From alia at earth-goddess.com Wed Nov 12 16:17:59 2008 From: alia at earth-goddess.com (Alia Thabit) Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2008 16:17:59 -0500 (EST) Subject: [Dancenews] (no subject) Message-ID: <53629.155.42.215.91.1226524679.squirrel@webmail6.pair.com> To unsub, just ask. And please forward! Hi, everyone. It's dark and cold, and I hope you are all warm and snug. First a reminder: There is no class tonight, Weds 11/12. There will be class Wednesdays, 6-7:30 PM, November 19, & Dec 3, 10, & 17. Catamount Arts, St. Johnsbury, VT $15 drop-in, $50 for all four. Mixed level to intermediate. Littleton Classes! Monday Nights, Nov 17-Dec 15 6:30-7:30 PM For new and returning dancers. Some previous dance experience recommended. $50 for 5 classes (11/17 is a free class) Powerhouse Gym 9 Eames Way, Littleton, NH. (603) 444-2772 Delsarte with Joe Williams, and an evening show featuring workshop participants. Saturday, Dec 6 at Catamount Arts in St. Johnsbury, VT. Times and costs coming soon. My guess is around 4 hours at around $75, noon to five with the show at 7:30. More info soon. Souren Baronian and "Transitions," with Haig Manoukian and Lee Baronian will be at TWO locations in VT this weekend! Both are remarkable musicians. There is also a workshop Saturday afternoon in Burlington. Please support live music in VT! "Transitions" Vermont appearances are: Friday, November 14th at the Loft on Cotton Mill Hill Rd., in Brattleboro. The concert begins at 8PM. Advance tickets are $10 or $12 at the door. Call 802/387-3022 for further information. Saturday, November 15th at Boccelli's on Canal Rd. in Bellows Falls. The concert begins at 7:30PM. Advance tickets are $10 or $12 at the door. Call 802/387-3022 for further information. Sunday, November 16th at North End Studio, 294 N Winooski Ave., Burlington. The concert begins at 7PM. Advance tickets are $10 or $12 at the door. Call 802/863-6713 for further information. A special workshop on Middle Eastern modes and rhythms is offered from 2-4PM at North End Studio. Call 802/863-6713 for information. Gina's?Fifth Annual Middle Eastern and American Belly Dance Student ShowcaseSee?the snazzy show poster here http://www.ginadances.com/documents/2008poster.pdf SEVENTY?performers!? The biggest student show in New England!? Special Guests Travis Shores and Skip Cady! Classic Egyptian, Hagallah, Khaleegy, Melaya Leff,?Swords, Live?Drumming, Circus Performance and much more! Saturday, November 22, 7:30 pm, Woodstock Town Hall Theater Entertainment for the whole family.? Adults $16, under 18 $10. Shop with belly dance vendor, Margaret Slocumbe! ? Our 400 seat theater?has sold out well ahead of time for the last several?years.? Get your tickets EARLY! Tix?are on sale?through Pentangle Council for the Arts, (802) 457-3981 or online at www.pentanglearts.org? Amity needs 10 people by Nov 15? for a Hanover, NH intermediate class in January.? See http://raq-on.net/classes.htm. She's also hosting Najmat in Enfield, NH in January: http://raq-on.net/workshops.htm. Scroll down. I'm doing NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month: write a 50,000 word novel during the month of November). My author page is: http://www.nanowrimo.org/eng/user/425495 I'm sure I forgot something really special; my apologies. I am exhausted and looking forward to spacing out (and catching up on my word count) for the entire week of Thanksgiving. Lots of love and kisses to everyone, Alia Alia Thabit Middle Eastern Dance Artist alia at earth-goddess.com; http://www.earth-goddess.com Vermont Arts Council Juried Artist; NEST Roster Artist -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From alia at earth-goddess.com Sun Nov 16 10:09:15 2008 From: alia at earth-goddess.com (Alia Thabit) Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2008 10:09:15 -0500 (EST) Subject: [Dancenews] Joe Williams teaches Delsarte Technique, Dec 6, St. Johnsbury, VT Message-ID: <46780.68.112.85.41.1226848155.squirrel@webmail2.pair.com> Please pass the word! Joe Williams teaches Delsarte Technique