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February 25, 2013
Taking Tribal Global and Tribal Rocks Tshirts (and a dress), are in!
Alrighty! The New Tribal Rocks
and Taking Tribal Global Tshirts are up and running!
http://paulettereesdenis.com/items.php?CID=3
AND!!!
I am teaching Tribal Shawls on Sunday, 1:30-3:00! hope to see you there…
Finally! It’s the Grand Schedule for
the 2013 Las Vegas Bellydance Intensive™ & Festival,
taking place at the Flamingo Hotel & Casino, September 5-8, 2013.
http://www.tinyurl.com/2013GrandSchedule
The shopping cart will open shortly for individual workshop and show ticket purchases. Meanwhile, take a look at this year’s workshops and plan your attack accordingly.
Our full weekend package holders will be able to register for workshops first, after which we will open the cart to the general public. Festival Performance Submission forms will be opening soon too.
Looking forward to another amazing year!
February 24, 2013
What I’m loving!
Recently I have been becoming connected with more and more amazing and passionate creative women, women who are building thier lives and the entire planet into a better place. I turn myself inside out with gratitude and continuous awe with each new woman I meet. Have you felt that way lately? Why? or better yet, Why not? It is time to surround yourself with that group, that tribe, one special friend to an entire mastermind group…you deserve all the support and love and wow-ness you can get your creative soul on! So here is just one more way to guide you on your way!
Have you seen Wild Sister E-Magazine???? I am thinking you dancing creative juicy gals are going to love this…I’ve been watching Jen and her passion grow for about a year and am thrilled where she is going… And with that I wanted to share her and the wildness with you… 
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Wild Sister is a new breed of media: positive media, to show you that you are good enough, you are beautiful, and you are loved – just as you are.
Wild Sister isn’t just an e-magazine, it’s an interactive experience. With videos, MP3s, interviews, poetry, artwork and tons of life-changing articles from experts such as life coaches, yoga teachers, spiritual leaders and authors, this mag have everything you need to nourish your mind, body and soul.
I talk to you all about dancing your dream, dreaming big, going for it…and I love to share my tools to guide you on that journey of passion and creative living! Wild Sister is lovingly created to steer you closer towards the life you’ve been dreaming about for so long. check it out and let me know what you think! and join the sisterhood!
http://wildsister.com/wild-sisterhood-2/?ap_id=pauletterees
~~~~~~~~~And while you are at it…do join our circle of dancing women at the
the 20th annual Women’s Weekend of Tribal Vision–Tribal Bellydance
Celebrating Women, Dance, Art, and Community
at Breitenbush Hot Springs, Detroit, OR, April 26, 27, 28, 2013
What does it mean to you to take this dance retreat?
This one is for you. You get to indulge yourself with yourself…
- To leave your ordinary world, to step away from your normal routines and gather around our circle of creative and like-minded dancing women.
- With movement—invigorating, challenging, uplifting, slow, sensual, vigorous, trancey, meditative, and restorative. Oh yea…
- With our journaling sessions over the weekend we dive to some inner depths, for dreaming, visualizing, acknowledging, questioning, and healing.
Are you ready to dance? Write? Laugh? Chat? Here we go…
Celebrating Women, Dance, Art, Words,
Music, and Community–and our 20th Retreat–
Be ready to sweat and groove, dance, write, and laugh.
with Paulette Rees-Denis
and guest teachers: Zizi Zabaneh, Lynea Gillen, Carol Vance
click here to get your deposit in now…
http://paulettereesdenis.com/item_description.php?IID=138
thanks for being here, I adore having you!
February 23, 2013
Friday What I’m Loving (even though it is Saturday!)
Recently I have been becoming connected with more and more amazing and passionate creative women, women who are building thier lives and the entire planet into a better place. I turn myself inside out with gratitude and continuous awe with each new woman I meet. Have you felt that way lately? Why? or better yet, Why not? It is time to surround yourself with that group, that tribe, one special friend to an entire mastermind group…you deserve all the support and love and wow-ness you can get your creative soul on! So here is just one more way to guide you on your way!
