Baubo Belly Dancing

Hi, my name is Guinevere, welcome to the Baubo website! I am a Belly Dance performer, choreographer, teacher and writer. I have been training in the field for 17 years, am qualified in 'Delivering Learning' and am a trained instructor and assessor in the A-Z Belly Dance system. You could say, like many belly dancers, 'I'm pretty hooked!'. The joy and benefits the dance brings to myself and others has kept me engaged and inspired in this magical and enriching art. In 2011 I launched The Belly Dancer's Treasure Pack which is now being used by dancers all over the world!

I am currently running Belly Treasure Workshops to accompany The Belly Dancer's Treasure Pack - a fun, empowering, beautifully illustrated 58 card set and guidance book for dancers to celebrate and explore creativity and expression.Workshops are ideal for any group size. They cover; a range of fun interactive exercises, styles and prop work to enhance solo and troupe work nourishing confidence in practice and performance.

Order your Belly Dancer's Treasure Pack here. An ideal, inspired gift for you or your dancing friends! Includes a free Egyptian music download from The Bellydance Superstars!

My classes and workshops are currently based in West Wales and I hold workshops throughout the UK and abroad. As a certified A-Z Belly Dance teacher, I offer Personal Technique and Teacher Training opportunities. I also teach Keti Sharif's AstroBelly - fun sequences based on the 12 Zodiac signs! My dance style has been described as 'classical fusion'. Here's a clip of me dancing the Drum Solo style

See the calendar or scroll down for information, upcoming courses, workshops, classes, shows and events.

2013 COMING SOON from BAUBO BELLY DANCE!

Alternate Wednesday's - Belly Dance - Choreography & Technique - Letterston Memorial Hall. Pembs. Working creatively with Treasure Pack cards and A-Z Belly Dance moves. Currently learning a fun NEW Theatrical A-Z Veil dance and a Saiidi cane dance. 6.15pm - 7.45pm.

Weekly from May 3rd - Give me Wings - Live Arts workshop series in Dance, Music, Visual Art and Creative Writing for women. Using The Belly Dancer's Treasure Pack as our inspiration.These subsidised workshops are run through Arts Care Creche for under 4's available. Enjoy new ways of self expression, performance opportunities and meet new people. The Piction Centre, Haverfordwest. 11 - 1pm. To book/info - T: 01267 245646 E: zosia@acgc.co.uk

May 10th - Belly Dance Taster. Porth Hotel, Llandysul. 8pm. Contact Meinir Davies to book. This event is run through the Ladies Club. 8pm - 9.30pm, includes Belly Dance demo from Guinevere and an introduction into some basic key moves and sequences to get you dancing and inspired.

June 8th - Belly Dance Workshop for Pregnancy. With Buddha Mamas. Visit here for info or call Lindsay to book - 07581 330580. Friends Meeting House, Maes Maelor, Penparcau, SY23 1SZ. 11-1pm. Relaxing, gentle belly dance moves to strengthen mind, body and spirit during this special time. Includes breath work, grounding exercises and short meditations with The Belly Dancer's Treasure Pack cards.

August 18th - Belly Treasure Workshops with dancer Rachel Walker. Wrexham. North Wales.Gorgeous lakeside venue. 'Precious Props' - using your favourite prop to add new sequences, dynamics and personal expression and 'Dance your Jewels' - exploring the full card deck working on confidence,improvisation and creating fun, new material for group and solo work. Visit this page or Contact Rachel to book

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Have fun, meet new friends and improve your fitness. Many women report feeling more toned with improved posture and less stress through their dance practice. Belly Dance may be just what you're looking for!

My classes and workshops cater for total beginners as well as more advanced dancers. I have inspired and empowered many women in West Wales to progress their training and/or have a taste of belly dance in classes. Learn in relaxed, friendly community spaces at a level to suit you. Gift vouchers are availbale.

CURRENT 2013 WORKSHOP MENU - for dance schools/groups, belly dance troupes or hen parties...

- A-Z Belly Dance - Personal Technique or Teacher Training Certification courses.