http://delsarteproject.com/ Suitable for all dancers, actors, singers,etc. Joe's bio and a description of Delsarte are below. Saturday, Dec 6, from 12 noon to 5:30 PM There will be 2 half hour breaks - please bring snacks. Show at 7:30. Workshop participants are welcome to dance in the show. Catamount Arts, 115 Eastern Ave. St. Johnsbury, VT 05819 $70 advance, $80 door (includes show). Show only, $10. Send checks to me or request a paypal invoice. Alia Thabit, 16 North Ridge Road West Burke, VT 05871 Love & thanks, Alia The following is excerpted from the Delsarte Project. Please see the website for more information: http://delsarteproject.com Joe Williams Teacher of the Delsarte System of Expression Joe lives in New York City, and has been creating workshops and seminars on Delsarte since 1997. He is on the movement faculty for the Dalcroze Institute at Juilliard, and has been a guest teacher, and Artist in Residence for Lori Belilove?s Isadora Duncan Dance Foundation in New York, teaching modern dance to third graders in Pennsylvania. He has also taught a master class for the Belilove?s foundation and performed once with the company in a special presentation. Williams has taught Master Classes for the Dance Department at Iowa State University, Wright State University, Ocean County Performing Arts Academy in NJ, Corporeal arts inc. and at the Omaha Healing Arts Center. In the field of Middle Eastern Dance, he is on the faculty of Morocco and the Casbah Dance Experience, and has taught seminars and performed for Bellyjam, Stars of the East, Shakira in Columbus, Ohio, and special appearances with Su?ad and Farasha, in Connecticut, Vermont and New Jersey. Joe?s work with Delsarte has been featured in articles in the middle-eastern dance publications "WAMEDA" (July-August 2000) and "Zaghareet!" (Sept - Oct 2000). Joe has taken Delsarte to the Star Island Retreat Center for a week of dance, and, used Delsarte to teach body language as a guest lecturer for communication classes at Mercy College, Bronx Community College and the School for Visual Art in Manhattan. Selected by Mime Journal, in their 2005 special edition on Delsarte, Joe was one of only two practitioners to be mentioned, and the only one who specializes in teaching the system. The Mime Journal article has brought him international recognition for his work in Delsarte and he has been consultant and teacher for the first scholarly thesis on the subject to be written in France, Francois Delsarte?s homeland. Joe was Artistic Director of "The Fourth Universalist Delsarte Dance Ensemble" a Delsarte based spiritual dance group for all ages and sizes at the Fourth Universalist Church in Manhattan. The group has performed for the United Nations and other churches. In July of 2003, Joe and the dancers gave a very well received presentation on spiritual dance, modern dance and Delsarte at the Unitarian Universalist General Assembly in Boston. A teacher of dance, voice and yoga, Joe has a BA in organizational and interpersonal communications, and a minor in theater from Wright State University, where he was the artistic director for the "Rolling Stock" theater group, helping to write and produce touring shows that presented the talents of differently-abled students. He was a scholarship student in ballet at the Dayton Ballet and Dayton Contemporary Dance schools (becoming assistant business manager of the Dayton Contemporary Dance Company for one year), and taught communication workshops for the Wright State School of Medicine for 6 years. In 1985 Joe joined the Dayton Ethnic Dance Ensemble, which studied historically accurate Middle Eastern dance. In 1986 he began to work on the dance of the Whirling Dervish, which he has been performing consistently since 1994, most notably for the Institute of Ethnicity, Culture and the Joe Williams Whirling Dervish Modern Experience at Rutgers Universtity and the New School University Diversity Initiative in New York. He also studied classical voice, which led him to New York to study with Jon Frederic West of the Metropolitan