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AzizA Arts Studio Hungary, Budapest

My studio is in Hungary, Budapest.

I teach every style and dialect of oriental dance.
Form of lessons: trainings, workshops in group and private.

I have group-lessons in the evenings: Mon-Thu 18-20:30
Private lessons between: 8 am-17:30pm. Friday: all day. 
Sat-Sun: I teach professional teacher-training lessons, no hobby-dancers.
Costs depend on amount of lessons you are going to take.
For apointment call:+36 20 4904080

 Practical lessons:

1. Themes independent from styles:

• Body-Ready-for Dance: feeling the body, posture, breathing, fluenticity, power, dinamism,

• Bellyfit - A training system I started to base in 2001 for training dancers to be able to learn dance movement safe and easy and quick

2. Body and Space

• 3 Dimensional body-techniue: drawing patterns in the body

• Movements from the body to space

• Hand and body postures, movements "calligraphs"

• Space on stage- patterns of walking, whirling, turning

3. The music and the movement

• A/ Music

  • Rhytmic patterns int he Middle East and Turkey

  • Using zills

  • Instruments of the "bellydance" music
     

• B/ How to listen and hear, understand the music and translate it into movement, interpreting the music

  • Fluent and staccato

  • Smooth movements on different routes, by different parts of the body

  • Shaking, shimming, "breezing", poping, locking and so on

  • Dinamics, tempo, power, space

4. Props

• Technical basics and advanced, and professionals

• Dance vith zills, cane, tahtyb, veil: 1, 2 more J and Isis wings,

5. Styles

• A/ Folklor:

  • Khaleedji, (Saudi hair dance)

  • Saidi, (Upper- Egypt cane dance)

  • Ayub (Zaar ritual)

  • Beledi (Cairen urban folklor with accordion solo)

  • Melaya leff (Alexandrian urban folklor)

  • Nubian

  • Hagalla (bediun girls dance, show they skills)

  • Beduin dances

  • Ghawazi dances

  • Turkish, cingene, kocek rom 
     

• B/ Show Techniques of

  • Classical Egyptian oriental dance

  • Classical with Oum Klathoum songs

  • Modern Raks Sarqui

  • Pop shaaby

  • Drum solo

  • Turkish Cabaret style

  • Modern fusional: samba/salsa oriental

  • Classical al Andalus (court-dance with old samai rhythm, not "flamenco mix")

  • Combinations, improvization for different styles and how to make a coreography

  • Expressions on stage, entering, closing and between..

  • Bollywood/ banghra/ Indian

  • Hula -Polinesian 
     

• And I teach theoretical lessons on:

  • Body-mind-spirit - and holistic man in dance

  • Dance-history with some sociological aspects

  • And so on…

I have special film and picture collection to illustrate….

And if there is an interest:

• A separate professional dance training programme for future wanna-be teachers and/ or professional performers

• Over the technique - for teaching and performing;

Certified Middle Eastern Teacher Training Courses 
Attendance is strictly limited to 20 students

Some of our subjects:

• Improvisational skills;

• Applied Anathomy for bellydance

• Psychology, Pedagogy, Methology for teaching dance;

• Ethics and communicaton for lessons and performances;

• What makes you professional? Communication and appearance;

• How to make show alone or with a group?

• And so on..

And private or minigroup lessons for those who would like to know the secret of elegant and effortless, graceful dance or would like to refine their oriental dance technique.

About me, Aziza and My Book 

Belly Dancing
Harmony 
Vitality 
Body shaping 
Eroticism

 My book contents

• Greetings

• A brief history of oriental dance

• Spiritual and oriental dances

• Dance and the blessing of childbirth

• Health and oriental dance

• Experiences of learners of oriental dance

• Body culture and oriental dance

• About the basic moves of oriental dance

• Ideas for making or buying your belly dancing costume

• Hammam - Turkish bath

• "Scented garden" - intimate nest

• References

• The programmes of Aziza Art Movement Workshop

The book is avaiable in English

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Cellular: +36 20 4904080

My attraction towards cultures beyond the Caucasus led me to Sufism, enneagram, and from there - thanks to an aikido master friend of ours - I got to the Fourth Way school, to the doctrines of Gurdjieff and Ouspensky. The similarity between euritmics and "present" ancient movement abc explored by them touched me deeply. These two movement systems aren’t improvisational, but operate based on a determined order of elements. You have to be in the movement, there is no looking out. This determinedness releases the energy blocks and creates harmony in people after sufficient practice. We can regard them as dynamic meditations, since - similarly to the formal exercises of martial arts - they do not want to express, they teach how to focus.I graduated from Bessenyei György Teacher Training College in Nyíregyháza as a school teacher. Continual learning has been a part of my life ever since. I have an advanced language exam in Russian and an intermediate one in English; I also have a tourist guide certificate. I learned some German, Italian, and French too. I received a masseuse certificate from the Association of Non-Medical Practitioners. In addition, I learned reflexology and "rhythmic massage", which is known as the complementary therapy of antroposophic therapy, from the teachers of Margerethe Hauschka School of Art and Massage Therapy in Boll, Germany. I also learned aroma therapy, nutrition counselling, euritmics, and Odissi (Indian) dance.

