ITINERARY FOR BOTH PROGRAMS

More essential details will be included in your follow up confirmation packets as we come closer to our event. Instructors classes are not detailed here. The course work
is private, all participants receive printed notes from the instructors. Details



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If you love belly dance, you owe it to yourself
to join Delilah on retreat once in your life!

• Day 1: Instructors Training Course Begins Details
  3:00pm Kalani check-in for Instructor Training
  4:00-5:45pm CLASS:Instructors Training begins with Delilah & Erik
  6:00-7:00pm Dinner
  7:30-9:45pm CLASS:Instructors Training
  
  
• Day 2: General Study Begins:
  Instructor Trainees Meet Absolute Beginners,
  Intermediate, Professionals—All Are Welcome Details
  7:30-8:30am Breakfast
  9:00-12:00pm CLASS: Instructors Training
  12:00-1:00pm Lunch
  Free Time!
  3:00pm Kalani check-in for General Study
  4:00-4:30pm CLASS: Kalani Orientation
  4:30-6:00pm CLASS: Power Belly Unwind with Delilah & Erik
  6:00-7:00pm Dinner
  7:30-9:45pm CLASS: Drum and Dance with Erik & Delilah
  Group introductions and solo dances. The theme is dance as conversation. Dress-up and introduce yourself through a short little dance to your choice of music from a CD or to Erik’s drum improv. Don’t worry, if you are a beginner this is not a big strain. Use your imagination and sense of humor. It’s just an ice breaker and an opportunity for creative dance. Also bring your drum and Erik will
  do his orientation to Arabic rhythms
  
  
  
• Day 3: Isolations and Tempo Changes
  7:30-8:30am Breakfast
  9:00-12:00pm CLASS: Basic Alignment and Weight Belt Theory
  with Delilah
  Slow mapping of the internal realms of the body. Reviewing all textural moves and layering principles of isolation work. Group dances.
  12:00-1:00pm Lunch
  Free Time! (for General Course students)
  1:15-3:15pm CLASS: Instructors Training
  4:15-5:45pm CLASS: Drum Class with Erik
  Drums are so important to understanding belly dance. All dancers should have a working knowledge and experience with the heart of the dance - the beats. Here is your opportunity, so do not miss it. Make sure you have a drum. It is imperative for all instructors to be able to hammer out rhythms for their students in class and for choreographic use. It doesn’t mean you have to become a professional drummer, but you must have a hands-on familiarity to know your onions. Details
  6:00-7:00pm Dinner
  7:30-9:45pm CLASS: Luscious Layers with Princess Farhana
  A rigorous shimmy drill, combined with slow hands and arms;
  shimmies layered over stationary, traveling steps or figure eights. Oriental combos with changing tempos, unusual angles, level
  changes and turns.
  
  
• Day 4: Dance Orientale
  6:30-7:30 am CLASS: Sunrise Ritual
  Warm-up and Awareness with Delilah
  7:30-8:30am Breakfast
  9:00-12:00pm CLASS: Complete Oriental Choreography with Princess Farhana
  Expertly broken down and drilled for beginners, but with plenty
  of space in the dance to add more layers cymbals, veil or more complicated moves. Choreography notes included. Seasoned
  dancers can volunteer to perform it in evening class!
  12:00-1:00pm Lunch
  Free Time! (for General Course students)
  1:15-3:15pm CLASS: Instructors Training
  4:15-5:45pm CLASS: Drum Class with Erik
  Practice and study rhythms.
  6:00-7:00pm Dinner
  7:30-8:30pm CLASS: Oriental Choreography
  Reviewed and performed.
  8:30-9:30pm CLASS: Veil Obedience School with Princess Farhana
  Entrances, framing, drapes, reveals and conceals, spins and more. Learning to make your veil behave.
  
