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More about the next Hafla
The Delaware Drum and Dance hafla continues into 2021. 3rd Sunday at 3:30pm. Check the list below for which months.
We are currently online via Zoom. contact Lorelei if you need the Zoom link for Feb or May. August may be in person.
The Newark Arts Alliance is no longer open on most Sundays. Keep checking their website for updated hours and activities.
Dates for 2021: any live music dates or other area events will be announces ASAP
We are currently online via Zoom. contact Lorelei if you need the Zoom link for Feb or May. August may be in person.
The Newark Arts Alliance is no longer open on most Sundays. Keep checking their website for updated hours and activities.
Dates for 2021: any live music dates or other area events will be announces ASAP
- 3rd Sunday in Feb: 2/21 Hafla Anniversary, with "Vintage" theme ONLINE
- 3rd Sunday in May: May 16 ONLINE (Theme TBD but possibilities are throw back OR Faeries)
- 3rd Sunday in Aug => Hafla-con Aug 15 (location TBD)
- 3rd Sunday in Nov => Blacklight hafla Nov 21 (location TBD)
- Some years we also hold Improv Roulette in Summer and Bellyanna in Dec. More details TBD
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Guest Performers:
The Nov 14th hafla will be a ALSO hybrid event. We have room for about 10 people at the Newark Arts Alliance. We will be streaming over Zoom from there (contact Lorelei if you need a link. It is available on the facebook event)
Performers can be live in 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 start with recorded performances for this one to help in blacklight set up at the Newark 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. Candlelora (MN) Candlelora is the Light in your Darkness. A sassy siren whom craves adventure, invites her audience to join her. She 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 2OnPoint: 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. www.facebook.com/candlelorabellydancer |
Chadia and the Caravan Dancers (NJ)
Chadia and The Goddess Caravan (ZaLisa..Bashirah..and Zahira) will be performing for this blacklight show, a Saiidi number and hope you enjoy our performance!
www.facebook.com/Chadia-and-The-Goddess-Caravan-Dancers-331653111402
Jezibell (GA)
Jezibell Anat studied belly dance in Manhattan with many iconic teachers, including Serena, Elena, Anahid Sofian, Morocco, Gamila el-Masri, Dalia Carella and Jehan, and she has studied Turkish dance with Artemis Mourat. She has performed as a soloist throughout the NYC area, and has danced with the Egyptian/American Folkloric Group, the Serena Dance Theatre, Gamila el-Masri's Nileside Dancers, Nadia Moussa & Company, and PURE (Public Urban Ritual Experiment). She performs traditional cabaret and Turkish dance, as well as cosplay, Goth, and Goddess fusion styles. She is also a writer and actress and often combines dance with poetry, theatre and percussion.
Now in Augusta, she performs throughout the area as a soloist, and and as a cast member of Murder House Live, a horror-themed cabaret show. She is the founder/organizer of the Geektastic Bellydance League, an eclectic group of dancers that performs cosplay fusion belly dance at conventions such as Atomacon, the Augusta Toy & Comic Show, Agamacon and Arts in the Heart of Augusta. She coordinates and performs in traditional belly dance shows for medieval-themed events at EastWind Castle. As Regina Serpentina, she dances with her snakes at the Black Cat Sideshow at Le Chat Noir. In Atlanta she has performed at the Time Traveler’s Ball, DragonCon, Tribal Cafe, and Moksha’s theatrical dance production GODDESS - A Dance Story connecting heroines across cultures. She danced at the Bloom Festival in Charlotte in 2018.
She also writes and act in local theatre and independent film projects and performs fire with Arcane Arts.
April (MD): https://aprilmonique.weebly.com/
Chadia and The Goddess Caravan (ZaLisa..Bashirah..and Zahira) will be performing for this blacklight show, a Saiidi number and hope you enjoy our performance!
www.facebook.com/Chadia-and-The-Goddess-Caravan-Dancers-331653111402
Jezibell (GA)
Jezibell Anat studied belly dance in Manhattan with many iconic teachers, including Serena, Elena, Anahid Sofian, Morocco, Gamila el-Masri, Dalia Carella and Jehan, and she has studied Turkish dance with Artemis Mourat. She has performed as a soloist throughout the NYC area, and has danced with the Egyptian/American Folkloric Group, the Serena Dance Theatre, Gamila el-Masri's Nileside Dancers, Nadia Moussa & Company, and PURE (Public Urban Ritual Experiment). She performs traditional cabaret and Turkish dance, as well as cosplay, Goth, and Goddess fusion styles. She is also a writer and actress and often combines dance with poetry, theatre and percussion.
Now in Augusta, she performs throughout the area as a soloist, and and as a cast member of Murder House Live, a horror-themed cabaret show. She is the founder/organizer of the Geektastic Bellydance League, an eclectic group of dancers that performs cosplay fusion belly dance at conventions such as Atomacon, the Augusta Toy & Comic Show, Agamacon and Arts in the Heart of Augusta. She coordinates and performs in traditional belly dance shows for medieval-themed events at EastWind Castle. As Regina Serpentina, she dances with her snakes at the Black Cat Sideshow at Le Chat Noir. In Atlanta she has performed at the Time Traveler’s Ball, DragonCon, Tribal Cafe, and Moksha’s theatrical dance production GODDESS - A Dance Story connecting heroines across cultures. She danced at the Bloom Festival in Charlotte in 2018.
She also writes and act in local theatre and independent film projects and performs fire with Arcane Arts.
April (MD): https://aprilmonique.weebly.com/
