Dear Friends,  

I am very excited to tell you that Hossam & Serena Ramzy are planning to bring their professional development course to Cardiff. They chose Cardiff because it's a central point for all the lovely dancers they have met in South Wales over the last few years.  

The course will run over 12 months with 4 intensive sessions a year (one a quarter). Each class will include both drumming and dancing in order to fully connect with the rhythms and music. You will learn how to play simple Egyptian rhythms on the duf, study bellydance technique & choreography with Serena (with a session devoted to Saiidi stick dance) and study the Stars of Egypt in order to help you develop your own individual expression. 

Between each session there will be homework which needs to be filmed on a camcorder or digital camera and sent via email or post to be assessed.  

There will be a certificate at the end but more exciting than that, the course works you towards dancing in a final show with a full live Egyptian Orchestra. The perfect way to show all the hard work you have done over the last 12 months!  

The dates are - 
Saturday 27th June
Saturday 24th October
Saturday 20th February
Saturday 12th June  

Plus the date for the show will be - Friday 24th September 2010.  

COSTS for the course are £400 for the year which includes all tuition on the quarterly sessions (20 hours) and continual contact and assessment in between. The first £200 is to be paid in advance (by May 29th) and the second amount is payable at the first session on June 27th.

(Please note that there will be a few extra costs for rehearsing for the show - room hire, hotel & petrol expenses for H & S - which we will divide between the dancers us dancers).  

There are only 16 places so please reply as soon as possible. To give you an idea of what the course entails, check out their Advanced Dancers Course. They are offering a shorter and less intense version of this.  Please read about their "Advanced Professional Dancers Ceritfied Course"

For those who are unable to do the year long training, Hossam & Serena will be holding open workshops on the Sundays that they are in Cardiff doing the professional development. So you don't get to miss out!

Looking forward to welcoming you on to the course.
Best  Wishes
Hannah Corr.