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Performance Make-up Workshop

Learn the art of make-up technique from a working dance professional. Gain the skills needed to bring out the best in your features. We will be addressing eye and lip shape, skin and face type as well as color combining. This workshop is perfect for beginning dancers as well as the seasoned professional.

Adriana is a make-up artist and skin care specialist who enjoys teaching women how to bring out their natural beauty.

Partial list of workshop topics Adriana can instruct on:

Egyptian choreography
North African dance chirographies
Arabic drumming and rhythm class
Demystifying Arabic music
Captivating entrances and how you have seven seconds to impress
Finales: how to close the show and have them book you again
How to use a five part dance to create a dynamic and interesting 30 min show
Etiquette and mannerisms at a gig that will get you more money and hired again
Impressive sword dancing improve and choreography
Sensual floor work improve and choreography
Goblet dance improv and choreography
How to choreograph
Brasilian Samba choreography
Drum Solo improvisation
Drum Solo choreography
How to prepare your music for a gig
Beginning, intermediate, and advanced finger cymbal playing
Belly dance technique
Sharp locks and cool pops
Six different undulations and how they add juice to your routine
Belly dance core training
Fast and Slow foot work for belly dancers
Graceful and elegant arms for belly dancer
Dance combinations for different instruments and how to hear them in your piece
Emotional expression of Arabic music
Improvisation with live musicians
Slow and slinky taxim
Negotiation skills and tactics for working dancers
How to launch yourself as a working dancer
How to transform yourself with make-up
Costuming yourself-do’s and don't’s for different gigs

Currently based in the El Cerrito, Adriana performs frequently at Persian nightclubs and Arabic nightclubs throughout the SF Bay Area. She is available for booking performances, workshops, lectures, and events, locally as well as nationally and overseas.

(415) 410-8555 or (949) 939-1646
info@adrianabellydance.com