WICKED STEPS DANCE STUDIO.

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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!

Thursday, March 4, 2010

End of Class Hafla








































As I have mention Tabia and I have been teaching beginner lessons. We ended our session with a Hafla(dance party). We had our students perform their dance for our guests and Tabia had a lovely buffet of middle eastern treats to try. We also had our teacher, Nisaa Shuvani, from the Moksha Belly Dance studio in Cobourg come and dance with us. Laliba Ahteen also was able to join me and Tabia in performing 2 of our dances for everyone. Jawhara was unable to attend due to work and we missed her dancing with us! It was a great evening and everyone had a good time.
Nisaa Shuvani is an amazing dancer and she impressed everyone with her improvised sword dance. I should also mention those swords are battle ready...meaning they are sharp!


It has been so wonderful to watch our students learn and grow in 5 short weeks. We can already see a new sense of self from them and they were asking when the next session will be! Some of the ladies are adding there own flavour to the dance which is great. Sometimes it takes a while to feel comfortable enough to start adding your own personality to the dance so it really is lovely to see when that starts to emerge. Hopefully it won't be too long before we can offer the class again!
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  1. OakMarch 4, 2010 at 5:19 PM

    It was a great night and a fun 6 weeks. Can't wait until you do it again.

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