IMPORTANT CHANGE OF INFO!!!!
Location Change! ALL WORKSHOPS NOW AT BFITT 6/2 Woodman Court West End.
Fri 6.30-9.30pm 3 hours Spooky
Stories – Connect and Play Choreography Co-creation
Bring: Darker tights and tee shirt, she’s not sure what will be needed because she creates it from who’s there and what they already have brought.
Sat 10.30 – 12pm‼️Time Change
Veil Workshop
Bring: regular sized Veil
Sat 12.30 – 2.30pm‼️Time Change
Spooky Stories Rehearsal
Sun 10am-11.30am Fans
Bring a Spanish R Handed Fan and Silk Fan Veils (Spanish Fans and Silk Fans Available to borrow).
Sun 11.45-1.15pm Contemporary
Bring: nothing needed
Sun 1.30-3pm Flamenco Fusion
Bring: Full Circular Skirt
We are absolutely delighted to announce Belly Dance artist KAESHI CHAI of New York City and San Francisco is coming to Townsville, North Queensland!!
Kaeshi Chai is co-founder of Bellyqueen, PURE (Public Urban Ritual Experiment), Djam NYC and is an alumni of Bellydance Superstars and Bellydance Evolution. For more information on Kaeshi go to www.kaeshi.com
Kaeshi will be in Townsville over the 28/29/30 of October 2022 for a thrilling series of workshops and a Spooky Halloween Themed Dance Party!!!
WORKSHOPS!
Overview
Fri 6.30-9.30pm 3 hours Spooky Stories – Connect and Play Choreography Co-creation
Sat 10.30 -12pm Veil
Sat 12.30 – 2.30pm Spooky Stories Rehearsal
Sun 10am-11.30am Fans
Sun 11.45-1.15pm Contemporary
Sun 1.30-3pm Flamenco Fusion
WORKSHOP LOCATION: BFitt 6/2 Woodman Court West End
Friday 28/10
6.30 – 9.30pm
SPECIAL EVENT! Spooky Stories – Connect and Play Choreography Co-Creation
Level: All
Create and play with your fellow dancers to build a “Spooky Stories’ themed dance (or dances) to perform at the party on Saturday night. This will be an incredible opportunity to work with Kaeshi and learn new and fun methods to create dance pieces quickly as a collective. Students must also be able to commit to the rehearsal on Saturday as well as perform at the party.
Saturday 29/10
10.30 – 12.30pm
Innovative Veil
Level: All
Learn how you can use a veil for more than just floating and framing. You will learn some of Kaeshi’s favorite flourishes, throws, holds, binds, snaps, wraps and combinations. By the end of this workshop your veil will become a tool for transformation. (Please bring a 3 yard/ 2.75M veil.)
LUNCH 12PM – 12.30pm
Saturday 29/10
12.30pm – 2.30pm
SPECIAL EVENT! Spooky Stories – Connect and Play Choreography Co-Creation /
PART TWO REHERSAL
Party – 6pm – 11pm
Sunday 30/10
10am – 11.30am
Bellydance Fans
Level: All
Fascinated by fans but don’t know how to use them? Then come and discover how the beauty of fan dancing can enhance your ability to mesmerize an audience. Kaeshi will teach you different hand holds, dramatic accents, poses you can strike, travel steps, plus a myriad of bellydance movements that work well with traditional Chinese fan technique. Appropriate for 12 inch fans with 5-12 inches of fabric hanging off the edge. Please bring your own fans to the workshop.
Sunday 30/10
11.45PM – 1.15PM
CONTEMPORARY BELLYDANCE
Level: Intermediate
Contemporary and bellydance both embrace movements that trace spirals, figure 8s, circles, contractions and releases. Learn how these two worlds enhance and compliment each other to the song Tetrishead by Zoe Keating with traveling floor patterns and dynamic stationary combinations that will enable you to fill up a stage.
SUNDAY 30/10
1.30PM – 3PM
Flamenco-Fusion Choreography
Level: Intermediate
Learn Kaeshi’s beautiful flamenco fusion style with step-by-step break down in technique and combos culminating in an enthralling choreography to Beatbox Guitar’s beautiful song “The End Again”. (Bring a full skirt.)
Workshop Costs:
$170 Spooky Stories Co Creation Special Event (5 hour total duration)
$80 – Single Workshop
$170 – Sunday Day only rate (3 Workshops)
$200 – All four workshops (minus Spooky Stories)
$320 – All four workshops + Spooky Stories Special Event
To book or for further information please contact Cara on 0409700037.
TICKET LINK HERE: https://www.trybooking.com/CDSQS