THE DRUMZY SCHOOL OF DANCE, RHYTHM & MUSIC

PRESENT

THE ADVANCED DANCERS, TEACHERS & PROFESSIONAL PERFORMERS CERTIFIED COURSE

This course is aimed at dancers who want to become 100% professional in their dance career. Meaning those who want to become knowledgeable in understanding:

1. All the dance rhythms.
   
   
2. Able to recognise the various parts of the music. (Musical Structure within Egyptian Dance)
   
   
3. Able to express the music with movement and be creative in doing so.
   
   
4. Learn a high level of technique, movement and musical interpretation in various styles and influences.
   
   
5. Become knowledgeable in the various styles of Egyptian & Middle Eastern Dance.
   
   
6. Learn the various styles of dance, from the old "Stars of Egypt" Naima Akef, Taheya Karioka, Samya Gamal and many more.
   
   
7. Become flawless at designing their own choreographies and making the music come alive.
   
   
8. Handle all problems with regards to performing live to an audience. To pre- recorded or live music.
   
   
9. Learning the ability to dance with a LIVE BAND and interact with LIVE solo improvisations and handle all problems with regards to performing live to an audience while dancing to the music of a LIVE BAND.
   
   
10. The participants in the course will be part of a major show that we will organize for the end of course Hafla to perform live with our live band.

The course will have the following steps to it:

1. Private assessment class for each student with a proper interview, audition to assess each one's dance style, understanding of music and rhythm as well as what each dancer knows and what she feels that she needs to improve.
   
   
2. This interview will be videoed and documented for the future and studied by Hossam & Serena in order to assess where each student is at.
   
   
3. We will first of all handle your immediate obstacles one by one and put them on the right frame of mind for the course.
   
   
4. Then we will start the actual individual classes & group course as follows:
   
   a. Individual & Group classes of understanding rhythm. This will include playing a percussion instrument (simple and not in a complicated way).
   
   b. Individual & group classes in understanding the musical layers and how to break down each piece of music. Moreover, the students will be learning basic techniques and choreographies for developing their own styles.
   
   c. Visual studies and discussions of various styles of dance from videos as well as learning choreographies that portray the various styles we will be studying within the Egyptian dance.
   
   d. Home work, where each dancer will be given a private home work to work on. Each dancer will be expected to do her home work and record it on a simple video or DVD and send it to us by post for our viewing, assessing, grading and marking of the home work. You will receive your response to your home work by email.
   
   e. Correction regarding the home work will be reassessed on the following class.
   
   f. Group video discussions about video clips from the "Stars of Egypt". Assessing each
   dancer's style, how she interprets music and how she executes her dance presentation.
   
   g. Group choreographies and designing of group choreographies.
   
   h. Group percussion classes where you will learn to play simple rhythms on a drum. (Tabla
   or Duff).
   
   I . The art of dancing to live music. In these classes, a few instrumentalists (maybe violin and Nay and accordion) will be part of the classes and we will be teaching the art of dancing to live music and interpretation.
   
   j. We will hold 3 special classes with some of my live musicians for this course during which the dancers will learn how to interact fully with the soloing instruments. Only for the participants of this course.
   
   k. At the end and after the completion of the course, we will create a full show with all the dancers of the course being involved in creating this show itself, this show will be with the live band as well.
   
   
   TESTIMONIALS BY DANCERS CURRENTLY ON THE COURSE

The students will play an important part of choosing the music, making the stage design, designing the posters, leaflets and concert programs, lighting design, back stage organization, selling the tickets and promoting the concert as well as dancing in the show.

NOT ALL THE STUDENTS WILL DANCE A SOLO, but all will have a solo part in the group choreographies , depending on how they progress within the course.

LENGTH

The classes in this course will be held once a month and between each class you will have some home work to study and to do. In total it will be 18 months depending on each dancer's abilities to assimilate and apply the knowledge in the course and of course the amount of hours dedicated to the course.

This will be in addition to the time it will take to prepare for the end of course concert and presentation.

We also understand that each dancer is a different person with different needs and abilities. So while we aim for 18 months, we will stay with you (within the realm of the 20 classes in all) to help you achieve your best potential. We can never guarantee how each dancer will progress, but we can help you as much as you help yourself and work on your course work. But it is 18 months unless there are special needs, where we would be willing to add an extra class or two at the max.

FEES:                                                                        
                                                                                 

£2750 Pounds for the 18 classes.
£1500 to be paid in full in advance. Then,

10 x monthly payments of £125 to start at the start of your course.

For more information on how to register for this course, please contact us as follows:

By Phone : +44 1342 410800
By Email : ramzystore@btconnect.com
: drumzy@btconnect.com

TESTIMONIALS BY DANCERS CURRENTLY ON THE COURSE