You can also come chat with me at my booth – TAV Creations/Halyma’s Belly Dance! It gets too logn when i include Bellywood with Halyma too !

Hope to see you Feb 26!

Tuesday’s 7:30 to 8:30 class is running and rockin’ it at Old Ottawa South – and there’s still room to join in!  Come by next week if Tuesdays are good for you and give it a try at 260 Sunnyside.

Wednesday’s class at Dovercourtis gonna give it one more try tonight – if we can get one more sign up, the book keepers are happy,the small group gets some serious focus and the class will run.  So if you are thinking about it and just want to try a class to see if you like it – please come on by tonight for the 7:45 p.m. class at 411 Dovercourt!

UPDATE : Yes, both Tuesday and Wednesday classes will run this session – so come on by!!

Otherwise, I hope you are all dancing and having fun this cold blustery January!!

So I am very much looking forward to starting to dance again in another week if the Dovercourt classes run, and the week after at Routhier and Old Ottawa South!  Check the schedule here!

What’s on our plate for Bellywood with Halyma this winter session?

TECHNIQUE!

We’ll be stretching those fingers and arms to get those really cool mudras, arm positions and combination more accurately executed.  For new folks, this is great as I will help you that focus on each move and how it’s actually supposed to happen.  For return dancers, it means reviewing what you may have felt you were grasping on the surface but glossing over in order to get right into the  Fall choreography – which was GREAT, BTW !

We’ll also be bending those knees, and getting deeper into the full body technique, playing with the silhouettes we can create as we pose and then move into new poses!

POSTURE!

Continuing the thought on full body technique, we’ll explore being conscious of our posture as we dance from toes to the tip of your head and out to your finger tips!

COMBOS!

Some fun combos that we’ve used in the past will be explored and played with,using the routines we’ve done in the past as reference and sharpening up the moves we have played with.  And NEW ONES!

So, welcome to 2012, and I look forward to seeing many of you at class  in the next couple of weeks!

And we had a blast!  Next up with be my own semi private OCCP – the Ottawa Centre Class Party where almost 300 of my closest Ottawa Belly dance and Bollywood friends, teachers, students and colleagues will converge on a local theatre to join me in sharing our love of dance! We are in a limited space so I cannot really open it up to the public – but if you ever want to join a class, you’ll get the chance to come play with us for sure!

Classes resume in January, so if you have a love of colourful costumes, fun music and wanna have some fun moving – even if you don’t think you would ever dance in public – check out the 2012 Class Info here!

Registration has already begun!

Halyma

2nd thanks to Valerie, for welcoming me to teach Bellywood there and I think she got some fun photos – but I may not see them, small private group  But she gave me a lovely thank you gift as I was packing up…
And all of this to say, that yes, you too can have me come and teach your group for a private lesson – birthday parties, work incentive days, showers, anytime you want to get a gang moving and laughing in a multicultural setting!

Check out my pricing and packages here, and feel free to message me for more details!

How cool is that?

January’s classes at Dovercourt will begin Wednesday, January 11, 2012 and run for 14 weeks.  Timeslot is 7:45 to 8:45 p.m.

Keep dancing!!

PS – DIWALI is being celebrated over the next week – check out here for details on events you can check out: Ottawa Bollywood News!

September brings my new dance class schedule too and organizing, promoting, postering a bit and mainly reminding folk online that in another week or two, we can get moving to those fun rhythms and learning some new moves and choreos!

So, if you’ve got that itch to dance, check out the class schedule here and join in the fun this fall!

Meanwhile – here’s me and Barbara Eden – how cool is that! { sorry it’s so fuzzy – it’s a pic of a pic!}

I wish you all happy shimmies and perky eared deer { inside joke}  for the rest of the summer!

See you in September!

T/H

COME DANCING!!

Bellywood with Halyma

featuring: Ameenah, Sadira, Renuka, Suhani, Esmerelda, Eurika and Halyma { forgot to take off mah glasses!}

We were totally honoured to participate in Janet Seabrooke’s fundraiser May 14th.  Great evening – great job – hopefully lot of money was raised for Breast Cancer!

Once more pics are available, I’ll update!