Date/Time
Date(s) - 07/22/2023
11:00 am - 2:00 pm

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Location
1741 Alcatraz Ave

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• Workshop

Cost:
65.00 USD
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Zoe Jakes

Berkeley, CA

Zoe Jakes and her Coven Studio are thrilled to present…

Salimpour Vocabulary Overview:  An Introduction to the Salimpour Vocabulary.

This workshop will give you a taste of the innovative Salimpour Vocabulary. You’ll learn the names of steps and families as well as an overview of how the vocabulary is structured . You’ll also get a glimpse of the wider Salimpour School training program and why it has become one of the most influential and widely-acclaimed approaches to belly dance in the world.

Salimpour Vocabulary

Beginning in the 1940s, Jamila Salimpour began naming and categorizing belly dance steps as performed by famous and unknown Oriental dancers from the Middle East. Starting in the late 1960s, her daughter Suhaila Salimpour began adding steps and “Families” that she saw dancers perform throughout the Arab world. The result is a comprehensive collection of belly dance movements that are at once classic and timeless. Finger cymbals are an integral part of the Jamila Salimpour Format, not just as accompaniment, but as a fully-realized musical instrument. Jamila Salimpour might be known as the “Mother of Tribal Style,” but this vocabulary spans all stylizations and generations.

So get excited because this is going to be an epic workshop! See you there!