Current Schedule
:: Winter 2012 Classes ::
~ FOR UPDATES AND CLASS CANCELLATIONS CHECK MARTA'S BLOG ~
MONDAYS, 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Class: Dance For Teens: Speak Your Soul
Donation/Cost: $20-50 for 7 weeks.
Bilingual classes, spanish/english.
Students under 18 will need parental permission to enroll.
*If you are committed to taking these classes, cost will not be an issue*
To Enroll: Email marta@moveyourbelly.com. Limit 7 students, ages 14-18.
Location: Move Your Belly Studio
Columbia Heights metro, green line. Address provided upon enrollment.
About the Class: Come, spend Monday afternoons studying belly dance, flamenco, latin dances and modern dance. Develop strength and flexibility throughout your body, understand how to safely hold yourself and control your muscles as a dancer while learning how to express yourself through movement. While using beautiful arm and hand lines, body isolations, traveling movements and turns, learn to listen and interpret a song and its many layers… tell a story if you want. We will use props such as veils and skirts!
What to Bring, What to Wear & How to Prepare: For answers to these and other questions, read Preparing for Class
Class: Dance For Teens: Speak Your Soul
Donation/Cost: $20-50 for 7 weeks.
Bilingual classes, spanish/english.
Students under 18 will need parental permission to enroll.
*If you are committed to taking these classes, cost will not be an issue*
To Enroll: Email marta@moveyourbelly.com. Limit 7 students, ages 14-18.
Location: Move Your Belly Studio
Columbia Heights metro, green line. Address provided upon enrollment.
About the Class: Come, spend Monday afternoons studying belly dance, flamenco, latin dances and modern dance. Develop strength and flexibility throughout your body, understand how to safely hold yourself and control your muscles as a dancer while learning how to express yourself through movement. While using beautiful arm and hand lines, body isolations, traveling movements and turns, learn to listen and interpret a song and its many layers… tell a story if you want. We will use props such as veils and skirts!
What to Bring, What to Wear & How to Prepare: For answers to these and other questions, read Preparing for Class
MONDAYS, 6:45 PM - 8:00 PM
Class: Oriental & Tribal Belly Dance Technique & Combinations
Bilingual community classes (Drop-in; beginner+ levels)
Suggested Donation: $10-15 (donation-based, all proceeds support BloomBars)
Location: BloomBars
3222 11th St NW (Columbia Heights, green line metro station)
About the Class: We continue to explore the mechanics of dance posture, soft and hard isolations, how movements initiate, flow and culminate within Oriental and tribal styles, timing and sinking into the movement, listening and improvisation, executing deep, internal undulations with careful attention to weight shifts, beautiful arms and hands, shimmy drills, and combinations.
What to Bring, What to Wear & How to Prepare: For answers to these and other questions, read Preparing for Class
*please bring soft-soled dance shoes or leg warmers as the floor gets cold in the winter at BloomBars*
Class: Oriental & Tribal Belly Dance Technique & Combinations
Bilingual community classes (Drop-in; beginner+ levels)
Suggested Donation: $10-15 (donation-based, all proceeds support BloomBars)
Location: BloomBars
3222 11th St NW (Columbia Heights, green line metro station)
About the Class: We continue to explore the mechanics of dance posture, soft and hard isolations, how movements initiate, flow and culminate within Oriental and tribal styles, timing and sinking into the movement, listening and improvisation, executing deep, internal undulations with careful attention to weight shifts, beautiful arms and hands, shimmy drills, and combinations.
What to Bring, What to Wear & How to Prepare: For answers to these and other questions, read Preparing for Class
*please bring soft-soled dance shoes or leg warmers as the floor gets cold in the winter at BloomBars*
 
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WEDNESDAYS, 7:30 PM - 9:00 PM
Class: Avant-Garde Tribal Fusion Belly Dance
Low intermediate+ level. Email Marta to enroll.
Cost: $25/class
Location: Move Your Belly Studio
Columbia Heights metro, green line. Address provided upon enrollment.
About the Class: Rooted in the pops and locks of belly dance as well as its most lyrical expressions, Marta's avant-garde tribal fusion style is contemporary, organic, and innovative, continually merging western and non-western influences. It breaks boundaries, it tells a story.
Beginning with a formal tribal belly dance foundation, the goal is to find meaning, emotion and essence within the music and to speak it through the body. Students will study varying fusion techniques and dance genres (including flamenco, tango, Latin dances, and modern dance), while mastering loose choreographies and improvisation. Students will also explore historical context, cultural sensitivity, and the continued development of tribal fusion belly dance through videos, handouts and articles. Bring finger cymbals, veil and a 'mermaid' skirt.
