punctuating pops!
About this Event
Join Zoe for a 2hr workshop "Reverb and Explosive Technique"
at Santa Rosa's House of Flow. Bring dynamics into your dance with the concept of Reverb, a quick and exciting directional change that brings so much more to your technique. This technique will have you moving like molasses and flowing like water, with sharp punctuating pops. These techniques use bellydance pathways you already
know, and help create drama and unique stylization. All levels, with some
fundamental exploration, and some more intermediate concepts later in class.
BIO:
Zoe Jakes has been belly dancing for 20 years, and brings playfulness and
ease into the classroom that makes training fun! She desires to create an
inclusive environment so all humans can enjoy the art of Bellydance, and hopes
that everyone can experience the grace and fluidity that comes with training in
this form. Zoe's signature style of dance incorporates pop and lock isolations,
elements of classical Indian dance, jazz footwork, and modern lines, with lots of
folk Bellydance inspiration.
Zoe Jakes is a founding member of Beats Antique
and composes music for them as well as dances. She is known around the world
for her unique stylistic take on belly dance, and is also an accomplished
teacher, sharing her knowledge with the next generation.
A versatile and extremely well-rounded performer, Zoe Jakes has developed
an instruction style all her own and is a popular touring instructor, her
workshops regularly selling out.
Katarina Burda (an original member of Bal-Anat) is her first teacher and
influence, and Zoe was a company member of Katarina's troop Aywah! along
with the talented Mira Betz and Elizabeth Strong. She went on to train and
perform with the amazing Suhaila Salimpour, spent a few years learning how to
get in peoples faces in Extra Action Marching Band, and immersed in
Americana Vaudeville with The Yard Dogs Road Show. A proud member of The
Indigo Belly Dance Company, Zoe holds Mardi Love and Rachel Brice as her
teachers and inspiration. Currently, Zoe Jakes is touring with her band Beats
Antique, a group that has 6 albums and hundreds of live shows under their belt.
Zoe designs and makes many of her own costumes and co-produces tracks
with Beats Antique, also adding set designer and stylist to her body of work.
All sales are final!
Event venue & nearby stays
House of Flow, 803 Ripley Street, Santa Rosa, United States
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