2025 Timetable & Session Details
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Friday 11th July
- Datura Style™ Inspired Choreo with Bronnie
- Building Positive Bellydance Bonds with Carol Zecevic
- Accentuate with Zoe
- Teach & Play: Interactive Bellydance Strategies with Emily
- Event Etiquette: A Discussion About Behaviour with Helen
- Dancing on Tahmilah Through Structured Improvisation with Tara
- Musicality – Dancing inside the Music with Samina Amar
- Inclusive Bellydance Practice with Mikola Lee
- Beachside Cabaret
Saturday 12th July
- Coffee and Beach Walk
- Laktob Ala Awrak El Shagar with Jordan
- Play With Fire with Ifritah
- Turkish Coffee Hour with Rachel
- Master the Moves with Keeva
- I Dance Therfore I Am with Isabel
- Rhythm and Motion – Breaking out of the beginner-drummers mould with Michael West
- Constructing Contrast with Kiri Lerch
- Creating Kodak Moments with Xaeda
- Belly Queen Formate Choreography ‘Lady’ with Cara Griffin
- SOS! (Shine On Stage) – Dance Performance Essentials with Janelle
- Know your song with Amanda
- A light in the Temple with Claire McDonald
- The Australian Belly Dance Concert
Sunday 13th July
- The Energetics of Bellydance : Embodying your dance with Pix
- So…where do I start costuming? with Susan
- Breaking Brain Barriers in Dance with Jessyka
- Andalusian Muwashahat with Maggie
- FAN-cy a Jam (Siren Project Fan Dialect) with Mandylynne
- Immersed In The Melody with Joselda
- The Art of the Pose with Kylie Astarte
Friday 11th July
Datura Style™ Inspired Choreo with Bronnie
Session Type: Movement
Date/Time: Friday, 10:00-11:30am
Description: Datura Style™ combinations can be performed in whole or in part. We’ll take a bunch movements from this format, and piece them together into a short choreography. Feel free to take these away and integrate them into your future dance.
Let’s create some magic together.
About Your Facilitator: Bronnie is a dancer and teacher wo has trained extensively in Datura Style™ and FCBD® Style of dance. Having travelled to the USA to train with Rachel Brice, she became a Datura Style™ teacher in 2019.
Based in Brisbane, Bronnie is the artistic Director/Teacher of the Empyrean Dance troupe. She has a passion for sharing her knowledge, you can catch her facilitating workshops and performing with Empyrean Dance troupe around the traps.
Building Positive Bellydance Bonds with Carol Zecevic
Session Type: Discussion
Date/Time: Friday, 10:15-11:15am
Description: This worshop aims to create a unique supportive environment for bellydance enthusiasts to share profound experiences, foster quality connections and deepen their understanding of their contribution to the wider bellydance community.
Participants will engage in a guided sharing circle style discussion to celebrate the art of bellydance and promote positive relationships within the bellydance community.
About Your Facilitator: Carol Zecevic is an avid bellydancer from the Illawarra region. Carol has been an enthusiastic student of bellydance for the past six years, studying the art under talented bellydance teachers in her region.
Carol regularly participates in bellydance festivals and events and has performed in groups as well as solo. Carol enjoys exposure to all forms of bellydance and loves to dance with a variety of people and styles. She is committed to sharing in all aspects of the bellydance community.
Accentuate with Zoe
Session Type: Movement
Date/Time: Friday, 11:45am-1:15pm
Description: Want to make those movements pop? Want to really highlight a part of your music? Arms, hands and other tricks can really help. We will practice pairing arms, hands and head to our fusion movements to make them appear bigger, bolder…accentuated!
About Your Facilitator: Zoe is the driving force behind Imbibe Fusion Bellydance. Imbibe caters for people new to bellydance, as well more seasoned dancers looking to explore a new style, develop their fusion technique or individual dance. Imbibe Fusion Bellydance is about building strength in body and mind, developing artistry in dance and sharing in a sisterhood of amazing women.
Teach & Play: Interactive Bellydance Strategies with Emily
Session Type: Interactive
Date/Time: Friday, 11:45am-1:15pm
Description: Revitalise your teaching approach with Teach & Play: Interactive bellydance strategies! This engaging workshop is designed specifically for dance instructors looking to incorporate fun, interactive games into their lessons.Join us for a refreshing and interactive experience that will inspire both you and your students, making every class a lively and productive session!
