SAVE THE DATE!!!!
Boheme Belly Dance presents
🕸️Ooky Spooky 2024🕸️ in Kalamazoo, Michigan. Saturday night gala showcase open to the public, spooky & sparkly & family friendly!
Featuring workshops and performances by master dance instructors: BELLADONNA, Boheme’s own KAT FROM KALAMAZOO, DAWN XIANA MOON, NYX NAMOR, and more!! Event details and registration coming soon!
LOCATION
All workshops and showcase are held at:
Dormouse Theater
1030 Portage Street
Kalamazoo, Michigan
(Workshop attendees should park in rear and use steps to Door #2.)
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WORKSHOP PRICING
- Full Weekend Package $235 (early bird only, ends July 31st), includes 5 raffle tix.
- A la carte: Early Bird $35 per 90 min workshop ($45 after July 31st).
To register, please send payment via PayPal to cmFrc2FuYWlzIHwgZ21haWwgISBjb20=. Be sure to list your choices in the notes, as well as attendee names if you are ordering for multiple students. All workshops are non-refundable.
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WEEKEND SCHEDULE:
6pm-8pm FRIDAY NIGHT MEET n GREET
Saturday
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- 9am-10:30 - Kat - Datura Style Fakeouts!
- 10:45-12:15 - Dawn - Unleashing Your Inner Evil Queen
- 12:15-12:45 - Lunch
- 12:45-2:15 - Belladonna - Fierce Fusion Fragments
- 2:30-4pm - Belladonna - This is the Slay
8pm OOKY SPOOKY GALA SHOWCASE
Sunday
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- 9am - Nyx Namor - “Stealing Souls with Stage Presence”
- 10:45-12:15 - Belladonna - Power Poses
- 12:15-12:45 - Lunch
- 12:45-2:15 - Belladonna - Love into a Weapon
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WORKSHOP DESCRIPTIONS
BELLADONNA WORKSHOPS
“Fierce Fusion Fragments” (no sword needed.) Bella’s Boho fusion group improv style of short choreographed fragments of choreography. Edgy and industrial strength combinations, perfect for goth, industrial, and some pop music.
“This is the SLAY”
Some of Belladonna‘s signature, Boho blade sword combinations.
“Power Poses for Precision”
The Boho Blade Medicine format has over 200 named and codified shapes that have been created for you to help you develop precise spatial awareness, find the comfort in your own body when holding your blade, and help you bring your fierceness forward. Power Poses look great in photos which helps a dancer get positive feedback on the work they put into their practice and performance, they also act as a safe place to default to when you get distracted or if things are not going right for a second and finally, they are the dots that we could connect in the Boho Blade system to help dancers achieve powerful purposeful presentation.
“Love into a Weapon”
Sword sequence to a song (not choreography, but sequenced combinations/level one technique)
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DAWN XIANA MOON WORKSHOP
“Unleashing Your Inner Evil Queen”
Unlock your inner bad ass and move with intention, truth, and power. Command attention and exude confidence whether you’re in front of a thousand people or ten. Learn how to appear larger than life and connect with an audience, turning them from strangers into friends or (minions who will do exactly what you want them to). Create compelling unforgettable performances. Be so fierce they can’t look away.
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KAT FROM KALAMAZOO WORKSHOP
“Fakeouts!”
Dive into this workshop featuring two captivating Datura Style combos: the Wave Step Fakeout and Double Bump Fakeout! Perfect for mid-tempo routines or spontaneous improvisation, these moves are versatile and dynamic, suitable for both right and left sides. Join us and unlock the secrets of graceful movement and rhythmic expression. Advanced dancers: bring your zils for an added layer of WOW!
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NYX NAMOR WORKSHOP
“Stealing Souls with Stage Presence”
A single look. A muscle twitch. Sometimes, this is all it takes to capture the souls within an audience. How?
Stage Presence.
