Dance From The Heart Workshop: Elemental Improvisation and Theatricality

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Dance From The Heart

DFTH continues the Second Sunday workshops with Austin's own Z-Helene. This three hour workshop, from 1 to 4 p.m., is broken down into three sections.

Start with belly and modern dance warm-up combinations. With standard belly dance vocabulary, Z-Helene will explore modern concepts that can be incorporated into dance. The workshop continues with improvisation through the five elements  — earth, air, water, fire, spirit— which uses veils as an option. The workshop ends with theatrical improvisation using the elements as a central theme.

Middle Eastern dance performance artist Z-Helene believes that art should transform. She draws upon her expansive movement vocabulary and unbridled creativity to forge transcendent experiences for her audiences. Besides being renowned for zills, Z-Helene has a reputation for being fearlessly explorative and out-of-the-box. Her love of belly dance performance art has included reciting poetry, singing, chanting and extemporaneous prose.

Holding a BA in Theater Arts from Franklin & Marshall College, Z-Helene is a professor in the Kinesiology Department at Austin Community College, where she teaches courses in Middle Eastern dance, yoga, aerobics and stretch/flex/conditioning.

WHEN

WHERE

Dance from the Heart
3221 Houston Ave.
Houston, TX 77009
https://www.dfth.org/workshops.htm

TICKET INFO

$50
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