raks pro MK festival

Raks Pro performed at the MK-Festival in Heerlen this saturday. The dancers adapted one of our choreographies - the smashing award winning drum solo - to a smaller group, so that our guest choreographer of last year, Razia (USA/London) could finally see for her self what we'd done with her handy work! (and guess what, she llllloved it).

in the afternoon, some of the troupe took a zill choreography class with Razia, a dance we will also re-arrange to suit us as a troupe and add to the repertoire... though the zilling patterns are not for the faint-hearted, a lot of work coming up there. and it's ssssssuper fast.

when can you see the dancers perform next?

* at the RAKS hafla, on friday 26th august in Leuven

* at the Mundo orieltan Festival in Kempen, Germany on september 24th

we are - right now - planning our summer rehearsals...

Raks Pro in Hannover

Beste Raks Pro Fans ! We zijn weer in het land =)

Het heeft eventjes geduurd maar we hadden dan ook erg veel bezigheden zoals optreden in Hannover tijdens het fantastische 'World Of Orient'. De trip naar Hannover (+4 uur rijden) was erg leuk, het verblijf in het hotel nog leuker én optreden met de meiden was het allerleukste !

We hebben zowel opgetreden in de 'Messe' als tijdens het Openingsgala en hadden zoals gewoonlijk erg veel fun backstage. Dat zie je aan bovenstaande foto's :)

Binnenkort volgt hier een uitgebreid verslagje !!

Raks Pro did it again! ;-)

A 37 week old baby-in-belly (Artemisia) and pre-dvd-shoot frenzies (Khalida) made sure two of the coaches and choreographers were absent...

Did they miss us? We hope so...

But did they need us? No they did not!

Which is strangely gratifying!

The Raks Pro dancers held a superb and succesfull open rehearsal show this Sunday in Lummen. Almost a 100 people showed up to cheer the girls on, and send them on their way to their second international performance, in Hannover in a few weeks time. The choreographies have matured further since their first show last october, and the dancers also presented themselves individually as solo performers. Limburg - where i've been told we can do with a few more extra bellydance events - was happy to watch them!

Johanna, main work horse and responsible for the whole event running so smoothly will post an update and more pics later this week, but here's a first picture of our fabulous Raks Pro ladies. I'm very very proud of them!

Artemisia

Raks pro will be performing at the Gala Show on Saturday night of the Mundo Oriental 2011 festival, organised by Amira Shazadi, in Kempen (Germany). Saturday 24th of september.

We are all very excited to be part of this event! Headliner of the event is Aleksei Riaboshapka(Ukraine), in Germany for the first time!

more info on the event will be posted here soon:

http://www.amira-shazadi.de/Events.html

see you there?

Coming up!

The dancers are busy rehearsing for the upcoming shows.

In march they will perform at the Gala of the World of Orient festival in Hannover! It is quite amazing who they will be sharing the stage with, so super exciting!!! We will be performing all three of our choreographies there!

On february 20th there is an open rehearsal in Lummen, where our local fans can come and check out what we've been up to... it'll be the first Raks Pro show for a few of our "new faces"!

Meanwhile choreographer Artemisia - currently on maternity leave or so she claims - is setting up a shedule for a busy busy summer, when we will start rehearsals for "An evening with... Ava Fleming" on october 22nd in Brussels, our second big show.

In july we will start rehearsing three new choreographies, a zills choreo by guest choreographer Razia, a modern cane dance by dancer & guest choreographer Anadil, & a new oriental routine by troupe directors and choreographers Artemisia & Queenie

So where is Khalida? Well, that's the most exciting news of all! Khalida is on a little break from Raks Pro (after she's done drilling them at the next rehearsals) to work on her amazing new project: two instructional DVDS with Azizaproductions!!!! whooohoooo! the whole team is super proud of her!!! go break a leg in Canada girl!