Nava Dance

Next series begins December 6th

10:00 - 11:15 am (pacific time)

$22- Drop-in (no recordings offered)

$75- Month (4 week series- weekly recordings offered)

*Video footage for practice offered after each class for folks that register for full series!! Videos kept up for one week.

*It is also possible to pay via Venmo, Paypal, or Cash.

Paypal- miriampdance@gmail.com Venmo-@Miriam-Peretz-2

Nava Dance is a contemporary and holistic dance practice developed by Miriam Peretz. Nava Dance draws deep inspiration from Silk Road (Persian & 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.

This class is an all level class that includes Nava Dance Essentials technique and movement ritual as well as short combinations and the art of turning.

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.