- Oriental Dreams - An Advanced A-Z Belly Dance Fusion choreography to a relaxing Galactic Caravan track. Dramatic and flowing. Ideal for grand troupe acts. Classical and taqsim sequences.

- Warrior Dance - An Original A-Z Belly Dance Fusion choreography with Saiidi sticks to a powerful Pentaphobe track. Ideal for beginners to intermediate levels. Would suit Tribal Fusion groups looking for diversity and new prop work.

- Nour El Ain - An A-Z Belly Dance Fusion choreography with music by Amr Diab with an Egyptian-Latino feel and spicy veil work. Fun and energising.

- Pare Pare - A slow and enchanting veil dance using A-Z Original and the water AstroBelly sequences to a Tarkan track.

- Circle of Fire - A mesmerising circle dance with candles and trays to a track by Keti Sharif using a range of AstroBelly sequences.

- Belly Treasure - Rhythm Lady - Learn to play and dance some basic Arabic Rhythms. Includes using drum, improvisation and free dance.

- Belly Treasure - Dance your Jewels - Explore your art and find deeper expression, confidence and creativity with chance and improvisation using The Belly Dancer's Treasure Pack cards.Good for devising new group work & personal empowerment.

- Belly Treasure - Elemental Belly Dance - Sessions to express and celebrate the elements; Earth, Air, Fire & Water. Includes AstroBelly and prop work and fun focused work with Treasure pack cards.

- Venus Dance - works with 5 people. Creatively explore the sacred 5 pointed Rose shape that Venus makes as it travels the cosmos. Sensual, cosmic and full of positivity. Good group dance for self-esteem and bonding. Using colour and sacred geometry.

- Saiidi Dance - using canes and traditional Saiidi moves we intergrate stage folkloric styles and creative choreography to make a fun, festive dance to Hossam Ramzy music. Using F-J Original Belly Dance.

- Drum Solo -Learn a fast paced drum solo dance with classic shimmies, accents and flowing moves to keep you on your toes and give a great all over body work out!

- A-Z Belly Dance - Theatrical Veil - using P-T sequences to the upbeat Egyptian Pop track - Ma Khalas by Samira Said. Fast and passionate!

- Tarkan - 'Touch' - Using a fun modern track by Tarkan, we will explore sensuality and expression in our dance, fusing elements of original and advanced A-Z Belly Dance with dramatic veil and floor work work and a special finale! Work with the concept of touch as we connect to our own body, our spirit and our audeince. Gorgeous, popular dance!

Also available - general Belly Dance workshops for youth groups, older people, festivals and events. I also work as a free lance journalist producing articles on Belly Dance for magazines and websites Please be in touch to discuss commissions.

Belly Dancing, sometimes called Raqs Sharqi, Arabic, Middle Eastern, Egyptian, North African or Oriental Dancing is a wonderfully expressive art with many emerging, modern styles. It allows us to connect to and stimulate our creative centres. There are many types of Belly Dancing and we each find our own rhythms within it. People find it 'a great release' and they 'always feel better afterwards'. Through Belly Dance we can enjoy developing a new skill whilst improving our physical fitness and health feeling the benefits in mind, body and soul.

Belly Dance is a name that pertains to the distinct belly rolls, undulations and refined abdominal and hip moves that are very pertinent in some styles of Middle Eastern dance. The term 'Belly Dance' was coined in the 1890's at the Chicago World Trade Fair by the French as -

'Dance du ventre' - meaning 'dance of the belly!' And it's stuck...

I call my Belly Dance business Baubo as Baubo relates to, 'The Ancient Belly Goddess' associated with laughter, dancing and 'belly-talk'. Find out more on Baubo in -

Women who Run with the Wolves, by Clarissa Pinkola Estes (1996)

The Metamorphosis of Baubo, by Winifred Lubell

Goddess Baubo sums up the unbridled joy that many women tap into during their journies into Belly Dance! See what's on offer for you...

If you are interested and would like some more information, please email me guinevere@baubo.co.uk or telephone 0792 533 2892 / 01348-841114