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Orientace

Orientace.com is dedicated to introducing top celebrities of Raqs Sharqi to local audiences in Czech Republic.

All programmes are conducted by internationally renowned professionals who have been working in the field for more then 10 years, have attained knowledge of authentic forms of dance and have been performing for Middle Eastern audiences, and teaching Master Teacher classes all over the world.

11 April, 2008

Ace Artists : performance : workshop : NEW: Discussion Forum in English

Orientace 2008

Theme of the Year: Egyptian Raqs Sharqi

Egyptian Raqs Sharqi is one of truly authentic styles of Belly Dance. It provides a stable base of skill and knowledge for other authentic styles, for example Turkish Oryantal, as well as to contemporary non-oriental off-springs as American Cabaret, tribal styles etc. Egyptian Raqs Sharqi origins are seen in Middle Eastern folk dances. During the thirties of 20th century, the local Egyptian forms of dance with some balletic movement incorporated were successfully introduced in Cairo variety show venues. Gradual theatricalization, invention, and inspiration helped enrich Egyptian dance in one more branch of an already large family tree of various Raqs.

DIRECT FROM CAIRO !

August 1st, 2008 at 8 pm

Splendid show of two world famous performers will be a true highlight of your mid-summer weekend in Prague, the Heart of Europe.

VIP ticket for two: Are you thinking hard about an ideal gift for a corporate jubilee, treasured friends, or for a couple celebrating memorable wedding anniversary ? Do not look any further.
Unique dinner and show evening entertainment experience of a lifetime
produced by OrientAce :
Cairo Comes to Prague!
We will bring an unforgettable experience of the true Oriental night club mood directly in front of you. Only a limited number of guests will witness the most sensuous of Oriental dancers from 5 star Cairo venues perform in a prime location just few steps away from Prague`s famous medieval Charles Bridge.
Ticket includes the show entrance for two plus dinner and drinks for the couple for the entire evening.

Last year we donated proceeds of the show to a nation-wide support group for women with eating disorders. Proceeds of this year`s show goes to an association whose members (professional ballet dancers) teach dance to handicapped children. They have formed a dance company whose performances include both physically and mentally challenged juniors as well as healthy dancers. Can you imagine a staged performance with young people on wheelchairs taking active role? Help us support a good and worthy cause. Enable us to give the gift of a life of completeness for those with limitations through the experience of never ending creativity. Help us to help to those socially excluded, through the experience of belonging to distinguished group of artists. Give those not-so-fortunate a feeling of luck and a time to forget about the pain of untreatable health problems present in every moment of an untimely short life.

The show-only tickets are available with 10% discount upon early bird booking until 31st May, 2008. 50% discounts is available for attendants of Raqs Sharqi Weekend intensive workshops.

For reservations call +420-775-118-353 or email us. English spoken. Internet booking and sales: Ticketportal, phone: +420 224 091 439.

Ace Artists of 2008

Samasem of Cairo, Professional Dancer, and Master Teacher

Liza Laziza, Professional Dancer,
and Master Teacher

For most of the past decade and a half, madame Samasem has been one of the Middle East's top oriental dancers. Having performed at all the quality venues, like five star hotels and famous nightclubs, she brings a unique presence on stage. She incorporates everything from modern Arabic pop to traditional, slow orchestrated pieces. She slides easily from elegant classics to playful folklore. Her ear for Arabic music is uncanny, and her subtle isolations catch even the tiniest nuance. Sensuous and slow, she incorporates quick, percussive steps and hip-work seamlessly into the most breathtaking of oriental movements.
Based in Cairo, she has been engaged for extended contracts at all the five star hotels such as the Nile Hilton, Mena House, Meridien Cairo, Seminramis and so forth. Samasem has also regularly performed at the top nightclubs, including such prestigious venues as Cave de Roi, Sun-set and Tivoli as well as the night clubs on Pyramid Street. Her audiences have included dignitaries like the last two presidents of Egypt, the Royal families of Saudi Arabia and other Gulf countries. She was working with famous singers like Ehab Tawfiq, Mohammed el-Helw, Ahmed Adawiya and Khaled Agag.
Having gathered and categorized an infinite number of steps and moves, Samasem is a natural dance anthropologist. Her knowledge of steps used by great artists such as Suheir Zaki, Nelly Fouad & Aza Sherif is mesmerizing. She has toured four continents, as both a performer and instructor of Raqs Sharqi, from Japan and Malaysia in the Far East through Europe to America. Samasem's ability to break down the movements, and teach the technical aspect, to be able to execute it with an Egyptian feeling & meaning to the melody – not only the rhythm – has now made her one of ten most sought-after master-class teacher in Europe and USA. She is known for her warm, down-to-earth personality combined with a wicked sense of humor. Besides being one of main exponents in popular Ahlan Wa Sahlan festival in Cairo, Samasem is well known as Top Star celebrity at many belly dance festivals in Europe, let´s name just Orienta in Germany, festivals in Oslo and Stockholm, Summer festival in Berlin, and Conference of Oriental Dance in the United Kingdom.

