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Coming Events
2008 NEWS
December 16, 2008
Venus Bellydance informal STUDIO SHOW
7:00-9:00pm
At the Roundhouse. Details to follow. Performance participation open to all registered Venus Bellydance students in all our locations. Performances by students and Venus Bellydance Instructors.
Feb 2008 Venus Bellydance in Argentina!
Venus & students were invited by Amir Thaleb of Argentina to study at his school in Buenos Aires Feb 2008. Venus arrived a week earlier for the annual weeklong intensive, & was followed by 9 intermediate to advanced students for semi-private workshops with Amir Thaleb & Yousef Constantino. For more about Amir Thaleb visit his website. Scroll down for photos.
 Venus & Amir Thaleb in Buenos Aires, Argentina Feb 2008 |
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 The main studio in Amir's school - designed as a theatre for performance practice. |
Venus has her own TV show!
Bellydance Workout with Venus, produced by Channel M Multivision. We just finished our last shooting day on Thursday, Nov. 15, 2007. This is a 20 episode instructional series featuring instruction by Venus and demonstration by dancers Lisa Jordan, Leona Planko-Finlayson, Mika T
animura, Brandi Abele, Jen Bye. We can't wait for you to see it! Special thanks go to Renata from Avalon Dance Shop for donating ballroom dance shoes, Angelo Luzio Shoes of Montreal for donating bellydance slippers, Jaz & Sonny from Rokko Sarees, Vancouver for subsidizing fabric for most of the outfits, James Bowers for creating all the original music, Nan Lehto for sewing much of the costuming an helping with designs, Joanne Lee for additional sewing and Lynn Zimmerman of Tech 1 Hair Design, Vancouver's hottest stylist and good personal friend, for keeping my hair fab-u-lous! and big thanks to producer Shirley Cole and all the wonderful crew at 
Channel M who helped make this show so beautiful and such a rewarding experience! And of course thanks to my husband Rod for all his love & support to help minimize my stress during shooting! More photos coming soon! We don't know when it will air yet (my guess is Fall 2008) but will definitely put out the word! The Workout series airs on weekdays at 11:00am. You can watch season 1 now.
Summer 2006
"Bellydancing Study Helps Earn Degree"
Article on Venus' Shimmylab research on SFU website
Spring
2006
Venus Graduates and is Featured in SFU News!
This June Venus (Marilee Nugent) convocated for her
second degree, a BSc in Kinesiology from Simon Fraser University, after
receiving a BA in Art & Culture analysis the previous spring. She
would like to thank all her professors in both faculties who were so
encouraging of her interest to research bellydance for many school projects
and courses, from cultural-historical to biomechanical and exercise
phsyiological 
analyses
of this fascinating art and movement form. In her 4th year Kinesiology,
Venus was fortunate to be approved for a directed study course on bellydance
movements, supervised by acclaimed researcher in motor control and neuromuscular
control, Dr. Ted Milner who has published research in such journals
as Nature, Biological Cybernetics, Experimental
Brain Research, Journal of Neurophysiology and others.
Venus' project involved motion capture of 28 different bellydance movements
with simultaneous recording of activity from 22 different muscles, and
was featured in SFU news. See the article on the Simon Fraser University website. We still have much data analysis
to perform and hope it will yield interesting insights into the control
of complex multi-joint coordination patterns. You can read more on "Shimmy
Lab" research by Venus. Please check back for Venus'
research papers available on this site soon.
Vancouver, BC CANADA
For more information
on any of these events, please contact Venus
or call 604
608-6608