Opera. During that stay in New York, he began studying Middle Eastern dance with Morrocco and the Casbah Dance Experience. His performing credentials include dinner theaters in the Midwest, where he danced and sang his way in numerous musicals including "George M", "Fiddler on the Roof," "Seven Brides for Seven Brothers," "Phantom," "Annie," and several holiday reviews. He also appeared as vocal soloist in oratorios with regional orchestras. He has also appeared as soloist with the Upper West Side Opera Association in Manhattan. What is Delsarte? The source material for much of the work of Isadora Duncan, Ruth St Denis, Ted Shawn, Martha Graham, Doris Humphrey, Charles Weideman, Etienne Decroux. This fact is known by most dance history students. But did you know that it was a key element of the actors training for such luminaries as Rosalind Russell, Ruth Gordon, Edward G Robinson, Agnes Moorehead, Lauren Bacall, Claire Trevor and Spencer Tracy? All of these actors were students at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts before 1944. The 1944 Class descriptions include a pantomime class that although never mentions Delsarte, was clearly Delsarte based. The school was founded by Steele Mackaye, Delsarte's own protege'. The real Delsarte System of Expression is: 1. A complete and universally accurate map of the symbolic meanings of most parts of the body and of basic human movement patterns. It is based on fundamental laws of physics and on the ancient wisdom of yoga, cabala and hermetic traditions. 2. A system of body training to awaken the innate athletic prowess and expressive power of the human body. The system consists of: 1. Relaxing exercises to eliminate tension and ready the reflexes. 2. Exercises in balance to harmonize all parts of the body, and base all strength and power in the security of poised and balanced motion. 3. Exploration of universal meaning in the body according to the body's basic nature to express itself as Body, Mind and Spirit. Does it make sense to you that a person can be described as a combination of Body, Mind and Spirit? It is rather common language today. Nearly everywhere you look, there are promotions for classes, products or articles whose intent is to nourish or inspire the Body, Mind and Spirit. It is not difficult to imagine that the basic impulses of a human being are survival instinct, intellect, and that mysterious harmony we call spirit. In Delsarte training, one learns that body, mind and spirit are not esoteric ideas, but very real and very practical forces in the body, with very specific locations in which they show themselves. He observed that if Body, Mind and Spirit are our three basic impulses, it follows that: *All human movement has to be inspired by one or a combination of these three. *Every part of the body that willfully moves or gestures must contain all three and be able to show all three. If that makes sense to you, you have found a starting point for understanding Delsarte's philosophy of human expression. A training in Delsarte awakens the student to the basic expressive meaning of every part of the body. 1. Any student becomes empowered to better understand the forces of life, and their own self expression and that of those around them. 2. If you are a dancer, you will have a powerful tool for understanding choreography and styles, and for creating dance yourself. 3. If you are an actor you will awaken the unconscious power of your body for expressing your creativity and responding to other actors. 4. The singer empowers gesture to reveal depth and subtext. 5. The yogi finds the intensely practical and tangible side of the normally esoteric "body, mind, spirit" trinity. 