www.nwbellydance.com

Hasani’s next Hafla is Saturday, November 14, 2009 featuring JEWELS!

Dancer call-in is Sunday, October 4, 2009 starting at noon

253-858-2755

If you can’t get to a phone during the Hafla call-in, you can have
a friend call in for you – just make sure your friend has your
address and phone number handy.

All dance spots (including troupes) are 8 minutes max.  One dance
spot per call, please, and dance spots are booked by phone only.

Ciao for now,
Hasani
Gig Harbor, WA
253-858-2755
http://hasani.net

Visionary Dance Productions Receives 2009 Seattle Award
U.S. Commerce Association?s Award Plaque Honors the Achievement
WASHINGTON D.C., June 8, 2009 — Visionary Dance Productions
has been selected for the 2009 Seattle Award in the Dance
Instruction category by the U.S. Commerce Association (USCA).
The USCA “Best of Local Business” Award Program recognizes
outstanding local businesses throughout the country. Each year,
the USCA identifies companies that they believe have achieved
exceptional marketing success in their local community and
business category. These are local companies that enhance the
positive image of small business through service to their
customers and community.
Various sources of information were gathered and analyzed to
choose the winners in each category. The 2009 USCA Award
Program focused on quality, not quantity. Winners are determined
based on the information gathered both internally by the USCA
and data provided by third parties.
About U.S. Commerce Association (USCA)
U.S. Commerce Association (USCA) is a Washington D.C. based
organization funded by local businesses operating in towns, large
and small, across America. The purpose of USCA is to promote
local business through public relations, marketing and
advertising.
The USCA was established to recognize the best of local businesses
in their community. Our organization works exclusively with local
business owners, trade groups, professional associations,
chambers of commerce and other business advertising and
marketing groups. Our mission is to be an advocate for small
and medium size businesses and business entrepreneurs across
America.
SOURCE: U.S. Commerce Association

CONTACT:
U.S. Commerce Association
Email: PublicRelations@us-ca.org
URL: http://www.us-ca.org

Thinking about attending Emerald Sanctuary retreat in August?
I’m going, along with four of my friends, and we need one more
dancer to register with us in order to get the group discount
of $150! We’ll also welcome more cabin-mates. If you’re
interested, please email me: amykatehorn@gmail.com.

All the retreat info is here:
http://www.indigodance.net/retreat.html

Amy Horn

Hi all,

Thanks so much for your great response about me coming up and
doing a trunk show!  I didn’t realize that the Souk would be
running that Sun, so have rearranged my schedule to head into
Seattle on that day, instead of Sat!
;~D  Oh Joy! 

I’m SO SO SO looking forward to seeing you all and CAN’T wait
for you to see all my new sparklies!  I’m planning to bring
mostly just necklace sets – but let me know if you’re looking
for anything else, specifically, and I’ll bring that along,
too.

See you all at The Souk at Bitterlake Community Center on Sun,
April 19 at 1:00.  ;~D

Sherri B

Hi all,

Checking in to see if there’s any interest in me bringing up all
my gud stuff for a Shiny Sparkly Trunk show on Sat April 18?? I
missed seeing a lot of you at Rakkasah and won’t be back in the
area until MedFest.? I’ll be coming up that weekend to visit
Jaleh and would love to show you all the yummy things I have
in stock right now!

Please contact me directly at sherribloomer@yahoo.com if you
think you’d come to a showing on Sat, April 18 afternoon-evening
- so I can gauge interest.? It’s expensive to get my stuff up
to Seattle, and I don’t want to plan on taking time away from my
visit with Jaleh unless there is some pretty strong interest.

ALSO, I’m looking for a venue to hold said trunk show.? ;~D? I’d
like to stick around central Seattle, so if you know of a spot,
please let me know.? I’d be able to pay a percentage of sales to
the space owner, so give me a holler if you’re interested.

Thanks so much, Seattle Dancers!?
;~D
Sherri B
Shiny Sparkly Things!

