January 2008 News
January 11, 2008
Happy New Year 2008!
Wishing you all peace, love, prosperity and lots and lots of good music and dancing!!
I have a lot of really exciting news to start out 2008…this is a new year with lots of exciting new beginnings and new projects!
Very exciting news is that my dance ensemble in Seattle has been asked to perform this coming June at an international festival in Nepal! The dancers are all really excited. We will be showing our work at the Northwest Folklife Festival in Seattle and then in June at two evenings of recitals at the Rainier Valley Cultural Center. Plans are already underway for the next project which starts in September. We are planning on making this a serious performing ensemble…so contact me if you are interested. If there is enough interest then we we will have two groups: the ensemble and a training group for the ensemble.
Actually four new intensive training programs will be starting this year:
January in Worms, Germany
April in Zagreb, Croatia
April in Johnson, Vermont, USA
September in Seattle, Washington, USA
My last tour to Germany, Italy, Croatia and Slovenia was a lot of work but really great.
Rome was fantastic…as was the lovingly restored renaissance palazzo where I taught in Castel-Franco (with a heated dance floor!)…and we had temperatures in the 20’s C. (in December!) and sold-out workshops. We are making plans for me to be back in Italy again this year.
Croatia was lovely as usual and in April we will be starting an intensive training project which will culminate in a dance performance
at the end of 2009.
In Ljubljana my show sold out just two days after going on sale. It was a fun show and we are planning another performance for this coming November.
I had so many requests for the new “Nailiyat Source Book” with many, many historical photos and paintings of the Algerian Ouled Nail dancing girls as well as texts, that it sold out almost immediately. I have printed the next round so if you are interested in a copy, please contact me!
