January 2012 

Monday

8-9 pm                    Hip Hop Workout                         (Zaq Lawal)

Tuesday

6 – 7:15 pm            Belly Dance Lev. 1                       (Maria Hamer)

7:30-9 pm               Belly Dance Lev. 2                      (Maria Hamer)

Wednesday

7 – 8:15                    All Levels Belly Dance               (Olivia Kissel)

Thursday

8-9 pm                   Hip Hop Workout                           (Zaq Lawal)

Saturday   

11:30 – 12:45 pm     Flamenco Tech. Beg. L1        (Carolina Loyola-Garcia)

12:45 – 2 pm           Flamenco Choreo. Beg. L2      (Carolina Loyola-Garcia)

2 – 3:30  pm             All Levels  Belly Dance        *starts Jan. 21     (Olivia)

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Class Cost

1113 E. Carson Street  :: Pittsburgh, PA  ::  15203

Wednesdays,  7 – 8:15 pm

All Levels:  geared to both the experienced dancer & the novice.

Explore the rich tapestry of music and movement that is the hallmark of Belly Dance.  Indulge in a playful excursion into the music and art at the heart of the Belly Dance genre.  The music and dance for this class will explore folkloric, tribal and stage variations.

Each class will start with a high paced warm up, focus on Belly Dance isolations and gestures, and develop fun combinations that highlight the rhythm and melody of our music selections.

ZDS Current Schedule

Monday

7-8 pm                   Hip Hop Workout  *starts 1/ 9*  (Zaq Lawal)

Tuesday

6 – 7:15 pm             Belly Dance Lev. 1                        (Maria Hamer)

7:30-9 pm               Belly Dance Lev. 2                        (Maria Hamer)

Wednesday

7 – 8:15                    All Levels Belly Dance                (Olivia Kissel)

Friday

5 – 6 pm                   Hip Hop                                     (Gabriel Ash)

6 – 7 pm                   Contemporary                           (Gabriel Ash)

Saturday   

11:30 – 12:45 pm     Flamenco Tech. Beg. L1     *starts Jan. 14     (Carolina Loyola-Garcia)

12:45 – 2 pm           Flamenco Choreo. Beg. L2  *starts Jan. 14    (Carolina Loyola-Garcia)

2 – 3:30  pm             All Levels  Belly Dance        *starts Jan. 21     (Olivia Kissel)

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Class Cost

Old School meets New School: Belly dance Classics Re-interpreted

Sat.  Jan. 14, 2012

2 – 4 PM

$30/ $40 advance/ door

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Olivia of Zafira Dance Company brings you this workshop that re-works some of Bellydance’s most classic moves. We will reinterpret these classics by slowing down, speeding up, taking them apart and turning them inside out!

This workshop is exciting for both the novice and the experienced dancer.  We will explore some of the most quintessential “belly dance” movements and gestures, giving special attention to the body mechanics necessary to execute movement with clarity, definition and grace.

Participants will get a taste of how Olivia and Zafira work with Bellydance: a timelessly beautiful dance form, to create unique and powerfully expressive performance art.

Please join me in this series of some of my most popular workshops taught across the US, Europe and Russia- now offered at ZDS in Pittsburgh!

These 3 hr workshops are open to all levels of dance, and serve as a great introduction to the history and current context of Belly Dance in the U.S.

Space: The Final Frontier

Sunday Dec. 11, 2011
3:30 – 6:30 PM
$30/$40 advance/ door

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**This workshop explores the expressive potential of Dunham Technique, Guinean Dance, Tango, Russian Gypsy and Belly Dance.**

Zafira Dance Company is known for gliding movement and maximizing the use of space on stage. In this class Olivia will develop our movement vocabulary with drills and combinations that are magnified with travelling steps, spins and changes in orientation. Skills that will be addressed: developing grace through strength, alignment, and coordination; travelling steps, spatial awareness, and timing. This workshop will help you break the ‘glued-to-the-floor’ habit and allow you to move around the floor for a more dynamic dance experience.

