Christmas is coming and we’re sharing in the festive mood with our online Advent Calendar. Celebrating 24 days of female creativity, power and entrepreneurship we’ve teamed up with local female run businesses to bring you some amazing prizes. Make sure to follow us on Facebook and Instagram to get the chance to win. Have a look at some of the prizes in our newsletter below.

Regular classes will take a break over Christmas but there’s plenty of opportunity to keep on dancing in our winter workshops. From Isis wings to shimmy technique, American tribal style or an introduction to Chinese dance, try something new and keep warmed up for a great start in 2019 with KP1 (oriental pop).

HIGHLIGHTS IN NEWSLETTER

• TARAB - Arab music concert & dance at ZeoT - 02.02.2019

• KHALEEGY PERFORMANCE PROJECT

• ZEOT BELLY DANCE TEACHER TRAINING PROGRAMME 2019

Lastly a big thank you to all of you who’ve danced, performed and partied with us in 2018. We truly love to dance with you and thank you from the bottom of our hearts for helping to make the ZeoT community such a joyful one, and for putting many smiles on our hips!

The most valuable things in life can only be learned by doing them a lot. You can read every book on Ghandi and still not be a leader. You can read cookbooks cover to cover and still not be able to serve up a gourmet meal. You can watch every belly dance video on youtube and still not be able to shimmy! If you want to get better at something there’s no magic ingredient - it’s about drilling the basics again and again until it becomes automatic.

Maybe you’ve been coming to class regularly but you feel frustrated that after practising for hours you’re not getting better or getting the results you want? Then it’s time to think about whether you’re practising in the right way!

“Champions are brilliant at the basics” - American basketball player John Wooden

Mastery in nearly any endeavor is the result of deeply understanding simple ideas. For most of us, the answer to becoming better leaders, better chefs or better dancers is consistently practicing the fundamentals, not brilliantly understanding the details. You can find more ideas and tips on how to practise here.

On 22nd October we'll begin KP 6 studying various Middle Eastern and North African folkloric dances. Join us on a colourful journey stopping off in Tunisia, Egypt and the Gulf states. We’ve included some more tips in our newsletter on how you can learn a choreography more easily and you’ll also find a special offer (free private lesson) for all new Abo holders in KP6, which might just help you find the best way to practise with intention and not just effort!

Highlights KP6 (more info in newsletter):

• ESRAA WARDA // FROM MOROCCAN CHAABI TO ALGERIAN CHAOUI 

• OZGEN // TURKISH ROMAN DANCE, DRUM SOLO & SUFI INSPIRED VEIL CHOREOGRAPHY

• GEORGETTE DUTOIT // "ON YOUR FEET" - FOOT FITNESS WORKSHOP

Try out a new dance style this summer! When you try new things, you put your brain into unique situations that force it to really think. This stimulates creativity, which eventually rubs off in other areas of your life. With this in mind, we have a great selection of workshops for you to try out during the summer workshop week of 20.08. - 25.08. From veil technique to shimmy, Muwashahat to Baladi, here's a great chance for you to try your hand at something new!

Regular classes take a break during the summer workshop week until the 27.08. when we'll begin course period 5 studying the art of Raqs Sharqi or classical oriental dance. Read our tip in our newsletter to find out how you can learn a choreography more easily. Alongside our choreography classes, why not work separately on improving your posture or technique in ballet or in one of our several oriental dance technique classes? You'll be amazed by how much you can improve just by adding one extra dance class a week.

Join us this summer in KP4 for our rhythm special! Learn combinations and technique to different arabic rhythms and don’t forget to benefit from our special summer abo promotion (more info below).

Learning arabic rhythms can really help to improve your dancing! Not only will you be able to hear and follow the beat, helping you to keep in time, you will also start to recognise what style of dance fits to the music and find improvising so much easier!

Get an overview of courses in our KP4 timetable and find the right level for you here. Still not sure? Don't hesitate to contact us for help! Away on holiday during Kp4? No problem since there's no choreo to learn in KP4 it's easy to catch up any classes missed whilst sunning yourself on the beach!

We also have some great workshops coming up! Bollywood with Stuti Aga, Oriental Tango technique with Lya Elcagu and our special summer workshop week with the ZeoT Zürich team.  

It's been an action packed year for us so far with our participation in Zürich Tanzt festival, the Iranian Film Festival and of course the ZeoT Showcase & CHROMA performance on the 9th June. We'd like to thank everyone who took part, especially the over 70 dance students who worked so hard to make this event a great success. We're already looking forward to next year's show and hoping that even more of you will take part. Save the date: Saturday June 22nd 2019!