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More about the next Hafla
The Delaware Drum and Dance hafla continues into 2022. 3rd Sunday at 3:30pm (except sometimes for Nov).
Check the list below for which months.
We are currently HYBRID: online via Zoom, with some performers in person at the Newark Arts Alliance.
contact Lorelei if you need the Zoom link for any Hafla
The Newark Arts Alliance is no longer open on most Sundays. Keep checking their website for updated hours and activities.
Dates for 2022: any live music dates or other area events will be announces ASAP
Check the list below for which months.
We are currently HYBRID: online via Zoom, with some performers in person at the Newark Arts Alliance.
contact Lorelei if you need the Zoom link for any Hafla
The Newark Arts Alliance is no longer open on most Sundays. Keep checking their website for updated hours and activities.
Dates for 2022: any live music dates or other area events will be announces ASAP
- 3rd Sunday in Feb: 2/20 Hafla Anniversary Theme: Birthday/Party
- 3rd Sunday in May: 5/15 (Theme TBD, but likely Spring/Faeries/Flowers)
- 3rd Sunday in Aug => 8/21 Theme: Hafla-con (Scifi/comic book)
- 2nd Saturday in Nov => 11/2 Theme: Blacklight hafla (special date for blacklight)
- Some years we also hold Improv Roulette in Summer and Bellyanna in Dec. More details TBD
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Guest Performers:
Nov 2022 Hafla will also be Hybrid. AND at a special date and time. November is BLACKLIGHT! And we meed on Sat 11/12 at 4pm.
We have room for some people at the Newark Arts Alliance. AND we will be streaming over Zoom from there (contact Lorelei if you need a link. It is available on the facebook event) Performers may be live at the Newark Arts Alliance, live over Zoom, or pre-recorded. We have a projector at the Newark Arts Alliance for those who are there. (Note, we will often start with recorded performances and then move to live performers at the Arts Alliance. ) Performing Dancers/Musicians: Joining us in person at the Newark Arts Alliance are several members of the Salimpour collective from DC, dancing solo, not at a group. Members of Tapestry Dance Project (DE/NJ/PA) Tapestry Dance Project performs group improvisational fusion belly dance. Our vocabulary is blended, with Paulette Rees-Denis' Caravan Project as our primary lineage. We also incorporate moves from other fusion vocabularies, and we create our own. |
Doukissa and Dendara Nar (DE): doukissa.com
Doukissa has studied the ancient art of belly dancing and continues to update her skills in workshops and seminars. Doukissa has performed at a variety of events and venues including the Ag Museum 1890 Fair, IAABC Basketball Tournament, Kent County Affair of the Heart 1995, First Night of Wilmington and Dover, Wyoming Peach Festival 2000 and 2011, Friends of Dover Theatre 2001, Downtown Dover Summer Fest 2004, Pagan Festival 2005 through 2011, DAFB Arts Festival 2010. Doukissa has also performed at haflas, nursing or retirement communities, and parties throughout Delaware, New Jersey, Maryland, Pennsylvannia, Virginia, North Carolina, and Washington, D.C.
Candlelora (MN) candlelorabellydancer
Candlelora is the Light in your Darkness. A sassy siren whom craves adventure, invites her audience to join her.
Candlelora has studied fusion belly dance along with other various dance styles the last eleven years as well as other movement arts for most of her life with a variety of celebrated dancers and instructors. Candlelora thrives on out of the box Choreography; taking experimental risks with her dancing often including props of in many abundant styles, favouring her Sword. Candlelora studies the Fire Arts including Fire Manipulation and Fire Prop Work. As a Fusion artist would, she often marries Fire and Belly Dance.
She is an instructor of Fusion Belly Dance and is delighted to share her love and knowledge of movement.
She performs around the Midwest (with aspirations of the entire the world).
You can find her doing her solo work all over and also with 2 On Point: her Fire/Acrobalance/Dance Duo; as well with well-known Fandazzi Fire Circus, Wicked Wenches Parody Troupe, Steel Stiltleos, and anywhere there is dancing to be done.
Helena(MD)
Helena is a dancer from Maryland who studies at the Salimpour Institute and dances with the Salimpour DC Collective. She is currently certified in Foundations 1 (formerly SL2) and is studying for her Foundations 2 certification (formerly JL2). Her dance dream is to someday dance in Bal Anat, the longest-running concert-length belly dance show in the world!
Doukissa has studied the ancient art of belly dancing and continues to update her skills in workshops and seminars. Doukissa has performed at a variety of events and venues including the Ag Museum 1890 Fair, IAABC Basketball Tournament, Kent County Affair of the Heart 1995, First Night of Wilmington and Dover, Wyoming Peach Festival 2000 and 2011, Friends of Dover Theatre 2001, Downtown Dover Summer Fest 2004, Pagan Festival 2005 through 2011, DAFB Arts Festival 2010. Doukissa has also performed at haflas, nursing or retirement communities, and parties throughout Delaware, New Jersey, Maryland, Pennsylvannia, Virginia, North Carolina, and Washington, D.C.
Candlelora (MN) candlelorabellydancer
Candlelora is the Light in your Darkness. A sassy siren whom craves adventure, invites her audience to join her.
Candlelora has studied fusion belly dance along with other various dance styles the last eleven years as well as other movement arts for most of her life with a variety of celebrated dancers and instructors. Candlelora thrives on out of the box Choreography; taking experimental risks with her dancing often including props of in many abundant styles, favouring her Sword. Candlelora studies the Fire Arts including Fire Manipulation and Fire Prop Work. As a Fusion artist would, she often marries Fire and Belly Dance.
She is an instructor of Fusion Belly Dance and is delighted to share her love and knowledge of movement.
She performs around the Midwest (with aspirations of the entire the world).
You can find her doing her solo work all over and also with 2 On Point: her Fire/Acrobalance/Dance Duo; as well with well-known Fandazzi Fire Circus, Wicked Wenches Parody Troupe, Steel Stiltleos, and anywhere there is dancing to be done.
Helena(MD)
Helena is a dancer from Maryland who studies at the Salimpour Institute and dances with the Salimpour DC Collective. She is currently certified in Foundations 1 (formerly SL2) and is studying for her Foundations 2 certification (formerly JL2). Her dance dream is to someday dance in Bal Anat, the longest-running concert-length belly dance show in the world!
