Living Dead Girls - Dance like a Zompire!

Who

Christine Emry

Christine went to her first bellydance class over 10 years ago, and was lucky enough to have as her teacher Kay Taylor who runs Farida Dance.

Through her work with Farida, Christine has had many opportunities to study and observe this dance form all over the UK as well as in Egypt, Turkey and one year San Francisco, where she and Kay danced with JimBoz at the Rakassa festival. Except you wouldn't have recognised Christine and JimBoz as they were both inside Christine's favourite dancer - The Great Desiree - an authentic Egyptian dancing horse who now lives and works in the UK, dancing with Farida, Christine and Tarab Dance Company.

Christine's favourite authentic styles are Baladi and Saidi, especially stick. However her real love is mixing Arabic moves with alternative music and Arabic techno remixes. She teaches regularly and has held goth, fusion and techno workshops at various events and is one of the organisers of Gothla UK, which had its hugely sucessful debut last year. Raqsmacabre started as a lighthearted alternative to the 'darker' side of goth, showing that goths can have a sense of humour while still being scary.

A fan of goth since its early days - Sisters, Siouxsie, Cure, Bauhaus etc, a regular Whitby goth weekender for many years, and a lover of horror films, having appeared in two locally, this is a great opportunity to put together things she loves - dancing, music, performing, horror and dressing up!

Her style provides a lighthearted slant on dancing from the darkside.

For more pics and blurb check out:
www.myspace.com/raqsmacabre
www.gothla.co.uk

What

A Zompire is a cross between a zombie and a vampire, with the lust and allure of the vampire and the ruthless killer instinct of the zombie. Sometimes one trait is stronger than the other, sometimes it's a cross between the 2. Learn a few simple zompire inspired bellydance moves combined with lots of attitude and a sense of humour.

Living Dead Girls - Learn the infamous Zombie choreography to Rob Zombie Living Dead Girls - if you don't credit me when performing it I'll hunt you down, eat you and spit you out.

Level

ALL

When

Sunday 15/06/2008 08:30 - 10:30

How Much

£22

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