From alia at earth-goddess.com  Sun Aug  2 22:16:46 2009
From: alia at earth-goddess.com (Alia Thabit)
Date: Sun, 2 Aug 2009 22:16:46 -0400
Subject: [Dancenews] August classes
Message-ID: <ab886bf40908021916yccf7c58yce3a503069cd5450@mail.gmail.com>

August Classes

Tuesdays, 5-6:30 PM
Mixed-level Belly Dance FUN Series.
UU Church, West Burke, VT
Through August 25. $15 per class

Wednesdays, 5-6:00
Intermediate-Advanced Ass-Kicking Series
Catamount Arts, St. Johnsbury, VT
Through August 26. $15 per class,


Alia Thabit
Traditional and Avant-Garde Bellydance
Vermont Arts Council Juried Artist; NEST Roster Artist
http://www.aliathabit.com; http://youtube.com/aliathabit

From alia at earth-goddess.com  Sat Aug  8 18:13:09 2009
From: alia at earth-goddess.com (Alia Thabit)
Date: Sat, 8 Aug 2009 18:13:09 -0400
Subject: [Dancenews] Pixie Spindel, world-class photographer, in Burlington,
	VT until 	Tuesday...
Message-ID: <ab886bf40908081513p7bd8155pe85a753309024c4c@mail.gmail.com>

Please pass the word; this is an unusual opportunity.

http://www.pixievisionproductions.com/gallery-dancers.php

Really worth while if you need pro-quality pics for any purpose.
She shoots a lot of circus acts and regular folks as well.
I am really impressed with the quality of the shots we got yesterday,
and Pixie is very easy to work with. Folks can split an hour, too.

Contact Pixie for an appointment: <pixie at pixievisionproductions.com>

Kiss,
A

Alia Thabit
Traditional and Avant-Garde Bellydance
Vermont Arts Council Juried Artist; NEST Roster Artist
http://www.aliathabit.com; http://youtube.com/aliathabit

From alia at earth-goddess.com  Fri Aug 14 15:07:21 2009
From: alia at earth-goddess.com (Alia Thabit)
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 2009 15:07:21 -0400
Subject: [Dancenews] Fwd: Lotus Niraja Early Registration Ends Sat!
In-Reply-To: <BAY142-W106623C1287C57F8637595B6040@phx.gbl>
References: <BAY142-W106623C1287C57F8637595B6040@phx.gbl>
Message-ID: <ab886bf40908141207v542c22e9n4b2210ec9e62be58@mail.gmail.com>

Sorry if you get this twice.
but:

Just a friendly reminder that the early bird price for Lotus Niraja of
DC on Sept 19th ends this Saturday, August 15th! There are still a few
performance spots left! Vending by Margaret of Audrena's Bazaar!

Register/Pay Online: http://www.raq-on.net/lotus.html

Send a check:
Amity Ollis
137 Algonquin Road
Enfield, NH 03748


Love,
Alia

From alia at earth-goddess.com  Mon Aug 17 09:04:25 2009
From: alia at earth-goddess.com (Alia Thabit)
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2009 09:04:25 -0400
Subject: [Dancenews] No classes this week,
	Aug 17. Classes next week as usual.
Message-ID: <ab886bf40908170604w4483b51ay623e75e05d0c61c6@mail.gmail.com>

No classes this week, Aug 17. Classes next week as usual.

Cheap rate fr Lotus Niraja! Hurry!
http://www.raq-on.net/lotus.html

Carpe Diem,
Alia

Alia Thabit
Traditional and Avant-Garde Bellydance
Vermont Arts Council Juried Artist; NEST Roster Artist
http://www.aliathabit.com; http://youtube.com/aliathabit

From alia at earth-goddess.com  Tue Aug 25 00:31:43 2009
From: alia at earth-goddess.com (Alia Thabit)
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2009 00:31:43 -0400
Subject: [Dancenews] Please help me decide a few things
Message-ID: <ab886bf40908242131x7d100d52n232953e671a841bb@mail.gmail.com>

Hi everyone

it's getting to be fall, and I am still up in the air about exactly
how to use the few hours I have.
I'd like to teach some classes, but where? when?

