Shiny Beads and Shimmies
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Shiny Beads & Shimmies: Do you love to dance? Interested in Belly-Dance? Do you not know where to turn ? Are you unsure as to what is acceptable and what is not? How do you know if a teacher is good or not? This book will answer these questions and more, then guide you in the right direction. It will tell you what you need to know and more before you make a mistake and waste money. Badly uneducated teachers can harm the body plus give wrong information about the dance. This book will help you make an educated decision on what to look forward to enjoy your classes.
Morwenna Assaf
Morwenna Assaf is the Dance Director for both Art/Dance Academy and CEDAR Productions. She has been a Middle Eastern (Belly Dancer) dancer, instructor and choreographer for almost 40 years. She studied in New York City with the late Ibrahim Farrah (her mentor and friend), the foremost proponent of the dance in the world. She continues to study to this day America’s top instructor of Egyptian dance. Plus she sponsors and studies the works of the Master Mr. Mahmoud Reda of Cairo, Egypt. She sponsors several seminars with known names per year. . Morwenna is a member of NDA, APPHERD, CAPHERD, CID-UNESCO and the National Association for Teacher Certification in Middle Eastern Dance - NATCMED. She has taken management courses and seminars with Rhee Gold of MA and the Dance Studios Mastermind Group with Sam Beckford in Vancouver, BC. Has taken numerous courses in colleges and various private groups.. But her forte and that of the dance company is the Eastern Arabic (The Levant) countries, namely, Lebanon, Egypt, Jordan, Syria and Palestine. She was inducted into the American Middle Eastern Hall of Fame in New York City in 1994 for her contributions, choreography and research in this art form. She was nominated Best Instructor 2001 by Zaghareet. She has written several books to further the studies of those interested in Middle Eastern Dance Studies. She has been on the staff of several dance magazines throughout the country. She has taught dance workshops for CAPHERD for the past 16 years in both Palm Springs and Riverside, CA. She has also taught for Amani in Lebanon in 2011with a request to return again. Every year or so, she does a teaching tour of New England. Plus Morwenna teaches in Mexico on a regular basis. She currently teaches her Elite Circle of dancers, regular students and is on the staff fro Mira Costa College. Research and writing are at the base of her learning curve at this time. She has completed several books for Middle Eastern Dance Training.
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Shiny Beads and Shimmies - Morwenna Assaf
Shiny Beads and Shimmies
Welcome to Belly Dance!
Ask Before You Undulate!
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT & DEDICATION PAGE
In creating this book I have no one person to dedicate it to or to acknowledge. I have had a very wonderful and lucrative career due to those who have inspired me over the years. They are my peers, my teachers and mentors who have touched and inspired my life. As I sit at the far end of my career and look back over the years I realize how fortunate and blessed I am to have known the people that have come into my life. Many of the greats have passed on and many are still here and still touching my life. Those that are gone I visualize as dancing and playing music in heaven. I acknowledge those that are still here and those gone as I have been fortunate enough to have had the finest training, made the best of friends and had a very wonderful career. I has been a life I would not have changed for anything in the world.
My greatest friend in the world and the one who has both been an inspiration and supported me the most is my husband and partner in life and art, Walid Assaf. Thank you, habibi, for believing in me and for being my inspiration in life. I am lucky to have had you in my life all these years.
The rest of my friends, peers, and associates I thank you for everything. It has been a magic carpet ride from here in the US to Lebanon and back. From New England to CA I have enjoyed the view. As our lives change and the dance too, I am just happy for the life I have had and the contacts and memories that live in my heart. I believe the angels guide us to our true calling.
I thank you from the bottom of my heart,
Morwenna Assaf
DancerAndDrummer©
Other books authored by
Morwenna Assaf
Finger Cymbals: How to Play Them Correctly
(for dancers and students) $12.00
ZILLS-ZAGAT Teachers Syllabus
(for teachers) $12.00
Handbook of Dance Terminology
(for Middle Eastern Dance Studies) $19.00
The Experience of Dance Theater
(for Belly Dancers) $19.00
Mosaic of Music $22.00
(Mystery of Percussion and Dance)
Creativity – POWER of COMMITMENT
(Daily Creative Thoughts/Build Your Belly Dance Business)
$25.00
CDs and DVDs offered through Cedar Productions %10.00
CD = Art/Dance Academy Warm Ups Music
Art/Dance Academy Basic Rhythms
Art/Dance Academy Advanced Rhythms
Soiree Oreintale
Ancient Whisperings Music of Phoenicia
Eastern Bedouin Favorites
DVD = ADA Practice for Belly Dancers
(Warm-Ups, Arms & Zills) $20.00
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WHY I WROTE THIS BOOK
This book has come into being over years of watching dancers flounder and make wrong choices. Some harmful and money wasters while others just plain bad information. There is no set format or syllabus of training in this dance form so it becomes very difficult to get the correct information if you do not know how to go about it.
This book is not complete by any means. It was written to give you an open honest slant on a dance form that needs the have the truth told about it.
Dance in America has no standards so it is a difficult situation to begin with. There are many forms of dance under the heading belly dance
. Some are true to the form and others are far from it. If you are interested in some of these other forms, that, is fine! But please do not call it belly dance. Just as jazz or modern dance, are not belly dance neither are these others. They are detrimental to what the dance really is.
Belly dance is a traditional, cultural dance form that has precepts. It is not something you just do, pick up in a week or so, buy a pretty or not so pretty costume then go perform. We will try to guide you into how to find a teacher, what to look for in any dance teacher, what the business consist of and how to treat it.
Dance is a passion that takes over your life. Do not take it lightly or disrespect it. Now let us move forward!
Morwenna Assaf
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DISCLAIMER PAGE
This book is designed to provide information about the subject matter covered. It is sold with the understanding that we offer no guarantees as to the outcome. Dance and music is not an easy subject to accomplish. It takes years, if not a lifetime to accomplish. You must expect to invest a lot of time and effort without any guarantee of success. Dancers do not just dance. Musicians do not just play music. Teachers do not just teach.
The business side of the dance business must be treated the same way as the artistic side. This book is to help you reach both sides of the coin. It takes dedication and hard work, just like anything else.
Every effort has been made to make this book as complete as possible. The purpose of this book is to help give you a lending hand in your dance education so you can, dance, entertain and teach more freely knowing you have some good and well based knowledge under your belt. Neither the author nor the publisher shall have any liability or responsibility to the outcome of studying this book.
CONTENTS
Acknowledgement * Dedication: ................3
Other Books etc: .....................................4
Why I Wrote This Book: ............................5
Disclaimer: ............................................6
What This Book is About: .........................8
A Word from Morwenna: ........................9
Biography of Morwenna Assaf: ................10
A Word from Walid: ..............................11
Biography of Walid Assaf: ......................12
Chapter 1: ...........................................15
How To Find A Teacher and Studio?
Chapter 2: ...........................................39
Teacher!
Chapter 3: ...........................................47
Classes!
Chapter 4: ............................................57
Other Interesting Facts?
Chapter 5: ............................................69
How to Take Class and Benefit
FINAL WORD: .....................................85
WHAT THIS BOOK IS ABOUT
This book will hopefully allow you to pick a good knowledgeable teacher. One who not only has the knowledge but one that