Liza Laziza is originally Iranian (Persian) and was brought up in the United Kingdom (London) since she was a child.
Liza has been performing internationally for the past 15 years and has been living and dancing in Cairo for the past 7 years where she performs and teaches.
Liza also travels all over the world for shows and workshops. Liza fell in love with Arabic music when she was at an Arab nightclub in Paris some 20 years ago.
Liza is a self trained dancer and has worked at five star hotel in the Emirates, Jordan, Tunisia and Syria and Europe but when she came to Cairo realised there was so much more to learn and so much more to experience as a dancer.
She trained with a reputable teacher for 3 years which taught her about choreography, discipline and enriched her style even more. Liza believes it is not just the Motion of the dance but the Emotions that are more important, and that understanding the music and its meaning are just as important if not more important than the technique.
Liza has performed for the likes of Prince Charles, George and Barbara Bush, the Bruneis, King and Queen of Malaysia and Ministers and Diplomats and international audiences all over the world. Liza is presently dancing at the Meridian Pyramids hotel in Cairo, also at private corporate functions, private parties and weddings. She is also featured weekly on Egypt TV.
Liza`s style is very oriental and does include all the different styles from Saidi, popular to classical to Khaleegy.
Her passion and love for the dance has kept her in Egypt where she is continuing to live her dream, Liza says she has tried to leave the dance but the dance never left her:
She believes it was her destiny to be a dancer.

Liza is now featured by National Geographic Magazine as No. 2 in Best Dancers in Egypt ranking.

Workshops in 2008

(KZ, LE101, PR)

One-on-one and small group classes for professional dancers are still available at the moment!

Dates & Prices :

All bookings are handled by e-mail (see above) or international calls: +420 775 118 353, and local calls in Czech Republic: 775 118 353.

Code	Title of Workshop	Number of hours	Book no later than 15th April, 2008		Book no later than 31st May, 2008		On the spot payment (Register till 31st July, 2008)
			CZK	EUR	CZK	EUR	CZK	EUR
		Saturday, August 2nd, 2008
WI	Steps and Technique I	2,5	900	35	1000	40	1100	45
WII	Choreography I	2,5	1000	40	1100	45	1200	50
	WI +WII	5,0	1800	70	1950	80	2100	90
		Sunday, August 3rd, 2008
WIII	Steps and Technique II	2,5	900	35	1000	40	1100	45
WIV	Choreography II	2,5	1000	40	1100	45	1200	50
	WIII + WIV	5,0	1800	70	1950	80	2100	90
		Weekend August 2nd and 3rd, 2008
WS	Two days workshop	10,0	3300	135	3600	150	3900	165

Orientace 2007

Topic of the Year: Baladi

In 2007 we have the pleasure to introduce the very authentic dance style in Czech Republic for the first time. Baladi is strongly attached to a social life in Middle East and can be found on most of family celebrations. Originally, it is a folkloric dance, now performed for example by Mahoud Reda Troupe. Baladi was gradually cultivated by many soloists (as Sohair Zaki), in whos sofisticated raqs one can trace baladi maners. Costume is Eastern in grain, there is almost no orientalist-like glitzy hollywood version of BB.
Baladi has stepped in new Millenium in vortex of traditional as well as modern melodies. Sometimes in conservative costume and seriously as a lady in her fifties, and other time dressed up as a coquettish, dazzling, and quarter of a century younger version but always with its typicaly beating baladi heart.
Let yourself be pampered by dazing perfumes of rose and jasmin, and join us to listen to the pulse of Mother Earth. Baladi has reached all continents and found its home in the hearts of many who feel its motherly heart beat: doom doom taka tak....

