so in love with this choreo! My entire nervous system relaxes just from watching it. 

This was an incredible class! I love all your 'concept' videos - they really help me access dance more intuitively and playfully.

It sounds like you might use framing differently when thinking about drum solo vs. taqsim and I was wondering whether you could elaborate more on this in your future classes?

Also, I'm curious to hear your thoughts about the breath of movement (suspense and release) within a drum solo. It obviously still happens, but energetically feels differently. If you think those questions would be of interest to others, I would totally love another concept class tailored for drum solo.

Thank you!

omg Sadie, I wasn't going to do this tutorial because I could kinda do those rolls already, but then it popped up on my feed and decided to try it out,  and now the rolls look so much better!!!  This is such a neat way of breaking the technique down. Also, this made me realize I wasn't doing them properly need to get on top of core training.  Thank you!

Hi Sadie,  this is one of my favorite tutorials on Raqs Online.  Watched it last year and and keep coming back to it.  I was wondering if you could consider creating addition classes on this challenging topic of transitions: transitions between moves (which you already cover a lot in your classes), transition between combos, transitions between musical sections, transition from melody to rhythm etc...  either way, thank you so much for this amazing content!

Sadie Marquardt thank you! I Will look there and let you know.

This was fun, thanks Sadie!  Is there a breakdown on the 3/4 pelvic somewhere here?  I am only able to do the pelvic shimmy and couldn't figure out the mechanics of the 3/4. 

Hi Sadie, this is wonderful!  Do you have a breakdown of the turkish drop somewhere in Raqs Online?  If not, if you can have talk about it at some point in the future, it would be awesome! Thanks!

Sadie Marquardt Thanks for clarifying!

Hi Sadie,

So cool that this is being offered online! The booklet says that each level is 10-20 hours.  Is it in total per level or is it per week?  Looks like completing all levels takes 2-4 years- is it mainly due to the 100 hour immersion component? 

Thanks! 

Neli