WEEKLY bellydance classes starting April 15

Wednesday nights from 8-9pm I will be teaching a blended
Salimpour technique class. We’ll be using Suhaila Salimpour’s
movement technique to explore her mother Jamila Salimpour’s
vocabulary format. Jamila codified and taught the movements
she and other dancers were using in the Arabic nightclubs of
San Francisco in the 50s and 60s. This vocabulary was spread
throughout the US by Jamila’s many students, and if you’ve
taken a bellydance class in the US in the last 30 years,
chances are you’ve learned parts of Jamila’s vocabulary! This
vocabulary also provided the foundational movements of American
Tribal tyle bellydance. As such, this class is recommended for
cabaret, tribal, and fusion dancers, and especially for those
who interested in the history of bellydance in the United
States. All levels welcome.
Finger cymbal instruction included.

Classes begin Wednesday, April 15.
8-9pm.

Location:
eXit Space, studio 2
414 NE 72nd St
Seattle, WA 98115-5409

Cost: $12 drop in. $50 for a 5-class card.

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Starting this April, MONTHLY drill workshops in the Suhaila
Salimpour bellydance format.

Dates:
Saturday, April 18, 1:30 – 3:30pm**
Sunday, May 17, 1-3pm
Sunday, June 28 1-3pm

Workshops will include conditioning and technique drills. This 2
hour workshop format will allow us to really dig in and work!
Come prepared to sweat!! All levels welcome.

Location:
eXit Space, studio 2 (**except for 4/18 when we will be in studio
1)
414 NE 72nd St
Seattle, WA 98115-5409

Cost: $25 per workshop. $70 for all 3.

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Ongoing WEEKLY yoga classes based on the Anusara style of yoga.

Anusara is an alignment-based form of yoga through which you can
open your body, heart, and mind. Treat yourself to the powerful
practice of yoga!

Thursdays, 5:45-7pm
Location:
Planet Earth Yoga Center
418 N. 35th ST. Seattle, WA. 98103

Cost: $15 drop in, $65 5-class card, $110 10-class card. (Class
cards are also valid for Tuesday 5:45-7pm classes with Shawna
Hartung)

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For more information or to register contact Renee Drellishak (206)
568-1514, or via email renee.drellishak@gmail.com

Olympia is known for some funky happenings.  Procession of the
Species parade is one of the most fun.  We have a small group of
drummers, but would LOVE to have more.

Mas Uda took part in the parade last year and we plan to do it
again this year.  It takes place in downtown Olympia on Saturday
afternoon April 25.  The event began in celebration of earth
day and is divided into sections/elements (fire, earth, air,
water).  We will be in the ‘air’ section.    The Procession
allows only acoustic music and there is no written word.  We
plan to use two rhythms, beledi and chiftitelli, although another
4/4 rhythm would be nice too.  We have one choreography that we’ll
perform only to zills and Kashani will be available to teach it
to dancers a couple of times in April (Sun afternoon April 12-yes,
it’s Easter, {sorry} at 1:00 at the Procession music space).  For
another piece, we have a pretty easy set of moves using veils or
Isis wings.  This is not a fast moving/marching parade – it
meanders fairly slowly, since there are lots of kids in it and
lots of props (some of which don’t cooperate).  For more info on
the Procession go to www.procession.org and to see Mas Uda in last
year’s parade, go to
http://greenerliving.blogspot.com:80/2008/04/procession-of-species.html
- we’re about 2/3 of the way down the page, two pix and a video.
Costume for the event is anything that resembles an ‘air’ creature
or air itself.  You can paint your face as a bug, bird, butterfly
- use your imagination.

As part of Mas Uda’s annual benefit event the first weekend in
April, we will have a rhythm circle.  The hope is that out of
this circle, we will have a group of folks who’d like to take
part in the Procession.

So, here are the specifics –

Rhythm circle DATE – 
10:30-12:00, Sun  April 5
LOCATION –Communications building – Evergreen State College
Bring drums, zills, tambourines, flutes and other instruments
COST — donation of $5-10 (additional donations would be WONDERFUL)
to go toward the overall benefit event for Candlelighters
Childhood Cancer Foundation

Parade DATE — Sat. April 25
LOCATION — Downtown Olympia
COST — 2 cans of food for the food bank

For more information – leave your name, phone number and mailing
address for Kashani at (360) 459-3694, or contact Kashani via
www.mas-uda.com. 

THANKS