BOCA Movement & Wellness Expo 2008! Smoking Hot Drum Solo performance and percussion is always the audience's favorite. Learn how to use isolations and directional changes to make a dramatic beginning and a stunning ending to your routine. Never be afraid of complex and complicated drum solos again! Add some new elements that will take your audience by surprise! Tame the drum solo! Super Shimmies & Captivating Combinations! Dr. Sunyatta is the host of Bush Medicine Radio Program and the health consultant for the Micheal Baisden Show and Liquid Magazine. She has been featured in the Washington Post, London Times, Heart & Soul, Vibe, Honey, Unfold Magazines. She has appeared on the the Montel Williams Show, Baisden After Dark and FOX TV. She is the executive director of the Belly Dancers of Color Association (BOCA), the non-profit organization whose mission is to bring attention and awareness to the roots of Belly Dance and unite people around the world in this ancient and healing art form. Dr. Amen will help you re-charge your physical/emotional battery with OFFERED ONCE A YEAR ONLY AT BOCAFest Learn the moves that lift & tighten the buttocks (a shelf & good junk!), tone the waistline & clear toxins (bad junk) from the reproductive organs… all while giving you that sexy glow! Sexual Kung Fu for Women Level 1 Women will learn the ancient INTERNAL exercises that shorten the cycle, resolves fibroids, cramps and increases your libido and energy. Including info on the all important YONI EGG for the ultimate vaginal muscle control! She will also give you how to combine the Sexual Tai Chi exercises and with bellydance for optimal womb health. You will work muscles you didn't know you had! Sexual Kung Fu for Women LEVEL 2!!! Want to take your Yoni exercises even further? Want to master the Yoni Egg? This is the session everyone has been asking for! Don't miss it! Isn't time you felt as vibrant, energetic and healthy as you would like? Join Dr. Amen for these invigorating, fun and lively sessions!
Workshops, Vendors, Performances & more! In 1 HUGE weekend!
Memorial Weekend - May 23-26th!
Hilton Hotel, Silver Spring-Washington, DC
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*Smoking Hot Drum Solo
*Super Shimmies!
Lotus
This workshop will focus shimmies combined with hip work, locks, pops and accents. Learn to use muscular control to get the most bang for your buck. Learn also to relax the body and dance without strain. Transitions include patterns, weight balance and level changes.
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*Tribal Bellydance Locks & Isolations
Naimah 
Naimah began exploring the art of bellydance in 1999 with some background knowledge in ballet, modern, hip hop, and african dance. Her bellydance career began with Cabaret but after intensive study has found her niche in the art of Tribal Fusion bellydance, blending American Tribal Style bellydance with classical indian, hip hop, flamenco and a little dash of cabaret. Naimah is also known for her mysterious, gothic infused, fluid movements . She has been referred to as a mechanical snake and a man eating plant.
3 workshops
Bellydance : Junk in the Trunk!
Learn the real history and health benefits of the dance that helps heal or avoid fibroids, ovarian cycts, shortens the cycle, hot flashes, PMS, cramps while getting that hourglass shape you desire! Be prepared to sweat, laugh, and heal thyself!
(Don't miss this EXCLUSIVE opportunity!)
More info on yoni eggs at www.bellydancersofcolor-shop.com
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Rossah, the legend, comes to BOCA!
Rossah is a bellydance treasure! Rossah has studied with the world's leading Oriental performers and instructors, here and abroad. She has been teaching and performing North African folkloric style and Danse Orientale for over 35 years.
Rossah's extensive repertoire includes sword, tray, dancing on drinking glasses(!!!), dancing with snakes, cane, candelabra, trance, cabaret, folkloric and village dances of Turkey, Egypt, Algeria, Tunisia and Morocco!
As a Master Teacher of many years standing, Rossah is dedicated to preserving and passing on this wonderful art form to students who have a desire to become exponents themselves or to just enjoy the fulfillment and self-expression that this dance provides.
Don't miss this exclusive opportunity to learn from this amazing and exciting bellydance legend!
Join Rossah in workshops & take your mind (and hips) around the world!
REAL Tribal Style! Learn the real deal on American Tribal Style from a member of the troupe that started it all! Rossah is famous for her original tribal style choreography.This workshop offers you a 3-minute routine that is presented for troupe work or easily tailored to a solo performance. Emphasis on eastern scale and how to interpret the music, hip articulation, and presentation. Rossah also introduces how steps works in the routine, repeating the section of the routine raising the cardio level. Teaches timing, centers your soul, excellent group number. Choreography handout included with class!
Out of southern Morocco comes the exotic Guedra! Guedra is the name of the blessing ceremony, the dancer and also the name of this large drum used to beat the rhythms of the dance. Guedra dancers make mesmerizing movements with the arms while swaying their heads from left to right. It's a tuareg blessing dance done on the knees where the dancers get in a trance.
Women do it all! They can gather water in jugs...
This dance is done with dancing mainly on the balls of the feet, quick sharp hip accents on the left hip, balancing a jug or calabash on the head or shoulder.
this dance is guaranteed to make everyone in the room smile!
Registration is now open!
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Dramatic Entrances - Oriental Dance Choreography
Tarik Sultan
You never get a secnd chance to make a first impression! Wow and woo your audience from your first step!
Let Tark show you how to make a Dramatic Entrance they will never forget!
Tarik will teach a choreography for a dramatic and exciting Oriental Dance entrance. Options include various pop songs guaranteed to add excitement to any routine, classical
Oriental opening songs, How to choose music for a classical Oriental opening, and the theory behind the classical Oriental solo.
Classical Indian Dance, Face & Hands! | Njideka
Bharata Natyam is one of the most ancient classical dance styles dating back to over 4,000 years old. The aspect of this dance is to convey stories to the audience of the ancient Goddess and Gods of India.
Elements of this dance will be offered in classes that can be taken independently:
Classical Indian Facial Expressions, Neck Moves & Dramatic Eyes
Classical Indian Footwork
Mudra! Discover the meanings of ancient Hand Gestures
Great for dancers & yoga practitioners! Njideka began her study of classical Indian Dance at the age of nine. She has studied with Padmarani Rasiah and also Padmarani Rasiah's teachers whom are world renowned dancers, the Dhananjayn's and Adar K Lakshman. At the age of 16 she had her Arrangetram (graduation). Considered a big occasion in the world of classical Indian dance, it is when a teacher feels it necessary for a student to perform an elaborate and challenging performance. "My goal in instructing classical Indian dance is to convey and help others express the incredibly beautiful and intricate movements of the Goddess within us."