Summer Workshop with Lorraine Lafata
We invite you to take part in a special weekend of self discovery and exploration through belly dance with Lorraine Lafata. In these three workshops you will find healing, empowerment, and the hidden gifts within yourself that bring you confidence and strength of character as a dancer and in your life. Lorraine Lafata, bellydancer, feminist, mother, wife and licensed therapist (M.S. W., L. I. C. S. W.) will facilitate 3 full day belly dance and personal growth intensives.
Who should come?
Dancers, therapists, the wounded and the liberated! Anyone with the desire to loosen up and adventure within the feminine territory. The goal is to expand our understanding of the belly dance, and its potential.
Dates August 10,11,12
Friday August 10, Day 1
10am -5 pm; Dancing with Power, Passion and Beauty:
The Eyes Have It
Saturday August 11, Day 2:
10 am - 5 pm; Mining the Treasure of the Belly and
Below / Part One
Sunday August 12, Day 3;
10 am-5 pm; Mining the Treasures of the Belly and
below / Part Two
There will be an hour lunch break at 12:30-1:30
We recommend Paseo Caribbean is5 doors up and will
have a menu in the studio. There is Marketime and PCC
near by.
Cost:
Each workshop is $100 limited to 15 dancers
5 Day Advanced registration $85 each
All three Workshops in advance $75 = $225
There are many hotels and B&B’s in the area.
Download a registration form from the web
http://www.visionarydance.com/Delilahsregistration.pdf
Send in with your check made out to Delilah Flynn
NOTE : This is an early bird preveiw Announcement. This workshop is not on line yet but you are welcome to register now.
Questions call DELILAH 206 632-2353
Location VDP STUDIO 4128 Fremont Ave North Sea WA
98103
Lorraine has been a therapist for 20 years. A founding member of “the Goddess Dancing,” she is currently a collaborator in “Sacred Source Bellydance”. Both are
women’s dance collectives in Boston, dedicated to furthering the empowerment of women through dance and ritual. Lorraine has been working with women in class
rooms, in private practice, and in prisons and institutional situations. Her life is dedicated to helping women heal their woundedness and celebrate their wholeness. For many years she has combined the traditional practices of her professional raining
with the personal relationship with her art. She has found that belly dance offers us much more than fun, physical exercise and fantasy. In fact, women everywhere report their interest and experience with the dance has made a powerful difference in their lives for mental, physical, psychic and spiritual healing.
Lorraine and Delilah have worked extensively together at Isis Oasis in California in 1997 and 1998 as well Lorraine Lafata was the guest instructor in Delilah’s 2001 10 day belly dance retreat in Hawaii. The course was called, “Embracing Aphrodite” and it was one of the most enlightening retreats Delilah has ever hosted. An hour long documentary about the retreat experience can be found as an extra feature on
Delilah’s newly released DVD (entitled Delilah & Sirocco; Live & Wilder ). The documentary follows Lorraine, Delilah and a group of 40 women ages 18-88,
exploring beauty and self esteem issues using belly dance, journaling, and movement therapy as a tool for healing and enlivening the life experience. It was beautiful.
The rest of this page:
This is an interactive column we ran in 2003 with Lorraine Lafata. Her schedule got too busy to continue but we are leaving the correspondence up for your reading and healing.
an interactive monthly column here devoted to this subject. Send us your questions, insights and stories of How Belly dancing has Been a Healing Dance In My Life, or the Life of Someone Close to Me. Each month we will post one story from readers, as well as post Lorraine’s commentary on a requested topic or question. The goal is to expand our understanding of belly dance, and its potential.
Lorraine’s class description:
Day 1: Dancing with Power, Passion and Beauty: The Eyes Have It
The eyes are the windows of the soul. During performance, we use eye contact in many and varied ways. With our gaze, we create relationship, establish authority, and intensify mood and meaning. We give nuance to the simplest of movements. We laugh, we play, and we flirt.
In this workshop we will use powerful visualization and imaging techniques to bring conscious control to our use of eye contact and movement. Through these exercises, we will reconnect our visual sense to our kinesthetic body, learning to stay present in our power and intention while dancing.
Day 2: Mining the Treasure of the Belly and Below/
Part 1
From the sinuous curve of the belly, to the depths of the pelvic floor, within each woman lies an uncharted territory of mystery and power. In belly dance, we learn to draw upon the strength of this subterranean source. Using inner muscles, buried deep within the core of each of us, we bring our movement outward, intensifying and
articulating, as we go. In this workshop, we will explore the vocabulary of hips, belly and pelvis. We’ll work to identify and activate, the muscle groups that ground and stabilize our slow flowing movements, allowing us access to true places of beauty and fluidity. We’ll spend time, learning to isolate and empower those muscles, that are needed to create strong, sharp and definitive staccato movement, giving us bodies that can speak with equal parts of authority, potency and playfulness.
Come journey and mine the treasures of the belly and below.
Day 3: Mining the Treasure of the Belly and Below/
Part 2
From the sinuous curve of the belly, to the depths of the pelvic floor, within each woman lies an uncharted territory of mystery and power. In belly dance, we learn to draw upon the strength of this subterranean source. Using inner muscles, buried deep within the core of each of us, we bring our movement outward, intensifying and
articulating, as we go. In this workshop, we will explore the vocabulary of hips, belly and pelvis. We’ll work to identify and activate, the muscle groups that ground and stabilize our slow flowing movements, allowing us access to true places of beauty and fluidity. We’ll spend time, learning to isolate and empower those muscles, that are needed to create strong, sharp and definitive staccato movement, giving us bodies that can speak with equal parts of authority, potency and playfulness.
Come journey and mine the treasures of the belly and below.
From Deep Within the Earth: The Transformative Power of Shimmy
In this workshop, we explore the shimmy, and all its permutations. In performance, a dancer can use her shimmy to inspire, impassion and enthrall the audience. Through
the subtlety of vibration, she can build excitement and heighten anticipation, and, when she unleashes the earthquake power of her strongest shimmy, the deepest
and the most elemental energies of life are unearthed, affirmed and celebrated. From the tiniest quiver to the biggest and most profound quaking motion, the shimmy teaches us everything we need to know about power contained. When we work with the shimmy, we combine intensity of focus, with ease of momentum. The result is a
movement that is as old as time; and that speaks to the primal and the passionate in all of us.