Classes:
We are proud to offer many different tracks at Triboriginal. Accompanying our host of dance options, we offer many music, adornment, business, circus and gypsy arts, as well as our children's programming to keep the whole family enriched and entertained all weekend long!

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Tribal Dance

Disco-Tribal!
with Politti Ashcraft of Blue Damsel Dance Co.
Boogie Nights, Disco Fever, and American Tribal Style Bellydance??? Girl, you’d better believe it!!! Politti Ashcraft of Blue Damsel Dance Co. will show you just what happens when Disco music and Tribal Bellydance collide…. Pure, high- energy, movin’ and groovin’ FUN! Politti will teach you a super-funk-a-delic choreography (designed for a duet, but easily adapted for a group) by combining basic ATS with classic Disco moves to the 1978 classic: “September” by Earth, Wind & Fire. So grab your dance partner and be prepared to get down, and get funky – cause we’re gonna boogie-oogie-oogie ‘til we just can’t boogie no more!

Liquid Layers
with Zafira Dance Company
Bring the belly back in belly dance. Build combinations of liquid layers and torso work that roll and ripple through your belly, back, hips and shoulders. Then, add arms and footwork to frame and enhance some of your most elegant moves.

Fluid Floor-work
with Zafira Dance Company
Fluid floor-work begins with a strong body and technique. This workshop begins with a strength building workout using floor-work moves and exercises. Learn several combinations that can be incorporated into solo or pair work choreographies. Bring kneepads, they are not for sissies. Seriously, bring kneepads.

~Master Classes with Zafira Dance Company will be offered on Thursday~
Learn more here!

Come To Zi’ah Smackdown
with Zi'ah of Awalim Dance Company
So you think you can bellydance?
Workshoppers make a verbal agreement at the beginning of class and then work to make it reality - Flawless isolations? Beautiful zils? Intricate footwork?
Yes? Yes. YES!
Committed to perpetuating true bellydance in its pure, expressive and artistic form, Zi'ah will have us quivering with enthusiasm and exertion. A great resource to take your dance practice to the next level.

Raks Vaudevilla
with Onça of Baraka Mundi
It's all how you handle the big stick. Cane, or 'Raks Assaya', is a traditional woman's dance art that offers tremendous creative expression to Fusion, Burlesque, and Vaudeville artists. Building on the tribal dance vocabulary, we drill sustainable cane technique and explore combos with attitude. Great for developing both troupe precision and the theatrical face of fusion.

ATS, BLT Style
with Blue Lotus Tribe
A Taste of Chicago: Blue Lotus Tribe Original Combinations
Blue Lotus Tribe is one of the most recognized names in tribal bellydance in the Midwest, celebrated for their impeccable technique and fun, sassy style as well as their originality and creativity. Take a look at why their fans love them by learning some of their original combinations. You'll learn a sampling of Blue Lotus Tribe combinations, including some from their "Egypto-Tribal Fusion" collection which incorporates Egyptian folkloric moves and their "Next Level" collection which focuses on dynamic level change movement. All combinations will be taught with its own unique zil pattern as well. This workshop will move fast and take you to the floor, so please come with a working knowledge of Tribal Improv basics, your zils, and a pair of kneepads!

Engarde!! Aggressive and Dramatic Sword Dancing
with Blue Lotus Tribe
From the basics of balancing a sword on your head to some of the more interesting shapes and intricate ideas that can come from good swordplay, Blue Lotus Tribe covers quite a bit of ground in a small amount of time in this workshop. Learn how easy it can be to incorporate swords into basic ATS vocabulary and common combinations and work your way up to Blue Lotus Tribe original combinations and transitions for improv as well as some very dramatic partner work. All participants should bring their own sword and floorwork will be covered, so kneepads are recommended.

Fosse-lized!
with Samantha Riggs of BoomBoomBollywood
Let us tip our stylish bowler hats to Bob Fosse, jazz dance choreographer extraordinaire! Samantha has brought the stylized, cynical sexuality of Fosse to Bellydance and Fosse-lized some tribal fusion combos for you to learn. These combos are dark, satirical and full of attitude and emotive body language. Besides his distinctive dance style (which included the use of inward knees, rounded shoulders and body isolations), Fosse also utilized the idea of subtext (unspoken thoughts and motives – the content underneath the dialogue) and gave his dancers something to think about during their numbers. Samantha will facilitate the incorporation of subtext into dance to help develop better acting technique on stage, bringing an awareness of pushing an intent just beneath the surface to create more intensity. Long skirts will just get in your way, so please wear form-fitting pants or shorts. Fosse believed that “The time to sing is when your emotional level is too high to just speak anymore, and the time to dance is when your emotions are just too strong to only sing about how you feel.” Amen.

