How to dance the Egyptian Instruments
- A pioneering Online Workshop by Joana Saahirah and George Sawa
- A two-days live & recorded workshop that´ll change the way you listen to the music and how you dance to it
Essential Training for Oriental Dancers of every Level
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The Workshop that´ll drastically improve the way you listen to and interpret Egyptian Music
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Yes, I want to improve my dance DRAMATICALLY - I want to SUBSCRIBEWelcome to a pioneer live & recorded
Workshop by Joana Saahirah and our many-times-guest George Sawa,
an acclaimed Egyptian Musician, Teacher, Author, and Lecturer who´ll rock your world.
What you get when you subscribe to the workshop:
- Access to 2 Live and recorded Masterclasses with Joana Saahirah and George Sawa happening on the 4th and the 5th of November (Saturday and Sunday) from 2 pm to 4 pm Lisbon/London local time
- Access to Bonus Classes, Exercises, and Resources that´ll help you learn how to dance the Egyptian Instruments and how to improve your Musicality
- Access to Personalized Feedback on your dance from Joana Saahirah and George Sawa
- Access to a global loving and mutually supportive dance community that´ll inspire and empower you
- Access to the contents of the Workshop, including the replays of the Live Masterclasses, until the 30th of January 2024
- Access to an emotional experience with live music - George Sawa, our guest teacher, will play different instruments and you´ll have the chance to dance to his live music using the guidance provided by the teachers
What you´ll learn in this workshop:
- How to listen, understand, feel, and interpret the main Egyptian Musical Instruments
- What kind of timing/speed, mood, emotion, and dance vocabulary each instrument asks of you
- A beautiful, short, and fully packed dance choreography focused on the understanding of each instrument and on musicality
We believe in the excellence of all our offers but we also know Joana Saahirah´s Online Dance School isn´t for everyone and we want students who are 100% satisfied and aligned with our mission and vision.
For that reason, we offer a generous REFUND POLICY:
You can subscribe to the Workshop and enjoy the entire Introduction Module as well as Module #1, including the first Live Session included in the Workshop, with Joana Saahirah and George Sawa.
If, after having enjoyed more than half the workshop, you feel it´s not for you, all you have to do is ASK FOR A FULL REFUND and it´ll be granted to you immediately. No questions asked.
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in "How to Interpret the Egyptian Instruments"
Live Masterclass #1
Happening on Saturday, the 4th of November, from 2 pm to 4 pm Lisbon/London local time
Live Masterclass #2
Happening on Sunday, the 5th of November, from 2 pm to 4 pm Lisbon/London local time
P.S: Both Live Masterclasses are fully recorded and made available inside the Workshop.
Even if you can´t join the live masterclasses, you can always do and redo the corresponding replays for as long as the workshop is available - until the 30th of January 2024.
Click HERE to subscribeDon´t miss the opportunity to drastically improve your dance
Only 1 Payment of $169
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"How to Interpret the Egyptian Instruments"
close on the 4th of November at 11.55 pm Lisbon/London time
- Once the subscriptions are closed, it won´t be possible to join the workshop.
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Check what our (gorgeous) students say about our School
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Yes, simply the BEST. She pours out so much love, passion, light through the screen to all students and it inspires me so much. There had been doubts, confusions in my head but she is the one saying exactly what I need to hear to awaken myself. Now I feel my heart is more open for every movement. Her classes change the landscape of my dance basically. She is such a blessing to the education of Egyptian Dance today.
-Zoe Ni (USA/China)
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I´m very happy to have met Joana on my Oriental Dance path. In her courses and method I´ve found answers to several needs and questions. For instante, I´ve learned about the essence of Egyptian Dance, what´s essential and what makes it magical. Everything Joana shares in her courses fascinates me: the concepts she introduces, the exercises she proposes find, recognize and build the unique dancer each of us carries within. In all of her courses, I find an integrated and permanent way to develop self-empowerment, Egyptian Dance technique, and the essence of each style, all of it backed-up by the great richness of Joana´s experience in Egypt and her studies with the greatest musicians and Egyptian Dance masters. Furthermore, she does it all in a fun and vibrant way. I´m deeply thankful for her generosity and for her willingness to create work that brings real evolution in her students. Each course at Joana Saahirah´s Online Dance School is a meeting with myself, with my personal powers and unrecognized gifts. Basically, I´m witnessing major growth in my dance and, above all, I feel happier and able to express who I am.
-Dana Moreno (Colombia)
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There are many kinds of teachers and then, there are special teachers, like Joana Saahirah, who carry the power of transformation on their skin, and that shows, it passes on to all her students; because the best teaching we can offer someone is the love for what we do. To study with this prestigious dancer and teacher is to embark on a beautiful journey without end; without return; a very intimate and deep trip. Her classes are unmatched! Her world is magical, she´s magical.
