NEW!!! Nava Dance Repertoire Class

Friday's 11:30-12:30 pm (pacific time) NEW series starts Friday, January 3rd!

This new class will be an intermediate/advanced level class that will focus on Nava Dance repertoire/choreography, playing the daf, and the art of turning. Please advise with Miriam if you would like to join this class.

Nava Dance is a contemporary and holistic dance practice developed by Miriam Peretz. Nava Dance draws deep inspiration from Silk Road (Central Asian) themes and movement aesthetics, as well as from the devotional practice of whirling. Each Nava Dance class incorporates Miriam’s signature ritualized warm ups, sequences in the Nava style, as well as the study of traditional Central Asian dances including; Persian, Tajik, Uzbek, and Afghan.

Nava is a beautiful example of a word shared by the Hebrew, Farsi, and Turkish languages. In Farsi and Turkish Nava means sound or tune. It is also the name of one the main Dastgah (musical modes) in the Persian and Turkish music traditions. In the Hebrew language, Nava means pleasant, graceful, beautiful and is a common girls’ name. Also, in Hindi, Nava means young or new.

$60/5 week month for students taking the 10:00 am Nava Dance technique class/$85 month for students not taking the 10:00 am class (drop in not available.)

Recordings will be sent each week in case you can’t make a class.