WOMEN are to be given an introduction to the art of Egyptian dance.
Two workshops will take a journey through the north African country from Cairo to Aswan at the next meeting of Dance Rosedale.
The event, which will culminate in a Halfa, or dance party, is designed for women new to the form of dance and will be l
ed by Yorkshire teacher Jane Wass.
Her aim is to spread her knowledge of the little-understood Egyptian dance.
The first workshop focuses on the area up the Nile to Cairo and will feature the sensual Baladi, the female solo dance of Egypt.
The second will take dancers to the hot deserts of the south of the country mixing the rhythms of Nubia and the liberating dance of the Egyptian Gypsies, the Ghawazee.
Jane Wass has 15 years of experience teaching and learning traditional and classical Egyptian dances and performs extensively across the north of England, Ireland and Scandinavia.
Also influenced by the salsa and flamenco styles, Jane, who lives in West Yorkshire, completed a teacher-training course run by the Raqs Sharqi Society in London.
She will be teaching at Pickering Memorial Hall on Saturday (July 5) as part of the Big Dance, a national celebration of dance which runs from tomrrow (Thursday) until July 13.
The workshops cost £10 each, the first starting at 1.30pm and the second at 4pm.
The Hafla dance party will run from 7pm until 11pm and admission is £6.
The event is open to all women and girls from the age of seven.
For more information telephone Jane Wass on 07950 531917 or Kate Jones on 07779 626877.
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