Saturday Specialty Class and so much more!!!!!

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Tamalyn Dallal, from Miami Beach, FL
Check out her website: www.Emerald-Dreams.com

Specialty Class, performances and film documentary
February 9-10th, 2007

Mark your calendars Now & register early.
Space limited to the first 50 registrants.
You don’t want to miss the chance to study with her !

Starting with the Belly Dance Hafla Night on Friday, Feb 9th, she will join that event and perform for us! Details about the B.D. Nite found *HERE*

Saturday Specialty Class:
WHEN: Saturday, February 10th, 2007
TIME: 12:00 Noon – 4:00 pm with a break
** You will want to eat before you come because the break will not be long enough to leave for “lunch”, and bring something to snack on to sustain you through the day.

WHERE: Kira’s Oasis 590 Congress Park Drive, Centerville, OH 45459
* If paying by check, make payable to Kira’s Oasis and mail to address above.
* NO REFUNDS – unless we cancel the event.

COST: $50.00 per person at the door, or $40 in advance (!includes film-see below!)

SATURDAY CLASS CONTENT: “Tamalyn Dallal Technique” will give techniques that have made several of Ms. Dallal’s students so successful. “Dancing to the Instruments” Combines choreography and improvisation to one of the songs from “40 Days and 1001 Nights”, Bellydance Music for Tamalyn Dallal, which she produced in Zanzibar. Within this, we’ll learn to express taksims of different instruments with our bodies: Khanoun, violin and accordion. This class will broaden your knowledge and ability to do this very special art form well !!

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ABOUT the Oasis Student Showcase & TAMALYN’s FILM on Saturday Night:
Tamalyn Dallal spent the past year researching, writing, and filming the realities of life in the Islamic world, as a woman alone, spending 40 days in each of five Islamic countries: Indonesia, The Siwa Oasis of Egypt, Zanzibar, Jordan, and Islamic China. The film, “40 Days and 1001 Nights” is a compelling musical documentary about life in Islamic countries that you won’t see on the news reports. How do people really live? Experience the colors, sounds, music and dance. You will learn a GREAT DEAL about the culture of our dance art form from viewing this!

TIME: 6:00 – 9:00pm Oasis students,Tamalyn & Basimah perform, film viewing, open dancing, light snacks.
COST: FREE!!!!

Oasis phone: (937) 620-1678

Coming to the Oasis? Need a place to stay close by?
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About Tamalyn Dallal

Tamalyn Dallal, founder of the Mid Eastern Dance Exchange in Miami, FL, began her career in 1976, and consistently travels the world teaching and peforming. For a more detailed bio, link to www.tamalyndallal.com/bio. A dance career spanning over 30 years, she has danced in and/or taught in twenty eight countries, from Asia to Africa, North, South, and Central Americas, and Europe.
In addition to teaching many “star” dancers including two of the Bellydance Superstars: Amar Gamal & Bozenka, her accomplishments include producing and directing three full scale theatre productions: “Emerald Dreams” (1997), “Sawah” (1999), and “Infinito” (2000), as well as the cutting edge film/ dance multimedia production “Supplemented Silence” in 2003, and, in collaboration with the World Music Institute, she brought “Gypsy Caravan”, a troup of 28 Gypsy (Rom) dancers and musicians to the Gusman Center for Performing Arts in downtown Miami. Every year since 1994, Tamalyn has organized the “Orientalia Festival” of dance, in which she brings internationally known dancers to the stage and to teach workshops. Guest artists have included: Amir Thaleb (Argentina), Bellyqueen (NYC), Harish Kumar ((Rajastan, India), Amel Tafsout (Algeria), Pasha Umer (Xinjiang, China), Louchia (Moldova), Karim Nagi (Egypt-Boston), Helene Eriksen (Germany-Seattle). She has written two published books, “They Told Me I Couldn’t”, about her travels as a dancer in Colombia, and “Belly Dancing for Fitness”, and indepth instructional book that is an excellent teaching guide as well.

Ms. Dallal is currently writing a book and has made a film, entitled “40 Days and 1001 Nights”, in which she lives in five Islamic countries for 40 days each, writes and films her experiences. She recently released a cd that she produced in Zanzibar entitled “40 Days and 1001 Nights, Bellydance Music for Tamalyn Dallal”, played by the legendary Ikhwani Safaa Musical Club of Zanzibar. To read along with her travels, log onto http://40daysand1001nights.blogspot.com

Check out her websites:
www.tamalyndallal.com
www.emerald-dreams.com