About Your Facilitator: Emily Nicholson is a distinguished belly dancer and the creative force behind Bluefire Bellydancers. With a deep passion for the art form, Emily has dedicated herself to both performing and teaching belly dance, captivating audiences with her graceful movements and intricate choreography. Emily’s dedication to her craft is evident in her precise technique and expressive artistry.
Event Etiquette: A Discussion About Behaviour with Helen
Session Type: Discussion
Date/Time: Friday, 1:30-2:30pm
Description: Have you been at a dance event and seen someone behave in a way that you thought was awesome, or maybe awful? Do you have some rules of behaviour for yourself and your troupe at dance events? Come along and share your experiences – the good, the bad, and the ugly – and learn from the perspectives of others. Together, let’s come up with some guidelines to share.
About Your Facilitator: Helen has been dancing for 20 years and teaching for seven. She is a teacher, trainer, and program facilitator in her day job and so brings a range of skills to her dance classes and workshop facilitation. Helen leads the community dance troupe Shimmy in the Glen and Shimmy Mob Team Glen Innes. She is a regular participant and volunteer at dance events up and down the east coast and administers the Bellydancers of Australia Facebook page.
Dancing on Tahmilah Through Structured Improvisation with Tara
Session Type: Movement
Date/Time: Friday, 1:30-3:00pm
Description: Tahmilah is a form of classical Arab music that is a playground for dancers. It contains melodic progressions alternating with improvisations from instruments in an orchestra. Tahmilah is a form through which we can experiment with structured improvisation inviting us into a dialogue between ourselves, the solo instruments, and the rest of the ensemble. In this workshop participants will expand their musicality through learning about this underrated musical form; drill core movements, and structured improvisation techniques to enhance their performative toolkit.
About Your Facilitator: Tara Yasmin has been dancing raqs sharqi since 2007, and travels regularly to continue her study in the art of Middle Eastern dance. Tara has a particular interest in dancing on mwashahat; an evocative and complex style of classical Arabic music, which highly influences her dance approach. She has travelled widely to learn how to translate poetry into motion with internationally acclaimed teachers including Nesma (Spain) and Faisal Zedan (Syria;USA). Tara teaches with Inspire Bellydance in Newcastle.
Musicality - Dancing inside the Music with Samina Amar
Session Type: Presentation
Date/Time: Friday, 3:15-4:15pm
Description: Musicality can seem somewhat like an ethereal, out of reach thing. Gaining an understanding of musical structure can enhance your dance for both choreography and improvisation. If you feel like you need to spend some time discovering how music works, want to learn and use musical terms with confidence, or just want to be able to count out your music without panicking, then this session is for you! Expand your understanding of music and connect on a deeper level in your dance.
About Your Facilitator: Sam is an encouraging, enthusiastic, inclusive, and supportive teacher, choreographer and workshop presenter with 22 years of experience. Trained in both musicianship and dance, Sam has an enhanced understanding of the how and why of musicality. She has performed as a soloist and member of several Canberra-based dance troupes, dancing choreographies and improvisations to live (sometimes improvised) music. She is currently with Banat Amar as a performer and artistic director.
Inclusive Bellydance Practice with Mikola Lee
Session Type: Interactive
Date/Time: Friday, 3:00-4:30pm
Description: Creating accessible and inclusive bellydance experiences can be easy and fun but sometimes it can also feel daunting. Mikola will facilitate this session to help you make YOUR dance accessible to others who may have different needs and abilities. Maybe your troupe needs to be more inclusive or your classes could be more open, or maybe you have different needs and want to learn how to accommodate them in a regular class. Mikola will share her experience with a wide range of dancers, we will have discussions and we will of course dance in accessible ways.
About Your Facilitator: Mikola has been teaching bellydance since 2007 to women of all ages, and abilities. She is very proud to be able to help her students find their unique strengths and facilitate their personal achievements through their dance.
She also teaches Dance for Parkinson’s and Mobility Classes. For these classes she draws from her ballet and contemporary background as well as Middle Eastern dance and rhythms which give a unique and varied class, mostly danced seated on a chair.
Beachside Cabaret - Floor Show and Dancing!
Friday night is dancers night at the Convention! This is a special cabaret floor show event. Get yourself some dinner and drinks from the bar and kick back for an amazing evening of performances, social dancing and some surprises!
This will be an unallocated table seated event.
A full list of performers will come soon.
