Diana Bastet UK 2025
Metal Belly Dance weekend with Diana Bastet
Diana Bastet is a well known artist from Ukraine. She works with dark fusion, gothic fusion and metal bellydance styles. Her experience in metal belly dance started in 2010 with a combination of her two incompatible but favourite things - dance and heavy metal music.
As well being an experanced and accomplished performer and instructor she also designs and creates unique handmade dark art costumes.
Diana has a fierce expressive dance style with a distinguished powerful stage presence. She is a generous and attentive teacher, A force to be reckoned with and not to be missed.
There are ONLY 20 SPACES per workshop!
Workshop details:
Saturday 27th September
The Queen is walking 11am-1pm
Rise up, dance and go! Walk - don’t stay, bring your dance, and full presence and stance for a great performance.Combining walking movements with bringing beauty into every half-step and changing levels in-between. We'll learn how to dance while walking and walk while dancing. Intermediate level
Totally Flaming 1:30-3:30pm
Shimmies and belly rolls workshop. We will learn and dance different but all burning shimmies. We will do it good, carefully, mad and with layering and we'll move our bellies learning how to control abdominal muscles and breathe right. Advanced level
Sunday 28th September
Emotional technique: 4 different emotional conditions 12-2pm
Express to Impress! Dance whilst living your emotional story or play it as a role, feel endlessly true and full. Show it- let people watch it, understand and feel it deeply as it is, as you want them to feel it. Are you a dark and dangerous goddess? Or a gothic enigmatic mistress? Or you're having fun and playing with soul fire? Or maybe you want to show drama in your heart, so show it! This workshop is about the emotional side of performance, which always makes your dance impressive becacuse dance is not only about motion. Intermediate/Advanced level
Element of the Universe 2:30-4:30pm
Knowing your own elements is a huge power. Earth, Air, Fire & Water. Connect with them all, feel them in your body and use their energy in your dance movement. Visualize them and discover your inner element, the one that is closest to your heart, your soul, your skills and personality. Intermediate level
Prices:
£50 per workshop
£165 full weekend pass
£150 early bird full weekend pass, Book by 28th June
Dance studio details:
Unity studios, Monarch house, Smyth road, BS3 2BX
Show details, ticket prices and venue TBC
Please email spellboundartsuk@gmail.com with any questions
Please note workshops and show bookings are non-refundable, unless the event is cancelled by the organisers. In the case that you are unable to attend it is your responsibility to sell your place on to another person, we will facilitate if there is a waiting list.
SPELLBOUND Samhain edition
An evening of dark, mysterious and strange dances featuring the internationally known Metal Bellydancer Diana Bastet
Bristol WOW celebration feast
I have been co-hosting these events thanks to Diverse artists Network for almost a year now, and this is our final celebration. We have gathered across different parts of Bristol, listened to one another, played through movement, creativity and song and simply enjoyed getting together. I am super excited to be closing this cycle with this multicultural sharing feast. If this makes you curious please come along and invite your femme friends. you can book your tickets HERE.
Cacao, Womb and Plants Gatehring with Danilua
Using Cacao from the Sierra Nevada of Santa Marta, Colombia, Danilua invites us to her sharing of ancestral knowledge of the sacred feminine.
Exploring through movement, traditional dance and song She will lead us to reconnect with this ancestral knowledge and meet our inner light, manifestation and magic.
Bristol WOW Women’s circle
Our last WOW circle of the year! It's almost that time called Christmas where we often feel the pressure to be with family, the challenges of how to connect together, or the difficulty of not being able to fit into this convention.
Bristol WOW Women’s circle
We gather this time at the Round house in Knowle, where we can cosy up by the wood burner or enjoy Bristol views and autumnal freshness.
This time we will have artist and dancer Victoria Bone. She will lead us through creative healing practices relating to her studio practice ad current work "Attempts of self healing".
The date is close to Halloween, originally Samhain in Celtic history, marking the end of the harvest season and the beginning of winter and darker time of the year. We will touch upon this in our gathering as well.