Pirate Bellydance: Why Is The Rum Always Gone?
with Samantha Riggs of BoomBoomBollywood
Learn to do drops, spins and shimmies all while keeping your bottle safe. This workshop covers the coordination necessary to transfer an open bottle from hand to hand as a dancer transitions from fancy footwork to athletic floor work. These skills can be applied to almost any hand-held prop (rum bottles, fire props, swords, etc.) and will also come in handy at Tribo parties. Please bring a plastic bottle to use as a prop in class and if you need knee, ankle or foot support for floor work and drops, please bring that too.

Richer than Cake: This Dance has Layers
with Amanda Foster
Layering is the essence of bellydance technique. Learn how to layer as many as four moves with precision at once, including different time signatures. This class also explores layering while doing level changes, travelling and more. Open to all levels. Bring your finger cymbals!

Gainanda in 9/8
with Gaiananda
Tired of the never-ending 4/4? Let us share with you some combinations for a fresh beat! Inspired by Dunyavi movement styles, these spirited movements will help you create graceful and fiery performances with off-beat flair.

Bad @ss Bellydance
with Romka
Looking for a little edge? A little attitude, a little flair? Romka's Bad @ss workshop combines belly dance technique with an edgy style. Infuse your dancing with confidence and a "bas @ss" edge. Participants will learn a short choreography, and learn about projecting confidence, musical interpretation and stylization.

Tribal Music

Middle Eastern & Balkan Melody
with August Hoerr of The Mezmer Society
Beginner/Intermediate. Learn these traditional songs,
appropriate for any performance or hafla!

Group Improvisation De-Mystified
with August Hoerr of The Mezmer Society
Intermediate level. Finally, a method for playing intuitively and spontaneously--improvisation is de-mystified! August will teach some guidelines that can improve soloing and playing off the cuff. The class will also address how to play a supportive role with other musicians and how to handle group dynamics so all involved come out smelling like roses - musically speaking...

Beyond Hijaz: Enriching Tribal Belly Dance Culture with Exotic Modes for Improvisation
with Donnegan
For Beginner to Intermediate Musicians
We've all played it – they've all danced to it; Hollywood's infamous Arabic scale, Hijaz-Kar, pervades much of the western perception of Middle Eastern music. It is often the default mode and rhythm for most musicians and dancers whose knowledge of Turkish, Arabic, Persian, Balkan, and Greek music is either newly forming or unexplored.
The creative spirit of tribal belly dance culture encourages new and sensuous sounds. Instrumentalists are invited to a taste-sampling of rare and exotic modes from the Middle East and ancient Near East. Participants will receive a take-home sheet featuring the examples covered in class and are encouraged to inspire the dancers with them during the event.
Microtonal instrumentalists and drummers are encouraged to participate; equal tempered instrumentalists are more than welcome to join but may experience limitations from their instrument.

World Percussion
with River Guerguerian
In addition to group classes, River will be available to work one-on-one on private sessions to assist percussionists of every level in their creative growth and sustainable technique.

TAO TE DRUM: Eastern Drumming for Western Drummers
with Daveed Korup of Turku
“If Pooh drummed, what would it be like?” Eastern Drumming for Western Drummer’s” offers a basic nuts and bolts approach to Middle Eastern / Central Asian ethno-fusion, folk drumming, where participants will experience an eclectic program of Drum Speak, warm-ups, traditional rhythms, and ensemble play. Perfect for drummers of all skill levels.

TAO TE DRUM: Tower of Babel
with Daveed Korup of Turku
“Even the most complicated rhythms are made from the simplest patterns.”(taken from the TAO TE DRUM by Daveed Korup) TAO TE DRUM: Rhythm Labyrinths ---Tower of Babel is an intermediate-level program, where participants are taught four Middle Eastern and Central Asian folk rhythms: Slow Turkish Five (5/8), Fast Turkish Five (5/4), Samai (10/8) and Beladi (4/4). Tightly woven together, these four patterns create a trance groove that is both evocative and mesmerizing.

