Comments on: Aradia

By: Thea

Thea — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 08:25:33 +0000

Melody, I know just how you feel! She is such an inspiring teacher.

By: Melody

Melody — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 07:26:48 +0000

I just did Aradia’s workshop at the Wild Honey Festival in Byron Bay this weekend and it was great! She shared so much information in such a short time (only 2 hours) and yet we were all wanting to keep going at the end – it was 30c too! It just goes to show how great a teacher she is. Her depth of knowledge is so huge and yet she made it so easy for us to understand more about our own bodies and I love how she explains movement executioin. I would love to do more with her! Oh yeah – she also gave all participants a copy of her DVD as a surprise which was amazing! She gives us notes and a double DVD. I am still quite spellbound pardon the pun at what an immense workshop she delivered and incredible performance at the show. There truly is nothing likeher out there is there. Mel

By: Thea

Thea — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 06:33:21 +0000

Caroline, I’m not sure when Aradia’s due back but you can register for her workshops here:

http://www.spellboundbellydance.com.au/workshops_37.html

It’s definitely worth going to her workshops if you can, they’re great.

By: Caroline

Caroline — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 06:04:01 +0000

Omigod.. I just received her DVD a week ago and she is so talented! She makes it so easy to understand and isn’t she a stunner! I haven’t had the pleasure of learning from her in the flesh but from what everyone says on here maybe I should check out when she is next in town in Sydney. She seems so down to earth and not stuck up herself like lots of dancers in Sydney. Come to Sydney Aradia!

By: sirena

sirena — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 01:59:35 +0000

Yes Jen, I agree! I’m sorry so many “classical” dancers are scared off by the Industrial tag, because so many of them would benefit from the workshops even if they never plan to tic and lock in their lives!

By: Jen

Jen — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 00:27:45 +0000

Aradia is by far my favourite bellydancer in Australia. I did her workshop and I hear she is about to do the next round. I found her teaching to be so easy to understand and yet thorough. She really knows her stuff and never made me feel inferior or like an idiot if I didn’t get it. We need to celebrate dancers like her more!

By: Aradia

Aradia — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 02:06:54 +0000

You girls are all so fab! Thank you for leaving great feedback! I had the best day with you all and look forward to doing more next year. xxx

By: sirena

sirena — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 22:55:21 +0000

Phew! I attended Aradia’s Sydney workshop yesterday – what an intense day! I enjoyed myself so much, I didn’t realise how tired I was until I got home and flopped on the couch!

I managed to “get” the ticking and locking a bit more this time – but for me, that wasn’t the object of the workshop. What I got out of it – a better understanding of how the muscles drive various movements, a “Eureka” moment when I finally understood how to do a bottom-to-top undulation, and a new way of improvising. Loved it!

By: Ebony

Ebony — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 09:08:59 +0000

I am verye xcited to be dancing alongside Aradia at Canberra’s Multicultural Festival 2009!!

I hope to start an Industrial Class next eyar as well. She is incredible live.

By: Cindy

Cindy — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 11:49:16 +0000

I attended the Melbourne workshop and was really impressed. the quality of teaching was brillant.
Vaule for money, and she makes you feel welcome and at ease. I havent been to any other workshops that can compare….
Loved it and would go again in a heart beat,,,when are you comming back??

By: Liz

Liz — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 12:38:36 +0000

I am in total agreeance with these women. I have never seen anyone like Aradia anywhere in Australia. It’s great to see someone who is the same as everyone else and she has this brilliant refreshing attitude with no ego like some other dancers out there. My dancing too has changed forever and I feel as though she has opened the gates to what I can do with my own dancing. She’s bringing out a DVD on Industrial later this year apparently and my students and I are just hanging for it. If you haven’t seen this woman dance… go to her site or better still, go see her in person – she takes you on a journey as though you’ve never seen dance before.

By: Dominika

Dominika — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 01:54:44 +0000

Aradia has been the most inspirational teacher I have ever had…. all I did was the one Melbourne workshop and my dancing has changed forever!! What a generous teacher sharing her incredible skills and knowledge and then also providing lunch, t-shirts and a CD (and freddo frogs). We were blown away. And with Industrial I have found my new passion in belly dance, and have been so inspired myself since. I haven’t danced everyday for a long time but these movements just keep coming and I can’t stop. Very grateful and can’t wait till she comes back

By: Marie

Marie — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 01:22:19 +0000

I love Aradia’s workshops – talk about value for money they go for most of the day- included is a wonderful catered lunch- a goody bag with a t-shirt- not to mention fantastic drills and choreography then ending on a wonderful meditation to boot. She is a wonderful teacher and I cant recommend her classes enough. We in Canberra consider ourselves very luck to have this wonderful woman and wonderful teacher

By: Kate

Kate — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 01:44:17 +0000

Unfortunately I never had a class under Aradia, but I have seen her perform her Industrial style & it is fantastic.
She has so much body control it is amazing to watch. Aradia is one belly dancer who you really appreciate watching perform.
A very insperational belly dancer!

By: sirena

sirena — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 11:15:05 +0000

I agree, Kat. I went to the Sydney workshop and while I confess I was hopeless at the industrial pops and locks, I learned a huge amount from the workshop and was lost in admiration for her control!

By: Kat

Kat — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 06:31:50 +0000

This woman is the most incredible thing I have ever seen in Bellydance. Aradia is a fantastic performer with so much vibrance and personality and her movement is out of this world with her crazy popping and locking. I did her Sydney Industrial Bellydance workshop and found it to be the best value for money day I’ve ever had. We were given a hard days work with drills and a small choreography as well as lunch, a tank top and cd. I left that day with a new inspiration for what I can do with bellydance now. Thank you Aradia and never stop what you are doing as you are truly just an inspirational woman.