to whirling and ending with Zar-Hadra, an ancient healing ceremony in the Middle East and Africa. Her research in dance anthropology focuses on a culture’s art and ritual expressed in dance as well as a healing form. Please wear comfortable clothing, preferably white and bring a small blanket and a long shawl for the workshop.
MYSTICAL MEANDERINGS with Dalia Carella & Matt Elliott 8:30-?
Mystical Meanderings - Dalia Carella and Matt Elliot strut their psychic stuff!
Join Dalia and Matt for a very special evening of a fun duo tarot group reading, conjuring up "who knows who" and doing some group intentions. At a very young age, both Dalia and Matt were exposed to the Occult and became drawn to the ancient wisdom of the Tarot. Both readers in their own right, Dalia and Matt bring to the table their unique, fun and quirky personalities. They started doing a few readings at parties together in NYC and needlesstosay, people really enjoyed themselves on every level possible and told them they should do a "psychic cable TV show together". Eventually their TV cable show will be broadcasted across all spiritual dimensions, but you have the opportunity to join them for a live screening right here in Lexington, KY! Join Dalia and Matt for an extraordinary evening full of love, Tarot and laughter!
Friday:
Workshop with Dalia Carella- FLAMENCO FUSION 6:30-8:30pm (with live flamenco guitar by Robert Elliott)
Dalia will be teaching her Flamenco Araby Technique with Lexington's own Robert Elliott. Together this team will create an evening of fiery passionate movement. We will explore a fusion of beautiful arm and hand technique using the skirt or hip shawl as a dance partner. This improvisational class will help each and every student find their own unique inner passion within.
If you are used to dancing with a skirt, please bring. If you dance with pants wear a large flair on the bottom and large hip shawl.
Saturday:
Morning workshop with Dalia Carella- The Luminous Veil 10:00am-12noon
Using sultry Tango Music, experience Dalia’s unique approach to veil work through her invaluable dance experience throughout the years. Looking for different ways of expressing yourself? This is geared for dancers to transform audiences while creating movement and shapes with fabric. Become one with the veil, feel its intensity, sensuality and feel its beauty. Become it, flow with it. Expressive combos that will turn into a choreography and air design movement will be explored while using a veil Bring at least a 3.5 yd veil if you can.
Lunch break: til 1pm
Afternoon workshop with Amel Tafsout-NUBA: A DANCE JOURNEY THROUGH THE MAGHREB
(TUNISIA, ALGERIA AND MOROCCO) 1-4pm
In this workshop Amel Tafsout will introduce the various dance movements that are specific to each country, such as the Tunisian hip twists, the Moroccan hips and belly drops the Algerian hip figures of eights and various steps. She will teach the similarities and differences in each dance, talk about costuming, give some background of each dance and teach some sequences for each style.
Sunday:
Morning workshop: with Amel Tafsout- GUEDRA 10:00-12noon
Guedra is a traditional circle dance that belongs to the Sahraoui and the Blue People of the Tuareg Amazigh, from Mauritania into Morocco and Algeria. The dance’s name comes from the name of a traditional cooking pot called the guedra that is used to provide the percussive beat of the dance. Only women take part in the dance, and they usually wear loose blue robes and festive head dresses decorated with cowrie shells. To perform guedra, the women start singing and clapping, and one woman moves into the middle to perform a solo. The soloist starts her dance covered in a veil that is gradually removed as she moves her hands and shoulders in sharp, quick movements. The dance ends when the solo dancer throws off the veil and collapses on her back. For the Blue People, Guedra is a ritual which aim is to envelope all present with "good energy", peace and spiritual love transmitted from the depths of the guedra's soul via her fingers and hands. With hand-to-head gestures, she salutes the four corners: North, South, East and West, associated with the four elements: Fire (the sun), Earth, Wind and Water.
