What I am up to right now - April 2017

At the moment I am home in Germany, enjoying a long weekend off, working on a mini-newsletter and mentally preparing for the upcoming events in late spring/early summer. Eschweiler woods are looking like this right now:

Spring in Eschweiler Wald, DE

I am also

• Taking classes in ballet with Constanze Janssen in Aachen at Ballettschule Renoldi as often as I can, with added pointe training by Constanze's daughter Giulia since this April (a childhood dream!) I will be blogging about this soon :)

My pointe shoes! Triumph by Grishko from Mondanse.com

As well as

• Studying TaeKwonDo, together with my husband, diligently training with Großmeister Chae Seung-Eun in our hometown Eschweiler, DE twice a week. (we've recently received our blue belt and are now working towards blue-red in the summer)

Posing with Master Seung-Eun Chae and Master Lee after the belt/kup test

Blue Belt TaeKwondo - 4th Kup!

See us in action here, performing 'taeguk sa-jang', the 4th form for the poomsae/forms portion of our belt test:

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Next to that I am

• Updating the website (see above!) with new pictures (taken at the Japanese Garden in Hasselt, BE) by the awesome Kerstin Elster
• Adding more workshop notes to my 'other' website, over at inspirationnation.de
• Upgrading the fitness a bit from walking to jogging and biking (need to up that dance stamina for upcoming season!) at Eschweiler Wald
• Preparing for a lovely project, Nostalgia Night - a show honoring the golden Era of Egyptian dance with live music (!) at 360° Orient festival in Osnabrück this June, hosted by the lovely Delanna Dance

Nostalgia Night - with live music by Mazzikatea Europe at 360° Orient!

And also

• Teaching occasional private classes, plus offering online coaching and workshops on request
• Reading Anatomy Trains by Thomas W. Myers (see www.inspirationnation.de/books for links)
• Preparing for DancEscapade, a weekend of Dance this May in Crete, GR with the incredible Boženka - One of the most exciting projects I've been lucky enough to be part of.

DancEscapade with Bozenka featuring Khalida - this May 19-20-21st 2017!

In the near future I will be

• Preparing for all of those upcoming spring/summer events (see the Dance Calendar)
• Advertising a bit more for MoveSpiration, a unique crosstraining weekend for dancers of all levels at studio Sarossy in August 26-27th 2017 in Würselen, DE (Enrolments are now open!)
• Opening enrolments on 1st of July 2017 for a weekend of live percussion workshops and hafla(!) with the amazing Guy Schalom next summer (July 6-7-8 2018!) at Studio Sarossy.

  Latest update: April 29th, 2017 - Inspired by the Now


A brief look in the past - videos from Kouklès Show in Verviers, BE

Last month I was lucky enough to take workshops with the incredible Alex DeLora and Nika Mlakar in Verviers, hosted by the lovely Kouklès Duo, and perform at the Kouklès Show. You can find the videos below.

Enjoy!

More updates will follow soon!

xx Khalida
www.khalidadance.com