What to Bring, What to Wear & How to Prepare: For answers to these and other questions, read Preparing for Class
Class: Avant-Garde Tribal Fusion Belly Dance
Low intermediate+ level. Email Marta to enroll.
Cost: $25/class
Location: Move Your Belly Studio
Columbia Heights metro, green line. Address provided upon enrollment.
About the Class: Rooted in the pops and locks of belly dance as well as its most lyrical expressions, Marta's avant-garde tribal fusion style is contemporary, organic, and innovative, continually merging western and non-western influences. It breaks boundaries, it tells a story.
Beginning with a formal tribal belly dance foundation, the goal is to find meaning, emotion and essence within the music and to speak it through the body. Students will study varying fusion techniques and dance genres (including flamenco, tango, Latin dances, and modern dance), while mastering loose choreographies and improvisation. Students will also explore historical context, cultural sensitivity, and the continued development of tribal fusion belly dance through videos, handouts and articles. Bring finger cymbals, veil and a 'mermaid' skirt.
What to Bring, What to Wear & How to Prepare: For answers to these and other questions, read Preparing for Class
FRIDAYS, 7:30 PM - 8:45 PM
Class: Arms, Bodywork, Turns & Cymbals for Oriental Style
Adv Beg/Low Intermediate+ level. Email Marta to enroll.
Cost: $20/class
Location: Move Your Belly Studio
Columbia Heights metro, green line. Address provided upon enrollment.
About the Class: Developed by popular demand. Class description coming soon! Bring finger cymbals, veil and a 'mermaid' skirt.
What to Bring, What to Wear & How to Prepare: For answers to these and other questions, read Preparing for Class
SUNDAYS, 9:45 AM - 11:00 AM
Class: Vintage & Modern Tribal Belly Dance
Adv beginner+ level. Email Marta to enroll.
Cost: $20/class
Location: Move Your Belly Studio
Columbia Heights metro, green line. Address provided upon enrollment.
About the Class: Tribal belly dance is highly regarded for its precision and fluidity, captivating but subtle expressiveness, folkloric flavor, beautiful lines, and empowered femininity. Emphasizing the development of a strong overall tribal belly dance discipline, the class will focus on various styles and influences with a special emphasis on the Jamila Salimpour/Bal Anat format (the original foundation of tribal style/vintage tribal), Fat Chance's American Tribal Style® (ATS®), modern fusions, and flamenco stylization—one of tribal's principal inspirations.
Using the Jamila Salimpour/Bal Anat, Fat Chance and Suhaila Salimpour formats for technique, the class will focus on building core strength, balance, isolations, musical interpretation, finger cymbal proficiency, improvisation and choreography skills. Alongside the breakdown and drilling of movements, we will create a comfortable and challenging space to move with intuition, expression, trust, and empowerment—integral building blocks of this belly dance style. Students will also explore historical context, cultural sensitivity, and the evolution of tribal belly dance through videos, handouts and articles. Bring your finger cymbals and veil.
What to Bring, What to Wear & How to Prepare: For answers to these and other questions, read Preparing for Class
Class: Vintage & Modern Tribal Belly Dance
Adv beginner+ level. Email Marta to enroll.
Cost: $20/class
Location: Move Your Belly Studio
Columbia Heights metro, green line. Address provided upon enrollment.
About the Class: Tribal belly dance is highly regarded for its precision and fluidity, captivating but subtle expressiveness, folkloric flavor, beautiful lines, and empowered femininity. Emphasizing the development of a strong overall tribal belly dance discipline, the class will focus on various styles and influences with a special emphasis on the Jamila Salimpour/Bal Anat format (the original foundation of tribal style/vintage tribal), Fat Chance's American Tribal Style® (ATS®), modern fusions, and flamenco stylization—one of tribal's principal inspirations.
Using the Jamila Salimpour/Bal Anat, Fat Chance and Suhaila Salimpour formats for technique, the class will focus on building core strength, balance, isolations, musical interpretation, finger cymbal proficiency, improvisation and choreography skills. Alongside the breakdown and drilling of movements, we will create a comfortable and challenging space to move with intuition, expression, trust, and empowerment—integral building blocks of this belly dance style. Students will also explore historical context, cultural sensitivity, and the evolution of tribal belly dance through videos, handouts and articles. Bring your finger cymbals and veil.
