Workshops with Barbara Wolfkamp form Melbourne in HOBART (events » other) Sunday, December 16, 2007 - 11:30 AM Steps of the Stars - Sun 16th Dec - 11.30am to 2.30pm
Baladi Pop Choreography - Mon 17th Dec - 6pm to 8pm

Hafla with guest performance by Barbara (Zahraa) Tues 18th Dec from 7.30pm

For more details please email Adriana - adriana@bellywood.com.au

Workshop & Hafla Performance in Hobart May 26 & 27 2008 (events » arts) Monday, May 26, 2008 - 6:00 PM 7 RSVPs ZEYNA began studying the art of belly dancing over
20 yrs ago in her home town of Adelaide, (SA) with
Marjolein Douglas_Broers. (with Adriana & Shamira!)
She moved to LA, California in 1989 where she works
as a midwife. Here she continued her dance studies
with masters such as Suhaila Salimpour, Angelika
Nemeth, Sahra Saeeda, Shareen el Safy, Ibrahim
Farrah, Jillina & Zahra Zuhair. She also studied with
legends of belly dance from Egypt such as Mahmoud
Reda, Mona Said, Nagwa Fouad, Dianne Turquan,
Raqia Hassan & Tito.
Zeyna won the highly acclaimed belly dancer of the universe competition held in LA annually in the Egyptian Category in 2001. She has co-directed & choreographed for the group 1,001 Nights who perform in LA at Middle Eastern functions.
Zeyna taught several workshops here in Hobart in the 1990’s to the delight of many. It is wonderful to have her returning to pass on even more of her knowledge of this fabulous dance.

THE WORKSHOP WILL INCLUDE WARMUP,TECHNIQUE FOR TAKSIM MOVEMENTS,HIP DRILL,SHIMMY DRILL,COMBINATIONS AND A DRUM SOLO WITH LOTS OF SHIMMIES AND ACCENTS,

Bookings & frther details through Adriana - adriana@bellywood.com.au

Matt Stonehouse Arabic Drumming Workshop in Hobart - Enrolments due NOW (events » live music) Saturday, January 17, 2009 - 12:00 PM 2 RSVPs Following on from his workshops in Burnie in August 2008, Matt will be returning to Tasmania in January 2009 & teaching workshops at the Bellywood studio in Hobart. Please contact Adriana for an enrolment form. adriana@bellywood.com.au

Melbourne based percussionist Matt Stonehouse has been performing and teaching for over twenty years. Matt has studied with master musicians throughout Turkey and Iran. His playing has been featured on more than twenty albums and he is currently performing with The Melbourne/Istanbul Kolektiv, Yggdrasil (Ig-dra-sil, who will be performing at the 2009 Cygnet Festival) and The Reefers.
Matt holds workshops throughout Australia and internationally and has a very unique, accessable and inspirational teaching quality. He specializes in Darbuka as well as Frame drums of the Middle East and Central Asia.

Students participating at the workshops will learn many different aspects of Arabic percussion including:

Techniques from the different regions of the Middle East

How to play for a belly dancer

The art of the drum solo (This will include learning a full composition)

Odd time signatures in Arabic percussion.

Trance drumming and an explanation on frame drums.

Workshops are aimed at Intermediate level upwards. There is also an opportunity for dancers to pick up some tips for working with live drummers.

Please direct correspondence to adriana@bellywood.com.au as I don't check this site regularly & it may be a while before you receive a response if you only leave me a message on tribe!