Ace Artist of 2007

Madame Diana, Master Teacher

Diana is French Algerian. She began her dancing career almost 20 years ago in Paris where she performed in many famous nightclubs and for glamorous private parties. She was then invited to dance in Tunisia, Morocco, and the United Arab Emirates at prestigious hotels such as Hilton, Sheraton, and Hyatt. Being a perfectionist, she headed to Egypt to be trained by Raqia Hassan. After spending four successful years performing in Cairo, she realized that she had fallen in love with Egypt, so she decided to make it her home. She has now lived there for over 12 years.
Diana is very musical, and plays on both the melody and the rhythmic elements of the music in her choreographies. Her experiences of Egypt, and her exposure to Egyptian culture through the language and its everyday life, plus an innate knowledge of Arabic music, gives her the essential assets to teach dance to those that are passionate about this art. Diana is also trained in other dance forms, which gives her unquestionable artistic skills.
Her reputation as an original choreographer grows each day. She also gives workshops throughout the world and has trained several professional dancers of international acclaim. Beata and Horacio Cifuentes of Germany have studied with Diana for several seasons. She has choreographed for them on several occasions, and they have incorporated these dances into their fabulous Oriental Fantasy theater productions. Diana teaches regularly at Ahlan Wa Sahlan Festival in Cairo and she just has finished shooting of an instructional DVD with two others dancers.

Performance

We would like to invite you to Orientace 2007 performance held on Thursday, July 19. 2007.
Performance will be appreciated by an audience who enjoys a broad range of dances.
You will be able to see: brasilian samba, flamenco, Havaiian hula a afrodance. From the Middle Eastern Dance range you can see : ghawazee, melaya luff, egyptian oriental dance, baladi, raqs al assaya, and tabla solo.

The OrientAce performance is a Journey of a dancer around the World. Visiting of all continents will give you the possibility to compare dances from geographically distant places. The dancer has chosen one dance to represent each continent and coupled it with one splendid Egyptian or Middle Eastern dance. She has succeeded in this matching, because, apart from obvious choice based on costume similarities or geographical closeness of the cultures, she chose also pairs of dances where the similarities are due the adoption of some movements is generally known and accepted - as samba and tabla solo - and similarities in a mood of the dance or a purpose of dance. Africa, for example, inspires her to a dynamic ghawazee dance, the older sister of baladi.
The word "Orientace" means orientation in English. Through this performance we would like to help the audience and Czech public to find their bearings in the world of dance as well as in the world of Oriental Dance.

Ticket sales and booking: mail to info at orientace.com or phone: +420 775 118 353. English spoken.

Master Teacher Workshops

Term	Code	Level	Curricullum
07-08/2008	KZ	Beginners	Introduction to correct and safe basic movements enables you to practice home alone without supervision.
07-08/2008	LE101	Teachers of oriental dance	Get practical skill and knowledge to qualify for teaching of basics of oriental dance. Participants will receive certificate.
08/2008	PR	Professional dancers	Dazzle even oriental dance connoisseurs after you have armored with two full choreographies learnt in just one weekend.

Quotation:

Code	Price in CZK before 15.3.2008	Price in CZK before 30.4.2008	Price in CZK after 30.4.2008	Number of hours (60 min) in course
KZ	600,-	700,-	800,-	4
LE101	3800,-	4200,-	4600,-	14
PR	3300,-	~~3700,~~-3600,-	~~4000,~~-3900,-	8 10

Prices including VAT.

Enrollment:

HOW TO ENROLL:

1. Get your enrollment form by e-mailing info at orientace.com.
2. Send back your enrollment and pay through bank transfer to an account designated to you by e-mail.
3. Only after your full payment you will receive full information about place and time the courses are held.

IMPORTANT NOTICE:
To ensure a smooth course of the Workshop we will provide info about the place and time to enrolled customers who have paid full price of the Workshop only. NO INFO IS GIVEN OUT TO PERSONS WHO HAVE NOT ENROLLED OR WHO HAVE NOT PAID FULL PRICE.
PERSONAL SAFETY OF OUR CUSTOMERS IS OUR FOREMOST CONCERN.

Subject to alterations.

Cancellation Fees:

Until 30 days before the workshop: 50% of the price.
Until 8 days before the workshop: 80 % of the price.