Monday

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

Tuesday

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

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

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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

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

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

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Tuesday

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

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

Wednesday     * starts 9/14 *

7 – 8  pm                  Hip Hop: Stiletto Fit                (Jame’ Elis)

8 – 9 pm                   Hip Hop:   Shake it Off                 (Jame’ Elis)

Thursday

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

Friday

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)

7 – 8 pm                   Capoeira   Angola                        (Eric Bies)

Sunday

12 – 1 pm                  Hip Hop: Stiletto Fit  *9/11           (Jame’ Elis)

1 – 2   pm                  Hip Hop: Beginner                     (Zaq Lawal)

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

Most Classes Cost

$15        Drop In

$60        6 Class Card

$100     12 Class Card

$60/hr   Private Lessons

**Purchase class cards online or at Zafira Studios

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.

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SEPTEMBER WORKSHOP
Old School meets New School:

Bellydance Classics Re-interpreted

Sunday Sept. 18, 2011
3:30 – 6:30 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 digs into the body mechanics necessary to execute movement with clarity, definition and grace through the practice of sustained drills to develop our strength and coordination. We will also devote time to explore opportunities for personal expression, enabling us to turn these movements into DANCE. In this workshop, 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.

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DECEMBER WORKSHOP

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.

Friday

Studio Speakeasy w/ The Turpentiners, George & Slim Cessna & Local Honey Reunion!

Saturday

Mardi Love workshops

Capoeira Class

Hafla: Live music & Dance Party

Sunday

MORE!  Mardi Love workshops

Come to our Bohemian Oasis & Enjoy the Sweet & Low Down Sounds of these Pittsburgh musicians.  Bring your dancing shoes!

$10 gets you in the door and an ice cold beer.  Additional drinks by donation!

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 Synergy Dance w/ Olatokunboh

Thursdays: 6:15 – 8:15

Starts August 18, 2011

Bio: Olatokunboh Obasi, is a certified Synergy Dance instructor, medical herbalist, health educator, nutritionist and mother.  She owns Ola’s Herb Shop at Oneness Holistic and Cultural Center in Morningside.  A Kenyan native she grew up surrounded by music, dance and diverse cultures.  Recently, Olatokunboh moved from the Washington, D.C area where she studied Synergy Dance with her teacher and mentor Charmaine Lee.  For Olatokunboh Synergy Dance is about healing and uplifting spirit.  It’s a dance movement which creates space for self discovery and transformation.  In her spare time Olatokunboh enjoys reading, writing, art, music, travel, nature and family time.

Class Description: Synergy Dance is about processing movement with the use of polarity therapy concepts.  Have you ever felt like you’re stuck with making a decision or over reacting to a situation and know it but just don’t know what to do about it?  Well, Synergy Dance teaches us to process movement out of these kinds of scenarios using an elemental system.

Synergy Dance is about love, joy and fun.  It is composed of beautiful movements some based on cultural dance styles of the world; African, Middle Eastern Belly Dance, Ballet, Qi Gong, etc.

Charmaine describes the movement best, “Synergy Dance is designed to involve the body as well as the mind and emotions in movement (or “deep play,” as scientist and “Molecules of Emotion” author Candace Pert has called it). Drawing its structure from the energy systems of Polarity Therapy — itself a hybrid of Indian yogic traditions, Eastern martial and healing arts and Western holistic approaches to personal wellness — Synergy Dance also incorporates world dance and music with this focus on self-healing (www.synergydance.com).”

This class will teach you to process emotion, self heal and most importantly find confidence in love and joy. The dance does not require prior dance experience only your attendance to a series of workshops to understand the concepts of very important movements.

Hope to see you in greatness!

The Unparalleled Mardi Love brings her Sultry American Belly Dance to Pittsburgh for a weekend of workshops and Shows.

Aug. 26 – 28  at Zafira Dance Studios

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Sat. May 28

7:30 – 11 pm

$10 door/  $7 if you bring a dish!

Live Music, Open Dance Floor and lots of ambiance!

Video of Rachel Brice in action!