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Level I Beginners Belly Dance with Melina Thursdays 6:45-7:45 p.m.

Weekly Event - Every Thursday

Waltham, United States

Level I Beginners Belly Dance with Melina Thursdays...

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10-class punch card 3 hours before event $150.00 $3.75
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Event Details

VISIT MELINA'S CLASS CALENDAR PAGE AT MOODY STREET CIRCUS FOR THE LATEST UPDATED INFORMATION, OR CALL HER at 781 209 0950.

CLASSES RESUME SEPTEMBER 8TH 2011 but you can JOIN ANYTIME! 

** YOU DO NOT NEED TO SELECT DATE TO ATTEND THIS CLASS, JUST COME WHEN YOU CAN!!

** YOU DO NOT NEED TO ATTEND EVERY CLASS, YOU CAN COME AND TRY A CLASS ANY TIME!

** YOU DO NOT NEED TO PAY HERE, YOU CAN PAY (BY CASH OR CHECK ONLY!!!) AT THE DOOR BEFORE CLASS.  The studio cannot accept credit cards in person, only online here.

 

For those of you who have always wanted to try belly dancing, here's your class!! Bring your friends, your neighbors, your aunts, your sisters, your daughters -- your fabulous librarians! -- and shimmy your way through winter. 

Unleash your primal energies and unlock your body from its daily postures through the ancient art of belly dance with Melina. Designed for students with little-to-no belly dance experience who would like to learn the basic movements of belly dance and enjoy themselves while getting a great work out.  Bring a water bottle to class and wear comfortable clothes you easily move and sweat in.  Class is conducted barefoot or wear socks or soft ballet slippers.  No sneakers or dance shoes, please.  
In the course of the Level I session you will learn sinuous and staccato hip movements, spine-awakening body isolations and undulations, wild shimmies and snake arms from a friendly, down-to-earth & articulate teacher with a lifetime of experience. Dance to the beautiful rhythms of the Middle East, Turkey, North Africa and modern fusion belly dance tunes as well. Melina will carefully break down moves and explain which foot to step on, where to put your weight, how to protect your back and remind you to keep breathing as you explore this intricate and fun art form. 
 You can also choose to purchase a 10-class punch card in class, good for any of Melina's large group belly dance classes.  Or, drop in to a single class for $20, payable at the door. More info at 781 209 0950. 
Visit Melina's family website - www.daughtersofrhea.com, and her blog -- www.tipsfromthehip.blogspot.com -- for more information.
LIVE LONG & SHIMMY!

Where



Moody Street Circus/Daughters of Rhea Dance Studios
397 Moody Street, 2nd Floor
Waltham, 02453

Hosted By

Melina of Daughters of Rhea / Moody Street Circus



Moody Street Circus is the professional family-run Waltham, MA-based headquarters of Sacha and Melinda Pavlata's Cirque Passion School of Circus Arts and Melina's Daughters of Rhea Belly Dance Company. We also offer tented entertainment circus events with our worldclass traveling circus family: cloud swing, high wire, unicycle, trapeze, aerial hoop, clowning and more.

At Moody Street Circus we teach the joy of life through circus arts and belly dance to children, teens and adults of all ages. Heart, humor and inclusive community spirit are at the core of our teaching.  We strive to bring out students' full potential, then challenge individuals to work on skills that will elevate their expression up to performance-grade levels.  

Moody Street Circus is the place for classes in belly dance, circus arts, and aerial arts; for birthday parties, summer and after-school programs and more for kids and adults.  No matter where you are in your life's journey, there is always room for learning new skills and having fun. Moody Street Circus is here for you when you are ready to learn to undulate, ululate or hang upsidedown from a static trapeze.

MSC Directors and teachers Sacha and Melinda (AKA Melina of Daughters of Rhea) share extraordinary family legacies in circus and dance.

Alexandre Sacha Pavlata is a fifth-generation Czech circus artist, master aerialist and world-renown circus arts teacher.  He grew up with his traveling circus family in a wooden circus wagon which crisscrossed Europe and North Africa presenting their famous unicycle and trampoline act under big tops all over the globe. From horses to high wire and everything in between, Sacha has since performed nearly every kind of circus act you could imagine, including touring with the legendary Flying Wallendas as an integral part of their breath-taking seven-person pyramid on the high wire.

Sacha's circus heritage goes back 5 generations on both sides.  His mother, Hungarian-born Anna Dubsky, came from a long line of Risley Act performers (the acrobatic foot juggling of people), and his father, Czech-born Karl Pavlata, descended from a family of aerialists known for their great physical strength and versatility in the air. More on Sacha extraordinary life and legacy in the circus at www.cirquepassion.com.

Melinda "Melina" Pavlata, Ph.D. (AKA Melina of Daughters of Rhea) is a 2nd generation circus and belly dance artist. Her mother is belly dance pioneer Rhea of Greece, her father is folk musician singer/songwriter Phil Marsh, and her step-mother is Shakespearean actress/juggler/circus artist Cecil MacKinnon.  She grew up fully immersed in her parents' international performing lives, performing with them in the Pickle Family Circus and dancing with her mother and sister Piper (Belly Dancer of the Year 2000) on taverna stages in the ancient city of Athens, Greece.

As an adult Melinda 'Melina' has toured around the world as an aerialist, circus artist and belly dancer with Circus Flora, The Wallenda Family Circus, Cirque Rocks, Amazing Grace Circus and currently with her own circus Cirque Passion. 

Melina is currently on the faculty of Kripalu where she teaches an annual summertime retreat "Wild Hips, Gypsy Heart: Belly Dance as self-empowerment." 

For more on Melina's belly dance family please visit www.daughtersofrhea.com

For more the Pavlata's circus life please visit www.cirquepassion.com.