Doors open at 6pm, show commences around 7pm
Saturday 12th July
Coffee and Beach Walk
Session Type: Social – No ticket required
Date/Time: Friday, 9:00-9:45am
Description: Join us in grabbing a drink from the Surf Lifesaving Club Kiosk and taking a morning walk along the beach. Not one for walking? That’s ok – hang out at the kiosk and have a chat to other dancers from around Australia.
The session is free, but sadly you’ll need to buy your own coffee/drink (if you want one – you are also ok to just come for the walk/chat).
Laktob Ala Awrak El Shagar with Jordan
Session Type: Movement
Date/Time: Saturday, 10:00-11:30am
Description: Find mastery with this Farid Al Atrache classic – Laktob Ala Awrak El Shagar (write my name on the leaves of the oak tree). Learn the intricacies of the music and have the poetry of the Arabic lyrics translated for you in this epic song of love and longing. Jordan will lead you through an elegant raqs sharqi choreography that lets you feel and lose yourself in the rich tapestry of the music.
About Your Facilitator: Jordan is a belly dancer based in North Queensland with a love for Egyptian music, dance and language. Jordan works full time for Dancenorth as their community experience coordinator and has an accomplished teaching history. She is engaging, knowledgeable and has a way of making complex movement attainable for dance students of any experience level. Jordan’s workshops are challenging, comforting and full of humour.
Play With Fire with Ifritah
Session Type: Movement
Date/Time: Saturday, 10:00-11:30am
Description: Fire is exciting. A mesmerising addition to your performances. But let’s not get toasty or endanger our audiences with our audacious thrill seeking!
This session is an introduction to playing with fire as a dancer. We will cover costume / preparation, PPE, what fuel to use and what to do if things go wrong! Plus, have some supervised light up time (palm candles or prop of your choice). This will give you a good solid start to working with this element.
NOTE: There is a limited number of spots available for this workshop. It will be filled on a first requested, first served basis (yes even for VIPs).
About Your Facilitator: Ifritah has been working for a long time with fire. They have learned from some of the best in the industry but also has a background as a trainer so they are good at breaking down skills and making memorable content. My workshops are often entertaining and quirky but you’ll learn a lot from someone with a lifetimes worth of experience with fire arts.
Turkish Coffee Hour with Rachel Bond
Session Type: Presentation
Date/Time: Saturday, 10:30-11:30am
Description: A potted guide to some of the rich culture and traditions of Turkiye, based on some of Rachel’s more unexpected encounters during her 2-month trip around Turkiye last year. On this armchair tour, you’ll sample some of the experiences of most interest to dancers. Vicariously enjoy a night out with live music; reenact a henna night (pre-wedding) ritual; discover the significance of hammams (bathhouses). Learn about regional costumes and music, and watch one or two folk dances.
BYO tea or coffee (available to purchase at the club) – both of which have prominent cultural roles. Turkish delight provided!
About Your Facilitator: With her wealth of knowledge and a teaching journey spanning thousands of classes over 2 decades, Rachel is recognised throughout Australia’s bellydance community for her expertise. Rachel’s passion for the art form and dedication to honouring its cultural origins shine through in every class. Although Turkish music and dance hasn’t been the focus of her work, it probably hasn’t for most dancers here in Australia, as most of us come from the same Egyptian / Lebanese teaching heritage. That allowed Rachel to offer a compare / contrast of the most different aspects. Her trip to Turkiye last year was not intended to be a study trip, but she couldn’t help following the strains of music wherever she came across it. This led to plenty of fascinating interactions with locals.
Master the Moves with Keeva
Session Type: Movement
Date/Time: Saturday, 11:45am-1:15pm
Description: Learn It, Own It, Rock It! This workshop is all about learning dance moves step by step, having fun, and feeling like a star. Whether you’re a total newbie or a seasoned dancer, you’ll pick up tricks for memorizing, flowing with the music, and making the routine your own.
About Your Facilitator: Keeva is a professional dancer based in Gunai Kurnai Country. She has performed across Australia in theatres and intimate settings, highlighting her versatility across various dance genres. With over a decade of teaching experience at recreational, competitive, and tertiary levels, Keeva brings a wealth of knowledge to her practice. Her qualifications in dance, acrobatics, and yoga, combined with a deep passion for culture, fuel her drive to share and inspire through movement.
