Certified Instructor Training
HADIA’S INSTRUCTOR TRAINING COURSE OUTLINE
Level 1
- Establishing the Learning Environment
Safety
Establish prior experience of students
Goals / Intentions
Confidentiality and Risk taking
Ground Rules
- Safe and Effective Warm Ups
Principles
Criteria
Hadia’s Body Logic Technique
- Essential Movements and Steps
- Body Awareness
Essential Posture
Injury Prevention
- Applied Anatomy for Belly Dance – Part 1
Vertebral Joints
Torso Abdomen and Back Muslces
Hips and Thighs
- Hadia’s Harmony vs. Isolations
- 1,001 Variations – Part 1
- Transitions – Part 1
- Teaching Theories and Principles
4 Styles of Learning
Class Planning Concepts and Basics
- Essential Oriental Rhythms
Baladi
Saidi
Maksoum
Malfouf
Chiftitelli
- Hadia’s Basic Finger Cymbals System
Combinations
With steps
With arms
With shimmies
- Understanding Middle Eastern Music
Basic Beat
Essential Rhythms
Essential Instruments
- History, Origins and Evolution of Oriental Dance
- Cool Downs
- Feedback from the Students – How and Why to Gather it
This course involves both theory and practical application.
Recommended Preparation – Hadia’s Ultimate Belly Dance System 4 set DVD and Hadia’s Body Logic for Belly Dance Online Run-Through prior to beginning the course.
Level 2
Initiation into Presentation Skills of Level 1
Course Content
- Warm Up Alternatives
- More Anatomy for Oriental Dance
Shoulders Joints
Shoulder and Arm Muscles
Hip Joints
Legs
- Alignment recognition and correction
- Finger Cymbals Combinations with Movements and Steps
- Finger Cymbals with Basic Rhythms
- Intermediate Rhythms
- Music Appreciation and Interpretation
- The Bottom Line Basics of our Movements – Estoda
- Objectives and Course Planning
- Stretch and Strengthening Principles and Exercises
- Improvisation Skills
- Professionalism and Ethics Part I
- Cool Downs The Whys and Hows
- Growing from Feedback
Prerequisite: Completion of Level 1
Level 3
- Communication Skills
- Applied Advanced Anatomy
- Assessment of Basic / Intermediate Technique
- Complex Movements Breakdown into and Building from the Basics
- Principles and Applications of Body Balance
- The Art of Improvisation Continued
- And Still More Rhythms
- The Art of Finger Cymbals Applied to Complex Rhythms with Movements
- Advanced Music Interpretation
- Middle Eastern Dance Styles
- Props
- Professionalism and Ethics Part II
- Basic Business Skills
Prerequisite: Completion of Level 2
Throughout the course, Hadia will continually assess participants on their technical skills, understanding of rhythms and music, communication skills, and their ability to present and explain information. A satisfactory level of skill and understanding must be demonstrated by participants in order to receive their Teacher Training Certificate of Achievement.
Recommended: Study of Hadia’s Ultimate Belly Dance System 4 set DVD prior to beginning the course.