Have you seen Wild Sister E-Magazine???? I am thinking you dancing creative juicy gals are going to love this…I’ve been watching Jen and her passion grow for about a year and am thrilled where she is going… And with that I wanted to share her and the wildness with you…
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Wild Sister is a new breed of media: positive media, to show you that you are good enough, you are beautiful, and you are loved – just as you are.
Wild Sister isn’t just an e-magazine, it’s an interactive experience. With videos, MP3s, interviews, poetry, artwork and tons of life-changing articles from experts such as life coaches, yoga teachers, spiritual leaders and authors, this mag have everything you need to nourish your mind, body and soul.
I talk to you all about dancing your dream, dreaming big, going for it…and I love to share my tools to guide you on that journey of passion and creative living! Wild Sister is lovingly created to steer you closer towards the life you’ve been dreaming about for so long. check it out and let me know what you think!
http://wildsister.com/summer-deal/?ap_id=pauletterees
~~~~~~~~~And while you are at it…do join our circle of dancing women at the
the 20th annual Women’s Weekend of Tribal Vision–Tribal Bellydance
Celebrating Women, Dance, Art, and Community
at Breitenbush Hot Springs, Detroit, OR, April 26, 27, 28, 2013
What does it mean to you to take this dance retreat?
This one is for you. You get to indulge yourself with yourself…
- To leave your ordinary world, to step away from your normal routines and gather around our circle of creative and like-minded dancing women.
- With movement—invigorating, challenging, uplifting, slow, sensual, vigorous, trancey, meditative, and restorative. Oh yea…
- With our journaling sessions over the weekend we dive to some inner depths, for dreaming, visualizing, acknowledging, questioning, and healing.
Are you ready to dance? Write? Laugh? Chat? Here we go…
Celebrating Women, Dance, Art, Words,
Music, and Community–and our 20th Retreat–
Be ready to sweat and groove, dance, write, and laugh.
with Paulette Rees-Denis
and guest teachers: Zizi Zabaneh, Lynea Gillen, Carol Vance
click here to get your deposit in now…
http://paulettereesdenis.com/item_description.php?IID=138
February 20, 2013
Oh yes, there is still time to register! Collective Soul Tribal Intensives…
Collective Soul Level One, Portland May 1,2,3, 2013
plus…Teacher Training Level One, May 4,5,6 and Collective Soul Level Two, May 7, 8, 9
Want to be the best tribal dancer you can be?
Want to improve your technique, posture, and confidence?
Join Paulette for our Gypsy Caravan Collective Soul intensive certification courses,
dance hard and celebrate our dance!
Why Collective Soul? (yes, I know there is a band by that name!) Because this dance is so primal, so intuitive in our bodies and our souls, that as we dance together (because it is a group dance) we hook into our collective unconscious (a term coined by the psychologist Carl Jung to talk about the collective intuitive knowledge in all of us), and join hearts, bodies, and souls, with this amazing dance form.
Each level (there are six) adds more dance training, ideas, dreams, and challenges. It is a party, a revolution, an evolution, a dance class, a sharing, a taking, a giving, a receiving of a wealth of personal power and dance education. yet simple.
No, it is not a show up and get certified course, you must work for it, but you also can take as long as you need and want to complete the course. No, it is not for everyone. It is for the dancer who loves tribal, who loves her/himself, who is up for the heart and soul opening, who is up for joining tribes around the globe, to be a part of a universal movement, and one who is completely satisfied with being who they are, no egos, no tricks, no gimmicks, no trends. CS is for someone who will enjoy lots of rewards, acknowledgements, and empowerment, with body strengthening, physically challenges, soul loving, and mind-altering ideas.