I Dance, Therefore I Am with Isabel
Session Type: Presentation
Date/Time: Saturday, 11:45am-12:45pm
Description: Of course you love dancing. We get out and get amongst it as dancers and as audience. We do it alone and with our friends and families, we do it at parties, in classes, at festivals, and on stage. It is who we are. But did you know that a nexus between identity and dance is recognised in the UNESCO Convention of Intangible Cultural Heritage? This presentation is a glimpse into dance as a marker of cultural identity for individuals and groups, and a tool in cultural development. It opens a discussion about personal practice and a sense of belonging (or not) to community.
About Your Facilitator: While working in curatorial practice, I was intrigued by the structure processes by which artwork and other cultural material was collected and exhibited. I noted that it was not unusual for the artists and their communities to be written out of the story, that attention to the object detracted from the maker. Can dancers be separated from their performances so readily? What social factors enmesh a dance/r with a community? These questions are at the heart of this presentation.
Rhythm and Motion - Breaking Out of the Beginner-Drummers Mould with Michael West
Session Type: Music
Date/Time: Saturday, 11:45am-12:45pm
Description: Step into the rhythm with Michael West, a seasoned performer who has brought doumbek and dahola beats to festivals and dancers for over two decades. This session distils years of drumming into a concise, energising experience. Learn technique, stage presence, and dynamic expression as you discover how to harness powerful lows and crisp highs. Each lesson focuses on movement that boosts sound and speed, combining foundational rhythms, accents, and creative fills. Get ready for a confident, resonant stage presence that celebrates the joy of music.
About Your Facilitator: Michael has been practicing and performing with his little drum since 2001 at festivals and dancey-dance events, accompanying solo and troupe dancers or band members. It’s never a dull hour of drumming and idle banter with Michael. He aims to prepare students to play on stage with a confident sound, embracing mistakes as part of the musician’s journey. Otherwise Michael makes daily attempts at being a mechanical engineer, and trains in Kendo.
Constructing Contrast with Kiri Lerch
Session Type: Interactive
Date/Time: Saturday, 1:15-2:45pm
Description: In this workshop we explore what separates a good dancer from a great dancer. Using the plan, do, reflect model, to accelerate learning, this workshop includes drill and combinations to expand your movement vocabulary.
Whether you want to improve your ability to dance with a troupe, remember choreographies better, create choreographies of your own, or improvise with more confidence, this workshop will help improve all these skills and more.
About Your Facilitator: J
Creating Kodak Moments with Xaeda Raqasa
Session Type: Interactive
Date/Time: Saturday, 1:15-2:45pm
Description: This fabulously fun workshop will have you posed and poised ready for your kodak moment. Together we will look at how to make the most of photographic opportunities, poses, angles and adding some drama. As well as composition, props and costume choice. Bring your phone along to capture your progress and a veil for a bit of colour.
About Your Facilitator: Xaeda Raqasa is sought after teacher and entertainer throughout Australia. Known for her theatrical influences, improvisation techniques, choreography, costuming, and artistic designs.
Belly Queen Format Choreography 'Lady' with Cara Griffin
Session Type: Movement
Date/Time: Saturday, 1:15-2:45pm
Description: Using the ‘Belly Queen’ format created by Kaeshi Chai & as a qualified teacher in this style, Cara will share a super fun choreography! This choreography is great for groups looking to add a unique choreography to their upcoming Hafla or flashmob performances. Join us for this modern, joyful and connective choreo experience.
About Your Facilitator: Cara is a celebrated soloist particularly noted for her Classical, Sword Dance and Flamenco Fusion performances. With over 20 years of teaching experience and a teaching style that is warm and inclusive focusing on technique, strength and flexibility while learning to remain in the moment. She is a qualified ‘Belly Queen’ method teacher and the director of Global Dance Collective.
SOS! (Shine On Stage) – Dance Performance Essentials with Janelle
Session Type: Interactive
Date/Time: Saturday, 3:00-4:30pm
Description: “In this comprehensive workshop, dancers will explore essential performance techniques that elevate their stage presence and ensure a successful, polished performance. Topics covered include –
- Dressed to Dance – elevating your performance with costumes and makeup
- Talking to Techs – effectively communicate and collaborate with technical teams
- Navigating the Stage – understanding and optimizing your space on stage
- Captivating the Crowd – engaging your audience
- Breathe, Believe, Dance – managing stage nerves”
About Your Facilitator: Janelle is a versatile & passionate dancer with a rich background in Classical Ballet, Jazz, Tap, Musical Theatre, Contemporary, & Belly Dancing. With over 40 years of training & performance experience, notable achievements include performing professionally with Disney Special Events, Australian & New Zealand Body Art Awards, Australian Belly Dance Convention, and Seven Sisters Festival. With unwavering passion, Janelle is intent on sharing her love & knowledge of dance with others.
