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ATS Basics Workshop with Maria Palacio

Saturday, November 12, 2011 from 12:00 PM to 3:00 PM (ET)

Charleston, SC
ATS Basics Workshop with Maria Palacio

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Ticket Type Sales End Price Fee Quantity
Early Bird Ended $35.00 $1.86
Regular Ended $45.00 $2.12
Hafla Ended $5.00 $1.11
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Event Details

ATS Basics Workshop taught by Maria Palacio
Saturday, November 12, from Noon to 3.

Hafla that same evening featuring Maria, doors open at 7.

Would you like to perform in the hafla?

Registered workshop participants are invited to perform in our show. As there are limited performance slots, please contact Sarah at simplybecomingdesigns@gmail.com to request your spot.

Vendors for workshop and hafla TBA.

This workshop will go over the basic moves of ATS (American Tribal Style) Bellydance. Basic moves from the slow and fast vocabulary will be taught as well as finger cymbals, posture, formations, leading and following. Last 15 minutes will be spent dancing!!  This workshop is great for everyone, from beginners to advance students. Bring skirts and finger cymbals.

Posture
Puja - Moving Meditation
Taxeem
Hand Floreo
Arm Undulations
Torso Twist
Circle Step
Bodywave
Arabic Step
Egyptian Step
Pivot Bump/Choo Choo w/arm 1 and arm 2
Shimmy Step

Formations
Leading / Following
Chorus


Maria Palacio:

Maria Palacio starting dancing at a young age with ballet and jazz.  Over time her passion for dance grew into other styles like flamenco, traditional latin dances and more, performing at local latin festivals in South Carolina.   One day she saw a flyer offering bellydance classes at a local gym.  She started taking classes and was soon hooked.  She studied traditional oriental dance ”raq sharqi”, American Tribal Style (ATS) and tribal fusion.   She became a member of Delirium Tribal, a tribal bellydance troupe in Columbia, SC.  A few years afterwards, Maria pursued here solo career.  She is most known for combining her spanish heritage and flamenco flare into her bellydance style.  In 2010, Maria studied with Master Teacher Carolena Nericcio and received her FCBD Teacher Training.  Shortly afterwards she became Columbia’s only Sister Studio and Certified FCBD ATS Instructor.  

What is American Tribal Style (ATS) Belly Dance?

Carolena Nericcio created FatChanceBellyDance in 1987. American Tribal Style (ATS)  belly dance is an American-created, modern adaptation on the folkloric dances of North Africa, Spain and the Middle East.  It is unique in that it consists of a system of 70 plus dance movements and combinations that the group of dancers are able to cue to one another to create a new and unique performance that is solely improvised.  Cues and formations are the brilliance of ATS.  Often unnoticed because of the elaborate costumes, fancy steps, exciting music, and shear beauty of women dancing together, formations and cues are the anchor of improvisational choreography.  

What’s a Sister Studio?

From FCBD.com: "Sister Studios are graduates of General Skills for ATS, ATS Teacher Training and exclusive FCBD Teacher Training. These teachers are dedicated to presenting ATS as created and developed by FatChanceBellyDance director and master teacher Carolena Nericcio. Sister Studios do not blend ATS with other styles of dance, tribal or otherwise. They present ATS only, or clearly separate ATS from the other styles of dance they are presenting. Our goal is that you, the student, should be able to attend a FCBD ATS class anywhere in the world and receive consistent, quality instruction.”