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Rhea of Greece - Single Day Seminar Rate (either Saturday 9/11 or Sunday 9/12 - send Melina an email with your choice)

Saturday, September 11, 2010 at 3:00 PM - Sunday, September 12, 2010 at 6:00 PM (ET)

Waltham, United States

Rhea of Greece - Single Day Seminar Rate (either Saturday...

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Rhea poses in assuit and tribal style finery
Rhea in her home studio in Athens, Greece

Melina is proud to present for the first time in her new Daughters of Rhea Dance studio at Moody Street Circus in Waltham, her greatest inspiration in life and belly dance, her mother Rhea.

Rhea: American Belly Dance Pioneer, Master of the exciting Greco-Turkish style! Rhea began her dance career with Jamila Salimpour’s Troupe Bal Anat in 1968. In the early '70s, Rhea became a sought after solo performer and instructor in the San Francisco Bay Area. In 1977, Rhea left the U.S. to explore the various sources of dance in the Middle East, finally settling in the ancient city of Athens.  Throughout the '80s and '90s, Rhea headlined at Athens top nightclubs, performing five shows a night, seven nights a week, often with her daughters Piper and Melina. Now, Rhea teaches and performs all over the world. Rhea welcomes guest dancers and students from around the world to study in her Athens studio. 


SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 11, 3 - 6 p.m.

Ancient Greek Belly Dance to Modern Chiftetelli + Cymbals - all levels.  Dancers began playing cymbals tied to their fingertips not in the Middle East but in Ancient Greece!  Rhea will teach the precepts of Ancient Greek Dance, including graceful arm movements, fluid weight changes and powerful posturing, and then utilize them all in her unique movement combos that are guaranteed to get you dancing and playing in no time.  Finish up with some smokin' hot modern Greek Chifitelli and classic Daughters of Rhea combinations.

SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 12, 3 - 6 p.m.

Chakra Power + Graceful Arms and Hand Gestures - all levels.  Find your inner snake and learn those fluid torso, hip and abdominal movements with the help of the chakras (energy centers of the body).  Complete the look with lovely stylings seen in Rhea's Graceful Arms and Hand Gestures DVD.

Move Your Hips a Million Ways - all levels.  Rhea is known for the fastest hips in the West!  She will teach you how to move in every way imaginable.  Maximize every step you take. 

Articles by Rhea

For more information on Rhea, visit www.daughtersofrhea.com and www.pipermethod.com/rhea.html

 

When & Where


Moody Street Circus/Daughters of Rhea Dance Studios
397 Moody Street, 2nd Floor
Waltham, 02453

Saturday, September 11, 2010 at 3:00 PM - Sunday, September 12, 2010 at 6:00 PM (ET)


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Melina of Daughters of Rhea / Moody Street Circus



Moody Street Circus is the professional family-run Waltham, MA-based headquarters of Sacha and Melinda Pavlata's Cirque Passion School of Circus Arts and Melina's Daughters of Rhea Belly Dance Company. We also offer tented entertainment circus events with our worldclass traveling circus family: cloud swing, high wire, unicycle, trapeze, aerial hoop, clowning and more.

At Moody Street Circus we teach the joy of life through circus arts and belly dance to children, teens and adults of all ages. Heart, humor and inclusive community spirit are at the core of our teaching.  We strive to bring out students' full potential, then challenge individuals to work on skills that will elevate their expression up to performance-grade levels.  

Moody Street Circus is the place for classes in belly dance, circus arts, and aerial arts; for birthday parties, summer and after-school programs and more for kids and adults.  No matter where you are in your life's journey, there is always room for learning new skills and having fun. Moody Street Circus is here for you when you are ready to learn to undulate, ululate or hang upsidedown from a static trapeze.

MSC Directors and teachers Sacha and Melinda (AKA Melina of Daughters of Rhea) share extraordinary family legacies in circus and dance.

Alexandre Sacha Pavlata is a fifth-generation Czech circus artist, master aerialist and world-renown circus arts teacher.  He grew up with his traveling circus family in a wooden circus wagon which crisscrossed Europe and North Africa presenting their famous unicycle and trampoline act under big tops all over the globe. From horses to high wire and everything in between, Sacha has since performed nearly every kind of circus act you could imagine, including touring with the legendary Flying Wallendas as an integral part of their breath-taking seven-person pyramid on the high wire.

Sacha's circus heritage goes back 5 generations on both sides.  His mother, Hungarian-born Anna Dubsky, came from a long line of Risley Act performers (the acrobatic foot juggling of people), and his father, Czech-born Karl Pavlata, descended from a family of aerialists known for their great physical strength and versatility in the air. More on Sacha extraordinary life and legacy in the circus at www.cirquepassion.com.

Melinda "Melina" Pavlata, Ph.D. (AKA Melina of Daughters of Rhea) is a 2nd generation circus and belly dance artist. Her mother is belly dance pioneer Rhea of Greece, her father is folk musician singer/songwriter Phil Marsh, and her step-mother is Shakespearean actress/juggler/circus artist Cecil MacKinnon.  She grew up fully immersed in her parents' international performing lives, performing with them in the Pickle Family Circus and dancing with her mother and sister Piper (Belly Dancer of the Year 2000) on taverna stages in the ancient city of Athens, Greece.

As an adult Melinda 'Melina' has toured around the world as an aerialist, circus artist and belly dancer with Circus Flora, The Wallenda Family Circus, Cirque Rocks, Amazing Grace Circus and currently with her own circus Cirque Passion. 

Melina is currently on the faculty of Kripalu where she teaches an annual summertime retreat "Wild Hips, Gypsy Heart: Belly Dance as self-empowerment." 

For more on Melina's belly dance family please visit www.daughtersofrhea.com

For more the Pavlata's circus life please visit www.cirquepassion.com.