Know Your Music with Amanda
Session Type: Presentation
Date/Time: Saturday, 3:00-4:00pm
Description: Regardless of the style of bellydance you do, we all dance to songs. But, do you know what you are dancing to? It’s important not only for raqs sharqi dancers, but for any dancer to understand their song, what it means, if it has any specific cultural significance, or could cause backlash if used.
The funny thing is, it doesn’t take long to get started with researching your track. This session will give you practical suggestions on where to start, what to look for and why it’s important – not just for your own integrity, but also for how bellydance is presented.
About Your Facilitator: Amanda is a certified dance nerd from Melbourne. She has been dancing for over 15 years, studying with the Salimpour School for the last 8 years where integrating musical and cultural knowledge with technical (physical and performance) ability is the norm.
A Light in the Temple with Claire McDonald
Session Type: Movement
Date/Time: Saturday, 3:00-4:30pm
Description: Candles often symbolise prayer, focus, intention. They are also an age old way to create light in homes, work places, and spaces of devotion.
To dance with candles takes focus, it takes care and it takes respect for the flame. This short choreography incorporates Amethyst Temple Fusion vocabulary with the use of hand held candles, it is focused & beautiful. We will look at the safety and technical considerations of dancing with small flame, but will NOT be using lit candles in this session.
BYO a set of 2 candle holders or small dish. Some will be available to loan.
About Your Facilitator: Dance for fun, dance for fitness, dance for YOU… That’s Clay’s motto! Clay (Claire) is director & principal of Belly Dance Amethyst (Adelaide), founder of Amethyst Temple Fusion & member of Adelaide’s own FireBelly. Clay has celebrated over 20 years in the world of belly dance, performing since 2005 & teaching since 2011. She has danced on stages across Australia, the UK & New Zealand. Her dance repertoire expands across the genres of Middle Eastern Dance & it’s many fusions.
The Australian Belly Dance Concert
Come and join some of Australia’s finest dancers and groups as they entertain you with an amazing stage showcase! Grab some food and drink from the bar and settle in for an amazing evening with some of Australia’s finest dancers.
This is an unallocated table seated event.
A full list of performers will come soon.
Doors open at 6pm, show commences around 7pm
Sunday 13th July
The Energetics of Bellydance : Embodying your dance with Pix
Session Type: Interactive
Date/Time: Sunday, 10:15-11:45am
Description: Magic happens when you EMBODY your dance. Fully present, immersed in feelings and emotion, conveying this as a frequency that pulses through the room; this we can learn. Truly embracing this means you are: present, conveying the true essence of your dance piece with emotion & feeling, holding a container of energy that keeps the whole room hypnotised. We will learn about and practice using certain tools to hold, maintain and convey this powerful energy space. Katie combines her knowledge as a teacher of Pagan Wicca, Meditation, Bellydance and Metaphysics to help you embody this in your dance.
About Your Facilitator: There is something beyond the basics that transmutes your dance into something truly powerful, that is the ENERGY you convey. Join Pix for a fun exploration of Energy in dance. She will teach you tools that will help elevate your performance into a wonderful experience for your audience. We will explore easy but powerful skills that will add a sparkle of magic to your dance, help you feel empowered in your moves and leave your audience tingling and glowing after your performance.
So...Where Do I Start Costuming? with Susan
Session Type: Presentation
Date/Time: Sunday, 10:30-11:30am
Description: Susan’s bellydance costuming adventures began in 1995 in rural NSW, pre-Internet and with few shops. With a lifelong joy of dress ups, stage and historical reenactment costuming and collecting vintage clothing, creativity was always required.
The session will be of particular interest for newer dancers finding their style on a budget. You will collaboratively explore practical ways to build a dance wardrobe, cleaning, care and repair, demystify sewing, share useful hints and tips for costuming and plan a costume with supplied stimulus material. Can’t sew but can glue, this is for you!
Note: There is a limited number of spots available for this workshop. It will be filled on a first requested, first served basis (yes even for VIPs).
About Your Facilitator: For 30 years Susan has danced with groups across the NSW North Coast and New England. She has researched and created historical reenactment and stage costumes. Exploring bellydance costuming styles and history, Susan is particularly interested in recycling and up-cycling textiles to create unique costumes within a budget reflecting the dancer’s personal style.
