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Saturday, July 28, 2012

No Class August 2

Reminder: No class next week! See you August 9!

Thursday, July 26, 2012

TFBD July/August series: Class 4


Class 4 Notes

Finger cymbal pattern:
7's
337
373

Arabic 1
Definition - Right foot flat, left foot on the ball behind right foot. Feet half time. Undulation up to down half time.
Arabic 2
Definition - Right foot flat (ct 1), left foot on the ball (ct 2), right foot on the ball (ct 3), left foot on the ball (ct 4). Feet half time. Undulation up to down half time.
Arabic 3
Definition - Right foot flat (ct 1), left foot on the ball (ct 2), right foot on the ball toes facing right (ct 3), left foot on the ball (ct 4). Feet half time. Keep the feet under body. Undulation up to down half time. Right hip twist back on count 3 and twists forward on count 4.
Arabic 4
Definition - Right foot flat steps forward, left foot steps in place, right foot steps back, left foot steps in place. Feet half time. Hip singles half time.
[NOTE: Not sure if this was clearly stated in class, but there are no undulations in Arabic 4.]


4 Count
Definition - Note that the steps are on counts 1-and-2-e. Step the right foot back behind the left on count '1'. Step left foot in place on count 'and'. Step right foot in front of the left toe, both feet in releve on count '2' while twisting the right hip forward. Step the left foot on the ball in place on count 'e'.


5 Count
Definition - Step right foot behind left, step left in place, then right-left-right in place like a "cha cha cha" move; Step left foot behind right, step right foot in place, then left-right-left in place like a "cha cha cha". 5-Count with half turns. A variation of this movement is to utilize the "cha cha cha" part to take a 3-step half turn. You can do this on every-other or on every "cha cha cha".


8 Count
Definition - Start with body and toes facing left diagonal. Feet flat, step right, left, right, left, right, left; step on the right ball to do a half turn, step left. Repeat this to get back to facing front. Pair this with arms: starting both arms up, gradually lower the arms to shoulder height. Then on count 7 (or when your right foot is on the ball), snap the arms back up.


Finish with combos with finger cymbals!

Thursday, July 19, 2012

TFBD July/August series: Class 3

Class 3 Notes:

Finger cymbal pattern: 3513
Movements:
Running Choo Choo

Definition – R on ball, L flat; downbeat L
Running Choo Choo #1 - traveling to the right.
Running Choo Choo #2 (or Variation 1) – R forward and back.
Running Choo Choo #3 (or Variation 2) – 2 forward and 2 back.
Running Choo Choo #4 (or Variation 3) – forward, middle (2 o'clock), middle (4 o'clock), back.

Circle Step
Definition - Exterior hip circle downbeat front clockwise half time with feet downbeat Right half time.


Turkish Walk
Definition - Step right foot forward (ct 1,2) , left foot extends out back on the ball; drag the left foot in to meet the right (ct 3,4), left foot flat on 4 so that right foot can step out again on ct 1. Undulation with external forward lean (ct 1,2) and backward lean (ct 3,4) motion.

Finish with some combos!

Thursday, July 12, 2012

TFBD July/August series: Class 2

Class 2 notes...

Finger cymbal pattern: 355
Movements:
Pivot shift step
Baraka
Twist step

Review movements from week 1.
Finally, some combos!

Thursday, July 5, 2012

TFBD July/August series: Class 1

Hello Dancers!
So for this series, we'll be covering movements from the Jamila Salimpour Format. This is also a great series to be taking if you plan on taking the Jamila Level 1 and/or Level 2 workshops with Suhaila in September: http://staceylizette.com/suhaila/


For this first class, we start with finger cymbal pattern 3's and 31313.
Movements from the Basic Egyptian family:
Basic Egyptian
Basic Egyptian walking forward/backward
Basic Egyptian Forward Back Forward
Basic Egyptian Ful Spin
Basic Egyptian Open Spin

Tuesday, July 3, 2012

July 2012 Newsletter

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Hope to see you in class July 5th!