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, May 5, 2010

New Choreography

We are working on a new choreography for the BFO fundraiser on June 5. We are using a modern song called Sexy Chick and belly dancing to it. It is coming along nicely and we are hoping the crowd likes it.

One thing about new choreography is that we all seem to be hard on ourselves individually while learning. It can be quite hilarious at times! One thing we do while learning is video ourselves dancing then play it back and watch the carnage! It isn't really carnage but like I said we are hard on ourselves. After we've watched ourselves we play it back again so we can watch each other and then we try to watch the troupe as a whole dancing. We find that we are not so bad really and we do need to keep in mind it is still practice. As frustrating as it may be we just cannot be perfect the very first time! And really, who wants to be perfect anyway??

I would love to put one of our practice videos on here but the others wont let me!
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