WHAT DEFINES A PROFESSIONAL INSTRUCTOR
By Alexandra King After 44 years of performing and teaching dance, I have learned a thing or two. And these things have served me well as...
BASICS of TEACHING DANCE, Part Five TRANSITIONS
By Alexandra King TRANSITIONS and BRIDGES Overview Transitions are the linking movements and musical lines between passages of dance and...
The Basics of Teaching Dance, Part 4 – The 21 Basics of Dance, continued - DYNAMICS AND CONTRAST
by Alexandra King It takes an athlete to dance, but an artist to be a dancer. – Shanna LeFleur Shana LeFleur DYNAMICS: Intensity of...
BASICS OF TEACHING DANCE, Part Three - Line, Fitness and Warm-Ups
By Alexandra King BASICS OF TEACHING DANCE, Part 4 Line, Fitness & Warm-Ups Back in the stone ages of belly dance (60’s 70’s and 80’s),...
BASICS of TEACHING DANCE - Part Two- The 3 Methods of Instruction
By Alexandra King Methods of Teaching Dance Students learn in different ways. Some learn best by mimicking what they see. Others learn by...
BASICS of TEACHING DANCE - Part One - 14 Guidelines
By Alexandra King I was particularly lucky to have grown up in a family of performing artists (actors, comedians and musicians) on both...
DANCE AS A PERFORMING ART
By Alexandra King It is the nature of the beast that when things evolve, they usually become more and more complex. Computers are more...
WHAT DEFINES AMERCIAN CABERT BELLY DANCE? Alexandra King
BACKGROUND The advent of belly dance in the US began during the immigration of Arabs, Armenians, Turks and Greeks from the Middle East at...
Sounds of Joy: The Significance of ‘Zaghareet’ Amongst Egyptians
By FARAH RAFIK 24 SEPTEMBER 2022 When words fall short to commemorate a happy occasion, happy tears fall down, and zaghrata echoes loudly...
KOCHEK - The Ancient Art of being LGBTQ
By Alexandra King The Classical Dances of Turkey and the Middle East included Kocheks, male dancers who dressed like woman and danced...