Turkish Spoons
with Kelly Bowers of Sesen
An undiscovered country for most dancers and musicians, Turkish Spoons offer a folksy alternative to other forms of hand percussion. Practice spoons provided.

Zils for Musicians
with Kelly Bowers of Sesen
It's amazing how many musicians have never picked up finger cymbals. So versatile, zills aren't just for dancers and can add a layer to any arrangement or hafla jam.

Free Planet Radio
'A World Music Super Group'- Mountain Xpress
Radio Free Planet is the vision of three multi-instrumentalists exploring the infinite and seamless realtionships between musical cultures through the universal language of sound. www.freeplanetradio.com

Circus Arts

Fire Safety, Technique, and Performance
with Fire Talent / Creative Flame
Creative flame will guide you through the necessary fire-handling safety guidelines laid out by N.A.F.A.A.(North American Fire Arts Association) of which they are founding members. We will then split into groups to learn the basic technique for some of the most exciting tools to include in your performance, including fans, poi, staff, and hoops. These groups will rotate so don't feel you have to choose just one!

Intro to Juggling
with Fire Talent / Creative Flame
Sebastian and Europamoon of Creative flame will introduce the fundamentals of
Juggling, balancing and basic circus arts. We will be working with scarves,
feathers, balls and more! This class is great for adding that "old world
gypsy" feel to your performance!

Aerials 101: The Silks
with Darcy DeVine of Awalim

Join Darcy for a kick@ss aerial inspired workout! The few and the strong will play around with proper body position for aerials, how to climb, and how to spice up a choreography with hanging poses and styles. We'll also be strength and flexibility training throughout the hour; you'll leave armed with an at-home repertoire of exercises to help you fly through the air with the greatest of ease.

YogaFusion- Strength and Tone for Dancers
with Jaia of Ananda
Following a Vinyasa Yoga path for quick heat and length in the muscles, we will weave through intense quad, glute and lower body poses and hold them for longer periods of time creating strength. Inviting Pilates principles and moves to these asanas will create a core awareness that will bring stability and length to the postures of dance. Creating a powerful environment in this class and pushing past fatigue will increase endurance and stamina for the dancer.

Poi
with Claire Metz of Gyspy Hands
Learn the basics of the New Zealand dance form known as poi. Increase flexibility, strength, and coordination, while creating a new connection between mind and body. Practice poi will be available for use and sale, or bring your own.

Swashbuckling: Tricks and Traits
with Mestre Draven dos Boa Morte
Lacking bravado? Pinache’? That certain, as the French say, “I don’t know what” on the field or in court? Charisma cannot be taught, ‘tis true. But it CAN be faked! Requirements for this workshop are as follows: comfortable garb, preferably, but not restricted to, period swordsmens garb. Pirate/ nobleman/middle eastern/street urchin/cabin boy will also suffice. Ball caps will be confiscated and their wearers berated at the door (then shown the door). On Anne Bonny’s grave, I swear this class is suitable for women as well as men (all must be 13 or over)! A $10.00 fee will be recovered for training swords and literature. Trained fighters are invited to arm themselves in the right and attend willingly “the golden circle”, hosted and marshaled by Capt. Andean Carver of the Lost Boys fleet.

Business Classes

Retirement Strategies for Small Businesses
with Shelly Dandanell, CLTC, CSA
Retirement Strategies For Small Businesses
Businesses are always looking for ways to maximize their resources. Come discuss strategies that will benefit you and your business today as well as tomorrow. Sometimes all you need is a fresh set of eyes to help you identify overlooked business deductions, planning pitfalls and consequences of procrastination and denial. We will discuss several ideas you can impliment immediately that may help you in these areas as well as curbing employee turnover...which will give you more time to shimmy!

Dance the Net: A Guide to Dance Promotions on the Internet
with Asim Al-Talib

Promote yourself on the Internet – no matter what level of dancer you
are! This is a class for dancers struggling to find their place on the
complex layout of the 'Net. Taught by a Programmer/Dancer, we'll walk
from the basics of MySpace, Facebook and Tribe to the intricate but
useful steps of hosting your own website. These steps are geared to
ethically promote you as not only a dancer, be you eager beginner or
seasoned pro, but to also build a virtual support network – a key need
for any dancer!

