Sunday August 9, 2009
1-3 pm
Celebration Belly Dance and Yoga
1840 Willamette St., Eugene, OR
$25 by August 5, $30 at the door
Info: elena_vll@yahoo.com
Zambra mora – A flamenco dance with Arabic roots from Granada, Spain. Traveling steps, kicks, turns, skirt technique, and more! Please wear a long, full skirt and bring your fiery attitude! No flamenco experience necessary. Includes handout of dance steps.
Zambra is a form of flamenco from the city of Granada (the last stronghold of the Moors) and contains Moorish overtones. It is associated with the Gypsies of the Sacromonte, which is the collection of cave dwellings overlooking Granada. Musically speaking, the zambra is a four-count rhythm: 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 (clap on the 2, 3, 4)––a slower version of the tangos flamencos––that evokes a mood of celebration at once earthy and fiery. The dance is always improvised and is sometimes danced without shoes. Zambra is also the term used to designate “a fiesta in the caves of the Sacromonte [as well as the name of] a performing group from the Sacromonte” (Sevilla, Queen of the Gypsies 396).
MEDGE's Featured Preformer for August
Circus Tribal
Pacific Northwest Belly Dance
- Harrakat
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