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LIsa Zahiya Shimmies Workshop November 19 2 - 3:45 p.m.

Saturday, November 19, 2011 from 2:00 PM to 3:45 PM (ET)

Waltham, United States

LIsa Zahiya Shimmies Workshop November 19 2 - 3:45 p.m.

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LIsa Zahiya Shimmies Master Class Ended $35.00 $1.87
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The shimmy is a quintessential and defining part of belly dance and a successful and exciting belly dance performance. In this workshop, Lisa Zahiya will introduce a variety of shimmies, technique, and proper usage.  We will also explore traveling, layering and level changes with shimmies.


Melina of Daughters of Rhea is proud to present for the second time in the Boston area, the multi-talented Lisa Zahiya of Asheville, NC.  Lisa tours internationally, runs her own studio in Asheville and is the 2008 Winner of the Belly Dancer of the Universe: Tribal Fusion category as well as the prestigious but amusingly-titled Wiggles of the West competition in Las Vegas!  With a firm foundation in belly dance technique (Lisa is a PiperMethod certified teacher) Miss Zahiya shimmies with liquidity, versatility, sass and verve!! A featured teacher and performer at the Daughters of Rhea BellyPalooza festival each year, Lisa is an engaging and articulate teacher, a quality dancer and an expert performer.   To learn more about Lisa, visit www.lisazahiya.com. Lisa is one of our most popular teachers and performers at the Daughters of Rhea annual BellyPalooza festival in Baltimore. We love her exquisite technique, sassy style, and winning personality.  

These seminars are open to all levels of belly dancer! Take advantage and study with this lovely teacher while she is in the Boston-area.


Workshop Date, Time and Location:
Saturday November 19th, 2 to 3:45 p.m.
Workshop length: 1 hour, 45 minutes

Moody Street CIrcus - Daughters of Rhea Dance School - 397 Moody Street, 2nd Floor, Waltham, MA

Workshop pre-registration price: $35 
**special discount for regular Melina students with punch cards -- two punches on a Melina class card**
(Melina students must register with Melina for this class to reserve your spot)

Workshop price at the door: $40 


When & Where


Moody Street Circus/Daughters of Rhea Dance Studios
397 Moody Street, 2nd Floor
Waltham, 02453

Saturday, November 19, 2011 from 2:00 PM to 3:45 PM (ET)


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Melina of Daughters of Rhea / Moody Street Circus



Moody Street Circus is the professional family-run Waltham, MA-based headquarters of Sacha and Melinda Pavlata's Cirque Passion School of Circus Arts and Melina's Daughters of Rhea Belly Dance Company. We also offer tented entertainment circus events with our worldclass traveling circus family: cloud swing, high wire, unicycle, trapeze, aerial hoop, clowning and more.

At Moody Street Circus we teach the joy of life through circus arts and belly dance to children, teens and adults of all ages. Heart, humor and inclusive community spirit are at the core of our teaching.  We strive to bring out students' full potential, then challenge individuals to work on skills that will elevate their expression up to performance-grade levels.  

Moody Street Circus is the place for classes in belly dance, circus arts, and aerial arts; for birthday parties, summer and after-school programs and more for kids and adults.  No matter where you are in your life's journey, there is always room for learning new skills and having fun. Moody Street Circus is here for you when you are ready to learn to undulate, ululate or hang upsidedown from a static trapeze.

MSC Directors and teachers Sacha and Melinda (AKA Melina of Daughters of Rhea) share extraordinary family legacies in circus and dance.

Alexandre Sacha Pavlata is a fifth-generation Czech circus artist, master aerialist and world-renown circus arts teacher.  He grew up with his traveling circus family in a wooden circus wagon which crisscrossed Europe and North Africa presenting their famous unicycle and trampoline act under big tops all over the globe. From horses to high wire and everything in between, Sacha has since performed nearly every kind of circus act you could imagine, including touring with the legendary Flying Wallendas as an integral part of their breath-taking seven-person pyramid on the high wire.

Sacha's circus heritage goes back 5 generations on both sides.  His mother, Hungarian-born Anna Dubsky, came from a long line of Risley Act performers (the acrobatic foot juggling of people), and his father, Czech-born Karl Pavlata, descended from a family of aerialists known for their great physical strength and versatility in the air. More on Sacha extraordinary life and legacy in the circus at www.cirquepassion.com.

Melinda "Melina" Pavlata, Ph.D. (AKA Melina of Daughters of Rhea) is a 2nd generation circus and belly dance artist. Her mother is belly dance pioneer Rhea of Greece, her father is folk musician singer/songwriter Phil Marsh, and her step-mother is Shakespearean actress/juggler/circus artist Cecil MacKinnon.  She grew up fully immersed in her parents' international performing lives, performing with them in the Pickle Family Circus and dancing with her mother and sister Piper (Belly Dancer of the Year 2000) on taverna stages in the ancient city of Athens, Greece.

As an adult Melinda 'Melina' has toured around the world as an aerialist, circus artist and belly dancer with Circus Flora, The Wallenda Family Circus, Cirque Rocks, Amazing Grace Circus and currently with her own circus Cirque Passion. 

Melina is currently on the faculty of Kripalu where she teaches an annual summertime retreat "Wild Hips, Gypsy Heart: Belly Dance as self-empowerment." 

For more on Melina's belly dance family please visit www.daughtersofrhea.com

For more the Pavlata's circus life please visit www.cirquepassion.com.