Corvallis Belly Dance Performance Guild

Styles: Classic and Modern American/Egyptian
Turkish, ATS, N. African, and S. Pacific Island Styles
Teaching approach: High-energy combination of drills, choreography and improvisational technique built upon the core fundamentals of Middle Eastern dance. The primary focus of my teaching is on creating expressive fluidity. We seek to honor and understand the common threads between the strong characteristics that define many of the ancient and ever-evolving cultural dance forms within pertinent cultural context while developing our own individual and artistic interpretations.

In Corvallis:
level 1 & 2
starting date: 09/22 Tuesdays from 7pm to 8:20pm
$39 for 8 weeks at the Benton Center, room B01

In Albany:
level 1 & 2
starting date: 09/21 Mondays from 5:30pm to 6:50pm
$39 for 8 weeks at the Communicating vessels

You can register for one or both at www.linnbenton.edu or in person on the first day of class.
I recommend pre-registering as classes do fill up.
Drop in is $5 before class.

Instructor: Siobhan VanLanen

All my classes are taught in an atmosphere that encourages self-esteem, confidence and compassion leaving you feeling revitalized and relaxed. Dance time is time to nurture your body, mind, spirit!

Styles taught:

Keti Sharif’s A-Z Original routines, Astrobelly, Pulse8 Fitness: Body Temple, Club Bellydance, PowerLatin, and Tribal Fusion.

Siobhan aspires to integrate a healing quality into her performances and teaching. Her dance style embodies a combination of flexibility, athleticism, and grace while balancing technique/choreography with improvisation/free-form. ketisharif.com/profile-Siobhan.html

Class Structure/Content

Warm-up yoga postures, relaxation techniques Routines/Choreography/Improvisation
Explore props: canes, veils, zills, rhythms

Contact:

Class details:

8 week sessions year round.

Galactivate Studio located inside Stoker’s VitaWorld
215 SW Third St
Corvallis, OR 97330

$65 for one 8 week session
Drop-ins: $12 per class

Register at Stoker’s VitaWorld
or request a registration form from siobhandance@comcast.net

Mondays

This class gives you the foundation to understanding the core movement vocabulary of bellydance. We enjoy lively, simple combinations that encourage creative side of you.

Wednesdays

Instructor: Tina Taylor

(“Levanáh”)

I began bellydancing in 1971 at the age of 15, studying in California with the famous Arabian author and dancer Zarifa Aradoon. Teaching and performing since the age of 19, I worked my way through my university nursing program in Montana, and continued on wherever I’ve lived in the US and abroad. I also am a yoga and meditation instructor, and have studied, taught and performed in many other dance styles and movement disciplines.

My style incorporates all of my history, and yet in bellydancing I connect my focus on grace and fluidity to my Arabian training. I greatly enjoy helping dancers find the freedom, fun and healthy whole-self integration that bellydancing can bring. I keep the atmosphere light and yet meaningful, accessible and yet challenging. I believe that everyone is a beautiful dancer, and that practicing that awareness is what makes it come true for you.

Classes begin with warm-ups, and include veil, zills (finger cymbals) and repertoire (steps). Improvisation is the goal, and short, 1-class routines are utilized to help learn transitions. All ages, sizes, levels of fitness/unfitness are welcome; modifications are always possible for physical issues. Please come!

Group Lessons:

In Corvallis at Timberhill Athletic Club (TAC), 2855 NW 29th Street, just north of Walnut Blvd. Big, Beautiful, well-mirrored studios, dressing rooms with showers, easy parking, and daycare!

Spring 2008: March 31 – May 21 (8-week courses)

Mondays 7:30 - 8:30 pm

Wednesdays 12 noon - 1:00 pm

**BIG EXCITING NEW THING!!**

This June we will have my first-in-Oregon

STUDENT RECITAL PARTY!!

In early June, in a Corvallis venue TBA; food and wine, incense and mirth, friends and family, a chance to justify all those fancy duds you’ve had so much fun buying! For details, call/email Tina ~

Cost: $80 per course for TAC members, $95 for nonmembers, $12 drop-in

*SHS Employee Wellness Benefit will pay 100% for qualifying SHS
employees!!***

**Flex-schedule: Missed classes may be made up at other class times

*** MOMS: BIG BONUS!! *** TAC has a fantastic daycare center on-site, and my students may utilize their services for an extremely reasonable fee. (Only open until 8pm on Mondays) Call the club for details at 757-8559.

Private Lessons: by appointment

Beginners to advanced. Personalized help with co-ordination, confidence, repertoire, transitions, staging, performance, improvisation, choreography, audience relations, auditioning, artistry and professionalism. Special interest in the psychology of performance and dance (I am a psychotherapist!), and its deep effects on the experiences of both performer and audience.

Cost: $35 per half-hour lesson

Tina Taylor, RN, MS, RYT
Heart & Soul Wellness
Stress Solutions
2255 NW 25th Street
Corvallis, OR 97330

753-2255

tina@heartandsoulwellness.net