Workshops and Performance
April 12 and 13, 2008
Seattle Center House in Seattle, Washington
305 Harrison Street
Seattle, WA 98109
Three spectacular workshops, one amazing show, and private classes if you want them!
~ A Night in the Oasis~
A show to delight and transport you across the burning desert. Come and see Frederique perform two sets alongside many talented local performers! Featuring Troupe Hipnotica, Skin Deep , Maureen of Hands of Kali , Twilight Maqsuum , and many other performers!
Tickets $15
~Workshops~
Pre-registration has ended for workshops. There is still space however, feel free to drop in!
Saturday noon-2pm
Charm Arms
Learn Frédérique's individual and unique approach with arms, upper-body gesticulation, and more importantly, exploration to find your own style.
Arms are your opportunity to apply your manner, personality, and expression through dance. Often the focus is on hips and abdominals in your belly dance training. In this workshop, it will be all arms with torso, shoulders, and head subtleties for defined or refined expression, and let's not forget the final frontier in dance expertise...hands, right down to your finger tips. Frédérique has many details to share with you on hand and finger placement with a relaxed feel and look.
In this workshop, we will work on obtaining elegance, grace, pose, and polishing your individual style. Strengthening, emotional expression, and drills specifically developed and designed by Frédérique for the this task will be the class focus and content.
Saturday 2:30-4:30
New "Urban Tribal Style" Moves
Want to add to your tribal vocabulary? Learn new moves with the ATS concept of lead and follow developed with non-verbal cues. Frédérique has created new Urban Tribal moves that have been inspired by a variety of ancient and modern dances with fundamental roots in ATS and Cabaret stylized belly dance. Class will begin with elementary yoga / palates based stretches / exercises, ending with isometric upper body strengthening that will help develop excellent upper body posture for dancing as well as our daily life. Be prepared to focus on strong technique throughout the class. By the end we will all be dancing new tribal moves together, as a tribe.
*Prior knowledge in ATS is recommended but not necessary. I will go over the concept in class.
$35 per person
Sunday noon-2pm
Gooey Pops
Wanna learn the fundamentals in pop 'n lock with the gooey-groove in-effect?
This class will guide and drill you through the gooiest of moments and teach you how to pop 'n lock throughout the flow, then right back into your groove. These exercises will build muscle memory in order to apply the nuances, details, tempo change and most importantly, control you need for the deed.
$35 per person
All three classes $95
The Seattle Center House has a full food court if you would like to grab a bite between classes.