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MIDDLE EASTERN DANCE
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The Middle Eastern and North African Dance Initiative for Cultural Diplomacy offers UNISEX Raqs Sharqi dance classes currently being taught by TORKOM MOVSESIYAN
$25 per class; $110 for 5-class card
The classes are for all levels: beginners through advanced students.
For more info on Torkom Movsesiyan’s classes, seminars, workshops, and performances keep checking this website, e-mail: [email protected], or call (347)-512-0541
Torkom Movsesiyan is a multi-award winning dance artist, an executive producer, a cultural ambassador of the arts, and the founder of Torkomada, Inc. Torkom envisions Middle Eastern dance as an important but neglected diplomatic tool in cultural diplomacy versus more conventional methods that have failed. His latest dance project, Raqs Revolution, was awarded the Upper Manhattan Empowerment Zone Grant to counteract recent rising anti-immigrant sentiments in the U.S., and give “a bit of home” to Middle Eastern immigrants. His annual award winning Middle Eastern Dance Festival, Raqs Without Borders, is an original contribution to the world of art and diplomacy, awarded the Creative Engagement grant 2016-2019 by Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, the NYC Department of Cultural Affairs and NYS Council on the Arts. In 2018, Brooklyn Arts Council awarded his dance project, "Arabic Nights in Brooklyn," the Brooklyn Arts Fund grant. In 2015, Torkom appeared as the guest dancer in the Off-Broadway show, "Blood on the Veil." Following that, the CUNY Dance Initiative awarded him a residency to create lecture-demos about Raqs Sharqi, an Egyptian dance style at the LaGuardia Performing Arts Center. Torkom Movsesiyan has lectured, taught and performed Middle Eastern dance at UNESCO's International Dance Council, CUNY, the University of Minnesota, Kean University, and IDance Studio. Similarly, Mr. Movsesiyan has published many scholarly articles and book essays on the trajectory of dance in cultural diplomacy. Torkom Movsesiyan was listed as one of the world's most renown Armenian dancers in Artsvi Bakhchinyan's book, "The Armenians in World Choreography." The New York Foundation for the Arts named him "a Renaissance artist with extraordinary abilities," engaging in the different disciplines of art as a dance instructor, folklorist, actor, scholar, polyglot, and a college professor. His work fosters mutual understanding between the West and the Middle East, and has been featured in the Jon Stewart Show, HBO, Everyday with Rachael Ray, the Discovery Channel, UNESCO, Lincoln Center, TimeOut NY, Pregnant Heels, and the Daily News. Torkom holds a Master's degree in international relations, and an honors Bachelor's degree in international studies from the City College of New York. Torkom has studied Raqs Sharqi extensively with Morocco, Tarik Sultan, Raqia Hassan, Tito, and Ahmed Hussien. He currently teaches Raqs Sharqi dance classes and workshops in NYC.
Middle Eastern dance teacher, scholar, performer, choreographer, finger cymbal player, polyglot, accent reduction coach, acting career coach, speech/diction coach, foreign language teacher, entrepreneur.
Youtube video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7Ba-0rDGE8&feature=BFa&list=UUXXiS0zcZS3aUQHZD95ppQg
“If I can 't dance, I don't want your revolution!"
--Emma Goldman
“We should consider everyday lost on which we have not danced even once!”
--Friedrich Nietzsche
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MIDDLE EASTERN DANCE
To your community, family and friends
By learning the beauty of the oldest dance on earth!
The Middle Eastern and North African Dance Initiative for Cultural Diplomacy offers UNISEX Raqs Sharqi dance classes currently being taught by TORKOM MOVSESIYAN
$25 per class; $110 for 5-class card
The classes are for all levels: beginners through advanced students.
For more info on Torkom Movsesiyan’s classes, seminars, workshops, and performances keep checking this website, e-mail: [email protected], or call (347)-512-0541
Torkom Movsesiyan is a multi-award winning dance artist, an executive producer, a cultural ambassador of the arts, and the founder of Torkomada, Inc. Torkom envisions Middle Eastern dance as an important but neglected diplomatic tool in cultural diplomacy versus more conventional methods that have failed. His latest dance project, Raqs Revolution, was awarded the Upper Manhattan Empowerment Zone Grant to counteract recent rising anti-immigrant sentiments in the U.S., and give “a bit of home” to Middle Eastern immigrants. His annual award winning Middle Eastern Dance Festival, Raqs Without Borders, is an original contribution to the world of art and diplomacy, awarded the Creative Engagement grant 2016-2019 by Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, the NYC Department of Cultural Affairs and NYS Council on the Arts. In 2018, Brooklyn Arts Council awarded his dance project, "Arabic Nights in Brooklyn," the Brooklyn Arts Fund grant. In 2015, Torkom appeared as the guest dancer in the Off-Broadway show, "Blood on the Veil." Following that, the CUNY Dance Initiative awarded him a residency to create lecture-demos about Raqs Sharqi, an Egyptian dance style at the LaGuardia Performing Arts Center. Torkom Movsesiyan has lectured, taught and performed Middle Eastern dance at UNESCO's International Dance Council, CUNY, the University of Minnesota, Kean University, and IDance Studio. Similarly, Mr. Movsesiyan has published many scholarly articles and book essays on the trajectory of dance in cultural diplomacy. Torkom Movsesiyan was listed as one of the world's most renown Armenian dancers in Artsvi Bakhchinyan's book, "The Armenians in World Choreography." The New York Foundation for the Arts named him "a Renaissance artist with extraordinary abilities," engaging in the different disciplines of art as a dance instructor, folklorist, actor, scholar, polyglot, and a college professor. His work fosters mutual understanding between the West and the Middle East, and has been featured in the Jon Stewart Show, HBO, Everyday with Rachael Ray, the Discovery Channel, UNESCO, Lincoln Center, TimeOut NY, Pregnant Heels, and the Daily News. Torkom holds a Master's degree in international relations, and an honors Bachelor's degree in international studies from the City College of New York. Torkom has studied Raqs Sharqi extensively with Morocco, Tarik Sultan, Raqia Hassan, Tito, and Ahmed Hussien. He currently teaches Raqs Sharqi dance classes and workshops in NYC.
Middle Eastern dance teacher, scholar, performer, choreographer, finger cymbal player, polyglot, accent reduction coach, acting career coach, speech/diction coach, foreign language teacher, entrepreneur.
Youtube video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7Ba-0rDGE8&feature=BFa&list=UUXXiS0zcZS3aUQHZD95ppQg
“If I can 't dance, I don't want your revolution!"
--Emma Goldman
“We should consider everyday lost on which we have not danced even once!”
--Friedrich Nietzsche
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