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Samovar LLC presents:
'The Dancer and the Dance' Workshop Weekend with Laylia and Ruric-Amari

Saturday, March 21, 2009
Samovar Dance Studio in the Mellwood Arts Center, Louisville KY
Easy access from I-71, I-64 and I-65.

10 am-noon: EARTH-WIND-SKY GYPSY DANCE THEATRE with Ruric-Amari.
Ruric will teach several unusual skirt dance combinations and then help you adapt them to interpret a broad spectrum of rhythm and emotion. Learn how to keep the skirt from controlling the dance and to express whatever the music calls for: slow sorrow to passionate exhilaration. Your skirt might become your favorite prop! BYO full skirt or borrow or buy one of ours. ($25)

1-4 pm: ZEN MIND, PERFORMANCE MIND with Laylia.
LAYLIA is a dance artist with a bewitching stage presence and a knack for teaching other dancers how to engage and bewitch their own audiences. Her stage personna is enchanting and completely unpredictable, and her ability to incorporate humor and comedy into her performances is stellar. Don't miss this! ($40)

8 pm: CONCERT and LOVELY LATE NIGHT party.
The one-hour dance concert will feature Laylia, Ruric, and several guests. It will be followed by a LOVELY LATE NIGHT dance party with lots of open dancing and refreshments! ($7)

Sunday, March 22, 2009

1-3 pm: DRUMMING with LAYLIA!
Laylia learned drumming a decade ago while performing with the Turkish band Turkana. Want to be a drumming dancer too? Bring your dombek, your large pan, or your flat-bottomed pot or trash can and enjoy this workshop! Yes, your favorite drummer-in-training is welcome! ($25)

For more information or to pay with PayPal: www.Ruric-Amari.com

O Body swayed to Music
O Brightening Glance
How can we know the Dancer
From the Dance? --W.B. Yeats