6. The painter or sculptor finds universal tools for recreating emotion and expression in their medium. from The Delsarte Project, http://delsarteproject.com/ From alia at earth-goddess.com Wed Nov 19 09:30:17 2008 From: alia at earth-goddess.com (Alia Thabit) Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2008 09:30:17 -0500 (EST) Subject: [Dancenews] Reminder: Catamount & Littleton classes plus this winter's plan Message-ID: <45082.68.112.85.41.1227105017.squirrel@webmail9.pair.com> Hi folks It's getting colder and darker every moment, and soon I will be out of here for the winter. The adventure sparking my imagination this year centers around a continuation of my Sofa-Surfing Tour of Fame. I'm thinking to drive out west, following a southern route out of NYC, with stops in Baltimore, Florida, New Orleans, Texas, Arizona, etc. The return would be more northern, hitting Oregon, Colorado, the Mid-west, and so forth. I should be home by June. My goal would be to meet dance folks, perform at haflas and events, and even teach some workshops along the way. The idea is coalescing slowly, but if you know anyone along that route you think I should be connected to, please introduce us! CLASSES and EVENTS *** Wednesday classes at Catamount Arts from 6-7:30 resume tonight. This session runs from tonight, 11/19, through Wednesday, 12/17 (no class next week, day before Thanksgiving). That's 4 classes for $50 ($15 each drop in). Catamount Arts, 115 Eastern Ave. St. Johnsbury, VT 05819. Park behind the building. *** Littleton classes at the Powerhouse Gym are Mondays from 6:30-7:30 (only time slot available), and continue through 12/15. 4 classes for $40 ($12.50 drop in). Powerhouse Gym, 9 Eames Way, Littleton, NH (onsite parking). *** Joe Williams will be here 12/6. The show that night will be the winter farewell. Come be warm with us! As soon as I get that up on the website, I'll let you know. *** Gina's show this Saturday is sold out! Go, Gina! *** The State Dance Festival at Lyndon Institute is this weekend (11/22). I've attached the poster. please forward it to any teens you know, and if you are in the area, consider attending the show of wonderful teen dancers from VT & NH. Love to everyone, Alia Alia Thabit Middle Eastern Dance Artist alia at earth-goddess.com; http://www.earth-goddess.com Vermont Arts Council Juried Artist; NEST Roster Artist -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: VSDF_08_poster_2-1.pdf Type: application/pdf Size: 82646 bytes Desc: not available Url : From alia at earth-goddess.com Sat Nov 29 10:08:09 2008 From: alia at earth-goddess.com (Alia Thabit) Date: Sat, 29 Nov 2008 10:08:09 -0500 (EST) Subject: [Dancenews] Happy Thanksgiving! Rose's baby and other news. Message-ID: <33752.68.112.85.41.1227971289.squirrel@webmail4.pair.com> To unsub, just ask. And please forward! Happy Belated Thanksgiving! All we did was write all day, and then went down to Cole's, the local dive, for a quick plate of turkey before going home to write some more. All I've done for a month is write. I'm up to 42,000 words. Today is do or die. Other news: Rose Murphy had a beautiful baby girl! "Ember Mae Bessent was born November 24, 2008 at 5:47 am, to Rose Murphy and Jason Bessent. She weighs 8 lbs, 14 oz and has a head full of curly dark hair." Jewels of Arabia is tonight! http://www.geocities.com/habibi.bellydance/calendar.html 7 PM at the North End Studio 294 N. Winooski, Burlington, VT Littleton and St Johnsbury classes are on through mid December!? Come have fun! Mondays from 6:30 to 7:30 at the Powerhouse Gym, 9 Eames Way in Littleton, NH. ? Wednesdays from 6-7:30 at Catamount Arts, 115 Eastern Ave.St. Johnsbury, VT. Delsarte w/ Joe Williams is Dec 6! There is still room, and the early price rules. http://delsarteproject.com/ Suitable for all dancers, actors, singers,etc. Saturday, Dec 6, from 12 noon to 5:30 PM There will be 2 half hour breaks - please bring snacks. Show at 7:30. Workshop participants are welcome to dance in the show. Catamount Arts, 115 Eastern Ave. St. Johnsbury, VT 05819 $70 advance, $80 door (prices include show). Show only, $10. Send checks to me or request a paypal invoice. Alia Thabit, 16 North Ridge Road West Burke, VT 05871 Love & thanks, Alia Alia Thabit Middle Eastern Dance Artist alia at earth-goddess.com; http://www.earth-goddess.com Vermont Arts Council Juried Artist; NEST Roster Artist -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: