Timing & Transitions - Summer online/studio course Ash 11, 18 & 25 June

Transitions is a recurring theme that many people ask Annah to teach. It is the movement between movements, the dance that connects the parts of the dance into a whole. This time it is combined with another fundamental principle of dance: timing.

This course will be wonderfully nerdy and in-depth, in how we can apply in a basic way the principle that technique is a means of conveying feeling. We will try different ways to vary transitions, based on basic elements such as weight shift, level shifts, focus shifts, on/off balance and tension/release, with different timing and character and see how it affects the expression of the dance.

The music will be lyrical/romantic Raqs Sharqi, with both classical and modern examples.