Nava Dance Class Level 1

This is a single class purchase, the first class of the Level 1 Nava Dance course. This is a pre-recorded online class, available on demand.

It is a great way for students to experience Nava Dance technique and the format of the online school. It is designed to be a trial, with hopes students will want to continue with the full year long program.

Nava Dance is a holistic movement practice developed by Miriam Peretz. Nava Dance draws deep inspiration from Persian and Central Asian dance themes and aesthetics, as well as from the devotional practice of whirling. Each class is a journey through the physical, spiritual and emotional realms of being, and a call to open our hearts to one another and to the universe.Classes integrate contemporary movement awareness, sequences focused on healthy alignment and spinal fluidity, focused breath work, improvisation, choreography, and musicality. Classes have a strong emphasis on Persian dance aesthetics as well as use Persian classical, neo-classical and folk styles of music.

Nava is a beautiful example of a word shared by the Hebrew, Farsi, and Turkish languages. In Farsi and Turkish Nava means sound or tune. It is also the name of one the main Dastgah (musical modes) in the Persian and Turkish music traditions. In the Hebrew language, Nava means pleasant, graceful, beautiful and is a common girls’ name. Also, in Hindi, Nava means young or new.