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On Saturday January 15th at 7 p.m., Melina of Daughters of Rhea proudly presents the live music of Okbari Middle Eastern Ensemble featuring Amos Libby, Eric LaPerna and Mike Gallant on the auspicious occasion of Moody Street Circus' 1st anniversary.
Photo below by Rishi features Sara dancing accompanied by Eric LaPerna of Okbari Middle Eastern Ensemble
The Okbari Middle Eastern Ensemble presents music from the richly varied contemporary and historic cultural traditions of the Middle East including Ottoman Turkish Classical compositions, rural Turkish folk and devotional songs, Arabic classical and folk music, and dance music from the Armenian and Turkish immigrant diasporas.
Daughters of Rhea Belly Dancers Qamar, Alizah Afet, Jamilah, Kebi, Celia, Panayiota, Sara and Melina will join Okbari for dance performances throughout the evening, and open dancing for all will come at the end! Light refreshments will be available.
Beautiful artwork by Elisabeth Clark will be on display throughout the concert event (www.elisabethclarkart.com).
After the show, you can visit Koukla: Boston's Belly Dance Central - Shop 'til You Drop Boutique! Ticket holders to this event will receive 15% off any purchase from Koukla that evening. Cash sales only: the boutique is not yet equipped to take credit cards.
The Okbari Middle Eastern Ensemble has shared the stage in Istanbul, Turkey with the Kemani Serkan Ensemble and the Rumeli Meyhane Fasil Ensemble. In 2008, Ensemble oud player and vocalist Amos Libby appeared onstage as a guest percussionist with the legendary Gypsy clarinetist Selim Sesler in Istanbul.
Cover Charge for the Okbari Concert Event is $15, tickets must be purchased in advance of the event as there is limited seating and there may be no seats available at the door.
www.daughtersofrhea.com
www.moodystreetcircus.com
www.okbari.org
www.elisabethclarkart.com
When & Where
Moody Street Circus/Daughters of Rhea Dance Studios
397 Moody Street, 2nd Floor
Waltham,
02453
Saturday, January 15, 2011 at 7:00 PM (ET)
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Melina of Daughters of Rhea / Moody Street Circus
Moody Street Circus is the professional family-run Waltham, MA-based headquarters of Sacha and Melinda Pavlata's Cirque Passion School of Circus Arts and Melina's Daughters of Rhea Belly Dance Company. We also offer tented entertainment circus events with our worldclass traveling circus family: cloud swing, high wire, unicycle, trapeze, aerial hoop, clowning and more.
At Moody Street Circus we teach the joy of life through circus arts and belly dance to children, teens and adults of all ages. Heart, humor and inclusive community spirit are at the core of our teaching. We strive to bring out students' full potential, then challenge individuals to work on skills that will elevate their expression up to performance-grade levels.
Moody Street Circus is the place for classes in belly dance, circus arts, and aerial arts; for birthday parties, summer and after-school programs and more for kids and adults. No matter where you are in your life's journey, there is always room for learning new skills and having fun. Moody Street Circus is here for you when you are ready to learn to undulate, ululate or hang upsidedown from a static trapeze.
MSC Directors and teachers Sacha and Melinda (AKA Melina of Daughters of Rhea) share extraordinary family legacies in circus and dance.
Alexandre Sacha Pavlata is a fifth-generation Czech circus artist, master aerialist and world-renown circus arts teacher. He grew up with his traveling circus family in a wooden circus wagon which crisscrossed Europe and North Africa presenting their famous unicycle and trampoline act under big tops all over the globe. From horses to high wire and everything in between, Sacha has since performed nearly every kind of circus act you could imagine, including touring with the legendary Flying Wallendas as an integral part of their breath-taking seven-person pyramid on the high wire.
Sacha's circus heritage goes back 5 generations on both sides. His mother, Hungarian-born Anna Dubsky, came from a long line of Risley Act performers (the acrobatic foot juggling of people), and his father, Czech-born Karl Pavlata, descended from a family of aerialists known for their great physical strength and versatility in the air. More on Sacha extraordinary life and legacy in the circus at www.cirquepassion.com.
Melinda "Melina" Pavlata, Ph.D. (AKA Melina of Daughters of Rhea) is a 2nd generation circus and belly dance artist. Her mother is belly dance pioneer Rhea of Greece, her father is folk musician singer/songwriter Phil Marsh, and her step-mother is Shakespearean actress/juggler/circus artist Cecil MacKinnon. She grew up fully immersed in her parents' international performing lives, performing with them in the Pickle Family Circus and dancing with her mother and sister Piper (Belly Dancer of the Year 2000) on taverna stages in the ancient city of Athens, Greece.
As an adult Melinda 'Melina' has toured around the world as an aerialist, circus artist and belly dancer with Circus Flora, The Wallenda Family Circus, Cirque Rocks, Amazing Grace Circus and currently with her own circus Cirque Passion.
Melina is currently on the faculty of Kripalu where she teaches an annual summertime retreat "Wild Hips, Gypsy Heart: Belly Dance as self-empowerment."
For more on Melina's belly dance family please visit www.daughtersofrhea.com.
For more the Pavlata's circus life please visit www.cirquepassion.com.