What do you get when you take Gypsy Caravan Tribal Bellydance Collective Soul?
3 days, five hours each day, dancing, dreaming, writing, talking and so much more…
I get to*
*to see you follow your dreams
*to give you information and instruction
*to teach you dance training, strength training, and body skills
*to assist you in becoming the artist you are/can be
*to give you the tools to further your dance
*to challenge you and to empower you as a dancer
*to honor your body, your spirit, and your mind
*to joyfully bring you together, to network, with other like-minded dancers from around the globe
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February 18, 2013
the Mexican Dance Workshop Adventure continues…
I again take myself back to my 2 weeks in Mexico City, and relive our full on weekend of Tribal Bellydance workshops and the full on show, dancing friendships forged with gleaming smiles, bodies working hard, and my students minds imploding with so much new material!
Sunday was a long day of dance, after workshops all day on Saturday, and the show that night. But these dancers are returning to the studio, eager, hungry for what I have to share. This is part of my reward, to see their vibrant faces light up with each new concept new step, and even more drilling. They first arrived Saturday morning, reserved and quiet women, but now they are giggling, more comfortable with each other, willing to ask questions, and re-learning how to use their bodes to interpret this amazing and evolving dance form.
Comments of how natural and organic it feels, how much easier it is to follow, how enjoyable the freedom is within the structure. I just smile and nod with appreciation. I love to watch them glisten and grow.
After we warm-up with a fun and vigorous workout, we continue to drill and dance,reviewing and adding new moves and ideas. After the lunch break we move into my Funky Bits workshop, and the energy raises, often unusual for a Sunday afternoon class, as the dancers are usually in full-brain mode! But not these dancers, they want more. With hip twists and quick turns and partner rotation ideas, we are tearing it up. I make them drill solo, I am determined they start to get it on their own. We move into rotating circle so each dancer can take the lead and follow too. We experiment with different formations and we end with a big whooping open chorus, where everyone has a chance of leading and jumping into the formations. They bust in with exuberance and a new courage, loving the dance and themselves in a different way, with newfound tribal sisters, a large and exciting repertoire of moves, which of course will take time to remember and execute with confidence and strong technique. That is part of the dance journey. And it is a lovely sight to behold.
Another shorter break, and the last workshop of the weekend is my Tribal Trance class. I love ending with this workshop because it is healing and relaxing, yet invigorating and intense. Even though Carol and I are both tired, realizing we are teaching at 8000 feet altitude, (no wonder I was having a hard time breathing), I am raring to go. The dancers are not sure what this class entails with with my wonderful interpreter, Kika, I describe how we as dancers and women need to let go of structure and inhibition. So in this class, we release to find bliss, we set intentions of dance dreams, and we allow ourselves to move in different ways, other than bellydance moves.
We write, breathe, move along or with partners, sometimes as a pulsing group of creation. WE sound out loud or we walk quietly to nowhere. We envision and we stretch, with tears of gratitude and smiles of new insights. We are in love with ourselves and each other. The workshop is complete.
My job is done. I am full up with pride as a mama can be, and knowing I have given them much more than they expected. They are different dancers than when they arrived. And their journey has strengthened themselves as well as their local community of dancers.
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With Walky, Oso, and Carol, we ready ourselves for our midnight bus ride, our tribal adventure, to the outskirts of Vera Cruz for a 3 day stay in a villa on the beach. Then a return to Mexico City for three more intensive dance days with an intimate group of women who are undertaking my Collective Soul Level One Intensive, with my Gypsy Caravan’s Tribal Bellydance format.
*You can read about the journey on my other blog, The Adventures of Tribal Country Gal Paulette!
http://paulettereesdenis.com/blog/tribal-country-gal/
*Remember to watch my Vlogs, Talking Tribal! Go here
to watch the Mexcian dancers talking about tribal!
*and if you like this or have anything to add, you can comment back on my Facebook pages! I so enjoy your comments…
https://www.facebook.com/tribalbellydancing
Thanks for joining me on my Tribal Travels!