I participated in brain control and Tibetan prana-nadi courses. I learned to play the piano. I took jazz ballet when I was in college. I acquired a post-graduate degree in Hungarian folklore-based children’s dance education. As an adult I started to learn classical ballet in private lessons.

I first met oriental dance in 1982 in the Soviet Union, where I got my first lessons from Moroccan, Jordan, Tunisian university friends; the then learnt movements were slumbering for the next decade and a half.

The need to deal with dancing consciously first came to me when I was looking for a movement system, with which I could keep my figure and my fitness in good condition after four children, which can be practiced even later, regardless of age, and which is able to make the changing conditions of womanhood joyful and provides opportunity for self-expression and creativity. After a belly-dancing performance I realized that this dance fulfils all my conditions. After a few dance lessons, I got in touch with foreign instructors who could help me understand the essence of this dance. I also asked my Arabian acquaintances living in Hungary to help me get closer to this special movement treasure. During my travels abroad I experienced Eastern people’s positive attitude towards life, one of the daily forms of expression of which is dancing. I always felt rather close to the thinking, emotional atmosphere, culture, and music of Mediterranean, Arabian, Anatolian, Asian people, so I did not have a hard time studying; I developed quickly. Since at the time there were no comprehensive instructive writings about oriental dance in Hungarian, I had to obtain the necessary information in English. To be able to teach oriental dance well as a movement system also from the point of view of movement and training theory, I got a recreational sport instructor degree to complement my teacher’s degree.

Besides teaching expressive, improvisational dance that vibrates together with the music, I worked out a developing/stretching training programme, which I dubbed "Bellyfit", which is a contraction of the words belly dancing and fitness. This system includes special lessons that use Asian, African, Indian dance elements to make every muscle and joint in the body move, especially taking care of our most feminine, innermost muscles. I have been teachig Bellyfit classes since 2001. Mere chance threw a couple of Pilates lessons in my way too. While performing the moves I realized that somebody had already invented a part of the yoga-like moves I use in my Bellyfit programme, Joseph Hubertus Pilates. A mass of war wounded soldiers have his method to thank for their rehabilitation. The method became a common noun, "pilates", and were included in the training of dancers and gradually reached gyms too. I digged deep in studying the method and obtained an instructor’s certificate. For those who honour me with their trust, I can give yet a little more.

Besides teaching oriental dance, I regularly hold oral lectures, special female trainings throughout the country. I dance at different programmes, publish in magazines. In 2003 I published the first Hungarian oriental dance book, "Belly Dancing: Harmony, Vitality, Body Shaping, Eroticism". I opened my own studio in Pestlőrinc in 2005. I am working on the succeeding volumes of my planned series, among which two, the one about scents and food and the other about methodology are ready, waiting for better times, i.e. to be published.

Since I teach, I find it important to try other kinds of movement to experience what my students experience when they first come to my classes. As regards teaching methods, I consider continual refreshing useful, since we can learn something new from everybody, which if we put together with our existing knowledge, we can give more to our students. So I took flamenco lessons (I learnt a lot from Gertraud Maar methodology-wise), I participate in the dance halls of nationalities, and I went to a few aikido lessons too.

While learning belly dancing, many questions arose in me, to which I had to find the answers alone. It would have been nice to have a methodologically qualified, available teacher in my environment, or at least guide book.

But there was no subject like "the methodology of belly dancing". I had to construct is myself.

It took a lot of research both as regards its theoretical and its practical side.

I shorten the time necessary for learning for those who honour me with their trust.

I eliminate the possibility of injuries, dead ends, and bypasses with my safe, body-friendly technique.

I keep records of my experiences.

I share with others the teaching method I developed over the years, the tricks I figured out and that make the learning process easier.

I worked out, organized and lead an Instructor Training Program 
Our programme has got the Accreditation of the Adult Education Accreditation Board of the National Institute of Vocational and Adult Education. (NIVE)
I can teach seminars in Hungarian, English and Russian. 
I understand and speak a little French and German.

I have my  tutorial book Belly Dancing Step by Step for instructors of bellydance.