"Gothic Bellydance"
featuring Ayshe in "KAL-I-SIS"

"Wings:
The Complete Technique"
instructional DVD

 
NEW:
ORIENTALIST BELLYDANCE
CLASS WITH AYSHE

                                       PAST CLASS TOPICS:
--PROPS: Learn to create elegant and dramatic effects with WINGS OF ISIS, veil, sword, shamadan (candelabra), fans, and other dance props. Learn to combine props to produce evocative, mesmerizing shows.
--CROSS-DANCE CONDITIONING: uses different styles of dance  (MiddleEastern, ballet, yoga, modern, Indian, African, Flamenco) to strengthen different body parts. Also, this helps to build a repertoire of movements useful to tribal, fusion, gothic, fantasy and theatrical bellydance creations.
--BASICS OF THE PHARAONIC DANCES OF ANCIENT EGYPT
--SKILLS FOR IMPROVIZATION & CHOREOGRAPHY
--MUSIC AND RHYTHM: learn how to make sense of any music or rhythm you hear. 
 --WINGS TECHNIQUE : 
exercises include spinal exercises, arms coordinations, neck throws, zar movements, & whirling; all beneficial for wings.  Ballet-based movements such as elegant walks, runs, arabesques, and kicks, all part of the wings repertoire, are focused on.

Interested in private classes?  I charge $100 for  1hr 20min. session.
  To schedule a private class, just email inquiry to:
   ayshedancer@gmail.com
 

FOR MORE INFORMATION:
MY EMAIL: ayshedancer@gmail.com
MY PHONE: 212-564-5529

 

AYSHE'S MISSION STATEMENT

As a teacher Ayshe combines her love of exotic movement and her academic knowledge of the human body. Her college degree in Human Movement involved studies in anatomy, kinesiology, corrective exercise, analysis of movement, motor learning, and dance therapy.

Early on, as a dancer, she observed there were some subtle, yet surprisingly difficult and highly unusual torso and pelvic movement isolations in Middle Eastern dance. She experienced that the journey toward the accomplishment of these coordinations, through careful and patient strengthening and stretching of deep internal pelvic and back muscles, would give the practitioner an unusual and powerful body awareness, along with a physical centeredness and a sense of personal inner strength that woud bring forth physical health and spiritual peace and harmony. It is this deep internal study that brings bellydance above the level of mundane erotica and into the realm of mysticism and spirituality. Yet, this is not easily attainable and takes devotion and commitment as would any meditative, transcendential study. It is this aspect of bellydanc that Ayshe is most intrigued by. To her mind, it is from the deep inner connection, physical and spiritual, that beauty in movement springs forth, and it is in this direction she wishes to lead her students.

In her beginner/intermediate class she has developed a series of simple, yet deceptively complex, exercises that will put the student on the road to a better understanding of her/his body in space and set the foundations for the individual to seek self and expression of self through movement. This class is not meant to supply the student with alot of movement vocabulary, but instead to provide the building blocks that will enable him/her to analyze and more easily imitate the movements he/she will observe in others.

This is not to say that Middle Eastern dance in its more colorful, mundane, folky, and accessable forms is still not totally wonderful. At any level it is still a very healthy, fun exercise for everyone and extremely important for its cultural content and sociological value. Even in its most blatantly raunchy settings, there is still that hint of something beyond the profane that mystifies and hypnotizes the viewer; if even for a moment. There is so much and so many levels to offer in this dance form. I just hope to impart my little piece of the puzzle to the student on their journey.