Oriental Dance: Global Fusion

Course with Manis

This course introduces you to the diverse world of oriental dance as “Global Fusion”. With cultural roots in various dance traditions of the Middle East and North Africa, Raqs Sharqi/Oriental Dance is now taught all over the world and there are numerous festivals where only Raqs Sharqi, folklore, "tribal fusion" and "oriental fusion" dances are taught and major performances can be seen. In this intermediate and advanced course, Manis takes her dancers into the magical world of oriental dance, folklore and oriental fusion dance, a world that is so much more than the western idea of ​​it often conveys.

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Manis

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Manis is a choreographer and dancer and has been an appreciated oriental dance teacher at tanzhaus nrw for almost 30 years. Her classes are marked by spontaneity and liveliness. Manis regularly guests at international genre dance festivals, both solo and with her dance ensemble Sinam, founded in 1995. In 1995, she won the “Halim Prize”, awarded by the eponymous trade magazine, with Sinam. Manis has been an active teacher at the house since 1990, and as such has also been a part of the “Werkstatt” teaching team at tanzhaus nrw’s precursor. She has been crucial in building the oriental dance sector at the house, of which the Festival Orientale was a part for many years.