What about Advanced?

In advanced we have spent the last two weeks learning how to choreograph a song. We are working with Warda by Warda.

We spent the first week mapping the natural breaks in the song and then dancing improvisationally to the song first with no props and then with several different weights of veil and both half circle and rectangular veil. We decided we liked the 8mm silk large half circle veil best for the music.

We also learned three new tribal combos – Grape Stomper created by Nadima, Salt ‘n’ Peppa created by Cyra and Whirlygig created by Huraiva.

Homework was:
Develop a new tribal combination.
Pick three songs as possibilities for triberet improv performance on April 4
Find several places in Warda where you consistently do the same movements and write them down.
Practice leading tribal improv using only beginner level moves.
Practice finding the “1” beat in a song regardless of where you start listening to it.

The second week we reviewed the movements everyone was doing at a given point in the song. There was a spot where both Nadima and Cyra had the same movement so that was placed into the choreography. We then worked from that point forward and finished the evening with having choreographed from 25 seconds to 1:20 in the song.

We then learned three new tribal combos – Slow Snakes by Cyra, Pop the Cork by Huraiva and Half Moon by Nadima.

Homework was:
Develop a new tribal combination.
Continue working with Warda to see if additional moves “come up” repeatedly.
Practice leading tribal improv with beginner level moves and Choochoo and basic Egyptian based intermediate level moves.