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ANAR DANA SAN FRANCISCO

ANAR DANA:
Experience the Communal Power of Women's Dance!

Next Event: ​
Cultural Evening on Armenian Dance

Saturday, January 14, 2023
​Online

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What is ANAR DANA?

ANAR DANA is an intensive dance training program. Director Helene Eriksen brings her vast and detailed knowledge of Eastern dances and her impeccable professionalism to form a cohesive and supportive performance group for presenting authentic and informed Dances of the Orient. Within the Project, members form a tightly-knit community as they learn the dance styles and strive together towards a high-quality performance. 

Learn Technique, Choreography, Dance Notation, Music Analysis, Yoga and Body Awareness, Staging, Costuming, Stage Make-up, and Historical and Cultural backgrounds for seven different styles of women's dance from the regions spanning North Africa, the Middle East, the Balkans, the Caucasus, Iran, Central Asia and Northern India. 


Who is Helene Eriksen?

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Helene is a teacher and choreographer of traditional dances of the Balkans and Islamic Orient. She lectures and publishes on dance ethnology and costume studies. In order to do this she has conducted many research projects in Bulgaria, ex-Yugoslavia, Hungary, Romania, Greece, Turkey, Armenia, Georgia, Egypt, the ex-USSR, Tunisia and Morocco as well as with immigrants in Germany, Canada and the USA. She speaks several Languages. She is an active member of the Study Group on Ethnochoreology (ICTM/UNESCO). For many years she has been leading dance and culture study tours and now she is the director of her own travel agency Window on the World Voyages.

​Helene studied Dance Ethnology at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and was later a doctoral candidate in Folklore, Slavistics and Turcology at the Georg-August University in Göttingen, Germany. In Los Angeles she performed with AVAZ International Dance Theater, Gypsy Dance Company and Jasna Planina Ensemble. After a year at the Folkdance Academy in Plovdiv, Bulgaria she was a guest of the Turkish State Folkdance Ensemble in Ankara. She directed her own ensemble Raqs-e Hilal for several years in Germany. 
She has been directing ANAR DANA projects internationally for 25 years and currently has projects in Seattle, San Francisco, Berlin and Buenos Aires.

www.helene-eriksen.de
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