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BEACH BLANKET BELEDI 2008
Celebrating fifteen years of oceanfront fun!
** Classes & Schedule Subject to Change **
Beach Blanket Beledi
is an annual seminar and dance party held in Nags Head, NC,
on Columbus Day weekend. The fifteenth annual event is on
October 10-11, 2008. The
focus of Beach Blanket Beledi is that dance is serious fun.
The emphasis is on
creativity, exploration, and innovation.
For more information, go to:
Classes, Dance Party,
Schedule, Location,
Cost, Registration.
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CLASSES
Beach Blanket Beledi offers three classes in three different, but often
complementary, subjects that are guaranteed to pique your interest
and expand your dance horizons.
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Riskallah Riyad
Riskallah Riyad (CT) is an instructor and performer of unparalleled
originality. Her combinations and choreographies are imaginative and
challenging. Her love of dance and unlimited vitality show in both
the classroom (where she excels at inspiring students to achieve
new heights), and in each and every performance.
Riskallah will be presenting Rock the House!, a contemporary rock/hip hop belly dance fusion
choreography. Put on some bling and come shake your booty on the wild side!
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Tempest
Tempest is an artist, designer, dancer, and writer recently relocated from Bay Area of
California to the Jersey Shore. Although she enjoys studying what tradition has to offer,
Tempest loves exploring the dance through unusual music and creative costuming, pulling
on her visual arts background to "paint a picture" with the dance; engaging the audience
through dramatic embodied storytelling, passionate expression, and sensuous, mesmerizing
movement.
She is most well-known for her Gothic Belly Dance performances and instruction, and is
featured on the first-ever GBD performance DVD produced by WorldDanceNewYork entitled
“The Darker Side of Fusion”, its sequel "Gothic Belly Dance: Revelations", and Hollywood
Music Center's "Bellydance Underworld". She also has an instructional DVD geared towards
the alternatively-minded, entitled “Bellydance for Beautiful Freaks” and produced by
WorldDanceNewYork.
Tempest will be presenting Nouveau Noir, dance pieces that reflect the
art and society of the early 1900’s, pulling from silent films, vaudeville-Denishawn
style, art nouveau, art deco, and the Oriental craze. Students will learn combinations
that capture the elegant form, fluid movement, and dramatic stylings of these eras,
while being taught in a format that will enable them to absorb them into their own
personal choreographies.
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Chelydra
Chelydra has been a student of middle eastern dance since 1978,
and began performing professionally in 1981. She was the artistic director
of the Caravan East dance troupe from 1981-1997, and has performed and taught dances of
North Africa and the Middle East
at the award-winning Fields DanceStudio since
1985. A current contributing author to Zaghareet! magazine, she
is also the producer of the NoFrills series of instructional
videos. In 2004, her Andalusian-Moroccan Romany choreography was one of the entries selected to be
featured in the Old Dominion University Local Choreographer's Showcase, and in 2006, a
ghawazee duet choreographed by both Chelydra and Aegela was chosen for presentation.
She considers dancing to be serious fun.
Chelydra will be presenting Nuances, those little finishing touches that take a movement
from ordinary to fabulous, and add that mysterious extra sparkle to your performance.
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Dance Party
The stars are out at the beach, and the stars are YOU! The evening dance party is a
great time to try out your latest & greatest costume
and choreography. Have you always wanted to try something just a little bit different -
but never had the right setting? This is it! Be experimental! Be daring! Be playful!
The dance party is open to the first sixteen registrants who volunteer by the preregistration
deadline. Time limit is seven minutes (but remember, less is sometimes
more).
To be fair to everyone, if you request multiple performances, only one will be
scheduled. A request for a second performance will be honored on a space-available
basis after the preregistration deadline.
You must register for the seminar to qualify for a place in the programme.
SCHEDULE
| Subject To Change |
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| Time | Activity |
| Friday, October 10 |
| 8:00-9:30 PM | Welcome Wagon & Swap Sale |
$5 per swap space |
| Saturday, October 11 |
| 9:30-10:30 | Registration |
| 10:30-12:30 | Nouveau Noir | Tempest |
| 12:30-1:30 | Lunch (On your own; due to time constraints,
brown bag is recommended) |
| 1:30-3:30 | Rock the House! | Riskallah Riyad |
| 3:45-4:45 | Nuances | Chelydra |
| 8:00-?? | Dance Party | Bring a snack to share! |
LOCATION
Beach Blanket Beledi is held at the Comfort Inn South
Oceanfront at milepost 17 on the Beach Road in Nags Head, NC. For reservations,
call 1-800-334-3302.
Be sure to specify Beach Blanket Beledi when you call to get the special seminar rate!
Room rates are $68 soundside/$76 oceanside for 1-2 persons. Add $10 each for a
third or fourth person. At the current time, room tax is 13%.
Reservations must be cancelled
48 hours in advance, or a 1-night stay will be charged.
Check-in time is 4 PM; check-out is 11 AM. No more than
four persons per room are allowed by the local fire/safety code.
The hotel is usually full over the holiday weekend, so call early
to guarantee you get the room you want. Reserve rooms by
Friday, 9/19/2008, or rate and availability are not
guaranteed. The hotel frequently sells out over this weekend, so don't procrastinate.
The nearest airports to Nags Head are Norfolk International (ORF) and
Newport News/Williamsburg International (PHF). A rental car is required to
reach Nags Head.
COST
The fee for the seminar and dance party is $60 if registration is received
by 09/19/2008, and $70 after that date. Groups of five registering together receive
a $5 per-registration discount.
Additional dance party guests are $5/$2 (adults/children).
REGISTRATION
Registration is not available on-line. To obtain a registration form,
email or write to the address in the footer, or download a PDF copy of the
flyer.
(Adobe Acroread is required. The download may take some time to complete
even after the Acroread window opens.)
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