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 teaches
beginner, intermediate and advanced level belly dance.
--PROPS:Learn to create elegant and dramatic effects with "Wings
of Isis", veil, sword, shamadan (candelabra) 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, and
fantasy bellydance creations. --LEARN SKILLS: of improvization and
choreography.
--MUSIC AND RHYTHM: learn how to
make sense of any music or rhythm you hear.
To schedule private classes with
Ayshe, please e-mail
ayshedancer@gmail.com
GROUP
CLASSES -
NEW MONDAY NIGHT WINGS
CLASS!!!!:
TIME -- 8-9:30 PM
LOCATION-- THE DANCE
FORUM
20 EAST 17TH ST.2ND FLOOR (BELL
#2)
NEW YORK CITY
CLASS FEE-- $18.
CLASS FORMAT:--the cross dance conditioning section will now be shorter (1/2 hr) and will include
exercises pretty much just related to wings-- this includes spinal work, arms coordinations,
neck throws, zar movements, whirling, and ballet exercises related to elegant walks, runs,
arabesques, kicks that are part of the wings repertoire (want you looking like birds in flight,
not groucho marx with wings on).
--after this warm-up we will have 1hr for wings and choreography.
--ultimately we will do a student performance and can use extra time after class for rehearsals,
coaching and even more body conditioning (particularly core bellydance exercises) if there is
enough request for it.
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.
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