Immersion Courses
Get ready to immerse yourself in Persian-Iranian dance!
Our 12-week courses include robust pre-recorded classes, full analysis of all of your homework videos and live individual Performance Analysis and Coaching sessions. That means you get direct feedback on your technique ensuring you are getting the most out of all of the lessons! We utilize our unique and proprietary evaluation process and coaching techniques to provide you essential feedback to take your dance performance to the next level. You receive lessons on a schedule that includes technique instruction, drills and short combinations. Your instructor will work with you to schedule your personalized Performance Analysis and Coaching (PAC) sessions between lessons. In your live PAC sessions, you will receive detailed coaching on technique, stylization and musicality so that you can be sure you are maximizing your dance performance.
Classes intended for adults and teens.
IMMERSION COURSE:
Fundamentals
This 12-week course will introduce you to the foundational elements of Persian-Iranian dance, including body awareness, arm and foot positions and fundamental movement vocabulary.
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Classes begin with a complete body warm up, followed by technique using over 25 movements from the Shahrzad Technique movement library, and culminate in simple, yet challenging, movement sequences to help integrate the movement into the body, while working on musicality. Short movement sequences are broken down and drilled.
The Fundamentals course includes 6 recorded lessons and 6 live PAC sessions with your assigned instructor (Performance Analysis and Coaching). Students complete a full lesson, homework and a live PAC session every 2 weeks!
Start this course (valued at $990) anytime.
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Instructors:
Shahrzad Khorsandi & Delsie Khadem-Ghaeini
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Course price: $750 (or 3 payments of $260)
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IMMERSION COURSE:
Course 1
Time to start challenging yourself with more complex movement patterns and transitions!
This course uses the process of improvisation to achieve deeper integration of movement technique and style, and a more natural flow of self-expression.
This 12-week Persian-Iranian dance course include 6 pre-recorded classes, full analysis of all of your homework videos and 3 live individual Performance Analysis and Coaching sessions (add-on PAC sessions available). We utilize our unique and proprietary evaluation process and and coaching techniques to provide you essential feedback to take your dance performance to the next level.
Start this 12-week course valued at $615 anytime.
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Instructors:
Shahrzad Khorsandi & Delsie Khadem-Ghaeini
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Course price: $495 (or 3 payments of $175)
Prerequisite: Fundamentals Immersion Course
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IMMERSION COURSE:
Course 2
COMING SOON!
Stylization matters! This course will develop your dancing technique and flow with new layering combinations of hand-arm movements and foot patterns and transitions. Different stylizations of movements will be introduced to connect you with different genres of traditional Iranian music.
This 12-week course include 6 pre-recorded classes, full analysis of all of your homework videos and 3 live individual Performance Analysis and Coaching sessions (add-on PAC sessions available). We utilize our unique and proprietary evaluation process and and coaching techniques to provide you essential feedback to take your dance performance to the next level.
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Instructors:
Shahrzad Khorsandi & Delsie Khadem-Ghaeini
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Prerequisites: Immersion Course Fundamentals & Immersion Course 1
Add More Feedback Sessions
Add-On PAC Session (for 12-Week Immersion Courses)
PAC sessions (Performance Analysis and Coaching) are a vital part of our immersion programs. If you would like to add more sessions than the included amount of your course, click below!
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