33 Textbook Required IN-PERSON Dance It Off with Belly Dancing Belly dancing workouts relax your mind and flatten your belly. Wear comfortable workout clothes and a hip scarf, veil, and if possible, a pair of cymbals. At SUNY Westchester Valhalla: CE-DANCE 2002, 5 Sat., Mar. 2-30, 2:00-3:00 pm, AAB-218, $62 (+ $15 optional fee for hip scarf, payable to instructor). S Everts. #27005 IN-PERSON Sensual Belly Dance Workshop This Valentine’s season get in touch with your inner grace as we soften basic belly dance steps to softer, slower beats. Learn the fundamentals of posing, angles, soft hip drops and lifts; layers, elegant shimmies, turns and much more. This workshop consists of both Middle Eastern and American music. Come take this workshop and discover the grace, sensuality and femininity within! At SUNY Westchester Valhalla: CE-DANCE 2046, 1 Sat., Feb. 10, 2:00-4:00 pm, AAB-218, $30 (+ $15 optional fee for hip scarf, payable to instructor). S Everts. #27006 REMOTE Hip-Hop Dance This class will explore hip-hop movement and choreography. We will explore body isolations through warm-up exercises. We will work on new choreography each week. We will also explore freestyle or improv dance through cyphers or group circles. This class is intended to be a fun and educational class on hip-hop dance. All are welcome! CE-DANCE 2054, 10 Thurs., Feb. 13-Apr. 16, 7:00-9:00 pm, $230. Z Green. #27183 FILM & SCREENWRITING IN-PERSON Directing for Film An introductory course designed to teach students the fundamental elements of film directing in a safe and nurturing environment. Taught by award-winning director/screenwriter and founder of Forgotten Artist Productions Michael Thomas Cain. Michael teaches his experience in script analysis, visual storytelling, rehearsing with actors before and during shoots, creating storyboards and shot lists during pre-production, and technical aspects of filmmaking like lighting, camera, and sound during production. Recommended reading: Kazan, Elia. Kazan on Directing. Vintage, 2010. ISBN 9780307277046; and Mamet, David. On Directing Film. Penguin Books, 1992. ISBN 9780140127225 At SUNY Westchester Valhalla: CE-FILM 2053, 8 Sat., Feb. 3-Mar. 23, 10:00 am-12:00 noon, KNC-5, $200. M Cain #27018 NEW! REMOTE Art and Artists on Film Cinema is an art form that captures the world in motion. The art of painting arrests that movement, presenting the world at a moment in time. This course explores how movies interact with masterworks of painting and the artists who create them. Using film clips from recent films, we will focus on selected painters representing a range of artistic styles, eras, and national traditions, including Vincent Van Gogh, J. M. W. Turner, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Johannes Vermeer, the self-taught French artist Séraphine, and the Korean brush-stroke painter known as Owon. CE-FILM 2055, 2 Thurs., Mar. 21-28, 2:00-4:00 pm, $55. W Costanzo. #27253 REMOTE Screenwriting An introductory course aimed at teaching students to write a screenplay. Students will be taught the nuts and bolts of character development, theme, and plot. Concentration on how to write action lines and dialogue and showing versus telling will be discussed. Each student will finish a first draft of a screenplay by the end of the class. No experience required. Only bring your creativity. CE-WRITG 2101, 10 Tues., Jan. 9-Mar. 12 (skip 1/15), 7:00-8:30 pm, $195 (+ textbook). L Rhodes. #27007 WINE & FOOD EXPLORATION Wine Tastings at ARIES Wine and Spirits Husband and wife team Anthony Russo and Andrea Kish, fine wine buyers and owners of ARIES Wine and Spirits, make wine appreciation and education fun and memorable! Courses are held at Aries Wine and Spirits, 128 West Post Road, White Plains. Phone: 914-946-3382. Classes begin promptly at 7 pm; please allow enough time to park and sign in. Each class meets for 1 Tues., 7:00-9:00 pm, and costs $30 (+ $25 sampling fee, payable in CASH, to instructor). You must be 21 and over to register. No refunds for these classes. ABC’s of White Wine This “Anything But Chardonnay” course will cover chardonnay, the world’s most well-known white wine, discussed and tasted in comparison with five other white wine grapes. Grape origin, winemaking style, wine service, storage, and pairing with foods will be covered. Appropriate cheeses will be served as palate cleansers and to demonstrate food and wine compatibilities. CE-WINE 2001, 1 Tues., Apr. 2. #27028 ABC’s of Red Wine This “Anything But Cabernet” course will cover Cabernet Sauvignon, the world’s most widely grown red wine, discussed and tasted in comparison with five other red wine grapes. Grape origin, winemaking style, wine service, storage, and pairing with foods will be covered. Appropriate cheeses will be served as palate cleansers and to demonstrate food and wine compatibilities. CE-WINE 2000, 1 Tues., Apr. 23. #27029 Rosé in May Rosé Wines are “hot” but will keep you cool when your heart says “red” but the weather says “white”. Explore rose wines from places where you may not know rose wines are made, and from grapes that you never thought roses would be made from. Of course, we will also sample a Provence rose to use as a comparison. Light and seasonal summertime munchies will be served to demonstrate the surprisingly large variety of foods that are delicious with these wines. CE-WINE 2014, May 7. #27030
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