What to Bring, What to Wear & How to Prepare: For answers to these and other questions, read Preparing for Class
SUNDAYS, 11:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Class: Finger Cymbal Technique & Drills
Adv. beginner+ level. Email Marta to enroll.
Cost: $8/class
Location: Move Your Belly Studio
Columbia Heights metro, green line. Address provided upon enrollment.
About the Class: Finger cymbals are not a prop but a musical instrument used to enhance the dance and help accent the music. With the development of fusions and modern styles, the use of finger cymbals—in both tribal and Oriental styles—has sadly taken a back seat in a dancer's skill set and repertoire. It is up to us to ensure that this art is not lost. This mini-class will cover technique essentials, introduce rhythms, present simple/advanced drills as well as combinations, helping to build dancers' strength and musicality. You must bring your own finger cymbals to class.
What to Bring, What to Wear & How to Prepare: For answers to these and other questions, read Preparing for Class
Class: Finger Cymbal Technique & Drills
Adv. beginner+ level. Email Marta to enroll.
Cost: $8/class
Location: Move Your Belly Studio
Columbia Heights metro, green line. Address provided upon enrollment.
About the Class: Finger cymbals are not a prop but a musical instrument used to enhance the dance and help accent the music. With the development of fusions and modern styles, the use of finger cymbals—in both tribal and Oriental styles—has sadly taken a back seat in a dancer's skill set and repertoire. It is up to us to ensure that this art is not lost. This mini-class will cover technique essentials, introduce rhythms, present simple/advanced drills as well as combinations, helping to build dancers' strength and musicality. You must bring your own finger cymbals to class.
What to Bring, What to Wear & How to Prepare: For answers to these and other questions, read Preparing for Class
SUNDAYS, 11:45 AM - 1:15 PM
Class: Flamenco Technique for Tribal Belly Dance(TM)*
Low intermediate+ level. Email Marta to enroll.
Cost: $25/class
Location: Move Your Belly Studio
Columbia Heights metro, green line. Address provided upon enrollment.
About the Class: As a direct inspiration and root of ATS® and tribal fusion belly dance, flamenco technique and stylization are critical elements for dancers seeking to move beyond beginner levels in their studies. Correct posture, frames, and lines will be broken down and drilled. Students will study in-depth: floreos (wrist circles) and hand/finger use, braceo (arm carriage and stylization), demanding turns, and combinations in conjunction with Fat Chance's ATS® slow movement vocabulary and other tribal stylizations such as Jill Parker's format (widely regarded as the originator of tribal fusion style). Requirements include knowledge of FCBD® ATS® vocabulary and a strong technical foundation.
*This is a trademarked class, fully developed by Marta and inspired by her years of extensive training in flamenco.*
What to Bring, What to Wear & How to Prepare: For answers to these and other questions, read Preparing for Class
Class: Flamenco Technique for Tribal Belly Dance(TM)*
Low intermediate+ level. Email Marta to enroll.
Cost: $25/class
Location: Move Your Belly Studio
Columbia Heights metro, green line. Address provided upon enrollment.
About the Class: As a direct inspiration and root of ATS® and tribal fusion belly dance, flamenco technique and stylization are critical elements for dancers seeking to move beyond beginner levels in their studies. Correct posture, frames, and lines will be broken down and drilled. Students will study in-depth: floreos (wrist circles) and hand/finger use, braceo (arm carriage and stylization), demanding turns, and combinations in conjunction with Fat Chance's ATS® slow movement vocabulary and other tribal stylizations such as Jill Parker's format (widely regarded as the originator of tribal fusion style). Requirements include knowledge of FCBD® ATS® vocabulary and a strong technical foundation.
*This is a trademarked class, fully developed by Marta and inspired by her years of extensive training in flamenco.*
What to Bring, What to Wear & How to Prepare: For answers to these and other questions, read Preparing for Class
Marta is committed to the accessibility of quality instruction. She will reconsider her rates only
for students whose income levels limit their studies.
Questions? Email marta@moveyourbelly.com or call 202-505-4250
for students whose income levels limit their studies.
Questions? Email marta@moveyourbelly.com or call 202-505-4250
Class descriptions and/or curricula have been copyrighted and/or trademarked by Marta/Move Your Belly LLC.
© Copyright 2012 Move Your Belly LLC. All rights reserved.
© Copyright 2012 Move Your Belly LLC. All rights reserved.
