Kashmir Dance Company is thrilled to be hosting Carolena Nericcio
and Megha Gavin for Whole Lotta Tribal:PURA May 12th & 13th, 2007
for a weekend of fabulous tribal workshops and a stellar evening
show May 12 & 13, 2007!

The show will be May 12 at the Masonic Temple.
Worskhops will be May 12th and 13th at the UAA!

The registration documents will be available on our website shortly!
www.kashmirdancecom pany.com

A little about Carolena Nericcio This legendary dance instructor is
the director of Fat Chance Belly Dance of San Francisco. She's a
certified movement instructor, has released 7 instructional DVDs and
3 performance DVDs, and has been teaching for 20 years. She has a
deep knowledge of HOW to move the body, and can teach others to do
it too. Her core belly work and the cleanliness of lines when she
dances is stunning. She is also, of course, the originator &
creatrix of "American Tribal Style" belly dance; the improvisational
Tribal Style Dance that we love so much. She has been my mentor and
my inspiration for more than 10 years.

Many of our favorite Tribal dance troupes sprung up after teachers
trained with her: Paulette Rees-Denis of Gypsy Caravan, Kajira
Djoumanha of Black Sheep Belly Dance, Stephanie Barto of Read My
Hips, Quinn Donovan of Gypsy Fire, and Megha Gavin of Devyani (now
Carolena's dance partner in the Tribal PURA tours), to name a few.
And, many of those funky fusion dance that are so well-known right
now also originally trained with Carolena: Rachel Brice & Jill
Parker, for example.

Even dancers who want to break away from the original "tribal style"
moves and create something new and different would gain much out of
these workshops. As a friend of mine told me, quoting her ballet
teacher "Creativity is discipline's reward." You have to have the
discipline to learn to do it right, before you can change it around
and make it your own... Or as I tell my students – "you need to
know what the rules are before you are allowed to break them".

The workshops are sold as a whole-package, or 1 Day workshops:

A. Tribal:PURA Workshops day 1: $65.00 Until March 31st, 2007..
April 1st and later $75.00.
B. Tribal:PURA Workshops day 2: $60.00 Until March 31st, 2007..
April 1st and later $70.00.
C. PURA Package deal – Both days $120.00 Until March 31st, 2007.
April 1st and later $145.00.

Show Tickets are $12.00 in advance and $15.00 at the door.
Tribal:PURA WorkShop 1: Please note: Workshops are on day 1 are
offered in one 4.5-hour block. Participants will be taking all
workshops. Break for lunch included. A light snack will be
provided – please make arrangements for your lunch if you require
anything additional.
Saturday May 12th: 4.5 hours of workshops:
Check in at 9:30 – workshop starts at 10:00 am


Indian Temple Dance warm-up & stretch
30 minutes - Taught by Megha
Limber up and get your blood flowing with this fun and stimulating
warm up and stretch.


True Tribal Basics & Tribal Combinations
2 hours - Taught by Carolena & Megha
Using fun combinations, we'll breakdown several basic movements and
their correct technique from the Tribal vocabulary. You'll walk away
with mini-choreographies you can plug into your dance and effective
setups for some of the faster moving steps and turns.

We'll take a break, and then come back for a 1-hour class on:

Powerful Presence
1 hour - Taught by Carolena & Megha
Wimpy entrances and endings can kill your show! Learn how to
command the audience's attention with a powerful entrance and end
your set with a bang.

Use Your Inspiration Wisely
1 hour - Taught by Megha
Movements developed by Megha to fit with the FCBD format and how to
make it work. Megha will teach the principals that allow innovation
while staying true to the tribal format, feeling, and function,
using Devyani combinations that fit into the ATS format.
* Dancers should know the basics of Shimmy, Arabic Basic, Egyptian
Basic, Pivot Bumps and Choo-choo.
Tribal:PURA WorkShop 2
Sunday, May 13th Advanced Workshop - 3 hours:
Check in at 9:30 – workshop starts at 10:00 am

The Details of this advanced ATS workshop are forthcoming.

HOWEVER: Please note that Carolena has the following criteria for
the Sunday workshop (and there are NO exceptions):

"We can do a Sunday advanced class, with the criteria that students
would have to have taken the Saturday classes. If a sincere person
wants to take Sunday but can't make it to Saturday, I would require
a video/DVD of them performing: taxeem, body wave, hand floreo, arm
undulations, shimmy, basic Egyptian, basic Arabic, pivot bump and
choo-choo."


I hope that you won't miss this chance to study with Carolena &
Megha. This is the first time that Kashmir Dance Company has brought
them to Salt Lake City. Space is limited! Let's fill up that
workshop space. Pass the word!
From Corrie