Artist Bios:
AMEL TAFSOUT- (means ‘Hope of Spring’) is a charismatic international first source master dance artist of North African Maghreb dance and has mesmerized audiences in the Middle East and North Africa, as well as Europe, New Zealand, U.S.A. and Latin America. Tafsout is an acclaimed choreographer, instructor and performer of North African Maghreb Dance as well as a poet, a storyteller, a singer, a socio-linguist and a dance anthropologist.
DALIA CARELLA- is a renowned world fusion artist, choreographer, master teacher, and the Founder/ Artistic Director of the Dalia Carella Dance Collective. Her rich background has lead her to make works utilizing both ethnic and contemporary movement, that are ingrained with a deep spiritual and mystical essence. She is known for her explorations into cultural dance forms, her precise and seamless blending of traditional and modern dance in the theatrical context, and for her dark and sultry cabaret stylings, evocative of the European underground, circa the 1920s and 30s.
Workshop pricing:
THE WORKS!- All Classes with Amel and Dalia, (excluding "Mystical Meanderings")- $240
LONG WEEKEND- All classes from Friday through Sunday- $210
WEEKEND SPECIAL: All Classes on Saturday & Sunday- $160
SATURDAY ONLY: $110
INDIVIDUAL WORKSHOPS: $60
MYSTICAL MEANDERINGS WITH DALIA CARELLA & MATT ELLIOTT: $25
register and preferred payment via PayPal: (payment to: meccadancestudio@gmail.com)
If you have questions, please email: meccadancestudio@gmail.com
visit: www.meccadance.com
Vending:
DWebb Designs
Irie Tribal
Silks by Celestina
AMEL TAFSOUT AND DALIA CARELLA!!!
We will celebrate a long weekend with them over November 15-18th, finishing the celebration with our 1001 Nights show at The Lyric Theatre on Sunday evening, November 18th, 7pm
SCHEDULE OF WORKSHOPS:
Thursday November 15th
Workshop with Amel Tafsout - SUFI WHIRLING 6-8pm
SACRED SUFI HEALING: Whirling
Raised in Algeria, Amel grew up with traditional healing practices of her native country. With a research in dance anthropology and coming from a Sufi spiritual tradition, Amel combines traditional healing with sacred dance. With a long training in various healing practices, her knowledge in music and dance and coming from a lineage of a spiritual Sufi tradition, Tafsout developed her own workshop in sacred dance.
She combines her traditional healing background with her learning experience in Sound healing and Zikr, breath work, whirling and trance.
The workshop includes body and breath work, sound healing and chanting (Zikr), leading to whirling and ending with Zar-Hadra, an ancient healing ceremony in the Middle East and Africa. Her research in dance anthropology focuses on a culture’s art and ritual expressed in dance as well as a healing form. Please wear comfortable clothing, preferably white and bring a small blanket and a long shawl for the workshop.
MYSTICAL MEANDERINGS with Dalia Carella & Matt Elliott 8:30-?
Mystical Meanderings - Dalia Carella and Matt Elliot strut their psychic stuff!
Join Dalia and Matt for a very special evening of a fun duo tarot group reading, conjuring up "who knows who" and doing some group intentions. At a very young age, both Dalia and Matt were exposed to the Occult and became drawn to the ancient wisdom of the Tarot. Both readers in their own right, Dalia and Matt bring to the table their unique, fun and quirky personalities. They started doing a few readings at parties together in NYC and needlesstosay, people really enjoyed themselves on every level possible and told them they should do a "psychic cable TV show together". Eventually their TV cable show will be broadcasted across all spiritual dimensions, but you have the opportunity to join them for a live screening right here in Lexington, KY! Join Dalia and Matt for an extraordinary evening full of love, Tarot and laughter!
Friday:
Workshop with Dalia Carella- FLAMENCO FUSION 6:30-8:30pm (with live flamenco guitar by Robert Elliott)
Dalia will be teaching her Flamenco Araby Technique with Lexington's own Robert Elliott. Together this team will create an evening of fiery passionate movement. We will explore a fusion of beautiful arm and hand technique using the skirt or hip shawl as a dance partner. This improvisational class will help each and every student find their own unique inner passion within.
