Maryland Middle Eastern Performing Arts

What's New!

7/22 Amartia has added a new event.

8/27/2010; 8
Bombay Nights

7/22 Amartia has added a new event.

7/21/2010; 1030-?
Tobacco Center Cafe

7/19 Mhairi Basilah has just joined our community.

Mhairi is a local instructor working through CCBC and various dance studios in the Baltimore/Washington Area.

7/14 Amartia has added a new event.

7/24/2010; 1030-?
Tobacco Center Cafe

7/14 Amartia has added a new event.

7/17/2010; 730
Sizzling Bombay

6/24 Nina Amaya has added a new event.

7/16/2010;

http://www.artscape.org/
Join us - Belly Dance Delight and DragonSong on Charles St. in front of Penn Station- each night of Artscape! We close the show from 7-8.
Friday's costume, for those performing with us, is white, with colored silk veils. Saturday's is just a suggestion: blues greens and purples. Sunday we will be in the rainbow of colors.
Live music, live dance, wooo!
Audience participation songs, so come on out, even if you haven't learned the choreographed songs. We will show all ages the Rajasthani dance, and play a party song at the end, like this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U9a4yloAlyc

6/24 Nina Amaya has added a new event.

6/26/2010;

Nina And DragonSong perform all three days of the new Your Faerie Festival!
http://www.nyfaeriefest.com/
Elfin & Sylvan Folk, Wood Sprites & Faerie Folk, and All you Humans who still Believe in Magic...
Join Us in the Rolling Hills and Hollows of Rural New York for Central New York's Faerie Festival!
A time of Escape from ordinary Reality... into Magical Play!

6/24 Nina Amaya has added a new event.

7/11/2010; 2pm
Studio Nina Amaya
Drum Circle with Sidqi- FREE!

Bring your darbuka, your tabla, your def....

Sidqi has taught at several east coast Balkan camps, the Folktours Mideast camp, Rakassah East, and last year he taught at the Mendocino Middle East Camp in CA. He has been head of percussion at Sahara Dance for years ( but taking this summer off to do drum circles)
He has made several trips to Istanbul, Turkey, in search of Romani (Gypsy) teachers. In addition, he has had great workshops in his home, with Suhail Kaspar and Issam Houshan of the Bellydance Superstars. He is also founder of WMFC, which was the first organization to bring Rehan Tuscuz from Istanbul to DC, to teach Turkish Romani dance.

After the drum circle, you can head to the All Seasons Hafla, which is 2 miles away, if that.
Please rsvp to let us know how many are coming.

6/24 Nina Amaya has added a new event.

7/11/2010; 10am
Studio Nina Amaya
Remedial Belly Dance!

Want to learn to bellydance, but you are afraid you can't follow the directions?
I'd like to teach a workshop for you! Time to be determined.
Nina Amaya is a professional dancer with dancelexia- I feel your pain! As a former school teacher, I learned about different learning styles, and I'll help you to find your dance learning style. In a workshop limited to ten students, we'll go over some of the basic and not-so-basic moves .
My regular classes are good for dancers of all kinds, but this class is limited to those who find it hard to learn, or those teachers who want to learn how to teach dancelexics. It will be supportive and fun. Just remember to breathe!

10 - 11:30 AM, $20 - you may bring a video camera, and I will give written notes!
LIMITED to 10 students!

6/12 Safiyeh has added a new link to Musicians.

Dragon Song
Their organic nature and unique instrumentation bridges the gap between tradition and innovation. Guitar, bass, violin, exotic percussion, and vocal harmonies create a rich, vibrant, musical tapestry.