Event Details

Date/Time: 

Jan 31 2010 11:30am - 2:30pm

Price: 

$40, $45 at the door
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Where: 

Levantine Cultural Center @
Pacific Dance Studios
10469 Santa Monica Blvd. (between Beverly Glen and Overland)
Los Angeles CA 90025
Reservations/information, 310.657.5511
Phone day of workshop, 310.481.9966
street parking

Miriam Peretz Silk Road-Afghan Dance WorkshopDon't miss this exclusive dance workshop taught by the much-lauded San Francisco-based dancer and choreographer, Miriam Peretz.

The Silk Road was a historic trading route stretching 7,000 miles across Central Asia from the China Sea in the east to the Mediterranean in the west. Some of the countries include- Iran, Tajikistan, Afghanistan, Azerbaijan, Armenia, Uzbekistan, and Turkey.

This workshop will give small samples of various Central Asian dance styles, with a main focus on Afghan dance. The workshop will give special attention to the art of spinning (central to all Central Asian dance forms,) and teach Afghan dance vocabulary culminating in a short dance. We will also learn the attan—the national folk dance of Afghanistan, danced at almost all celebrations and rites of passage.

Miriam Peretz is an internationally acclaimed performing artist and instructor specializing in dances from the Silk Road and the Middle East.

Miriam Peretz dances Afghan styleMiriam has been a featured soloist with numerous dance companies, as well as performed with many acclaimed musicians, both in the U.S. and abroad. She is currently assistant artistic director, principle dancer and choreographer of Ballet Afsaneh Central Asian dance company based in the San Francisco Bay Area. Miriam has traveled extensively and studied with master teachers in Central Asia & the Middle East. On these journeys she received great inspiration, finding ways that the arts can help bridge gaps, create respect, love and unity among people of different spiritual traditions, and backgrounds. Miriam's dance style uniquely fuses together traditional, contemporary, and sacred dance forms.

Visit Miriam's dance site.