If you are used to dancing with a skirt, please bring. If you dance with pants wear a large flair on the bottom and large hip shawl.
Saturday:
Morning workshop with Dalia Carella- The Luminous Veil 10:00am-12noon
Using sultry Tango Music, experience Dalia’s unique approach to veil work through her invaluable dance experience throughout the years. Looking for different ways of expressing yourself? This is geared for dancers to transform audiences while creating movement and shapes with fabric. Become one with the veil, feel its intensity, sensuality and feel its beauty. Become it, flow with it. Expressive combos that will turn into a choreography and air design movement will be explored while using a veil Bring at least a 3.5 yd veil if you can.
Lunch break: til 1pm
Afternoon workshop with Amel Tafsout-NUBA: A DANCE JOURNEY THROUGH THE MAGHREB
(TUNISIA, ALGERIA AND MOROCCO) 1-4pm
In this workshop Amel Tafsout will introduce the various dance movements that are specific to each country, such as the Tunisian hip twists, the Moroccan hips and belly drops the Algerian hip figures of eights and various steps. She will teach the similarities and differences in each dance, talk about costuming, give some background of each dance and teach some sequences for each style.
Sunday:
Morning workshop: with Amel Tafsout- GUEDRA 10:00-12noon
Guedra is a traditional circle dance that belongs to the Sahraoui and the Blue People of the Tuareg Amazigh, from Mauritania into Morocco and Algeria. The dance’s name comes from the name of a traditional cooking pot called the guedra that is used to provide the percussive beat of the dance. Only women take part in the dance, and they usually wear loose blue robes and festive head dresses decorated with cowrie shells. To perform guedra, the women start singing and clapping, and one woman moves into the middle to perform a solo. The soloist starts her dance covered in a veil that is gradually removed as she moves her hands and shoulders in sharp, quick movements. The dance ends when the solo dancer throws off the veil and collapses on her back. For the Blue People, Guedra is a ritual which aim is to envelope all present with "good energy", peace and spiritual love transmitted from the depths of the guedra's soul via her fingers and hands. With hand-to-head gestures, she salutes the four corners: North, South, East and West, associated with the four elements: Fire (the sun), Earth, Wind and Water.
Artist Bios:
AMEL TAFSOUT- (means ‘Hope of Spring’) is a charismatic international first source master dance artist of North African Maghreb dance and has mesmerized audiences in the Middle East and North Africa, as well as Europe, New Zealand, U.S.A. and Latin America. Tafsout is an acclaimed choreographer, instructor and performer of North African Maghreb Dance as well as a poet, a storyteller, a singer, a socio-linguist and a dance anthropologist.
DALIA CARELLA- is a renowned world fusion artist, choreographer, master teacher, and the Founder/ Artistic Director of the Dalia Carella Dance Collective. Her rich background has lead her to make works utilizing both ethnic and contemporary movement, that are ingrained with a deep spiritual and mystical essence. She is known for her explorations into cultural dance forms, her precise and seamless blending of traditional and modern dance in the theatrical context, and for her dark and sultry cabaret stylings, evocative of the European underground, circa the 1920s and 30s.
Workshop pricing:
THE WORKS!- All Classes with Amel and Dalia, (excluding "Mystical Meanderings")- $240
LONG WEEKEND- All classes from Friday through Sunday- $210
WEEKEND SPECIAL: All Classes on Saturday & Sunday- $160
SATURDAY ONLY: $110
INDIVIDUAL WORKSHOPS: $60
MYSTICAL MEANDERINGS WITH DALIA CARELLA & MATT ELLIOTT: $25
register and preferred payment via PayPal: (payment to: meccadancestudio@gmail.com)
If you have questions, please email: meccadancestudio@gmail.com
visit: www.meccadance.com
Vending:
DWebb Designs
Irie Tribal
Silks by Celestina