Edmonton Autumn Hafla

Saturday 26th Nov 2005

My friend Ann took Galit’s Funky Egyptian workshop and was singing Galit’s praises. She broke the choreography down into manageable chunks and coped well with the varying levels of experience that the students had. The choreography was definitely funky and Galit’s energetic personality made the workshop great fun as well as a valuable learning experience.

Yvette and Galit both performed their choreographies from the afternoon’s workshops, which was useful to see as well as enjoyable. They are both experienced dancers and it shows in their polished performances. Galit finished off the show by inviting the audience onto the dance floor for a lively Arabic disco.

After the show the performance adrenaline was starting to wear off and our tummies were rumbling just in time to dig into the plentiful buffet of houmous and pitas, chicken and couscous and wonderfully sticky Baklava.