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, August 26, 2009

Photo Shoot

Basha Raks recently did a photo shoot with photographer Sue Norman. I have posted the photos as Flikr Photo stream for now. I want to set it up as a slide show but it's not letting me at the moment! I will keep working on it.

We are so very happy with what we have seen so far and Sue got some awesome shots of us. Sue has a way of seeing things that make a lovely photo. The one of Tammy's eyes blows me away everytime I look at it! There are more to come so "watch this space" as they say for more great photos!
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Monday, August 24, 2009

Dancing on the Dunes


















On June 21 we were part of the Dune Dancers at Cobourg Beach. Dancers from the Moksha Belly Dance Studio and friends were down on the beach dancing to celebrate the Summer solstice. Live drummers were also there to provide us with wonderful music to dance to. It was so fun to be dancing outside in the breeze with the sand under our feet.
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Monday, August 3, 2009

Basha Raks and Blades of Glory































As some of you know I am also part of a Medieval combat troupe called Blades of Glory. There I am known as Mistress Jayne of Crime and Punishment. It is my job to keep the children in line as well as teach them the ways of the Master Executioner and all things torture and execution!


Blades of Glory held a charity dinner on August 1 with Medieval fighting and guest belly dancers Basha Raks. The evening was a great one, lots of fun and everything went really well. $685 was raised for charity!


For this event we performed 3 dances with costume changes for each. This was something new for us. It was hilarious as when the dance ended we calmly walked off stage then once we were out of the room we ran like crazy to our change room to change, throwing clothes every which way as we went! It was a mad dash to ensure we were all set for our next dance.


We got a lot of great feed back and comments afterwards. Some people said they were mesmerized by our dancing and actually forgot to cheer us on as they were so engrossed in watching! Others asked us how we did some of the moves and others wanted a mini lesson. I hope we inspired people to get out there and give belly dance a try!













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