Myra Krien is available to teach the following workshops. Please contact Pomegranate Studios for booking inquiries.

Breathtaking Veil:

This workshop teaches you the mastery of veil work. Working with three different varieties of veil; silk, chiffon and organza, we cover the following: history of the veil, musical selection, veil wraps, beginnings and endings, veil technique, fluidity of movements, and over ten veil movements and turns: sail, cross-over and under, keyhole/butterfly, Arabesque, grapevine, poofs, thread the needle, chalkboard circle, chalkboard 1 1/2, and turns.

Sexy Hip Circles:

Learn the signature hip circles of the greatest dancers in the history of our art: Samia Gamal, Nadia Gamal, Fifi Abdou, Sohair Zeiki, and others. This workshop covers the anatomy of a hip circle, teaching solid technique and providing an analytical tool to break down any hip circle. Twelve different hip circles will be taught:

1. Silk Stockings
2. Reach Infinity
3. Hip Cat
4. Turn Around Drop Down
5. Half Moon Drop
6. Inside-out
7. Infinite Umi
8. Baby turn hip circle
9. Traveling Record Player
10. Travel the Clock
11. Dip
12. The Cat

Taksim:

The art of improvisation is the dancer’s highest art form. Learn the history of taksim, how to interpret each instrument visually, follow the phrasing, and analyze geometric shape that expresses the sound you hear. This workshop will work with a variety of circles, figure eights, arm and hand movements, shimmies and turns.

Combinations:

Combinations help the dancer to improvise or create a piece of choreography. Eight exciting combinations are taught in this routine, each from a different family of movement and in a different floor pattern:

1. Undulation V
2. Infinite Egyptian
3. Traveling Tush push
4. Undulation Step Back-Twist
5. Chase Turns
6. Undulation Turn
7. Grapvine Infinity

Shimmies:

Drill your shimmies to an articulate perfection with support exercises and an anatomical break down that leads to exquisite precision. The following Shimmies will be taught: Vibrational Shimmies and Layering, Traveling 3/4 Shimmy Down Up Down and Up Down Up, Tunisian Twisty Shimmies, Hagala, Ghawazee, Maya 3/4, Shimmy Shimmy Drop, Out Up Down.

Choreographies:

Myra is available to teach choreographies to over twenty five different popular songs: Warda, Leilat Hob, Ice Queen, Mille Nuits and many more, as well as drum solos.

Tribal:

Beginning, Intermediate and/or Advanced vocabularies of movement, in the slow, medium and fast families. Partnering and formations with different numbers of dancers. Drum Rhythms and zils.

Flamenco Fusion:

4 different choreographies are available, as well as skirt work, manton, and technique work with hands, arms, posture and turns from Flamenco. Flamenco is combined with movements from ATS, Indian Temple Dance, Oriental, Jazz and Hip-Hop.