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Rhythm Fest
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2012 Special Guests! |
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Rhythm Fest is proud to present some special guests who will be providing workshops, and/or performances. |
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Miramar has been studying and researching Middle Eastern Dance for over twenty years and began teaching in 1989 in the Winchester, VA area. Miramar performed with the Silk Road Dance Company for one and one-half years under the direction of Laurel Victoria Gray. She has studied Middle Eastern Dance in both Turkey and Egypt. Masters Degree in Art Administration, Shenandoah University 2005, and has received a Research Excellence Award for her thesis on codes of conduct in Middle Eastern Dance Miramar will be teaching dance classes for adults and children, and she will be performing for us Saturday night! |
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Miramar |
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In his thirty four years of drumming, studying, training, and/or instructing classical and modern percussion, he has acquired a wealth of experience in band, orchestra, marching band and competitive drum corps. He is immersed in traditional West African Djembe drumming and technique. He has studied drumming and drum circle facilitation with Jaqui MacMillan. He has performed and/or studied with many artists including David Korup, Aesa Grayson, Sogjbeti Diamante, Jaqui MacMillan and Jim Donovan of Rusted Root. Tigre has co-created formal and informal ceremonies, and taught classes for many regional and nationally recognized organizations and events such as Drum and Splash, The Mid-Atlantic Men's Gathering, The Sacred Space Conference, Fires Rising, Sacred Well, and Carolina Spirit Quest. He joined the band Kiva in 2005 and now resides in Baltimore, MD. |
R. Tigre Cruz! |
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"Dance is such a joyful act, one that connects body, mind, and spirit. In dancing with and for others we enjoy a human connection deeper than our everyday experiences. Bellydance has allowed me to become part of a community that values the strength, creativity, and indefinable beauty of all women. Performing and teaching is my way of giving back and honoring the fulfillment I found in Bellydance." Lynchburg Tribal Bellydance will be at Rhythm Fest giving classes and a performance! |
Nancy McAndrew and Lynchburg Tribal Bellydance! |
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Brad has taught at east coast venues such as Rakkasah East, the Folktours Mideast-Turkish camp, the EEFC Balkan Camp, the Buffalo on the Danube Balkan camp, and at the west coast Middle East camp in Mendocino, CA. Brad has made field recordings of drummers in the US, Eastern Europe, and Turkey. He founded WMFC, a non-profit group that produces the Balktoberfest and Herdeljezi (Romany “Gypsy”) Festivals in the DC area, which has donated thousands to a charity in Macedonia. Currently he is director of percussion at Sahara Dance in Washington, D.C. |
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Belladonna Amaya has been dancing since February 2002. Belly dancing, art and music are her passions. She has studied several styles of belly dance with various teachers in this area as well as attended many workshops with nationally known teachers. She is currently working on her belly dance trainer certification. She describes her dance style as belly dance fusion, since as an artist she likes to create dances borrowing moves from many styles of dance. She love dancing with a veil, a cane, a fan and her big gypsy skirt. She likes to have fun and inspire others to dance and to find their muse within. She also wants to share the joy of dance and celebration with friends and community. Belladonna Amaya will be teaching a workshop and performing this year! |
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Sidqi (Brad Sidwell) has more than 25 years experience playing darabuka with experience in Balkan, & Middle Eastern drumming technique, and special interest in Turkish and Macedonian Romany rhythms.
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Angela Petry has studied and performed belly dance for nearly a decade. In addition to working as a solo dancer, she has performed regionally as a founding member of a professional Middle Eastern dance troupe, and is the creator and instructor of Bellysima bellydance classes. Angela has an extensive musical background which plays a key role in her dance experience. Not limiting herself to any one instrument, she finds joy playing several, and works as a vocalist. She began studying African and Middle Eastern drumming over ten years ago, which led to her first exposure to belly dance. As the main focus of her current dance activities, Bellysima classes can best be described as an expression of Angela’s desire to bring her unique blend of dance, yoga and musical awareness to all women. The classes provide the opportunity for women to study belly dance in an atmosphere of sisterhood and fun, explore their essential femininity and sensuality, and gain strength, fitness, balance and self confidence. |
Angela Petry |
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For Heather, music and the courage to follow your heart, wherever it leads, are inextricably tied. Her own first journey far away from her ´secure´ fundraising job and into the highlands of Guatemala was part of a greater unfolding - it was part of a quest to literally quit ‘dying a little bit on the inside every day’, recover her spirit, leave behind what had been diagnosed as a ‘chronic, incurable illness’, opening back up to her innately powerful self. She now champions others put themselves back in their own song through 1:1 coaching, online virtual classes and of course, music. Upon return from her first stay in Guatemala in 2007, she was hit with a divine inspiration to write a book called “The Conscious Girls Guide to Backpacking.” In the last four years, she’s honored that inspiration, traveling, writing, and working with people in a direct, transformational manner. “The Conscious Girl´s Guide to Backpacking”´ is currently in the proposal stage with the vision of being released in 2012. A native of Westport, CT and University of Virginia ‘03 B.A. Music (concentration in Vocal Performance and Choral Conducting), she’s routinely caught in the act of making music. |
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Nuit (Night) Moore creates an expressive fusion from her background in theater, love of ancient ritual and sacred ecstatic dance with an avant garde aesthetic and occult flair. She is the founder of Ishtar Noir Tribal, is a neo-vaudeville actress, performance poet, fire dancer, and a burlesque and cabaret performer. A High Priestess of Isis, Ishtar and Inanna (among others) and a Cancer/Scorpio/Scorpio, she has a deep love of the esoteric, sensual and transformative which is often channeled into her creative work. Nuit Moore will be performing a fire dance for us this year! |
Nuit (Night) Moore |
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Maya White Sparks has been a Spiral Grove Priestess of Interpath Nature Spirituality for 20 years. With Magic Women Productions she co-created the CD MEDITATIONS with Maya, Sound Dimensiondby Cheryl Jacobs. She has been certified in Natural Health an Hypnotherapy. Through ritual, daily practice, and study she has been exploring the power of healing through sound. |
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