Tenacity: Friday, Dec. 9, 2011

August Wilson Center, 8 pm

For more info:  Sprout Fund

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Nomad is a multimedia dance performance that mines the expressive potential of Tango, Jazz, Contemporary, Flamenco, Belly Dance, Russian Gypsy and Romani Dance, to  embody a romantic story of longing and the solace found in imagination.

HYBRID: Dance Project is a budding young project inspired by the cross-pollination of dance styles co-mingling at Zafira Studios in Pittsburgh, PA.  Studio owner & international artist, Olivia Kissel teams up with regional artists: Carolina Garcia-Loyola, Sara Bauer, Patrice Langford, and Joanna Abel to explore the boundaries of urban, folk and classical dance forms; creating a hybrid language that emerges between the worlds.

Tuesday

5 – 6                  Hip Hop *starts 10/25    (Gabriel Ash)

6 – 7:15 pm      Belly Dance Lev. 1           (Maria Hamer)

7:30-9 pm        Belly Dance Lev. 2           (Maria Hamer)

Friday

5 – 6 pm                   Hip Hop     *starts 10/28      (Gabriel Ash)

6 – 7 pm                   Contemporary *starts 10/28  (Gabriel Ash)

7 – 8  pm                    Beginning Tango                     (PA TangoS)

8 – 9 pm                   Intermed. Tango                      (PA TangoS)

Saturday

11:30 – 12:45 pm     Flamenco Tech. Beg. L1       (Carolina Loyola-Garcia)

12:45 – 2 pm           Flamenco Choreo. Beg. L2     (Carolina Loyola-Garcia)

2 – 3:30    pm           Afro-Modern                          (Tracie Yorke)

Sunday

12 – 1 pm                  Contemporary *starts 10/23 (Gabriel Ash)

1 – 2  pm                   Hip Hop  *starts 10/23           (Gabriel Ash)

2 – 3:30 pm             Brazilian   Samba                    (Tracie Yorke)

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Class Cost

Monday

7:30 – 8:30       Hip Hop: Beginner          (Zaq Lawal)

Tuesday

5 – 6                  Hip Hop *starts 10/25    (Gabriel Ash)

6 – 7:15 pm      Belly Dance Lev. 1           (Maria Hamer)

7:30-9 pm        Belly Dance Lev. 2           (Maria Hamer)

Wednesday    

7 – 8 pm                      Broadway Jazz                      (Shira Krasnow)  *starts 10/12

8 – 9 pm                      Hip Hop                                  (Shira Krasnow)  *starts 10/12

9 – 10 pm                    Dance Hall                             (Shira Krasnow)  *starts 10/12

Thursday

6:30 – 7:30                 Burlesque                               (Shira Krasnow) *starts 10/13

7:30 – 8:30                 Jazz                                         (Shira Krasnow) *starts 10/13

8:30 – 9:30 pm         Hip Hop: Beginner                  (Zaq Lawal)

Friday

5 – 6 pm                   Hip Hop     *starts 10/28      (Gabriel Ash)

6 – 7 pm                   Contemporary *starts 10/28  (Gabriel Ash)

7 – 8  pm                    Beginning Tango                     (PA TangoS)

8 – 9 pm                   Intermed. Tango                      (PA TangoS)

Saturday

11:30 – 12:45 pm     Flamenco Tech. Beg. L1       (Carolina Loyola-Garcia)

12:45 – 2 pm           Flamenco Choreo. Beg. L2     (Carolina Loyola-Garcia)

2 – 3:30    pm           Afro-Modern                          (Tracie Yorke)

Sunday

12 – 1 pm                  Contemporary *starts 10/23 (Gabriel Ash)

1 – 2  pm                   Hip Hop  *starts 10/23           (Gabriel Ash)

2 – 3:30 pm             Brazilian   Samba                    (Tracie Yorke)

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Class Cost

Pittsburgh City Paper  Big changes for “Zafira Dance Company”, but no changes at Zafira Studios.  Christine, Maria and Olivia along with the rest of the incredible ZDS staff will continue to teach and offer workshops out of the South Side studio.  Come dance with us!  Schedule

Get Tickets to Zafira Dance Company’s Last show at the Kelly Strayhorn Theater

Tues. Oct. 4, 8 pm