Course Details

 

Farnham Beginners Intermediates	Guildford Beginners/Open level  Improver/Intermediate level
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FARNHAM- Tuesday evenings
Beginners class 6.30-7.45pm

Course Aims-
to teach the basics of Middle Eastern Dance (Egyptian style) at Beginner level.

Target group-
Beginners and students with a less than 1 year’s experience of Middle Eastern Dance.  Students coming back to the dance after a break, who wish to brush up on their basic dance skills.

Students will learn basic techniques (specific steps, moves, combinations) of Middle Eastern dance at Beginner level. They will cover essential techniques, such as Grounding, Posture & Elevation. They will also be developing personal Interpretation skills in Improvised dancing, and we will start working with Veils.

Things to bring to class-
There are usually some spare veils available to borrow, when we do Veilwork, but bring your own if you have one, to get used to its movement.

The Summer Term Classes start on 29th April, and run for 10 weeks, with the last class on 1st July. There is a half-term break on 27th May.

These classes are run by Farnham Adult Education - contact them on 01483 518558 for administrative information & bookings.

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FARNHAM- Tuesday evenings
Improver/Intermediates class 8.00-9.30pm

Course Aims-
to teach Improver/Intermediate level Middle Eastern Dance (Egyptian style).

Target group-
Students with a MINIMUM of 2 terms’ study of Middle Eastern Dance.

Students will learn Improver/Intermediate level techniques (specific steps, moves, combinations) of Middle Eastern dance, and work on developing their personal Interpretation skills.  They will improve and perfect their Posture, Grounding & Isolation and general Quality of movement. They will also continue to develop their personal Interpretation skills, in Improvised dancing.

Things to bring to class-
There are usually some spare veils available to borrow, but bring your own if you have one, to get used to its movement.

The Summer Term Classes start on 29th April, and run for 10 weeks, with the last class on 1st July. There is a half-term break on 27th May.

These classes are run by Farnham Adult Education - contact them on 01483 518558 for administrative information & bookings.

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FARNHAM- Wednesday evenings
Beginners class 6.30-7.45pm

These classes have been discontinued.

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GUILDFORD- Thursday evenings
Open (Beginner/Mixed) level class 7.00-7.55pm

Course Aims-
to teach the basics of Middle Eastern Dance (Egyptian style) at Beginner level.

Target group-
Absolute Beginners and students with a less than 1 year’s experience of Middle Eastern Dance.  Students coming back to the dance after a break, who wish to brush up on their basic dance skills.

Students will learn basic techniques (specific steps, moves, combinations) of Middle Eastern dance at Beginner level. They will cover essential techniques, such as Grounding, Posture & Elevation. They will also be developing personal Interpretation skills, in Improvised dancing, and will start using Props. In the first 6 week course, we will start working with Veils. In the second 8 week course we will start working with Finger Cymbals.

Things to bring to class-
There are usually spare veils available to borrow, but bring your own if you have one, to get used to its movement.

There are usually spare finger cymbals available to borrow, but bring your own if you have a set, as I don’t have very many “loaner” sets.

The Summer Term classes start on 17th April, and run for 6 weeks, with the last class on 22nd May.

There will be a week’s break on 29th May, and the 7.00pm classes will start back on 5th June, for a further 8 weeks, at Open level, to include both Beginners and Improver/Intermediates.

Please note that these classes are running an hour earlier than usual this term.

This is now a termly course. These are not Drop-In classes. Past experience shows these classes will be very popular, and because of the size of the studio, numbers will be limited.

These classes are run by the University of Surrey as part of its Campusdance project-, contact them on 01483 689201 for administrative information or try their website, where you should shortly be able to access the Summer term timetable. (At the time of posting, the Summer Term details do not yet appear to be available online.) 

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GUILDFORD- Thursday evenings
Intermediate/Advanced level class 8.00-8.55pm

Course Aims-
to teach Middle Eastern Dance (Egyptian style) at Improver/Intermediate level.

Target group-
More experienced dancers, preferably with two terms or more of Beginner level dance.

Although the Campusdance programme refers to these classes as Intermediate/Advanced level, in practice they will be run at Improver/Intermediate level, and they are aimed at past students who have already done two or more terms of classes.

Students will learn Improver/Intermediate level techniques (specific steps, moves, combinations) of Middle Eastern dance, and work on developing their personal Interpretation skills.  They will improve and perfect their Posture, Grounding & Isolation and general Quality of movement. They will also continue to develop their personal Interpretation skills, in Improvised dancing, using the music Leh Khaletni. 

The Summer Term classes start on 17th April, and run for 6 weeks, with the last class on 22nd May.

There will be a week’s break on 29th May, and the 8.00pm classes will not run after that. Students are encouraged to join in the 7.00pm Open level classes, above, when we will be working on dancing with Finger Cymbals. (Students are assured that this will be challenging enough to an Intermediate level dancer who has not tried it before!)

Please note that these classes are running an hour earlier than usual this term.

This is now a termly course. These are not Drop-In classes. Past experience shows these classes will be very popular, and because of the size of the studio, numbers will be limited.

These classes are run by the University of Surrey as part of its Campusdance project-, contact them on 01483 689201 for administrative information or try their website, where you should shortly be able to access the Summer term timetable. (At the time of posting, the Summer Term details do not yet appear to be available online.)