Pearl Boheme
Metal Belly Dance weekend with Diana Bastet
Diana Bastet is a well known artist from Ukraine. She works with dark fusion, gothic fusion and metal bellydance styles. Her experience in metal belly dance started in 2010 with a combination of her two incompatible but favourite things - dance and heavy metal music.
As well being an experanced and accomplished performer and instructor she also designs and creates unique handmade dark art costumes.
Diana has a fierce expressive dance style with a distinguished powerful stage presence. She is a generous and attentive teacher, A force to be reckoned with and not to be missed.
There are ONLY 20 SPACES per workshop!
Workshop details:
Saturday 27th September
The Queen is walking 11am-1pm
Rise up, dance and go! Walk - don’t stay, bring your dance, and full presence and stance for a great performance.Combining walking movements with bringing beauty into every half-step and changing levels in-between. We'll learn how to dance while walking and walk while dancing. Intermediate level
Totally Flaming 1:30-3:30pm
Shimmies and belly rolls workshop. We will learn and dance different but all burning shimmies. We will do it good, carefully, mad and with layering and we'll move our bellies learning how to control abdominal muscles and breathe right. Advanced level
Sunday 28th September
Emotional technique: 4 different emotional conditions 12-2pm
Express to Impress! Dance whilst living your emotional story or play it as a role, feel endlessly true and full. Show it- let people watch it, understand and feel it deeply as it is, as you want them to feel it. Are you a dark and dangerous goddess? Or a gothic enigmatic mistress? Or you're having fun and playing with soul fire? Or maybe you want to show drama in your heart, so show it! This workshop is about the emotional side of performance, which always makes your dance impressive becacuse dance is not only about motion. Intermediate/Advanced level
Element of the Universe 2:30-4:30pm
Knowing your own elements is a huge power. Earth, Air, Fire & Water. Connect with them all, feel them in your body and use their energy in your dance movement. Visualize them and discover your inner element, the one that is closest to your heart, your soul, your skills and personality. Intermediate level
Prices:
£50 per workshop
£165 full weekend pass
£150 early bird full weekend pass, Book by 28th June
Dance studio details:
Unity studios, Monarch house, Smyth road, BS3 2BX
Show details, ticket prices and venue TBC
Please email spellboundartsuk@gmail.com with any questions
Please note workshops and show bookings are non-refundable, unless the event is cancelled by the organisers. In the case that you are unable to attend it is your responsibility to sell your place on to another person, we will facilitate if there is a waiting list.
Dance studio: The Unity studio: Link
Accommodation suggestions, these are all in walking distance of the dance studio.
YHA - currently has private rooms with bathrooms available, not slept there but had lunch looks really nice and clean, great location too. Link
Full Moon Backpackers and Attic bar, rooms look nice, might be noisey with bar downstairs. Link
The Bristol Wing is another back packer hotel with private rooms.Link
Premier Inns - there are 3 central, Kings Street, Finzels Reach and Lewins mead.Link
Travelodge Bristol, either Central Mitchelle or Bristol central (Anchor road) Link
ibis central Link
Radisson Link
and of course Air B&B
Travel info:
Nearest train station, Bristol Tempel Meads : Link
Bus/Coach station: Link
Bristol air port: Link