Workshops

Performance Make-up Workshop

Learn the art of make-up technique from a working dance professional. Gain the skills needed to bring out the best in your features. We will be addressing eye and lip shape, skin and face type as well as color combining. This workshop is perfect for beginning dancers as well as the seasoned professional.

Adriana is a make-up artist and skin care specialist who enjoys teaching women how to bring out their natural beauty.

Partial list of workshop topics Adriana can instruct on:

• Egyptian choreography
• North African dance chirographies
• Arabic drumming and rhythm class
• Demystifying Arabic music
• Captivating entrances and how you have seven seconds to impress
• Finales: how to close the show and have them book you again
• How to use a five part dance to create a dynamic and interesting 30 min show
• Etiquette and mannerisms at a gig that will get you more money and hired again
• Impressive sword dancing improve and choreography
• Sensual floor work improve and choreography
• Goblet dance improv and choreography
• How to choreograph
• Brasilian Samba choreography
• Drum Solo improvisation
• Drum Solo choreography
• How to prepare your music for a gig
• Beginning, intermediate, and advanced finger cymbal playing
• Belly dance technique
• Sharp locks and cool pops
• Six different undulations and how they add juice to your routine
• Belly dance core training
• Fast and Slow foot work for belly dancers
• Graceful and elegant arms for belly dancer
• Dance combinations for different instruments and how to hear them in your piece
• Emotional expression of Arabic music
• Improvisation with live musicians
• Slow and slinky taxim
• Negotiation skills and tactics for working dancers
• How to launch yourself as a working dancer
• How to transform yourself with make-up
• Costuming yourself-do’s and don't’s for different gigs

Currently based in the El Cerrito, Adriana performs frequently at Persian nightclubs and Arabic nightclubs throughout the SF Bay Area. She is available for booking performances, workshops, lectures, and events, locally as well as nationally and overseas.

 

PAST WORKSHOPS

MAKE-UP SECRETS OF A DIVA
DATE: August 1st
TIME: 12:00 - 2:30
ABOUT: Learn the art of make-up technique from a working dance professional. Gain the skills needed to bring out the best in your features. We will be addressing eye and lip shape, skin and face type as well as color combining. This workshop is perfect for beginning dancers as well as the seasoned professional. Adriana is a make-up artist and skin care specialist who enjoys teaching women how to bring out their beauty with fun and ease.

SAMBA BELLY DANCE DRUM SOLO
DATE: August 2nd
TIME 1:00 - 3:00
ABOUT: Fun, high energy, dynamic and entertaining.....the best of both worlds Rio Samba and Arabic drum solo. Learn a complete routine that you can perform in a troupe or as a solo, the new rhythms and South American foot work will add richness and funk to the the most riveting part of your show: the drum solo! No prior knowledge of Latin or Samba is required but class will be fast paced and be prepared to sweat
LOCATION: Euphoria Studios - 1235 SE Division Portland O

 

(415) 410-8555 or (949) 939-1646
info@adrianabellydance.com