Alicia of BellyCraft in Atlanta

We are thrilled to have the innovative and stylistically unique, Alicia, whose BellyCraft troupe has quickly become the face of South Florida's vibrant and ever-developing dance community.

BEST OF ALL
For those who trained with Alicia in 2009, these are entirely new classes and a whole new experience!

All workshops and *Saturday's show with headliner, Alicia, at
Pera Dance:
Saturday, January 14 & Sunday, January 15, 2012
1015-B Collier Road NW
Atlanta, GA  30318
(404) 355-0807
*Interested in performing in the Saturday night show? Contact jenny@worldbellydancealliance.com

For the show Saturday evening, January 14, doors open 7:30pm and the show starts promptly at 8:00pm.

Sunday's 1pm, semi-private "Eye of the Storm" is now SOLD OUT. Space in all other workshops is still available - don't delay treat yourself to a post-holiday gift now!

You won't want to miss this incredible opportunity to learn from this original, eclectic, and truly inspirational dance pioneer.

Workshop Descriptions:

Saturday, 1/14 10:00 am – noon
“BellyCraft Bellydance” – Signature Style, Technique and Combinations
Branching outwardly from sound universal belly dance fundamentals and into the realm of personal style, individuality, and creativity, “BellyCraft Bellydance” provides participants with the roots and unique influences that make for the innovative performances and choreographies BellyCraft is recognized for. Alicia takes participants from the core structures and transitions as they are commonly taught and then transforms them via her own influences into the distinct moves that are her craft.

Saturday, 1/14 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm
“Shake, Rattle and Roll” - Bellydance Hipwork, Shimmies & Bellyrolls  
Power, control and strength from the source. All things as powered from your legs and hips, stabilized through your center and core and brought up and out through your limbs as only properly executed shimmies can do. From a slight pulse that floats you across a stage on through hip tremors sure to quake the ground beneath you, Alicia teaches the fundamental elements involved in bellyrolls and building and layering shimmies to fit your every need and speed. Strengthening via specific isolations and drills and then taking that work into layering and movement, participants will surely appreciate the source of power and beauty that hip work, shimmies and undulations can be as well as the grace and strength that they can express.

Sunday, 1/15 10:00 am – noon
“Strengthening, Conditioning, & Drills” – For Tribal Fusion Bellydance
Fitness, function, and longevity in bellydance are each assured through a healthy, strong, and supple body and this all begins with building and developing such attributes in an intelligent, structured, and measurable way. Working right from the core outwardly to each and every part of the body to build awareness and wholeness of movement and then right back to the core to tie it all together, Alicia takes participants in journey into depth of movement which is as challenging as it is rewarding. In a fusion of movements specifically designed from a hybrid of athletic training methods from martial arts, yoga and dance, participants learn the exercises and physical culture required for transitioning gracefully numerous innovative dance styles that are currently being weaved into and highlighted in modern bellydance. Participants will be working in integrated, dynamic and complex movements by the workshops end that take them from standing to ground work and back up and will assure a new level of performance ability if taken on as a daily practice, as part of "belly-craft".

NOTE: For those registered for the Strengthening, Conditioning & Drills class, you will need to bring a Yoga mat, water and a hand towel.
Attire: Comfortable dance/yoga pants (no skirts), form fitting top, hip scarf, skirt or belt (without coins)

Semi-Private Session - SOLD OUT
Sunday, 1/15 1:00 pm -3:00 pm
“Eye of the Storm” - Slow & Deliberate
Centered at the axis or hub of a wheel that moves through sound, the dancer’s passion must not drive or pull them off center for fear of losing the precision of their focused intent and function, to represent the song.  Moving slow and deliberately and most anything requires that much more concentration and anchoring of the psyche. After all, when it comes to everything each dancer puts together for one performance, slow and deliberate is probably best defined as the proper channeling of all sorts of scattered energies into one choreographed or improvised surrender to a song. We have all had the feeling of having to keep it all together and the anxiety or fear of going too fast, too slow, or missing a turn all together.  This workshop addresses these concerns and readily transforms them by teaching concepts that one can use in practice and on stage to assure presence and proper timing in slow movements.

About Alicia
from www.bellycraft.com

Alicia is a second generation belly dancer who got her first taste of traditional Belly Dancing at age five through her mother who performed in South Florida as Aleta between the seventies and early eighties. An innovative and stylistically unique artist from the start, Alicia naturally went on to integrate this foundation with the eclectic, artistic and experimental expressions so common to the gothic, industrial and punk clubs she inhabited weekly as a young adult.

An avid student of her creative passions, Alicia has actively pursued her love for dance and studied with some of the top belly dance instructors and tribal fusion originators. She continues to travel and explore the experience of dance in between teaching and performing. 

Alicia currently teaches her unique blend of Tribal Fusion Bellydance at Bozenka's Bellydance Academy (formerly the Mideastern Dance Exchange in Miami's south beach) in North Miami and at Lotus Dance Studio in Pembroke Pines. She is the founding member, director and main choregrapher of the very original and South Florida's very own, BellyCraft. 

When not studying, teaching, or performing, Alicia is also a pro-active, positive, and consistent voice in South Florida's ever growing and developing belly dance community. She has experienced dance as an ever present, rewarding and nurturing thread in her life. Being able to give back to bellydance by sharing it has become central to her vision of a community united through the love of music, creativity and movement.