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Build Your Own Workshop with Carolena
For individuals and groups. Bring your unique concerns and Carolena will customize a lesson just for you. Get answers about steps and formations, costume, music, etc.

General Skills for FCBD®Style Classic
A 10-hour intensive presenting the Classic vocabulary of steps from the FCBD® Tribal Basics DVD series Vol. 1 Fundamentals of Dance and Vol. 4 Embellishments and Variations as well as cues, formations, lead and follow and chorus. Students must attend all 10 hours, no exceptions. Certificate awarded upon completion.
NEW! Limited to 60 people. See the student requirements below.
Two 5-hour days.
Cost: contact event sponsor.

General Skills for FCBD®Style Modern
A 10-hour intensive presenting the Modern vocabulary of steps the FCBD® Tribal Basics DVD series Vol. 7 Creative Steps and Combinations, along with simple music theory for FCBD®Style and lots of drills. Students must attend all 10 hours, no exceptions. Certificate awarded upon completion.
NEW! Limited to 60 people. See the student requirements below.
Two 5-hour days.
Cost: contact event sponsor.

One Day Pass with Drills
For graduates of GS for FCBD®Style wanting a review, or students who are not interested in being Certified.
Attend single days of GS for FCBD®Style. Need not be taken concurrently but students must understand that each successive day’s material is built on the previous day(s) and they may be asked to take a less active role based on our assessment of their skill level.
One, two, or three of the GS for FCBD®Style 5-hour days.
As space allows within the 25 person limit.
The individual day curriculum will be posted soon!
Cost: contact event sponsor.

FCBD®Style Teacher Training*
For graduates of General Skills for FCBD®Style Classic and Modern.
The curriculum includes an introductory slide show lecture with Carolena, instruction on how to present the concept of FCBD®Style, the steps, verbal instruction, physical cuing, assessing students’ needs, answering common questions, structuring a class and troubleshooting.
NEW! Limited to 40 people.
Cost: contact event sponsor.

The Business of FCBD®Style (formerly Teacher Training2)
A forum discussion moderated by Carolena for graduates of FCBD®Style Teacher Training that have had time to put the training to use. No dance instruction or dancing.
Topics may include but are not limited to:
-Step definition
-How to present steps properly
-Student questions that you have not been able to answer
-Anatomy
-Music
-Problem” students (wince)
-Business
One 5-hour day, GS, and TT prerequisite.
Cost: contact event sponsor.

General Skills for FCBD®Style FAQs
Class information and handouts:
Students will receive supporting materials on the first day of class. Review of Tribal Basics Vol. 1-7 DVDs is recommended.
Please bring: zils, a notebook, a full skirt, and choli are best but not mandatory. Student Requirements:
These courses are not for beginners. Dancers must have previous experience with some elements of FCBD®Style, Tribal, Tribal Fusion, or Oriental Dance.

Download agenda:
General Skills for Classic FCBD®Style
General Skills for Modern FCBD®Style

Students must be fluent in English, no exceptions.
Students will be asked to submit a dance bio, limited to one page, upon acceptance to the program. This should include their experience with FCBD®Style, any personal comments, but not be a “resume” type listing of everything they have ever done! Just as it relates to FCBD®Style and what they want to achieve at the Intensive.
A deposit at sign up is required, as per the event sponsor.