  
• Day 5: Belly Dance Fusion
  7:30-8:30am Breakfast
  9:00-11:00am CLASS: Fusion or Confusion with Princess Farhana
  Creating dances and mixing styles. Explore emotion, story telling
  and character development. Audience communication and knowing when to break the rules.
  11:00-12:00pm CLASS: The Delilah Challenge Details
  Dancing in the moment to music you have never heard before!
  12:00-1:00pm Lunch
  Free Time! (for General Course students)
  1:15-3:15pm CLASS: Instructors Training
  4:15-5:45pm CLASS: Drum Class with Erik
  How the music is constructed and locks together.
  6:00-7:00pm Dinner
  7:30-9:45pm CLASS: Techno/Fusion Power Belly with Laura Rose
  
  
• Day 6: Stepping Out Day
  7:30-8:30am Breakfast
  9:00-10:30am CLASS: Make-Up with Delilah, Princess Farhana
  & Laura Rose
  We are all going to do our make up together. Each Instructor will
  trade the floor explaining and demonstrating make up tips and strategies on them selves and on students. Bring a free standing magnifying make-up mirror and your cosmetics. Details
  10:30-12:00pm CLASS: A Bit about Burlesque with
  Princess Farhana
  Learn about her 11 year experience with America’s premier
  neo-burlesque theater troupe, The Velvet Hammer, and currently
  the principle in Margaret Cho’s touring variety show the “Sensuous Women.” Learn about the vaudeville-burlesque-modern & ethnic
  dance roots-belly dance connection, from the turn of the century historical perspective. You’ll hear about those daring Aphrodite
  pioneers in dance. Then you’ll get a chance to learn a few moves.
  You’ll need to pack a few props. No nudity required. Details
  12:00-1:00pm Lunch
  Free Time! (for General Course students)
  1:00-3:00pm CLASS: Instructors Training
  3:15-5:00pm CLASS: A Little Bit More Burlesque with
  Princess Farhana
  5:10-6:00pm CLASS: Drum Class with Erik
  Practice put to music. Changing rhythms to the melody lines.
  6:00-7:00pm Dinner
  7:30-9:45pm CLASS: Short Class and performance by Evilyn Sin Claire & Princess Farhana Anyone else want to entertain us?
  
  
• Day 7: Golden Age of Classical Egyptian Music, 1920-70's
  7:30-8:30am Breakfast
  (eat lite, lots of belly rolls in the morning class!)
  9:00-11:30am CLASS: Extreme Taxim with Princess Farhana
  Lets make your undulations look boneless. We’ll layer
  shimmies camels, belly rolls, flutters, figure eights and do
  veil work. You will sweat!
  12:00-1:00pm Lunch
  Free Time for everyone! Field trips, pool, hot tub, massage, beach!
  4:15-5:45pm CLASS: Drum and Music Class with Erik Brown
  & Stephen Elaimy on Oud
  6:00-7:00pm Dinner
  7:30-9:30pm Evening Class with Delilah & Live music!!!
  
  
• Day 8: SHOW TIME Details
  7:30-8:30am Breakfast
  9:00-10:45am CLASS: Belly Dance Obstacle Course
  with Delilah & Laura Rose
  11:00-12:00pm PERFORMANCE HOUR
  Beginner-Intermediate dancers
  12:00-1:00pm Lunch
  Free Time! (for General Course students)
  1:15-3:15pm CLASS: Instructors Training
  3:30-4:30pm CLASS: Drum Class with Erik
  5:00-6:00pm PERFORMANCE HOUR
  Intermediate dancers
  6:00-7:00pm Dinner
  8:00-10:00pm PERFORMANCE HOUR
  Advanced-Pro dancers
  
  
• Day 9: Giving Thanks and Reviewing our Dance
  7:30-8:30am Breakfast
  9:00-10:30am CLASS: Dance Class Review
  Hand out completion certificates.
  11:00-12:00pm General Course students pack, leave after lunch
  12:00-1:00pm Lunch
  3:00-5:30pm CLASS: Instructors Special Drum Solo
  with Erik & Delilah
  In this class the structure of the drum solo is demystified and
  broken into 4 parts. Delilah & Erik demonstrate and articulate
  their approach. Each dancer works solo with Erik while the rest
  stop, look and listen. This is one of the most important classes
  a dancer can take. Details
  6:00-7:00pm Dinner
  8:00-9:15pm Round Robin Dance Exchange with Live Music!
  
  
• Day 10: Farewell Dance
  7:30-8:30am Breakfast. Pack up before class.
  9:00-10:00am CLASS: Techniques Review with Delilah
  Featuring question and answer session.
  12:00-1:00pm Lunch. Instructors training student departure.
  
  There will be a group coming in right after us this year so we will not be able to stay on at Kalani.