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February 15, 2013
Last day for early reg! the 20th annual Women’s Weekend Tribal Vision–Tribal Bellydance
the 20th annual Women’s Weekend
Tribal Vision–Tribal Bellydance
with Paulette Rees-Denis
of Gypsy Caravan Dance Co, Int.
at Breitenbush Hot Springs, Detroit, OR
April 26-28, 2013
Celebrating Women, Dance, Art, Words, Music, and Community
Early payment deadline is Friday Feb 15th!!
must be paid in full to get the discount! And there are still cabins available! so come on my tribal sisters! get registered for this amazing weekend full of dance and dance and hot tubs, and the mountains, writing, yoga, african, flamenco fusion,and more tribal dance, laughter, and great food, and sauna, and our amazing circle of tribal dancers and more…*
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February 12, 2013
the 20th annual Women’s Weekend Tribal Vision–Tribal Bellydance
the 20th annual Women’s Weekend
Tribal Vision–Tribal Bellydance
with Paulette Rees-Denis
of Gypsy Caravan Dance Co, Int.
at Breitenbush Hot Springs, Detroit, OR
April 26-28, 2013
Celebrating Women, Dance, Art, Words, Music, and Community
Early payment deadline is Friday Feb 15th!!
must be paid in full to get the discount! And there are still cabins available!
so come on my tribal sisters!
get registered for this amazing weekend full of dance and dance and hot tubs, and the mountains, writing, yoga, african, flamenco fusion, and more tribal dance, laughter, and great food, and sauna, and our amazing circle of tribal dancers and more…*
http://paulettereesdenis.com/item_description.php?IID=137
February 2, 2013
A new Talking Tribal Vlog! and a few reminders to get registered! Join us…
Talking Tribal, Vlog #8, Paulette Rees-Denis of Gypsy Caravan, in Mexico city!
Talking Tribal, the latest edition is now up..speaking with several lovely tribal dancers in Mexico City… 24 minutes of discussion about tribal!
Tribal has no boundaries.
If you can improvise, you can change the world!
We are the seeds..
View on Vimeo now at
Many thanks to dancers:
Walky Ardaat, Kika Villagra Pena, Maleni Paola Reyes Osuna, Miriam Balderas Mendoza, Sandra Flores Martinez, Dafne Selene,
January 2013, in Mexico City!
Congratulations to Collective Soul Level One graduates
Walky Ardaat and Miriam Balderas!
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Gypsy Caravan Tribal Intensives May 2013–Portland, OR!
Collective Soul and Teacher Training
CS Level One, May 2,3, 4
CS Level Two May 8,9, 10
Teacher Training Level One May 5, 6, 7
Spend 3 intensive days dancing, talking, laughing, sweating, maybe even crying (tears of joy!), dancing, writing,
and getting your tribal dance groove going! Join us and follow your dreams…
Read more about it here…
http://paulettereesdenis.com/soul.php
or on my Tribal Manifesto…click the little box in the left column…
email dance@gypsycaravan.us for applications…
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the 20th annual Women’s Weekend
Tribal Vision–Tribal Bellydance
April 26-28, 2013…with Paulette Rees-Denis
at Breitenbush Hot Springs, Detroit, OR
Celebrating Women, Dance, Art, Words, Music, and Community–and our 20th Retreat–
Be ready to sweat and groove, dance, write, and laugh.
With FIVE teachers this year: for more info and to register:
http://paulettereesdenis.com/item_description.php?IID=138
****early reg discount ends Feb. 15th
Tribal Vision, a weekend of Tribal Bellydance, Flamenco Fusion, African Dance, Yoga, Meditation, writing, hot tubs, saunas, delicious vegetarian food, an amazing circle of women, more dancing, and more….Detroit Oregon, (2 1/2 hours south of Portland in the mountains!)