Untangle the Mess & Clean the Desk: Business 101 for Performers
with Torva Logan of Future of Tradition Productions

In this lighthearted introduction to basic business practices for artists and performers,Torva takes you step by step through the process of shaking off that overwhelmed feeling that often surrounds microentrepreneuers, developing a plan for success, and managing your plan through easy to follow tasks. In the second hour, we will cover all aspects of finding the right staff and contracted help to suit your individual needs. Each business is different, even in the same industry, and each business has a unique set of needs. Find out what yours are, and learn how to meet them successfully and easily.

Gypsy Arts

Tarot: A Night in Chapel Perilous
with Onça O'Leary of Baraka Mundi
Historically, the Tarot is a series of images that have survived 500 or more years in the West, partly as a parlor game, and partly as a soulful glimpse into the human condition. We’ll talk about all this and more. Bring a deck, if you have one. Onca will bring extras for examination and for sale. In a previous artistic life, Onça became an internationally known writer and artist on the subject of the Tarot.

Tasseomancy and Basic Scrying
with Torva Logan
Whether its gazing up at the clouds or peering into the mysterious shapes left in a tea mug on a cool fall morning, portends are all around us. As ancient as human culture, divination through scrying has been around since the begining of time and has enjoyed many incarnations throughout the ages. We will read Turkish Coffee Grounds, Tea leaves, candle wax and, weather permitting, we will cloud gaze. Also included in this hour will be the exploration of symbology in everyday life. Join Torva in the cafe as we peer into the natural world to hear its messages and learn the ancient ways.

Energywork
with Sara Griscom of Gypsy Hands
Energywork can heal the self and others by simply allowing the flow through intent and practice. In this class, we will focus on centering, grounding, and opening our chakras, while using the tribal dance techniques you know. Integrate healing energy into your life and getting to the "heart" of dance. No experience necessary, just come open-minded.

Gypsy Skincare
with Claire Dima of Baraka Mundi
The ancient Egyptians rioted for lack of eyeliner; humans have always taken our health & beauty seriously! Learn some traditional, easy to make, facial masques, toners and beauty regiments that will give you that special gypsy glow!

Harquus - Tribal Tattoos for Bellydancers
with Claire Dima of Baraka Mundi
What are those pretty spots, anyway? Long a defining feature of the ATS look, tribal markings seem to be drifting out of use. Baraka Mundi says "No!"
Claire Dima presents history, tools and patterns for those that love the harquus.

Intro to Brewing: Beer & Mead
with Rick Dawman of Rising Sun Tribe
Brewing hasn't changed much since the beginning. Which means that brewing your own beer and mead has been a time honored tradition since around 4300 B.C. In this class you will be introduced to the SIMPLE process of brewing your own beverages for a fraction of the cost of buying retail. You will learn how you can get started with about $35 or less for equipment, and how to create a better tasting beverage from your first batch. A three page handout will be available which walks you through the process and lists resources for materials.

Tribal Costuming, Hair, and Make-up

Shisha: Mirror Embriodery Class
with Claire Dima of Baraka Mundi
Learn to sew on those lovely sparkly shisha (mirrors!) that dance fans so adore (they also avert the 'Evil Eye' of misfortune). Create new pieces or repair old vintage ones. $3 for handouts and practice swatch.

Pro Hair & Makeup
with Natalie Brown of Delirium Tribal
Learn the theory and process of how Natalie Brown of Delirium Tribal achieves her signature polished Tribal look. Bring your makeup boxes and bits and baubles and learn how to apply and arrange them on yourself for maximum effect.

Cowrie Crafting for Dancers
with Claire Dima of Baraka Mundi
Learn to make your own 'Oh so Pretty!' cowrie falls,
tips for working with cowries in jewelry, bedleh and more. Cowries are an ancient universal symbol of abundance. Attract more abudance in this fun crafts class.

Vintage Headpieces
with Sparrow Kettner of Baraka Mundi
In this workshop, we will be making lovely victorian/20's style headbands with flowers, feathers, and ribbons. you can attend and just watch and learn, or you can leave with a beautiful costume piece for a 10$ materials fee.

'Creating your Dance Wardrobe from the Ground Up'
with Miki Bowman of the Naughty Nomads
This class offers suggestions for making good costume choices:
selecting styles that flatter, good fabrics, how to select foundation colors for your bellydance closet, how to recognize buying quality jewelry and textiles, and how to mix up what you have to achieve the look you need - whether tribal, cabaret, folky or gothique.

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