About Classes:
Lorelei currently teaching classes through the Newark Arts Alliance and occasionally online
- Check the current classes
- 2023: 9/16/23 and/or 10/7/2023: $20 per session, paid to the Newark Arts Alliance
- discounts for being an Newark Arts Alliance member
- Zoom is available if you ask 1 week BEFORE each session
- fees are not refundable, but can often be transferred to other classes (at least for Lorelei's classes)
- Online Upper Body Bellydance classes: online over Zoom
- Future classes in Newark DE TBD
- Future Zills/finger cymbal workshops and Salimpour technique drills TBD in 2024
- interested in a workshop at your home studio? Contact Lorelei
- Classes and privates can also be scheduled as online visits, using Zoom, Skype or Google hang outs.
- check out the Girls Art Night Out classes at the Newark Arts Alliance, which include wine and snacks.
- or book an art party or rental through the arts alliance. Various visual and performance arts instructors are available for lessons and demonstrations (Lorelei's offerings include bellydance, drumming, and blacklight bodyart )
- Floorplay Studio also hosts private parties, which can include bellydance. Get your requests in soon.
Note that you should consult your physician and any personal trainers before starting any new exercise activity. With any new activity, you may experience discomfort from using muscles more, but you should now experience extreme pain. If you do, stop immediately, and contact a doctor if necessary.
Format of current classes:
Open level Bellydance class taught by Lorelei
Fine for beginners.
Advanced students welcome too. You can always ask for a zill pattern, layer, or just work on the move EVEN FASTER. (Beginners will start with 1/4 and 1/2 time, but advanced students can work on full time and doubletime)
Class usually focuses on a few moves, some in place and some traveling. And we put them all together at the end of class in a short improvisation.
Fine for beginners.
Advanced students welcome too. You can always ask for a zill pattern, layer, or just work on the move EVEN FASTER. (Beginners will start with 1/4 and 1/2 time, but advanced students can work on full time and doubletime)
Class usually focuses on a few moves, some in place and some traveling. And we put them all together at the end of class in a short improvisation.
Past classes and workshops:
Zills and Drills:
Finger cymbals, zills, sagat…Want to play more than triplets? Need help dancing and zilling at the same time? Want to take your zilling to the next level? Lorelei will share finger cymbal hints and drills to help beginner and intermediate students of all bellydance styles move to the next level. Drills for playing in place, moving, drum rhythms and cymbal rhythms will all be covered. You will need a pair of finger cymbals for this class. And be sure to check the elastic before class.
Sword: limit 10 students
**Bring your zills for an extra challenge***
Bring your sword if you have one. There are a limited number of swords to borrow.
Topic include:
Veil/Double Veil/Wings: limit 10 students
**Bring your zills for an extra challenge***
Topic include:
Rhythm and ZIlls: limit 15 students
Learn to recognize and play basic middle eastern rhythms. This class will focus more on playing zills, but it will include some playing demonstration on a doumbek. Students will practice with zills, as well as clapping. We will also listen to some recorded music and identify the rhythm used.
We will learn to play patterns that complement the main rhythm in a song: playing the exact rhythm, playing accents, and playing a complementing rhythm like triplets.
This is a lower impact class, focuses most on hands and fingers. But we will also move with zills: adding some basic bellydance moves to our zill rhythms.
There will be printed information and some zills to borrow.
Be sure to request loaner zills before attending class.
Finger cymbals, zills, sagat…Want to play more than triplets? Need help dancing and zilling at the same time? Want to take your zilling to the next level? Lorelei will share finger cymbal hints and drills to help beginner and intermediate students of all bellydance styles move to the next level. Drills for playing in place, moving, drum rhythms and cymbal rhythms will all be covered. You will need a pair of finger cymbals for this class. And be sure to check the elastic before class.
Sword: limit 10 students
**Bring your zills for an extra challenge***
Bring your sword if you have one. There are a limited number of swords to borrow.
Topic include:
- warmup (zills optional)
- Different types of swords
- Poses and Combinations: dancing with your sword
- Balance points: on your head and MORE
Veil/Double Veil/Wings: limit 10 students
**Bring your zills for an extra challenge***
Topic include:
- warmup (zills optional)
- Entrances with Veil/doubleVeil/Wings
- Wraps and unwrapping
- Flourishes, poses and combinations
- How to overcome veil problems mid dance (veil stuck to face? here's a solution)
Rhythm and ZIlls: limit 15 students
Learn to recognize and play basic middle eastern rhythms. This class will focus more on playing zills, but it will include some playing demonstration on a doumbek. Students will practice with zills, as well as clapping. We will also listen to some recorded music and identify the rhythm used.
We will learn to play patterns that complement the main rhythm in a song: playing the exact rhythm, playing accents, and playing a complementing rhythm like triplets.
This is a lower impact class, focuses most on hands and fingers. But we will also move with zills: adding some basic bellydance moves to our zill rhythms.
There will be printed information and some zills to borrow.
Be sure to request loaner zills before attending class.