I need your help!
I need to find places that I can teach, where and when people want
classes, and what they want to learn.

I've written a survey, available here: http://aliathabit.questionpro.com
Please help me by checking it out, and if you have friends who would
like to take classes, please forward it to them.

It's pretty quick, it's confidential, I won't know who said what, and
you don't put in any personal information.

THANK YOU!
Love,
Alia


Alia Thabit
Traditional and Avant-Garde Bellydance
Vermont Arts Council Juried Artist; NEST Roster Artist
http://www.aliathabit.com; http://youtube.com/aliathabit

From alia at earth-goddess.com  Tue Aug 25 11:22:51 2009
From: alia at earth-goddess.com (Alia Thabit)
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2009 11:22:51 -0400
Subject: [Dancenews] Fw: Martha Graham Dance Company
In-Reply-To: <425850.86080.qm@web112102.mail.gq1.yahoo.com>
References: <425850.86080.qm@web112102.mail.gq1.yahoo.com>
Message-ID: <ab886bf40908250822n258faa8cl7e97ecf3d6120b8e@mail.gmail.com>

Hey kids, sorry if you get this more than one. Pretty cool opportunity!
Love,
Alia

Please pass this along to all of your students and fellow instructors.

Catamount Arts Proudly Presents....

Martha Graham Dance Company
Tuesday, September 29th, 7:00pm
Alexander Twilight Theater, Lyndon State College, Lyndonville, Vermont
Tickets: CALL 802-748-2600, $35 General Public/$29 Catamount Arts members
Website Link: http://marthagraham.org/company/
FOR MORE INFORMATION VISIT www.catamountarts.org
OR CALL THE BOX OFFICE AT 802-748-2600

In their only Vermont appearance this season, the full Martha Graham
Dance Company will present an evening of contemporary dance at 7:00pm
Tuesday, September 29, in the Alexander Twilight Theatre at Lyndon
State College. This special program is a presentation of the Handy
Foundation, St. Johnsbury Academy and Catamount Arts.
Founded in 1926 by dancer and choreographer Martha Graham, the Martha
Graham Dance Company is the oldest and most celebrated contemporary
dance company in America. Since its inception, the Martha Graham Dance
Company has received international acclaim from audiences in over 50
countries throughout North and South America, Europe, Africa, Asia,
and the Middle East. The Company has performed at the Metropolitan
Opera, Carnegie Hall, the Paris Opera House, Covent Garden, and the
John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, as well as at the base
of the Great Pyramids of Egypt and in the ancient Herod Atticus
Theatre on the Acropolis in Athens, Greece. In addition, the Company
has also produced several award-winning films broadcast on PBS and
around the world. Martha Graham choreographed 181 works in her
lifetime. Among these are such well known ballets as Heretic (1929),
Lamentation (1930), Primitive Mysteries (1931), Frontier (1935), Deep
Song (1937), El Penitente (1940), Letter to the World (1940), Deaths
and Entrances (1943), Appalachian Spring (1944), Cave of the Heart
(1946), Errand into the Maze (1947), Night Journey (1947), Diversion
of Angels (1948), Seraphic Dialogue (1955), Clytemnestra (1958),
Embattled Garden (1958), Phaedra (1962), Frescoes (1978), Acts of
Light (1981), The Rite of Spring (1984), Temptations of the Moon
(1986), and Maple Leaf Rag (1990). Though Martha Graham herself is the
best-known alumna of her company, having danced from the Company's
inception until the late 1960's, the Company has provided a training
ground for some of modern dance's most illustrious performers and
choreographers. Former members of the Company include Merce
Cunningham, Erick Hawkins, Pearl Lang, Elisa Monte, Paul Taylor, Glen
Tetley, Jacqulyn Buglisi, Donlin Foreman and Pascal Rioult. Among
celebrities who have joined the Company in performance are Mikhail
Baryshnikov, Claire Bloom, Margot Fonteyn, Liza Minnelli, Rudolf
Nureyev, Maya Plisetskaya, and Kathleen Turner. The Martha Graham
Dance Company has commissioned works from Twyla Tharp, Robert Wilson,
Susan Stroman, Lucinda Childs, and Maurice B?jart, which have been
enthusiastically received by audiences and critics worldwide. The
Martha Graham Dance Company even numbers among its alumnae one Betty
Bloomer, who, after dancing with the Company in 1938, became better
known as First Lady Betty Ford. Elizabeth Auclair, Tadej Brdnik, Miki
Orihara, and Christophe Jeannot in Embattled Garden; photo by Nan
Melville. "One of the great companies of the world," according to Anna
Kisselgoff, former chief dance critic of The New York Times, the
Martha Graham Dance Company has been lauded by critics throughout the
world. Alan M. Kriegsman of the Washington Post referred to the
Company as "one of the seven wonders of the artistic universe," while
Los Angeles Times critic Martin Bernheimer noted, "They seem able to
do anything, and to make it look easy as well as poetic." Ismene Brown
of The Daily Telegraph, London, touted the Martha Graham Dance
Company's performance as "Unmissable," and for Donald Richie of Japan
Times these dancers were "Graham's perfect instrument."


