Our Events
Road Trip 2011 with Virginia
March 4-6, 2011
We kicked off March Madness with a weekend of dance with the fabulous Virginia! It was dance, dance and more dance. Friday afternoon Virginia treated us to a master class that focused on Traveling Steps. Saturday was filled with Egyptian Oriental. We started the session with technique and ended with a great choreography. Sunday held more technique and choreography, however this time it was a drum solo. Add to this two shows including a Saturday Dancers' Showcase featuring Virginia not once, but twice and you have a weekend filled with great dance, Every one had a great time. All events took place in the beautiful Charles Mack Citizen Center in downtown Mooresville, NC.
Here is what the participants were saying after a wonderful weekend with Pyramid Road and Virginia:
Isdahar: Thank you for bringing us together! You are making us feel even more like a larger dance community!
Sapphire: Great workshop! Virginia was fabulous. The venue was well equipped. The hostess (Zu) was well organized. Congrats on a job well done!
Joy: Congratulations to Zu and many thanks to Pyramid Road for bringing the vivacious Virginia Mendez to Charlotte, NC. It was a fun, educational and memorable weekend of exciting choreographies, useful technique tips and beautiful, diverse performances! I'm looking forward to Road Trip 2012 with Aziza!
Naima Sultana: Had an amazing time at Pyramid Road's Road Trip 2011, featuring Virginia Mendez- Virginia was a spectacular instructor and it was pure joy to study with her again. I learned so much!!!!!!!!!!!!
Haala: A big thank you for all the hard work you and your volunteers put into making the first Road Trip such a big success!!! Everything ran so smoothly and professionally, and of course Virginia was an amazing and inspiring instructor! I can't wait for the next Road Trip with Aziza in 2012!
Janelle: what a great weekend! Everything turned out beautifully!
Nadirah: It was amazing....what a wonderful weekend of dance.
Mira: It was a wonderful weekend, Virginia was amazing, and I'm looking forward to Aziza next year!!! :)
Sylvana: Awesome workshop weekend with Virginia of Miami. I'll be stiff for at least a week :) Thank you so much to Debbie for all her hard work pulling the event off.
Iona: Thanks so much again Debbie for a great workshop and show. You're putting Charlotte on the map baby!
Majeeda: congratulations Debbie! what a great weekend. so well organized and Virginia was fabulous!!
Kristie: A plus-plus-plus! Great job, Zu!
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March 4-6, 2011
We kicked off March Madness with a weekend of dance with the fabulous Virginia! It was dance, dance and more dance. Friday afternoon Virginia treated us to a master class that focused on Traveling Steps. Saturday was filled with Egyptian Oriental. We started the session with technique and ended with a great choreography. Sunday held more technique and choreography, however this time it was a drum solo. Add to this two shows including a Saturday Dancers' Showcase featuring Virginia not once, but twice and you have a weekend filled with great dance, Every one had a great time. All events took place in the beautiful Charles Mack Citizen Center in downtown Mooresville, NC.Here is what the participants were saying after a wonderful weekend with Pyramid Road and Virginia:
Isdahar: Thank you for bringing us together! You are making us feel even more like a larger dance community!
Sapphire: Great workshop! Virginia was fabulous. The venue was well equipped. The hostess (Zu) was well organized. Congrats on a job well done!
Joy: Congratulations to Zu and many thanks to Pyramid Road for bringing the vivacious Virginia Mendez to Charlotte, NC. It was a fun, educational and memorable weekend of exciting choreographies, useful technique tips and beautiful, diverse performances! I'm looking forward to Road Trip 2012 with Aziza!
Naima Sultana: Had an amazing time at Pyramid Road's Road Trip 2011, featuring Virginia Mendez- Virginia was a spectacular instructor and it was pure joy to study with her again. I learned so much!!!!!!!!!!!!
Haala: A big thank you for all the hard work you and your volunteers put into making the first Road Trip such a big success!!! Everything ran so smoothly and professionally, and of course Virginia was an amazing and inspiring instructor! I can't wait for the next Road Trip with Aziza in 2012!
Janelle: what a great weekend! Everything turned out beautifully!
Nadirah: It was amazing....what a wonderful weekend of dance.
Mira: It was a wonderful weekend, Virginia was amazing, and I'm looking forward to Aziza next year!!! :)
Sylvana: Awesome workshop weekend with Virginia of Miami. I'll be stiff for at least a week :) Thank you so much to Debbie for all her hard work pulling the event off.
Iona: Thanks so much again Debbie for a great workshop and show. You're putting Charlotte on the map baby!
Majeeda: congratulations Debbie! what a great weekend. so well organized and Virginia was fabulous!!
Kristie: A plus-plus-plus! Great job, Zu!
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Day Trip with Lisa Zahiya: Belly Funk
September 25, 2011
In our Second Day Trip the fabulous and funky Lisa Zahiya shared her signature belly dance style with us. We learned how to add spice to our performances by working on movement style, combinations, patterns and expression.
An innovative and award winning performer, Lisa Zahiya is known for her engaging, elegant and entertaining dancing. Working in the genres of bellydance, Indian dance (Bollywood and Bhangra) and hip-hop dance. Lisa travels nationally and internationally teaching and performing.
An innovative and award winning performer, Lisa Zahiya is known for her engaging, elegant and entertaining dancing. Working in the genres of bellydance, Indian dance (Bollywood and Bhangra) and hip-hop dance. Lisa travels nationally and internationally teaching and performing.
In 2008 Lisa brought home the title of Tribal Fusion Bellydancer of the Universe. She followed this up in 2009 by being named the Alternative Category Champion at the West Bellydance Competition in Las Vegas Nevada.
After a day of instruction, what were the participants at this Day Trip saying? Please bring Lisa back! Clearly a single day is not enough with this instructor. Lisa's expansive knowledge of the different styles of dance has put her on our recurring instructor list! Look for Lisa to be visiting Pyramid Road again.
In our first ever Day Trip the beautiful Naima Sultana shows us ways to Melt into Your Dance. We learned how to strengthen and lengthen using Belly Barre™ exercises and identified key ballet elements to melt into our dance. We topped off the day with a choreography that incorporated all that we had learned.