Book Rosa for a workshop!

Rosa is available to teach workshops in your city! Her specialties are listed below and she can work with you to customize a workshop. Email Rosa for more details.

Delicious Pauses: Negative Space in Movement

The often overlooked element of stillness in dance adds texture, surprise and emotion to a performance. As in all visual arts, negative space must be consciously utilized.

When melded with your music, those pauses--sudden & brief or gooey as molasses--keep your audience on the edge of their seats. Plus, your photographer will love you!

Rosa will teach you concepts and methodology, reinforced by combos and exercises towards the application of your newly unlocked skills in an exploration of negative space in movement.

"This subject is so important and this is the first time I have heard this concept explained so expertly and easily comprehended." — Student, Las Vegas Belly Dance Intensive

Exquisite Lines

Your line is your physical signature, from the tips of your toes and the curve of your ankle to line of neck to beyond your fingers. Refine your technique and embed good habits in your practice. Epaulement--the coordination of head, shoulders and arms--drawn from Rosa's classical ballet training, is a key element of this workshop.

Utilizing core technique, concepts and drills, Rosa will teach you to to create aesthetically and physically pleasing lines in dance that are right for your body.

Hands & Arms

Arms are an extension of your body and an integral part of your dance--not just appendages. This workshop will train you to incorporate your hands and arms into your dance. You will also learn the key to minimizing pointy elbows and floppy wrists.

We will explore framing arms, expressive arms, fluid arms, and the balletic concept of "epaulement". This finishing touch makes all the difference in polished belly dance technique!

Raqs Assaya - Strong & Sassy!

Learn about the history AND the techniques of cane dance. The "why" and the "how-we-got-here" are as important as the "how"!

Rosa will teach numerous methods of manipulating the cane, incorporating footwork, dance movements, and how get the Saidi feeling. The techniques will be woven together into a full choreography.