Habibi, You Are My WHAT?!
Leyla Lanty's Essential Arabic for Dancers
If you want to know how to put real meaning into your dancing,
this fun, informative workshop is for you.
Leyla presents a toolkit of over fifty of the most commonly heard words and phrases found
in Arabic songs along with gestures and body language that go with them. She includes
cultural notes throughout to explain the context and underlying meaning of those words and
phrases. This will help you understand the tone and emotion of Arabic songs and how to
express them to your audience. You'll have everyone, even Arabs, wondering where and
how you learned Arabic! Leyla will have you "singing along" with a well known popular
song and will give you insights into two other favorites.
Now Available on DVD.
Play Finger Cymbals Musically & With Confidence
How to play cymbals while you are dancing without losing either the music or
the dance.
In this workshop, you will learn the best cymbal patterns to play with these rhythms and
more plus the most effective way to practice playing while dancing. You will learn the
rhythms, their names in Arabic, and how to differentiate them from one another.
Leyla developed this workshop to teach at Ahlan Wa Sahlan Festival in Cairo, Egypt. She
has returned to Cairo to teach it every year since 2006.
Egyptian Folk Style Cane Dance
You will learn the answers to all these questions and more plus a brief
choreography using Egyptian Saidi, Balady and Ghawazee movements.
Leyla Lanty's Essential Arabic for Dancers
- Do you wonder what Arabic singers are singing about?
- Do you wonder how to interpret Arabic songs to your audience?
If you want to know how to put real meaning into your dancing,
this fun, informative workshop is for you.
Leyla presents a toolkit of over fifty of the most commonly heard words and phrases found
in Arabic songs along with gestures and body language that go with them. She includes
cultural notes throughout to explain the context and underlying meaning of those words and
phrases. This will help you understand the tone and emotion of Arabic songs and how to
express them to your audience. You'll have everyone, even Arabs, wondering where and
how you learned Arabic! Leyla will have you "singing along" with a well known popular
song and will give you insights into two other favorites.
Now Available on DVD.
Play Finger Cymbals Musically & With Confidence
How to play cymbals while you are dancing without losing either the music or
the dance.
- Do your feet lose their way when you play finger cymbals?
- Does playing cymbals twist your fingers into a knot when you dance?
- Do you know a "malfouf" from an "ayoub," a "balady" from a "maqsoum,"
In this workshop, you will learn the best cymbal patterns to play with these rhythms and
more plus the most effective way to practice playing while dancing. You will learn the
rhythms, their names in Arabic, and how to differentiate them from one another.
Leyla developed this workshop to teach at Ahlan Wa Sahlan Festival in Cairo, Egypt. She
has returned to Cairo to teach it every year since 2006.
Egyptian Folk Style Cane Dance
- Do you know what kind of music is appropriate for cane dance?
- Which dance movements?
- Which cane movements?
- How to pick a cane up or put it down on stage?
- How to balance a cane on your head (or anything else)?
- How to avoid dropping a cane or throwing it across the
You will learn the answers to all these questions and more plus a brief
choreography using Egyptian Saidi, Balady and Ghawazee movements.
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Leyla Lanty offers the following workshops
- Habibi, You Are My WHAT?! Leyla Lanty's
Essential Arabic for Dancers - Play Finger Cymbals Musically & With
Confidence - Egyptian Folk Style Cane Dance
