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Tuesday evenings 7 p.m. and/or Saturdays 12:30 p.m. Drills 'n Skills Belly Dance Class with Melina

Weekly Event - Every Saturday

Waltham, United States

Tuesday evenings 7 p.m. and/or Saturdays 12:30 p.m. Drills...

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10-class card for any of Melina's regularly scheduled group belly dance classes before event $150.00 $4.74
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Melina's Drill 'n Skills Belly Dance Technique Class class meets on Tuesdays from 7 - 8 p.m. and Saturdays from 12:30 - 1:30. PLEASE DOUBLE CHECK THE MOODY STREET CIRCUS GOOGLE CALENDAR BEFORE YOU COME TO CLASS IN THE EVENT OF EMERGENCY CANCELLATIONS DUE TO WEATHER OR STUDIO CLOSINGS.

Drop in for $20 per class, or purchase the 10-class card here, good for any of Melina's Daughters of Rhea group belly dance classes at the Moody Street Circus location.

If you purchase a card here, it will be ready for you when you show up to your first class.

You do not need to pre-register for class, you can just show up.

Credit cards are not accepted at the studio, only online here.  Checks and cash are accepted in the studio.

Waiver forms must be signed by participants prior to participating in class.

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DRILLS 'N SKILLS, Melina's Belly Dance Boot Camp class

Hone your belly dance technique with Melina's killer drills 'n skills class.

In the drills 'n skills class we work on specific belly dance movements, grace and transitions so that when you do choreographies you are doing them with your best possible technique.  Everyone learns at a different pace, its all about the journey and enjoying the dance.

We use Melina's Magic Wands to hone our isolation skills, work on posture and body alignment, and stretch our side bodies for ultimate snakiness.

We strengthen our thighs and work feet and ankles to ensure graceful slow work and luscious mayas that are in our control.

We work on muscle control exercises for maximum clutch and release mastery.

We shimmy with layering to release toxins and promote exhilaration.

 

 

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.