Colleen's Classes
Biography
Colleen has been performing and teaching around Central Texas for over 14 years and in the last 3 years has had the honor of traveling around America performing with BECOMING and teaching workshops.
Her company Bellydance 4 Everyone puts on shows throughout the year that welcome all levels of dancers, giving them an opportunity to perform for their fellow dancers as well as new crowds in various cities. She is also the co-founder of Shimmy on the Colorado Bellydance Festival that is held on the second weekend of October in Bastrop, TX.
Since 2021 Colleen has received awards in Raq Sharqi & Fusion from 4th place to 1st place and, of course, Most Entertaining. Colleen’s goal when teaching and performing is to encourage Body Positivity and Body Love through Dance. By combining her love of dance and theater, Colleen brings all the emotions to the stage. You never know what to expect when she hits the stage or teaches a workshop!
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Dancing Through
Mental Health & Disability
Colleen has created this Lecture/Movement Workshop to address dealing with Mental Health and Disability. Over 800 million people worldwide deal with a mental health disorder* and 1.3 billion people worldwide deal with a disability.** Colleen is one of these people.
Dance has helped her process some of her depression and helps her cope with some of her fears and feelings. With all of the varieties of this art form, Colleen has been able to adjust the dance to fit her limitations and strengthen in those areas.
The other part of this workshop is about you and your advocate. It is very important for you to have an advocate to help you, we can not do this alone. There is no shame in having a friend, partner or spouse help you out. Colleen’s advocate will also be at the Workshop to go over how an advocate can help you on a day-to-day basis.
Please join Colleen & Donna in this important workshop on dealing with these daily issues that a lot of us go through and bring along your advocate. The movement part of this workshop will be working together to learn different ways to move that better fits you and your body’s limitations.
*Mental Health Statistics in 2024 (The Zebra)
**World Health Organization Disability report (3/7/2023)
Cost $40
FREE Community Beginner Bellydance
Wanna see what all the hoopla is about?!? Colleen will be teaching a free class for anyone who is interested in Bellydance. Whether it's your very first class or your 1,437th, you will enjoy going over the basics. Come in and give it a go!
Cost Nada - Nothing - It's FREE!