This year the medfest workshops are:

SATURDAY  9:30-11 - SETSUNA:  "THAT INDESCRIBABLE THING" WORKSHOP  - Explore the things that make you a special dancer with the exquisite Setsuna.  $35

  • Musicality: Acknowledging the real moments of the music
  • Timing and Tempo: Choosing when to use movements that represent the music more literally, and when to reflect the music subtly
  • Personality: How to convey your mood and yourself without going gimmicy!
  • Dancing for yourself vs. for your audience:  Give them what they want and give them what YOU want
  • Do everything expertly: Guidelines and rules
  • How to incorporate other dance styles, specialties: respect, quality and knowledge.

Setsuna is a rediculously modest internationally known dancer who has taught and performed in Asia, England and the US


SUNDAY 9:30-11 - SIDONIA OM DUNIA - ANDALUSIAN and TURKISH SKIRT DANCING - $35

Warm-up & movement meditation for cool down included in class structure.   A brief overview of finger cymbal patterns may be incorporated into the Rhythm discussion.   No Zill experience is necessary.   We will learn how to listenand internalize the sound of our heartbeat. Connect with the earth and feel her pulse.  Work on breath, balance, attitude and sensuality.  Feel the power and experience ancient wisdom of the feminine.

Sidonia Om Dunia is an award winning performer and director/choreographer for Beli Danse Academie and troupe Raks Al Dunia in Boise Idaho.  Her multi-cultural life and dance experiences have created Sidonia’s Classic Style with a contemporary twist.   She is celebrating over 35 years of performing and teaching this amazing art form. 

Sidonia has lived and traveled throughout the United States, Philippines, Hong Kong, Germany, Great Britain, Canada and Greece. In addition to her degrees in Education and History, she is a certified aerobic instructor. Sidonia continues to study ethnic origins of movement and has had the opportunity to study with many icons of the mid-eastern dance world.  Some of the major influences in her dance career are Nagwa Fouad,  Mahmoud Reda,  Samia Gamal, Sohair Zaki, Amaya, Aziz, Bert Balladine, Fatima Al Wahid, Hadia, Kathryn Ferguson, Jamilla Salimpour, MaShuqa Mira Mujan, Morocco,  Mezdulene, Nabeela el Shalimar, Saqra, Gaylene Dover and Sidonia's mother Althea.   


All Medfest workshops held at the event site.

To register email Saqra@Saqra.net with your choices and we will arrange payment.
Space is limited. Fees are not refundable unless the workshop is cancelled, but they ARE transferrable.