WICKED STEPS DANCE STUDIO.

Basha Raks is proud to present the Wicked Steps Dance Studio!

Please check out our website at http://www.wickedsteps.webs.com/

Upcoming Performances and Events

Basha Raks participates in Girls Night Out being held on Friday, April 8 from 7-9pm at Tranquil Garden Retreat, Oshawa


Belly Dance for Every Body

Belly dance is one of the oldest dance forms dating back to the 11th century. It is, primarily, a celebratory dance performed for women by women. It has evolved over the years to include such variety and style to suit every dancer.From the earthy "Tribal" dance to the classical "Egyptian" and even 'Gothic" and "Fusion" there is genre for everyone.

Belly dance allows women to express themselves through movement and to reclaim their identities and a sense of inner power. It teaches women to love the body they are in and encourages and promotes self-esteem within a supportive, social enviroment.

Sadly during world wars women in the oringinating middle eastern countries, working to feed thier families, brought the dance out of their women only enviroments and before foreign men. Eventually the movie industry used the dance but altered the costumes and sexualized belly dance. This existing sexual taboo of a folk dance still prevails today in the general public despite nearly a century's passing. Once experienced however, myths disolve and the true healing, empowering, joyous and communicative nature of the dance prevails.

Basha Raks hold the utmost respect for the dance, each other and the audiences we perform for. We never promte belly dance as a dance of enticement but a dance of celebration and joy!

Wednesday, April 8, 2009

To the Dark Side

Last Saturday evening my Sisters of the Dance and I went to a FABULOUS belly dance performance. The show was presented by The Dark Side Studio in Toronto.

The Dark Side specializes in Tribal style dance. Well actually it takes inspiration from many different styles of belly dance to come up with a unique dance style all its own. Tribal dance is slower paced with deeper moves but make no mistake, this does not make it any less fascinating, intriguing and enjoyable to watch! Being able to see moves such as hip drops and lifts, flutters and incredible arm moves done this way we could really see it and know that it is muscles rather than momentum driving each move.

The dancers who performed were amazing! As a relatively new dancer I though to myself that I was a useless in comparison! I found out my Sisters felt the same way!! However we were not disheartened. Instead we are more determined than ever to strive to be the best we can be. After speaking to one of the performers, Mira Betz, she told us she hoped she inspired us to continue to dance and work hard to do our best.

We now want to dive into Tribal style dance and see what we can do with it. Belly dancing ,it seems, is always opening up new ideas for Basha Raks!
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