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ACADEMIE DES DANSES ORIENTALES EGYPTIENNES

presents

Ashraf HASSAN

WORKSHOP – WEEKEND 21-22 NOVEMBRE 2009 – PARIS

SATURDAY 21 NOVEMBER – 2pm-5pm
3h workshop on EGYPTIAN STYLE TECHNIQUE
Work on basic movements for dancer and different positions of arms and feet – Work on all body parts especially arms – Work on how to master your body and how to keep your balance during dancing – Work on coordination, step-combinations, waves, circles, half-circles, eights, arabesques, tours, hips techniques, accents, twists, posture, drops, shimmies, camels, , etc… Well, everything about typical Egyptian style…

SUNDAY 22 NOVEMBER – 1pm – 6pm
5h CHOREOGRAPHY FLAMENCO-ORIENTAL
(Please bring skirt)

INSCRIPTION – REGISTRATION

Before October 31st, 2009

FEES
If registration before October 31st, 2009

50€ saturday / 110€ sunday
FULL PASS WEEKEND 8H = 150€

After October 31st, 2009
60€ saturday / 120€ sunday
FULL PASS WEEKEND 8H = 160€

Why Ashraf HASSAN ?
Outstanding artist and choreographer, sensitive, powerful and intuitive dancer, Ashraf allies to his immense talent the quality of an exceptional teacher. He has this rare quality to ally movement and precision, technicality and rigor. Ashraf is one of the major artist of Egyptian oriental dances, who knew how to share his love of dance to generations of dancers.

ACADEMIE DES DANSES ORIENTALES EGYPTIENNES
231 rue Saint-Honoré – 75001 PARIS
Info line : 06 46 35 80 99 ou

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Sultans of Raqs in Hengelo / Holland
31th October Gala Show / 01 November Workshops from Sultans!! Don’t misssss it!!!!

Serkan Tutar, Rachid Alexander, Prince Kayammer, Malek, Zadiel.
More info : www.sultansofraqs.com

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Mohamed Shahin’s career in Egyptian dance began at the age of fourteen. He was trained by the El Kawmia Troupe, Kassan Afifi, Kamal Naim, Hamada Hossam El-Din, Gedawy Ramadan, and, most notably, Mahmoud Reda.

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The male bellydancer known as Zadiel.

BERLIN | As a young boy, Mehmet Sasmaz, who grew up as the son of Turkish immigrants in Berlin, used to mimic the moves of the bellydancers his mother would watch on television. His parents did not approve. “My mother sent me to office management school,” recalled Sasmaz, now 27. But Sasmaz secretly continued to dance and eventually found a teacher. At the end of 2005 he performed publicly for the first time.

Soon after that first show, Sasmez became “Zadiel,” the male bellydancer, renowned within Berlin’s Turkish and Arabic scenes. Despite the controversy of being a male bellydancer among conservative Muslims — “I’m culture shock for Turkish men from small villages,” he said — Zadiel is rarely confronted with an abusive audience. That may be partly because he dances as a man rather than as a woman.

To explain: For several centuries during the Ottoman Empire, until the mid-19th century, Zadiel said, it was forbidden for women to dance for men. Only young male bellydancers, known as rakkas, could perform for Ottoman men. “So my audience may not realize it but what I am doing is extremely traditional,” he said.

In 2008 Zadiel joined the first international all-male bellydancing troupe, called the Sultans of Raqs which performs once or twice a year at different European cities. (Their next show is in Amsterdam on Oct. 31).

Zadiel’s Orientalhane parties are typically sold-out affairs at Berlin’s Salz-Club (Salzufer 20; www.salz-club.de) — the next one is on Sept. 5 — in which he stars with his two all-female dance troupes, the Velvet Snakes and the Zadiraks. (His dancers are made up of his advanced students, several of whom who have moved to Berlin from the U.S. or Poland to study with him.)

Zadiel also performs every Wednesday at Madi (Bernhard-Lichtenberg-Pl.; 49-30-18-05-57; www.madi-zeltdersinne.de), a Moroccan-themed supper club in northern Berlin.

One of his dancers, the 26-year old Canadian Jasmine Cabanaw explained Zadiel’s appeal: “People have had the view of bellydance as something erotic; a dance without the same standards as ballet. But Zadiel is taking bellydancing to that ballet level.”

More importantly, to Zadiel at least, his mother now approves. “She came to my first big show a few years ago and she was so surprised that there were more than 300 people there. I had her called to the stage and I gave her a flower,” he recalled. “She was so happy she cried.”