DANCER - BE THE MUSIC!
Workshops for anybody who loves moving to live music.
Started in 2016 with live baladi, continued in 2017 with classical arabic music and in 2018 we'll be exploring saidi, as well as continuing with classical.
Jane has been working closely with live music since 2005 when she was one of the first dancers to work with Guy Schalom and Adam Warne. She was also the first to start working with live baladi music in 2007 with the Baladi Blues Band featuring legendary accordion player Sheik Taha (photo right) and has an unequalled track record of teaching with such musicians as Guy Schalom, the (much missed) Adam Warne, Ahmed El Saidi, Magdy Manga and Tarek Bitar. Her pioneering project, the Mazazik Baladi Performance Project with the Baladi Blues Ensemble ran from 2011 and culminated in a show in 2012 with the band and featuring over 20 dancers. She was also a guest teacher at the Middle East Dance and Drum Camp and Dancing from the Heart Residentials, all with the Baladi Blues Ensemble and was invited to be a guest dancer at their second CD launch in London in 2011.
Jane's experience is unequalled in the arabic dance world in working with live music, having developed workshops with The Jadid Ensemble (middle eastern and flamenco fusion), Glen Sharp (flamenco guitar), Jon Sterckx (world drumming and looping) and Hassan Erraji (Moroccan percussion).
But she is currently probably more known for her work in Egypt, with the local saidi musicians around the Luxor area, whose music she will be incorporating in this year's project.
Dance is more than movement, more than technique.
It’s an opportunity to communicate, to engage and express emotionally, to feel and to flow through those feelings.
Whether you love to do it, or to watch it, when a dancer and the music are one, the synchronicity strikes deep.
Musicality is the ability for a dancer to express music in the body, to make the music visible. Rhythm, melody and mood are open to individual interpretation – there is no right or wrong.
Dancer - Be The Music is all about getting you deeper into the music - whether you're a performer or someone who does it for fun.
Working with live music, the energy can be electric. And working with recorded music gives us a chance to hear and work with the most subtle of nuances.
Workshops for anybody who loves moving to live music.
Started in 2016 with live baladi, continued in 2017 with classical arabic music and in 2018 we'll be exploring saidi, as well as continuing with classical.
Jane has been working closely with live music since 2005 when she was one of the first dancers to work with Guy Schalom and Adam Warne. She was also the first to start working with live baladi music in 2007 with the Baladi Blues Band featuring legendary accordion player Sheik Taha (photo right) and has an unequalled track record of teaching with such musicians as Guy Schalom, the (much missed) Adam Warne, Ahmed El Saidi, Magdy Manga and Tarek Bitar. Her pioneering project, the Mazazik Baladi Performance Project with the Baladi Blues Ensemble ran from 2011 and culminated in a show in 2012 with the band and featuring over 20 dancers. She was also a guest teacher at the Middle East Dance and Drum Camp and Dancing from the Heart Residentials, all with the Baladi Blues Ensemble and was invited to be a guest dancer at their second CD launch in London in 2011.
Jane's experience is unequalled in the arabic dance world in working with live music, having developed workshops with The Jadid Ensemble (middle eastern and flamenco fusion), Glen Sharp (flamenco guitar), Jon Sterckx (world drumming and looping) and Hassan Erraji (Moroccan percussion).
But she is currently probably more known for her work in Egypt, with the local saidi musicians around the Luxor area, whose music she will be incorporating in this year's project.
Dance is more than movement, more than technique.
It’s an opportunity to communicate, to engage and express emotionally, to feel and to flow through those feelings.
Whether you love to do it, or to watch it, when a dancer and the music are one, the synchronicity strikes deep.
Musicality is the ability for a dancer to express music in the body, to make the music visible. Rhythm, melody and mood are open to individual interpretation – there is no right or wrong.
Dancer - Be The Music is all about getting you deeper into the music - whether you're a performer or someone who does it for fun.
Working with live music, the energy can be electric. And working with recorded music gives us a chance to hear and work with the most subtle of nuances.
SUNDAY 8 JULY - Scarcroft Primary School, York
12 noon to 16.00 - £25
SATURDAY 14 JULY - The Place, London
12 noon to 14.00 - £15
A chance to learn about and experience the pure joy of Egyptian folkloric dance and music.
And the best way to get better at dancing music is to make it.
We'll be singing and drumming before dancing. Don't worry. You don't have to be expert and you won't be put on the spot.
Then we'll dance.
There are different ways to approach working with music. Come and try some. And if you don't know your rebaba from your mizmar or your saidi from your fellahi - you soon will.
12 noon to 16.00 - £25
SATURDAY 14 JULY - The Place, London
12 noon to 14.00 - £15
A chance to learn about and experience the pure joy of Egyptian folkloric dance and music.
And the best way to get better at dancing music is to make it.
We'll be singing and drumming before dancing. Don't worry. You don't have to be expert and you won't be put on the spot.
Then we'll dance.
There are different ways to approach working with music. Come and try some. And if you don't know your rebaba from your mizmar or your saidi from your fellahi - you soon will.
