Celebrating our Silver Anniversary
Featuring
Schedule of Events
Saturday
9:00am -10:00am Registration
10:00am - 12:00pm Technique class with Cassandra Bring finger cymbals & veil
12:00pm - 1:30pm Lunch Break Bring your own or check out our local restaurants!
1:30pm - 3:30pm Technique class with Cassandra
Evening Concert: Faddah
7:30pm Doors open
8:00pm Curtain
Sunday
12:00pm - 12:30pm Registration
Dance with Cassandra
12:30pm - 3:30pm Guedra & Schikatt
Drumming with Nicole
12:30pm - 1:30pm Basic Rhythms
2:00pm - 3:30pm Advanced Rhythms
Registration
Concert Tickets $15.00 in advance
$20.00 at the door
Click here for Printable Registration Form
Early Registration ends April 8, 2008
Workshop Pricing
Saturday Only Technique Classes $80.00 early reg.
$100.00 after April 8
Sunday Only Guedra & Schikatt $60.00 early reg.
$75.00 after April 8
Drumming Classes $30.00 Basic Rhythms
$45.00 Advanced Rhythms
$60.00 Both
Weekend Special $120.00 early reg. Saturday & Sunday Dance Classes only
Advanced registration and ticket purchase is strongly encouraged, as we have sold out in previous years. Early registration ends April 8, 2008. Mail-ordered tickets may be picked up at the workshop or at the concert door until 8:30pm the night of the show. Your registration will be held at the door, and will not be confirmed by mail. No refunds for cancellations. Participants will be limited.
Hotels and Directions
Workshop and Concert Location
East Lansing Hannah Community Center
Albert A. White Performing Arts Theater
819 Abbott Rd. East Lansing, MI 48823
Hotels
Hampton Inn 517-324-2072 2500 Coolidge Rd. East Lansing
A block of rooms at the Hampton inn have been reserved for the event. Mention the Habibi Dancers to recieve the discounted price of $85/room with up to four people. Special pricing expires 04/08/2008.
Quality Inn 517-351-1400 3121 Grand River Rd. Lansing
Marriott 517-337-4440 300 MAC Ave. East Lansing
Directions
Special Guests
Cassandra
Cassandra has focused her dance study and performance on the Egyptian Raks Sharqi and Middle Eastern folkloric dance since 1974. Her studies began in San Francisco with the legendary performer, Jamila Salimpour, and has continued through regualr research trips to the Middle East. Cassandra began her career as a cabaret performer. Since 1984, she has widened the scope of her artistic expression by presenting Middle Eastern Dance on the theater stage. Cassandra is the founder and Artistic Director or Jawaahir Dance Company. Cassandra's artistry, her presentations, her creativity, her precision, her passion, her technique, her authenticity, her dynamics - she is simply the best of this generation's contemporary dancers. You owe it to yourself to take advantage of this opportunity to study with Cassandra.
Nicole LaCorgne
A percussionist specializing in Arabic music, Nicole LaCorgne is originally from New Orleans, Louisiana. She recieved a B.A. in World Music and Dance from the University of Minnesota and has a Masters Degree in Ethnomusicology from Wesleyan University. Nicole spent over four years performing accross the country as a core member of the Georges Lammam Ensemble. She was a founding member of the Balkan gypsy ensemble, Panecea, and has been the musical accompanist and resident drum teacher at Oasis Dance Camps for the past ten years. She is compiling the teachings of Michel Merhej, the life-long percussionist for the legendary Lebanese singer, Fairuz, as a part of an instruction manual for classical Arabic riq (tambourine), and is hoping to release her first solo recording project this fall.
