Full course description
Intro to Belly Dance Egyptian-Style
Thursdays, 9/26-10/24/2024, 6:30-8:30pm
Location: John Adams Center, room Auditorium, 3rd floor
Instructor: Sausan Molthen
In this 5-week workshop you will enjoy moving to the fundamental techniques of Egyptian-Style Belly Dance, and a lot more. You will learn the history as well as the evolution of the dance with some of the more celebrated Egyptian belly dancers and musicians through video footage. Upon completing the course you will be able to dance a little choreography to a piece of modern Egyptian music, blending in on the dance floor with other Egyptians and Middle Easterners in a Middle Eastern social setting. Come dance with me.
MATERIALS LIST:
Loose comfortable clothing and footwear.
Instructor Bio:
Sausan, Master Teacher and Choreographer of the Sausan Academy of Egyptian Dance since 2000 and owner of Al-Masri Egyptian Restaurant since 1999 where Sausan showcases her graduates from her dance academy, and provides live Egyptian music open to all dancers in the San Francisco Bay Area, has been an integral part of the Middle Eastern Bay Area music and dance community since 1976. She has been a guest lecturer and demonstrator to CCSF/UC Berkeley/Stanford University, San Francisco/Oakland/Berkeley Museums, San Francisco libraries, and other well-known venues. Sausan has produced instructional media, taught workshops all over the United States, and danced in many overseas countries.