Breaking Brain Barriers with Jessyka
Session Type: Presentation
Date/Time: Sunday, 10:30-11:30am
Description: This is a summary version of the longer workshops I held online last year, which discuss particular brain barriers which come up for dancers, where they originate, and how we can manage them. This includes concepts such as imposter syndrome, stage fright, managing motivation to practise, perfectionism, over-committing and more. I will discuss what these terms mean, their etiology, and techniques for mitigating or managing them as dancers, students and performers.
About Your Facilitator: Jessyka is a theatrical fusion dancer based in the beautiful Blue Mountains in Sydney. Over the last ten years, she has learnt from some of the best dancers in Australia and overseas, and refined her practise to include teaching bellydance, yoga, and workshops on the psychological aspects of our dance practise. She is also the head creatrix behind Gothla AU, a gothic fusion bellydance festival in Sydney that celebrates the unusual and unique side of dance.
Andalusian Muwashahat with Maggie Liu
Session Type: Movement
Date/Time: Sunday, 12:00-1:30pm
Description: Dive into the artistic world of Andalusian Muwashahat, a palace dance that traced its roots around the 10th century. In the class, you will experience and dance the essence of an Andalusian heritage choreography through the captivating rhythms, lyrics and graceful movements.
About Your Facilitator: Maggie is a professional Oriental dancer and teacher. She was selected to be the facilitator teaching at the 2023 Convention. She has founded Maggie Oriental Dance since 2018 in Melbourne, teaching and performing in local and international bellydance events.
FAN-cy a Jam (Siren Project Fan Dialect) with Mandylynne
Session Type: Movement
Date/Time: Sunday, 12:00-1:30pm
Description: Mandylynne has hand picked some fun beautiful movements from the Siren Project fast vocabulary that will get your blood pumping. We will review improvisation principles as we work toward ending the session with an improvised fan jam. We will be continually moving in this session and this session is open to all dancers who want to have a little fan fun.
Requirement: A hand fan that can open and close. There will be limited fans available for borrowing.
About Your Facilitator: Mandylynne began her Belly Dance journey late 1999 then ventured into FCBD style in 2005. Mandylynne has been a FatChanceBellyDance® Certified Studio since 2009 and became a Siren Society International Representative after completing teacher training in January 2025.
Mandylynne is the director of Birds of Paradise Belly Dance located in Wollongong (NSW) and loves to share her passion and knowledge of dance with others. She is the resident FCBD instructor for Astarte Belly Dance and Fusion and is a member of the Steampunk Vagabonds. You may also recognise her as one of the local hosts for ABDC 2024.
Immersed in the Melody with Joselda
Session Type: Movement
Date/Time: Sunday, 1:45-3:15pm
Description: Immerse yourself in the rhythm of dance. Move with purpose and embrace the vibrations, allowing them to guide you on a journey of movement. This workshop is designed to help you connect deeply with the music, boosting your confidence in both improvisation and choreographing dance that resonates with feeling. You’ll walk away with a renewed sense of assurance in your dancing abilities.
About Your Facilitator: Joselda is a dedicated dancer with over 40 years of experience in styles of dance. Her exploration of Middle Eastern dance began with Xaeda and Sacred Lotus in Coffs Harbour. After she completed the ‘Bellydancing From The Heart Method’ and established the Essence Of Ardour Bellydance School in South West Rocks in 2018. Empowering students to express themselves and celebrate the beauty of Middle Eastern dance within their community.
The Art of the Pose with Kylie Astarte
Session Type: Interactive
Date/Time: Sunday, 1:45-3:15pm
Description: This creative arts session explores the beautiful and poses and shapes we can create through dance, via the medium of drawing. Participants will visually explore the lines of a multitude of different poses through a series of 1-5 minute sketches, capturing the main lines of the dancers body and costuming using a combination of pencil, pen and chalk pastel.
Participants will leave with a collection of sketches of poses that they can integrate into their own dance practice or photo shoots, as well as a greater appreciation of the beautiful lines and shapes a dancers body can create.
About Your Facilitator: “Kylie ‘Astarte’ is the director of Astarte Studio Belly Dance and Fusion in Shellharbour NSW. With over 28 years experience, and traversing oriental, tribal, fusion, and world dance styles, Kylie is known for her innovative and creative approach to movement, choreography and performance.
Kylie is an experienced teacher, certified A-Z Bellydance Teacher and holds a Bachelor of Art Education from UNSW, providing a solid creative base for her workshops and courses.
