“Everything in dance is poetry. Every movement describes a story, a feeling. The dancer takes the audience into a world of fairy tales.” ~Farima Berenji
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Persian Pop Dance Workshop
December 10, 2015 @ 8:30 pm - December 17, 2015 @ 10:30 pm PST
$34
Persian Pop Dance Workshop
Learn and practice fun, festive Persian pop dance moves and a choreography for everyone!
The class will warm up with Persian and Central Asian dance moves and turns then progress to movements for Persian modern and pop styles. Finally, learn a choreography for a Persian pop dance.
Both sessions are required to join a performance.
When and Where
Dec 10 and 17, 2015, at the Halanda Studio, San Jose, 8:30-10:30pm.
Cost
Drop-in any day of the 2 Thursday workshop series Dec. 10 or 17 and pay $34 for the 2hr session. Members of the Farima Dance Company pay only $30.
Farima Berenji
Farima is an award winning, internationally acclaimed performing artist, instructor, dance ethnologist, and archeologist. Recognized as one of few world experts and scholars of Persian dance history, Farima infuses spirituality into her dance and teachings to impassion, empower, and inspire. She is the founder and artistic director of the Farima Dance Company and the Simorgh Dance Collective. Exposed from youth to various music and dance styles her love of dance has led her upon an extraordinary life-long journey throughout the world, including her home countries Iran and Azerbaijan as well as other neighboring Silk Road countries, where she has researched, studied, and performed with master teachers and performing artists. For over 15 years, Farima has continued her passion traveling great distances to learn, research, lecture, promote, perform, and to teach sacred, classical, and folk dances of the Silk Road.
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