-Mariana Artaza (Argentina)
About your Instructors in this Workshop
About your Instructor,
Joana Saahirah
Joana Saahirah is a world-renowned Oriental Dancer, Teacher, Choreographer, and Author known for her achievements in the field of Egyptian Dance and for her unique Dance & Teaching Style.
She started her career in Egypt where she spent almost a decade of her life performing, researching, and recovering the roots of Egyptian Dance.
She´s the creator of the pioneering Joana Saahirah´s World & Joana Saahirah´s Online Dance School delivering authentic Egyptian Dance, Personal Discovery & Empowerment.
During the decade she performed in Egypt, presenting herself and her orchestra at the best venues of the country, she also worked with the Father of Egyptian Folklore, Mahmoud Reda as his teaching and choreography assistant.
Joana has traveled the world to teach, perform, judge, and lecture at the most prestigious events and festivals in the field of Egyptian Oriental & Folkloric Dance.
She has shared her unique vision and teaching method, combining authentic Egyptian Dance & Personal Empowerment, in countries like Oman, Lebanon, China, Japan, New Zealand, USA, Canada, Colombia, Argentina, Brazil, Cyprus, France, Russia, Slovenia, Spain, Portugal, Italy, England, Ireland, Ukraine, Israel, Czech Republic, among others.
She´s published articles in specialized magazines and in newspapers; aside from publishing 3 books:
"The Secrets of Egypt - Dance, Life & Beyond",
"Behind the Curtain",
and, the now recently released,
"The Lessons I Learned from the Master".
- For more information about her trajectory, mission, and vision, feel welcome to visit her official website - CLICK HERE TO VISIT JOANA SAAHIRAH´S WORLD WEBSITE
About our guest teacher,
George Sawa
George Sawa was born in Alexandria, Egypt. He has over 50 year- experience in Arabic music performance, history and theory and has performed and lectured extensively worldwide: Canada, USA, Brazil, Mexico, Europe (Spain, Italy, Holland, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Greece) and the Middle East (Egypt, Algeria, Tunisia, Syria, Lebanon, Kuwait, United Arab Emirates).
He studied piano with Mme Irene Drakides, herself a student of the famed educator Alfred Cortot.
He studied qanun, theory and voice at the Higher Institute of Arabic Music. After immigrating to Canada, he studied ethnomusicology at the University of Toronto, and obtained his doctorate in historical Arabic musicology.
He has taught graduate and undergraduate courses on medieval, modern, and religious music of the Middle East at the University of Toronto and at York University.
He´s the author of Music Performance Practice in the Early cAbbasid Era.
132-320 AH/750-932 AD; Rhythmic Theories and Practices in Arabic Writings to 339AH/950 CE (Ottawa: The Institute of Mediaeval Music, 2004 and 2009); and An Arabic Musical and Socio-Cultural Glossary of Kitab al-Aghani (The Book of Songs) of al-Isbahani (d. 971) (Leiden: E.J. Brill, 2015);
Erotica, Love, and Humor in Arabia. Spicy Stories from the Book of Songs of al-Isfahani (Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland and Company, 2016);
Musical and Socio-Cultural Anecdotes from Kitab al-Aghani. Annotated Translations and Commentaries (Leiden: E.J. Brill, 2019);
Hawi l-Funun wa-Salwat al-Mahzun, Encompasser of the Arts and Consoler of the Grief-Stricken by Ibn al-Tahhan. Annotated Translation and Commentary (Leiden, E.J. Brill, 2021).
His latest book “A Treatise on Qanun Musical Ornaments” will be published by Brill this year.
He has published over 70 articles on Arabic music in refereed journals and encyclopedias, and is frequently invited to give lectures and concerts worldwide.
In 2005, he received the prestigious Lifetime Achievement Award from the Egyptian Ministry of Culture for his research in Arabic music history.
George has been the musical director for several productions of the Toronto-based Arabesque Dance Company, and taught hundreds of dancers at the Arabesque Academy and Hannan's Bellydance Studio in Toronto, as well as studios in Canada, USA, Brazil and Mexico.
His CD, The Art of the Early Egyptian Qanun, Vol. 1, was nominated for a JUNO Award in World Music in 2009. A subsequent volume, The Art of the Early Egyptian Qanun, Vol. 2, was released in 2009. His Egyptian Music Appreciation and Practice for Bellydancers has won international acclaim and is an invaluable - one of a kind - companion to bellydancers all over the world (it is also available in Chinese, French, Greek, Japanese, Russian, Spanish, German and Portuguese). A companion set of two DVDs produced with Lulu Hartenbach in Brazil includes over 50 tracks of dancing instruction from his CDs and book: Lulu and George Dimitri Sawa.
- For more information, visit George Sawa´s Official Website
