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Dance
Intensive - 3 Days, 11 Hours Total
Wednesday,
August 10 (4:30 - 6:30p.m.) - 2 hours
“Footprints
in Sand”
The journey begins with a PowerPoint presentation called Footprints
in Spice.
Before the famed Silk Route, there was the ancient Spice Route linking
the first civilizations of the globe through trade. Each began as
a goddess-worshipping civilization with dance as an offering in
ritual, celebration, and cultural exchange.
It traces what we now call Bellydance back to before the Greek and
Roman Empire to the Mesopotamian, Indus Valley, and Yellow River
Valley civilizations of modern day Iran, India, and China that traded
via boat routes in 3,000 bc….
We follow the temple architecture, spices and incense, religious
and spiritual iconography and statues, and modern day use and philosophy
surrounding temple dances to see the themes and movement patterns
that have remained even until today….
Wednesday,
August 10 (7 - 9p.m.) - 2 hours
“Architypes
in Dance”
"Architypes in Dance" is an interactive workshop and PowerPoint
presentation that explores the Great Mother Archetype and demonstrates
how she uses her mercurial partner-in-crime, Trickster, to form
this world.
You will learn why image is everything, and how once activated,
these archetypes enhance your creativity, choreography, costuming,
and your ability to bridge the gap between you and your audience.
By learning the secret of how archetypes rise from inside your body
and transmit themselves non-verbally, you will also learn how to
make an audience automatically feel every chill and thrill activated
by you.
Presented in a forum that combines discussion with movement, Archetypes
in the Dancer offers various ways to explore the psyche in order
to create a more powerful stage presence and receive a stronger
emotional reaction from your audience.
Thursday,
August 11 (4:30 - 6:30p.m.) - 2 hours
“Chakra
Dance ”
"Chakra Dance" is a choreography telling the stories of
the Chakra as energy centers in the body that were part of the temple
ideology of a wholistic approach to body health and body energy
as temple pattern. Based on Hindu mythology and yogic study chakras
describe the seven energy centers within the body that can be stimulated
via specific physical movements.
Presented in a forum that combines discussion with movement, Archetypes
in the Dancer offers various ways to explore the psyche in order
to create a more powerful stage presence and receive a stronger
emotional reaction from your audience.
Thursday,
August 11 (7 - 9p.m.) - 2 hours
“Sacred
Geometry ”
The next workshop is then "Sacred Geometry" where we trace
the specific shapes and forms used to describe the chakras, the
temples, the "seed" movements of dance from around the
Mediterranean cultures (N Africa, Spain, the Balkans, Arab, and
even Southern Europe).
To
begin pulling it together, she would teach a fusion choreography
to demonstrate HOW one can go about fusing these various styles
in a way that makes sense and honors their original connections
thousands of years ago.
Friday,
August 12 (4:30 - 6:30p.m.) - 2 hours
“Costume
Cafe - Head-to-Toe”
In
this 3 hour workshop, complete the themes and understand how to
outfit such fusions in a way that pays homage to their common ancestry
through exploration of costuming, makeup, and headdress creation.
Weekend
Workshops
Saturday,
August 13 (9 a.m. - 11 a.m.) - 2 Hours
ODISSI
Fusion
ODISSI
TRIBAL FUSION BELLY DANCE offers the dancer a methodology for integrating
this rapidly growing art form into her belly dance performances.
As harbinger of this specific style of fusion, Moria was the first
to bring these two styles of movement together, and now instructs
dancers in the way she learned, created, and now performs this unique
combination of esthetics.
Passed from Guru to student for thousands of years, Odissi Indian
Temple dance is one of the oldest classical dance forms on Earth.
Moria spends time annually in Orissa (the homeland of Odissi) intensively
studying and performing this exquisite dance, as well as researching
and learning weekly from her Indian-born guru in America, Ratna
Roy, who was a pupil of the last living Mahari (sacred temple dancer).
Moria's Odissi temple dance fusion workshop is designed for you
to learn Odissi’s most fundamental combinations and exercises
and how they can be applied to your Tribal Fusion belly dance performances
and practice.
In ODISSI TRIBAL FUSION BELLY DANCE you will learn the body isolations,
temple stance, Odissi posture, sacred geometry, and mudras of this
ancient devotional dance and how these profound elements can be
applied to modern music and movement.
Saturday,
August 13 (2:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.) - 2 Hours
Javanese
Fusion
In
JAVANESE FUSION you will learn these movements as an emotional,
spiritual, and physical expression derived from ancient “ancestral
treasures” and come to understand that by learning these elegant
gestures and poses, a certain numinous quality comes with them.
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