Hmmmmm. I've never actually submitted anything for PennSIC before, but I've been wanting to rework my workshop on arms, lines, and extension. Maybe PennSIC would be a good place for a trial run.

Would people be interested in that as a topic? I think I can say I'm definitely going to PennSIC this year...

Somebody please say they're teaching some folkloric dances -
Sadika & I are still gathering performers for the brand new "Folkloric Dance Show" at Pennsic this year. We're bringing "folky" back!

Well, since I've been a Lazy Bum in Every Other way, this year...
...I'm thinkin' 'bout a set of Period Raqs/"Bellydance" Classes. This would be "one-stop shopping" for reworking your clothes, your moves,and your persona into period stuff, based on this research I did some years ago:

apostate.raqsstorm.org/2003/1...-m.html
apostate.raqsstorm.org/2003/1...-1.html

Plus more stuff I've had floating around, but not a chance to read and process into new articles.

My instinct is to bore everyone with 3-4 hours of it; 1 hr on just history of the dance in SCA period/persona, another hour on clothes, and 2 hr. on taking your dance and making it "more period.' I'd also likely break it up into multiple days...

...and yes, the "boring" part is a joke. :) But I am curious -- who'd find this of interest? Any other ways I could make something like this work for folks? Is it too much?

If you want to see a taste of my clothes-teaching style, here's a 5 min. video of me doing just that:

www.youtube.com/watch

Ok I'll do my Saiidi Classes again, maybe make it more general to Egyptian Folkloric classes to talk about Fellahi, Beledi, Saiidi, Hagallah, etc...maybe a 2 part series...would that work? An Egyptian folkloric sampler, I've had some exposure to all things Egyptian since last year :)

I know Camille did a folkloric footwork class 2 years ago, I'd looove to see that again!

I guess I could teach a basic Tunisian class to fit into the folky theme. I say basic because even after just 20 minutes of hip twists everyone will be suffering from side stitches.

Always planning on teaching zill drill...I only saw one dancer at Gulf Wars take up my challenge from Pennsic to at least always go out on the floor with zills, don't even have to play them, but at least always carry them around and have them available to use- good job Cat! And there were two other great zillers at GW, Bran and Pacita, what a joy to play with them!

... until I see zills used just as much as hip scarves I will always teach Zill Drill

I'm teach a class on Turkish Dance- based alot from my trip to Turkey a few years ago (and *maybe* another trip this summer) + from Artemis & Tayyar. Rom & Folk stuff that could segway into SCA dancing nicely as well as into cabaret or the zillions of other styles. 9/8 footwork, dance moves, Turkish "attitude" in dancing, maybe a few gestures, talking about skirt dancing... I hope it will be fun ;)

Melissa (of Ishtar) & I are also teaching The Art of Melodic Taksims for Musicians and Dancers.
This will be a 2 hr class (totally worth the 2hrs!!!) where musicians and dancers will learn about taksims (structure of taksims/ dance steps, & more) and then musicians and dancers will work together playing & dancing for each other. Melissa & I will give & collect feedaback, there will be discussion & more practicing together. Melissa will teach a taksim class for musicians the day before so this class will focus on the importance of dancers & musicians working together- playing off each other for that uber awesome performance taksim :)
We're really excited about this class! Taksims can be scarey but they can also be amazing. We're hoping lots of musicians will come and we're hoping to target intermediate (or more exp) dancers so we can really add to your dancing & peformance skills.

I would love to teach veil tricks again, but if we're going for historic accuracy, that's not the one to go for. Otherwise, I'd likely go for Intermediate combos. Thoughts?

I submitted the dance class with Bambi and a regular book class. I was thinking about the stretching class, "Stretching on the Serenghetti" but a bit worried about over comitting.

I've submitted a Folk Dancing class.

Woo Hoo! Boy do I have Pennsic on the brain :)

I'll be teaching Turkish Romani 9/8, Intermediate dance, and a (non-period but great for improving your grace skills) fanveils class.

BTW, I'm hosting a singing/music/storytelling/dance jam every night at Pennsic in my camp from 8:30-9:30ish if anyone is interested in stopping by. We're The Caravanserai in The Crown Province of Ostgardr in E04 :D We'll be there every night except midnight madness!

I'm so glad to hear Carla is doing the guedra gathering again. It's one of my favorite things of the year...and I always just chant!

-Pacita