Catamount Film & Arts
115 Eastern Avenue
St. Johnsbury, VT? 05819
802-748-2600 (phone)
www.catamountarts.org

From alia at earth-goddess.com  Sun Aug 30 12:02:05 2009
From: alia at earth-goddess.com (Alia Thabit)
Date: Sun, 30 Aug 2009 12:02:05 -0400
Subject: [Dancenews] Fall classes and events
Message-ID: <ab886bf40908300902g468c23dfva603d97ae0fdf234@mail.gmail.com>

Hey kids,

*Alia's fall classes:*
Mixed-level fun series at Catamount Arts, ST Johnsbury, VT
Wednesday, 5-6 PM until Dec 16.
$15 per class, $75 per 6-week session.

Technique, improv, combinations, etc.
Designed to be fun, yet challenging. Something new every week.

For those with previous Middle Eastern dance training, or
experienced dancers in other genres. Folks with no previous dance
experience may want a few private lessons before joining this class.
All ages, genders and body typed celebrated.

Alia empowers students, highlighting creativity, individuality, and
self-expression. Students emerge from her classes feeling more confident and
beautiful, inspired ?to reach within to both their physical and mystical
core self and dance from there first.?

Workshops TBA.


*Upcoming events:*

Lotus Niraja 9/16
http://www.raq-on.net/lotus.html

Hypzotique Bellydance Circus 9/26
http://hypzotikabellydance.com/

Katia of Boston 10/17
http://www.SabahDance.com

Joe Williams (Delsarte) 10/17
http://delsarteproject.com/?%26nbsp%3BComing_events_in_reverse_order

Melina of Daughters of Rhea 11/7
http://www.raq-on.net/melina.html

Gina's Fall Show 11/22
http://www.ginadances.com/

Amity's Day for Dancers 1/9/10
A Cheap day of Fun
http://www.raq-on.net/events.html

Love to everyone!
Alia


Alia Thabit
Traditional and Avant-Garde Bellydance
Vermont Arts Council Juried Artist; NEST Roster Artist
http://www.aliathabit.com; http://youtube.com/aliathabit
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From alia at earth-goddess.com  Sun Aug 30 12:03:50 2009
From: alia at earth-goddess.com (Alia Thabit)
Date: Sun, 30 Aug 2009 12:03:50 -0400
Subject: [Dancenews] Survey says....!
Message-ID: <ab886bf40908300903tdc8582bk783415d0f49514c2@mail.gmail.com>

Hi everyone

Well, the survey has spoken. Some of it is loud and clear, and some of
it - isn't.

Here's the clear part:
People want mixed level and advanced classes about 50-50.
Improvisation skills and classic oriental tied for first place, with
performance skills coming in second, and dance construction in third.
People clearly prefer combinations and fragments to full choreos.

The unclear part:
Pretty much every single person wanted different days/times/places/levels.

