After a long wait for a slot to teach regular classes in the Centre, I've been offered a regular Thursday night slot for the summer term. It's my favourite venue to come and teach a class. The room is beautiful - it's a first floor drawing room with a smooth clean wooden floor and a lovely view over the Centre's organic garden. And I'm looking forward to teaching on warm summer evenings when it will be possible to relax in the garden before class.
It is a small group, but really nice to be teaching a combination of students who had been to my previous workshops and classes, those who were already familiar with the dance, and a few students who were entirely new to the dance.
We started with some walks, attitude and posture and then went through some basic moves including fluids, figures of 8, sharps, hits and of course some shimmies and variations - quite exciting as always when the students showed some real shimmy potential. In the last part of the class we put these moves together to explore a piece of Baladi music, "Jalilah's Balady", from Amar 14:
Places are still available on the course which runs on Thursday evenings from 8.00-9.15 at The Salisbury Centre, 2 Salisbury Road, Edinburgh, EH16 5AB. Cost for the full 10 week term is £60 full price and £50 for concessions. To book, call 0131 667 5438, or email office@salisburycentre.org
Image is from Piranha Musik.
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