Zaina Zahesha
Zill Drills
Performing zill playing, while dancing, is fast
becoming a lost art! DON'T LET THE ART DIE.....
Take this workshop designed for both seasoned
players and dancers just entering into this new
frontier.
*Basic patterns to play with any rhythm
*Dance combinations to learn and perform with
your zills
*Drills for learning and perfecting your zill
playing
Please bring a pair of Zills
Performing zill playing, while dancing, is fast
becoming a lost art! DON'T LET THE ART DIE.....
Take this workshop designed for both seasoned
players and dancers just entering into this new
frontier.
*Basic patterns to play with any rhythm
*Dance combinations to learn and perform with
your zills
*Drills for learning and perfecting your zill
playing
Please bring a pair of Zills
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Zaina Zahesha (aka TerriAnne Gutierrez (Zill Drills,
12 Middle Eastern Rhythms Every Belly Dancer needs to know)
A career ranging from owning her own dance schools
and teaching hundreds of people how to belly dance,
to performing for 2 years at the top San Francisco
club with 2 shows a night on both Friday and
Saturday, (never missing one show) to being brought
all over the world to perform (most recently to
Guatemala City and the Dominican Republic) has
been the achievement of music and dance artist, Zaina Zahesha. A
fanatical devotion to her art, dating from the first days of her
apprenticeship at the age of 15 with the belly dance troupe El
Amarra, has brought her technique to polished perfection, and her
musical ability and flair for the theatre have made her a successful
choreographer and director of her own award winning dance
company, as well as an expert performer and musician.
Zaina Zehesha began her dance and musical training at the age of
8. Five years of ballet gave her the foundation that she built her
other dance forms on. Planning a career in modern dance, and
training with protégées of the famous Martha Graham, Zaina
Zahesha went to a café one night and saw belly dance for the first
time. Before the first number was finished, she had changed her
career plan and decided to focus her studies on belly dance. In
1997, while continuing her belly dance career, Zaina Zahesha
began training in the East Indian classical dance form of Kahtak.
After 7 years of intense training with teachers Cliff and Betty
Jones, she was invited to join a Kahtak dance company and
performed with them over the next 3 years. Zaina credits Shareen
El Safy and the dancer Safay (Suhaila Salimpour’s godmother),
both dancers who lived and performed in Egypt, as her main belly
dance mentors. Zaina Zahesha’s skill on the “zills” is a reflection of
her many years of musical training. She plays flute and clarinet,
with her main instrument being Spanish and classical guitar. She
began her studies in earnest on deff and riq with well-known and
talented Susu Pampanin in 2004 and performs with her on a
regular basis.
12 Middle Eastern Rhythms Every Belly Dancer needs to know)
A career ranging from owning her own dance schools
and teaching hundreds of people how to belly dance,
to performing for 2 years at the top San Francisco
club with 2 shows a night on both Friday and
Saturday, (never missing one show) to being brought
all over the world to perform (most recently to
Guatemala City and the Dominican Republic) has
been the achievement of music and dance artist, Zaina Zahesha. A
fanatical devotion to her art, dating from the first days of her
apprenticeship at the age of 15 with the belly dance troupe El
Amarra, has brought her technique to polished perfection, and her
musical ability and flair for the theatre have made her a successful
choreographer and director of her own award winning dance
company, as well as an expert performer and musician.
Zaina Zehesha began her dance and musical training at the age of
8. Five years of ballet gave her the foundation that she built her
other dance forms on. Planning a career in modern dance, and
training with protégées of the famous Martha Graham, Zaina
Zahesha went to a café one night and saw belly dance for the first
time. Before the first number was finished, she had changed her
career plan and decided to focus her studies on belly dance. In
1997, while continuing her belly dance career, Zaina Zahesha
began training in the East Indian classical dance form of Kahtak.
After 7 years of intense training with teachers Cliff and Betty
Jones, she was invited to join a Kahtak dance company and
performed with them over the next 3 years. Zaina credits Shareen
El Safy and the dancer Safay (Suhaila Salimpour’s godmother),
both dancers who lived and performed in Egypt, as her main belly
dance mentors. Zaina Zahesha’s skill on the “zills” is a reflection of
her many years of musical training. She plays flute and clarinet,
with her main instrument being Spanish and classical guitar. She
began her studies in earnest on deff and riq with well-known and
talented Susu Pampanin in 2004 and performs with her on a
regular basis.
| Sunday, 12:00 to 1:30 |
| Or send a check or money order made out to Deborah Bennette in the amount of $25.00 to Zaina Zahesha PO Box 2630 Petaluma, CA. 94953 |