Are you ready?
Paulette teaches Tribal Grooves, Moves, and Trancey Bits, with some fabulous Writing for Dancers
Zizi Zabaneh from Florida — Flamenco Fusion and more…
Cinzia DiCioccio from Italy — Vintage and Vogue Tribal,
Lynea Gillen from Oregon– African Fusion and Yoga,
Carol Vance from Oregon– Tribal Technique
registration now open! see our online class shopping pages, right here…
January 26, 2013
Slow Dancing-the Mexico agenda
Starting the next day with another two hour workshop-mesmerizing slow moves. Slow is hard. Slow is yummy and exquisite, but hard. Hard to slow the perhaps nervously excited body down, with the adrenaline pumping. Slowing down to really listen to the music, then your body, to feel it in your soul, from the inside out. I always say, if you can dance slow, you can do almost anything…(tweet that!)
Strength, muscle control, milking the move, without exaggeration in the rushed timing of you wanting to move faster. I remember when I started dancing, all I wanted to do was shimmy. Dance fast and furious. The shimmy queen. Slow was difficult because it was(is) hard for me to slow down in general. The dance excited me, I wanted to explode with it. Fire. Me. Oh yea..
But to be able to bring it down, with quiet execution, stillness of a sort, heartfelt strength, playing the movement, letting the body roll with the melody-that can be a moment of reverence, a dance full of prayer.
How does one teach slow dancing? How do you share that heartfelt, inner feeling? I try to explain how listening is an art form of itself. Most of us go through our days consumed with ourselves, our work, our whatever, and stopping to truly listen is an idea to really think about. Did you actually hear what I said, or are you nodding to get on with yourself? Think about it…
I share ideas, concepts, exercises, music, and moves. The dancers are gorgeously dancing and working it out. It comes easy to some, and harder for others, who, like me back in the day, wanted to bust a gut!
But these gals worked it hard, and are so enjoying the offerings, the newness, the freshness, the love we are sharing. The celebration and beauty and art of the dance. My heart overflows… Carol and I are beaming as the dancers breathe and flow…we create and dance and life is good.
To be continued:)
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January 25, 2013
Mexico City and Tribal!
The two days of workshops were invigorating. I love having the five-six hours of daily dance time with dancers who have come specifically to study with me, whether it be out of curiosity, to find out what I’m all about, or to already know and have the desire to study my styling of Tribal Bellydance. Walky from Ghytias Tribe has brought me here to share the love and to round up the dancers some of them having travelled over four hours, and some are with Mexico City itself, the locals!
Ghytias means something akin to being a hostess, helping other enjoy the party, keeping the glasses full, and helping others connect…sounds familiar to me, don’t you think? And she is full of the true tribal spirit, a sister in the dance.
With broken but good English, they ask questions, but mostly stay quiet to absorb my movements and my words (with the help of Kiki and Sharon, my fabulous interpreters and since I know next to none Spanish). Carol, my Gypsy C dancing sister, has travelled with me from Portland to assist me on my Mexican journey, my first time to teach in this vast country of Mexico, full od growing tribes and searching tribal dancers-so exciting.
Starting GC tribal technique reviews, we go over some basic steps for refinement, add their variations, combinations, and fabulous possibilities of this earthy and organic dance style. They learn some of the roots of the dance, but more importantly, I try to share with them and help them understand how to dance as an artist, to really enjoy their dance, how to open up heart and soul and body to move with grace, to follow and lead. We do t have to get caught up in performance methods or rules and structures to dance this style, or any style, fusion and beyond, out to find their passion and how to bring it all together-which allows for the true magical experience of tribal, the synchronistically creation of improvised groups dancing. To feel the connection of each other and the power of the moment with the strong beauty of the dancers moving together. Amen.
Stay tuned for photos and a Talking Tribal Vlog coming soon!
and more Mexican Adventures on my other blog too…
thanks for being here…
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