Specialty workshops on Saturdays from 1:45 - 3:45pm at

The Drum & Dance Learning Center
The Barracks Trading Post Plaza
Rt 206 & Elizabeth Street
Bordentown, NJ

With Alexia

April 5 1:45 – 3:45PM $35
Belly Dance Improv Skills and Rhythm Exploration
Explore movement possibilities and develop interesting phrases using a variety of Arabic rhythms.

April 19 & 26 1:45 – 3:45PM ($35 for one $65 for both)
Belly Dance Choreography – Chik Chak Chook – Egyptian Fusion
A fun upbeat choreography to a 1950’s Egyptian musical.

May 3 1:45 pm – 3:45pm $35
Understanding Middle Eastern Music for Dance
We’ll cover instrument identification, sections of a full belly dance routine and basic rhythms used in Middle Eastern Dance

May 10 & 17 1:45 pm – 3:45 pm ($35 for one $65 for both)
Belly Dance Choreography – Desert Trance – Tribal Fusion
Folkloric movement fused with unique modern and tribal stylization. Fun & challenging hip work!

May 31 1:45 – 3:45 pm $25
History of Belly Dance – Discussion about styles and history
Film footage of dance styles. Bring your questions and we’ll discuss!

June 14 & 21 1:45 – 3:45 pm ($35 for one $65 for both)
Belly Dance Choreography Workshop – Reda’s Flower Drum Solo
A fun, challenging Arabic drum solo!

Register on-line: www.drumdancecenter.com
No refunds or transfers for any of the workshops

Alexia (Kim Leary) is a performer, choreographer and instructor in Central New Jersey. Her dance accomplishments include teaching both credit and non-credit dance and advising Raks Odalisque, Middle Eastern Dance Company at Princeton University. She is Co-Director of her school, The Drum & Dance Learning Center in Bordentown, New Jersey. Ms. Leary has performed at numerous prestigious venues such as Lincoln Center, The Ohio Theatre (SOHO), CAMI Hall (NYC), DanceSpace (NYC), FIT (NYC), The Evolving Arts Theatre (NYC), The Black Box Theatre (NJ), as well as at many colleges, universities, and festivals as a soloist and with her own dance company, SaZ Dance Theatre, Jamila Salimpour’s Bal Anat and Dalia Carella’s DNA Project. She also teaches regularly at Rutgers University and Middlesex County College and has been an artist-in-residence throughout the New York/New Jersey tri-state area.

Kim has studied dance for most of her life and has received extensive training in jazz, ballet, tap, contemporary, Middle Eastern, Turkish and Afro-Caribbean dance.
Kim is the recipient of an Alliance for Arts Education Arts for EveryKid Mini Grant. She is also the Assistant Curator of "Flowing Fabrics - Flowing Forms", an exhibition of women’s ethnic dance clothing sponsored by the Woodbridge Township Cultural and Heritage Commission.