***SO if you haven't taken the survey yet, please let your wishes count!***

My solutions so far:
* Continue weekly mixed-level classes in STJ. Possibly offer an
inter/adv class, but post available times/days first to see if there
is interest.

* Offer workshops (rather than weekly classes) in other areas, maybe
once or twice a month. These can be weekends, or Monday or Friday
evenings.

The structure could be first half mixed level, second half
intermediate/advanced, so folks can sign up for one or both. As
always, people are welcome to self-select their level. Price will
probably be around $20 per class hour. It will be worth it.

I'm here until the end of December and that's it until spring. I want
to teach classes. You want to take them. Please take the initiative!
Find a space and coordinate the event. Help promote it. I will provide
flyers, info, etc. I will provide electronic signup. We agree on a
minimum run size. You get a free workshop, and I get to show up and do
my thing! What could be sweeter?

Love to everyone and looking forward to seeing you this fall,
Alia

Alia Thabit
Traditional and Avant-Garde Bellydance
Vermont Arts Council Juried Artist; NEST Roster Artist
http://www.aliathabit.com; http://youtube.com/aliathabit

From alia at earth-goddess.com  Sun Aug 30 13:03:03 2009
From: alia at earth-goddess.com (Alia Thabit)
Date: Sun, 30 Aug 2009 13:03:03 -0400
Subject: [Dancenews] Survey says.... ! (link added)
Message-ID: <ab886bf40908301003k3f5ad531tcf1ec1d956f4fee3@mail.gmail.com>

Helps if I include the survey link...
http://aliathabit.questionpro.com<javascript:ajaxInlinePopup('ShortURL',%20'/akira/updateShortURL.do?mode=survey')>

Thanks!
A+++++

Hi everyone

Well, the survey has spoken. Some of it is loud and clear, and some of
it - isn't.

Here's the clear part:
People want mixed level and advanced classes about 50-50.
Improvisation skills and classic oriental tied for first place, with
performance skills coming in second, and dance construction in third.
People clearly prefer combinations and fragments to full choreos.

The unclear part:
Pretty much every single person wanted different days/times/places/levels.

***SO if you haven't taken the survey yet, please let your wishes count!***

My solutions so far:
* Continue weekly mixed-level classes in STJ. Possibly offer an
inter/adv class, but post available times/days first to see if there
is interest.

* Offer workshops (rather than weekly classes) in other areas, maybe
once or twice a month. These can be weekends, or Monday or Friday
evenings.

The structure could be first half mixed level, second half
intermediate/advanced, so folks can sign up for one or both. As
always, people are welcome to self-select their level. Price will
probably be around $20 per class hour. It will be worth it.

I'm here until the end of December and that's it until spring. I want
to teach classes. You want to take them. Please take the initiative!
Find a space and coordinate the event. Help promote it. I will provide
flyers, info, etc. I will provide electronic signup. We agree on a
minimum run size. You get a free workshop, and I get to show up and do
my thing! What could be sweeter?

Love to everyone and looking forward to seeing you this fall,
Alia

Alia Thabit
Traditional and Avant-Garde Bellydance
Vermont Arts Council Juried Artist; NEST Roster Artist
http://www.aliathabit.com; http://youtube.com/aliathabit
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From alia at earth-goddess.com  Mon Aug 31 20:40:26 2009
From: alia at earth-goddess.com (Alia Thabit)
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2009 20:40:26 -0400
Subject: [Dancenews] Fwd: Melodia Designs Event
In-Reply-To: <1102687025832.1102570584960.93.9.211835FF@scheduler>
References: <1102687025832.1102570584960.93.9.211835FF@scheduler>
Message-ID: <ab886bf40908311740u6b37f35xfcee39a7b2c0842d@mail.gmail.com>

Melodia is haveing a 40% off storewide sale. If you ever wanted them, but
couldn't afford it...

Alia Thabit
Traditional and Avant-Garde Bellydance
Vermont Arts Council Juried Artist; NEST Roster Artist
http://www.aliathabit.com; http://youtube.com/aliathabit


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