Workshops and Performance Projects
The teachers of Tribal Festival 2025 are Ariellah (USA), Ethel Anima (Krakow, Poland), Melli Sarina (Ausburg, Germany), Agata Zakrzewska (Warsaw, Poland), and Katarzyna Lidia (Warsaw, Poland).
We invite you to take part in workshops and learn from these amazing teachers. Every one of them is an internationally acclaimed teacher and performer, and a real master of tribal belly dance. This is an opportunity to not only learn from the icons of tribal belly dance, but also see them up close, ask questions, and gain insights that go beyond the workshop sessions.
🌙 4 Fusion workshops and Performance Project
🌙"Dynamic Creations”
In this workshop, the dancer will receive elements, concepts and exercises that help the dancer create more original, creative and dynamic combinations that can be used in any style of dance and choreography making. Ariellah hopes to give the dancer, at any level, the tools and ideas that will aid and inspire more dynamic creations and creative thinking, which not only challenge the dancer, but also lead the dancer to a higher performance quality. Think combos galore! This workshop will explore many different combos and is super fun and exciting! One of Ariellah’s favorites.
Intermediate level, 1.5 hours
🌙"Mindful Movement. A Nourishing Approach to a Strong Practice”
We will approach our dance practice with awareness placed on our mind-body connection. Mindfulness will be our guide through our practice of meditation, moving meditation, conditioning exercises, technique and drills/combos. We will use these techniques to approach our dance practice with more awareness, commitment and authenticity. This workshop is excellent for any dancer who wants to delve deeply into their dance practice with more of a full mind and body approach. Come out of this workshop feeling calm, reinvigorated, accomplished, and nourished!
Open level, 1.5 hours
🌙"The Art of Disconnect"
Join Ariellah in a unique workshop that delves into her own technical philosophy, understandings and findings from 20 years of training in the genre of Fusion Belly Dance. The “Art of Disconnect” is her own personal philosophy and approach to Fusion Dance technique. She will share insights into her extensive study of this dance form. The dancer will receive discourse and exercises that help to create clear, strong, and more defined isolation work, involving the entire body and an entire philosophy and approach on creating stronger technique, not just in relation to isolations but that translates into fluidity and grace as well! The whole package! Ariellah’s hope is that the dancer will walk away with a much deeper understanding of the disconnect that is imperative in isolation work, creating fluidity, and mastering their art form.
Open level, basic knowledge of fusion dance and dance in general 1.5 hours
🌙"Intentional Dance"
Discover YOU! your unique expression. Uncover and peel back the layers to reveal your truest nature. Learn how to be more expressive and intentional.
“Stage presence is the essence of a dancer's being that is projected when they expose themselves, connecting with the audience, making them feel something. It is also what separates artists from technicians.” Thus is the goal of Ariellah’s “intentional dance” workshop. In this workshop the dancer will work through exercises that help develop intention in one’s dance and gain the confidence and understanding of what it takes to be a strong presence on stage, in addition to aiding the dancer to find their own unique voice. These exercises, alongside a strong technical foundation, will be the essence of the work examined and executed in this workshop.
Intermediate level, 1.5 hours
✨Performance project with Ariellah
You will learn choreography from Ariellah and will perform at the "Fairytale" Gala Show.
*Limited number of participants!
Intermediate and advanced Tribal Fusion Dancers!
🌙 1 Fusion workshop
🌙"Dance Alchemy"
Unleash your inner magic and transform your dance into a powerful, captivating, and unforgettable masterpiece. In this workshop, we will integrate all aspects of dance, exploring its essence and how to achieve a striking and memorable result. We will undergo a transformation and elevate to a new level through the alchemical concept. I will share my secrets with you and guide you through the process of transformation, from inanimate to alive, revealing the path to deep self-expression and mastery in dance.
Open level, 1.5 hours
🌙3 Fusion workshops
🌙 "Liquid Fusion Bellydance technique"
Combine the movements in your arms and body to one endless wave flowing through
your body and the air. I will show you some basics and the main transitions points in
the body and drill with you my favorite liquid fusion combos to expand your body
limits and make you move like a water.
Intermediate level, 1.5 hours
🌙 "Flow like a river"
Flow like a river and paint pathways in the air! Liquid Fusion technique and new
flowy ways/waves to extend your dance experience.
Open level, 1.5 hours
🌙 "Waving inside out"
Move at least 2 waves at the same time in your body and make your body move like
the ocean. Learn my favorite challenging combinations and discover new fluid
movement possiblities to deepen your body control and amaze your audience.
Intermediate to advance level, 1.5 hours
🌙1 FCBD style workshop
🌙 "FCBD® Style Arms, shapes, rotations"
This is an arm technique workshop – but more than that. We will start with a fascia release sequence dedicated to extending our range of motion. We will continue with some creative exercises for beautiful FCBD® Style armwork that is both strong and soft. We will also focus on adjusting the steps to our individual body types and creating beautiful shapes. We will dissect a few slow turns in order to practice utilizing rotations and spirals – on both micro- and macro-level, in our isolated body movements and in the overall shapes we are creating.
Open level, 1.5 hours
🌙1 FCBD style workshop
🌙 "The Siren Project - Fan Dialect. Musicality & mini-choreo"
Discover and practice this elegant and rich dialect with a flamenco fan from the creator herself - Katarzyna Lidia
Dialect is best learned in combinations (to remember movements and transitions), so Kasia has prepared a mini choreography for us, in which we will use already classic variations (with different Sahra Turns, Wrap Around or Barrels and Figures 8) and also try fancy combinations of steps.
The freer the transitions become, the easier it will be for you to choose specific steps and interpret the music. As the music changes (along with dramatic guitar accents), we will see how to best use given steps and combinations and the choreography will serve as an example for us.
*You need a 28/32 cm fan (which opens easily) made of wood or plastic.
Intermediate level in FCBD and open in dialect, 1.5 hours
✨Performance project with Agata & Katarzyna
Flamenco inspired FCBD Style dialect with Agata Zakrzewska and Katarzyna Lidia
Create a whole FCBD set with Agata and Kasia, in which we will explore flamenco inspirations! We will build the mood and drama of the whole by introducing a slow song first, full of guitar sounds, to show the beauty of our dance without props. Then we will introduce different versions of dialect with a fan and manton with new dancers and new formations on stage. We will finish the set all together with a real „fiesta”.
You will receive materials in advance (music and instructions on the outfit), you will have the project chat to get to know you better (your skill level and interests). We will divide you into subgroups - formations - and depending on your preferences you will dance with a prop or without it at a given moment of the set. Before the show during the festival we will meet in the dance room and on the rehearsal on gala`s stage to practice the whole thing together and polish the details.
You will create performance with Agata & Katarzyna and will perform at the "Fairytale" Gala Show.
*Limited number of participants!
Intermediate and advanced FCBD style Dancers, open in dialect level