Night on the Nile: Improv Edition with Najmah Nour and Oralia Kolaczkowski

Sat 10 Dec, 7 pm. Blackadder Brewing Company, 618 NW 60 Street, Gainesville, 32607. Najmah Nour. Belly Dance with Leela - [facebook][email][events]

Najmah Nour and Oralia are excited to present: Night on the Nile: Improv Edition. It has been almost three years since our last event. But we are back and ready to have a blast.

Want to Perform? There are 2 performance options:
Option 1-Dancers can choose their own song
Option 2-Join Najmah and Oralia and have a crazy wild time by just choosing a genre (Shaabi, Pop, Classic Egyptian, Fusion) and your lovely hosts will pull a random song out of the song jar for you to improvise to.

Event hosts, Najmah and Oralia are ready for a crazy wild time and will be choosing option 2, the random improv.

How to sign up:

1. If you would like to perform please let Najmah know through email najmahdance@gmail.com

2. Choose your genre or let us know you are bringing your own music (4 minutes or less please)

3. If signing up for the improv. option, please choose your genre you want to dance to from the following list:
- Shabbi
- Pop
- Classical Egyptian
- Fusion( Arabic or Turkish music mixed with western)

Egyptian Technique and Combinations
Luna will teach some typical Egyptian-styled movements, as well as some of her signature ones that she invented over the course of her dance career in Cairo. She will explain how they differ in emphasis, genesis, and meaning to American-flavored movements, as well as demonstrate how to string them together into unique and intelligent combinations. Luna will also break down the movements into "families" according to their qualities and explain how to use that categorization to develop your own unique technique.

Um Kulthoum Choreography
In this workshop, you will learn how to interpret a well known Um Kulthoum song. Emphasis will be on the relationship between lyrics and tarab, and on how to express the song without over-dancing.

Classic Shaabi
Shaabi is a dance form originating from the lower class neighborhoods of Cairo that has become extremely popular in the workshop circuit. But did you know that it's at least as old as some of the classics we're used to dancing to? In this workshop, Luna will choose a more classical piece of shaabi music and explore the relationship between the lyrics, the instrumentation, and tarab. She will demonstrate how to adjust posture, gestures, and expression to capture the feeling of this genre of shaabi music.