Pedralta Dance Workshops
We aim to provide a safe, fun-filled and informative workshops for people of all ages and levels of fitness. We will always start with a safe warm-up and end with a cool down and gentle stretches.
While DVDs and occasional workshops are great aids to learning, we do not believe that these alone are a safe route into teaching. For this reason Pedralta Dance teachers have training and experience with master teachers, backed up by a fitness teaching qualification.
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Please contact us for more information on booking these workshops:
- ... ATS workshops
- ... Tribal Fusion workshops
- ... Absolute Beginners Belly Dance
- ... Belly dance clinic
- ... Other workshops
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American Tribal Style Workshops
Pedralta Dance uses the FatChance BellyDance format as the basis for ATS performance and teaching.
Foundation ATS (1) - Beginners
Learn techniques to improve the essential posture and isolation needed for dance. Learn and drill some basic moves from the fast and slow repertoire, to “get started” with ATS.
Learn about how improvised group dance can work, and practice with fellow dancers using the moves you have learnt.
Foundation ATS (2) - Beginners and improvers
Revise ATS (1) then build on your dance vocabulary, adding new moves from the fast and slow repertoire. Learn more about different formations for improvised group dance and practice these with your fellow dancers using an increased vocabulary.
Foundation ATS (3) - Improvers
Revise ATS (1and 2) then build further on your dance vocabulary, adding new and more complex moves from the fast and slow repertoire. Learn more about different formations for improvised group dance. Learn about the chorus, its function, and suitable moves to use in a chorus. Practice what you’ve learnt so far, with your fellow dancers.
Foundation ATS (4) - Improvers
Revise ATS (1, 2 and 3). Build further on your dance vocabulary, adding new and more complex moves from the fast and slow repertoire. Building further onto what you’ve learnt in previous workshops or classes.
Concentrate on music, stagecraft, and different shapes for particular performance settings.
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Fusion Workshops
These workshops are suitable for those with some experience in any style of ATS. Those with no ATS experience will find them challenging but would still be very welcome.
Flamenco for ATS (1)
This workshop will teach the posture, hand movements, facial expression and some of the techniques used in Flamenco and Sevillana dance. Pedralta have developed cues for incorporating adapted moves in your ATS.
Flamenco for ATS (2)
Build on the fusion moves you learnt in Flamenco (1), adding more moves, honing technique, especially hand and arm movement. Use ATS and new fusion Flamenco/Sevillana moves to improvise with your fellow dancers.
Saaidi for ATS (1)
This earthy form of dance originates from Upper Egypt. Both female and male dancers mimic the martial arts form; using powerful combat poses and moves deriving from the local agricultural way of life, digging, water-carrying etc. This is a lively and energetic dance. Pedralta have developed cues to incorporate these moves into ATS.
Learn some of the basic steps and stick moves. Use ATS and fusion stick moves to improvise with your fellow dancers.
Saaidi for ATS (2)
Revise moves taught in Saaidi (1). Build on these and learn new moves. Practice using different formations, duets and quartets. Improvise dance, using Saaidi and ATS moves, with fellow dancers.
Why not host a Pedralta workshop?
Contact Donna for more information.
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Absolute Beginners’ Bellydance (Cabaret Styles)
If you’ve always fancied learning or just want to find out more and give it a go, this workshop’s for you.
- Learn about the basic posture and isolation needed to bellydance.
- Find out a little about the history of this ancient art form and about the regions where it originated
- We’ll do a basic warm-up routine and some isolation exercises
- Learn some basic moves to get you started and then finish with a basic routine, using the moves you’ve learnt.
This workshop is suitable for those with little or no knowledge of the dance form. It’s designed as a taster session, ideal for clubs and schools. Also suitable as part of a hen party or gathering, along with a short performance set.
Please contact us for more information on booking these workshops
Bellydance Clinic (For ATS or cabaret)
Design your own workshop.
Are there specific moves you have trouble getting to grips with? Would you like help getting your movements to flow? What to do with arms and hands? How do you make a hip drop sharp and crisp? How do you turn or spin without getting dizzy?
How do you apply performance make-up for the best effect?
Where do you start with a costume, for a solo or a troupe?
Contact us to discuss what you’d like us to cover in a workshop. We’ll plan one just for you and your group.
Please contact us for more information on booking these workshops
Other workshops
Examples of other workshops you can book:
- Cabaret technique and choreography
- Introduction to Middle Eastern Dance and music
- Techniques for safe dancing (injury prevention) for dancers and teachers
Please contact us for more information on booking these workshops
