Daniell Alnuma Alter - Compagnie Orientations

Daniell Alnuma  is a contemporary dancer & choreographer based out of France since 7 years.  She was introduced to Oriental Dance at the age of 4 in Egypt.

Spending her childhood between two extremes - the desert bordering the Red Sea and the Northern forests along the icy lakes provided her with an opportunity to observe nature keenly, its ways, its cycles, its rhythms  which is reflective in her style.

Spending most of her life studying ballet and contemporary Daniell has reached a place where she has developed her own style.

She has now co-created the company "Orientations" and also "Corps et Amies" teaching, creating and performing  while  seamlessly  fusing Oriental bellydance and Contemporary forms.

She calls her dance style: Tazrimim

Tazrimim is flux or flowing in Hebrew and is reminiscent of the Arabic word "Taksim" a word used in music to signify the act of improvising or in other words modulating the musical flux. As such, dancing is the modulation of the flux that is passing through the dancing body including the emotional flux that gives a dramatic quality to the dance.

From the same point of view one can say that Classical forms like Ballet tends to gather the flux vertically, contemporary dance tends to spread it horizontally while Oriental dance tends to bring it back to into the interior through circular movement, undulations and waves.

Tazrimim is a quest for decentered, undulating, liquid dance. While preserving a tonic presence and through her observations of movements in nature esp. underwater Daniell’s style explores  clean and strong isolations which can yet be very fluid, waterlike and gracefully feminine.

Daniel will teach her unique style Tazrimim which fuses seamlessly indeed Oriental and Bellydance

Tazrimim is flux or flowing in Hebrew and is reminiscent of the Arabic word "Taksim" a word used in music to signify the act of improvising or in other words modulating the musical flux. As such, dancing is the modulation of the flux that is passing through the dancing body including the emotional flux that gives a dramatic quality to the dance.

Within the fold of her style, she will offer two workshops:

a. Contemporary bellydance  workshop:

Bellydance is a bit restrictive since most movements are standing. The goal of this workshop is to free the body and use
- falls to and rises from the floor while transitioning smoothly and 'non clunkily'!.

- Swivels and glides to travel in the space

- Undulations (which we are familiar with) expanding into spirals and waves

All this to expand the body vocabulary to tell a story or add some drama to one’s dance through a short choreography taught by Daniell.

The workshop will also leave you with stretches and strength building exercises gleaned from varied dance style philosophies  to support  your further practice.

b. Liquid Bellydance Workshop

As you study bellydance one does move to a point where the movement is already clean and controlled but there may still be a bit of stiffness or rigidity to it. Maybe your flexibility level needs to be taken up a notch or maybe you are still lacking the control that gives you that smooth flow that we all appreciate in bellydance. This workshop will focus on how to make flowing transitions from one move to the next

One of the focus areas will be

- Dazzling Turns and spins. Daniell will pull from all her varied ballet and contemporary background to teach several kinds of turns which can be integrated in your routine to bedazzle your audience!

A short sequence  will be taught using turns etc .

The workshop will also leave you with stretches and strength building exercises gleaned from varied dance style philosophies  to support  your further practice