But we're not just talking about what everyone sees like costume and choreography. It's also what the audience DOESN'T see, but rather FEELS from you, too. We'll explore our mindsets and emotions, and experiment with several tips and tricks to learn how to give off the aura you want on stage long before you step on it.
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ABOUT BELLADONNA BOHEME
Belladonna is a fusion dance artist and innovator from Washington DC. She is the founder and director of Bohemian Bellydance and the Boho Blade sword dancing format and certification program. Belladonna is also a fire performer, yoga instructor and producer of the Raven's Night Soirée. Belladonna is driven by her desire to make creative expression easily available to those who may find it hard to tap into on their own, due to work, family, busy schedules and responsibilities. Her focus is on creating classes, educational programs, music and training that are safe, meaningful, well researched and fun. She uses her dance education and training, as well as her hunger for knowledge and experience in art, design, and energy healing, to help make her programs authentic and one of a kind. The goal of Bohemian Belly Dance is to inspire and cultivate the seeds of enlightenment, healing and self-expression, and self-awareness that can grow from the practice of fusion belly dance. Bohemian Belly Dance aims to provide high-quality instruction and create spaces and opportunities for dancers to find, develop and express their personal truth and creative voice.
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ABOUT DAWN XIANA MOON
Dawn Xiana Moon is the Founder/Director of Raks Geek, a bellydance and fire company that was recently voted "Best Dance Troupe in Chicago" (runner up) by the Chicago Reader. Raks Geek has garnered international accolades through their commitment to blend a high degree of artistic and technical mastery with fun, creativity, and themes from geek culture; they achieved internet notoriety with a video of a Wookiee bellydancing to a Klingon band. This earned them a spot on UK Channel 4 TV's "50 Funniest Moments of 2012"; The Daily Mail hailed the group as "sci-fi seduction." Dawn also dances and spins fire with Acrobatica Infiniti Circus and was a longtime member of Read My Hips. WGN-TV called her "spectacular!"
In addition to her work as a dancer, Dawn is a singer-songwriter who's performed in 10 states and released two albums - she fuses elements from traditional Chinese music with folk, pop, and jazz. She's also written cultural commentary on film, TV, and music for a variety of publications; acted in theatre and independent films; designed graphics for Anheuser-Busch; and coded websites for the University of Chicago. She has a degree in theatre from the University of Michigan and over 25 years of formal acting training and performance experience.
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ABOUT KAT FROM KALAMAZOO
Meet Kat from Kalamazoo, a passionate belly dancer whose journey began in 2009 when a friend introduced her to the captivating world of belly dancing. Since then, she has immersed herself in Raqs Sharqi, Datura Style, and Fusion styles, dancing with Boheme Belly Dance in downtown Kalamazoo since 2016.
Kat's dedication to her craft led her to become a certified 8 Elements Datura Style Teacher, a journey that began with attending Rachel Brice's 8 Elements training in August 2019. She completed the 8 Elements Transmission for Datura Style teacher training in May 2023.
In addition to her dance achievements, Kat is also an ACE certified Group Fitness Instructor, a testament to her commitment to health and wellness. She shares her love for Datura Style by teaching weekly classes in Portage, MI, where she inspires others with her skill, passion, and dedication to the art of belly dancing.
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ABOUT NYX NAMOR
Nyx Namor is dark fusion belly dancer from Champaign, IL specializing in gothic and metal themed performances. She is a founding member of the Stygian Collective and one half of the duo Twilight's Edge, a project she shares with her fellow Stygian, Kasper. A lover of all things dark and macabre, Nyx enjoys turning her passion into performance, whether it be for catharsis, exploration, or pure expression. She prefers to explore emotions that society once deemed 'improper' for women to show: anger, apathy, grief, rage ... anything that is considered on the darker half of the emotional spectrum. It is her belief that you cannot have light without dark or happiness without anger or grief. It is only by exploring both that we can be whole.
