Aszmara's website
From Artemis Mourat:
" Aszmara is a fabulous dancer. Run, don't walk to get a chance to study with this gifted artist!"
From Dalia Carella:
"She is fantastic. Aszmara is ... quintessential."

Scroll down for a list of possible workshop songs- excellent music n Aszmara's style, and all available on iTunes.

Aszmara, a teacher of teachers and a master at her craft has vast knowledge and experience in technical as well as performance skills. Clarity in teaching difficult choreography while maintaining a sense of fun leads to ease in learning, readily accessible material and an enjoyable experience for all. Her teaching style is highly energetic. As a master teacher she teaches master and beginner’s classes with the same enthusiasm. Her workshops, thus, are highly appreciated both by professional dancers as well as by beginners.

Aszmara is amazing. Every year she dances as a guest artist at the Folk Tours USA camp, and now she's coming to Baltimore! These workshops are appropriate for belly dancers of all levels. Students of Modern Dance, Salsa and other dance forms may also attend.

She will be teaching in the beautiful studio at the MAC, Harbor East, with wooden floors and mirrors. On Saturday December 6, she will teach two workshops, from 1-2:45 and from 3:15-5. Sunday she will teach from 11am -1pm, then she will star in the show at the All Seasons Hafla.

SOLOMON'S MINE WILL BE VENDING on Saturday!

Saturday:
12 noon- 12:30pm Free Mini Class/Warm Up with Shems
All levels. Come experience Shems' luscious style. She is the resident Bellydance teacher at the MAC.

1-2:45pm Dancing to the 9/8 and 7/8 rhythms
Aszmara will teach the fascinating 9/8 and 7/8 rhythms. Feeling the rhythm, moving with the rhythm and improvising on the rhythm--to make these unusual rhythms feel more usual. Aszmara is a truly inspiring dancer and has loads of experience playing unusual rhythms from her extensive work with Souren Baronian's ensemble. $35 before 11/24/08, $45 at door, limit: 25 dancers

3:15-5pm Dynamic Staging
Expand your range of expression with Dynamic Staging. Whether in a nightclub or on a raised stage, quite often in performance the tendency is to use the same space as we are used to in rehearsing. Through Dynamic Staging we expand our use of space to make your shows more compelling, whatever the venue. Includes level changes. $35 before 11/24/08, $45 at door, limit: 20 dancers

Sunday: 11am FULL
Emotion in Motion: The Veil
Using a silk veil, you are dancing with a partner. Learn how to dance with it , using slow sensuality and hot fast moves...
$45 at door, limit: 20 dancers- we have 20 now.
Bring a lightweight silk veil 3-4 yards long, if you have one, or they will be available for purchase from $20 and up.
If there is space left:
1 workshop $45 at the door
2 workshops $80 at the door
3 workshops $115 at the door

As of Tuesday, 12/3, there 0 spots left in Veil, 6 in Stage Dynamics and 10 in Odd Rhythms (because I think we can fit more in that class).
[masked] to inquire.
If you would like to pay electronically, you can use the button below, and pay:
1 workshop $45.00
2 workshops $80.00
3 workshops $115.00
Please adjust the amount if needed, and indicate which workshops you are attending.
See you there! Come early to shop!

Aszmara can change her mind about the songs she will use, but I asked her for some examples of what she might use, so we could get a feel for the music.
For odd time signatures:
Breezy Morning (Sabah Ruzgari) by Yurdal Tokcan
Georgian Girl (Gurcu Kizi) by Yurdal Tokcan (7/8 rhythm)
River (Irmak) by Yurdal Tokcan

For Dynamic Staging:
Anadolu Oyun Havasi by Ensemble Hüseyin Türkmenler, Oriental Dance from Turkey
Rumeli Karsilamasi by Ensemble Hüseyin Türkmenler, Oriental Dance from Turkey

For Emotion in Motion: the Veil
Hayati Inta by Natacha Atlas,
Breezy Morning (Sabah Ruzgari) by Yurdal Tokcan

Dance Stretch & Hip Energy is the highly acclaimed first installment of her instructional DVD series, The Secret Desire with three other DVD’s to complete the series presently in production. Articles from her website have been reprinted in Bennu Magazine and Bhuz.com and she has recently taken on the task of chronicling her thirty plus years as a working dance artist. Aszmara hopes to enlighten, educate and amuse generations of dancers; the past generation with remembrances, this generation as they find their way, and the next as they feel the first stirrings of passion for this art that even after all these years, Aszmara still feels deeply within her soul.

Aszmara's Gilded Serpent article

If you would like to pay electronically:
1 workshop $36.35 before 11/24/08
2 workshops $67.25 before 11/24/08
3 workshops $93.00 before 11/24/08
Adjust the amount, and tell me which classes on your rsvp.