Classes
I am available for private and semi-private lessons, so feel free to contact me if you have questions, other than that, I am taking a break from teaching for a while.
What is ‘Fusion Belly Dance’??
Fusion can mean many things to many people. I like the vagueness of the word…it leaves alot of room to experiment and find your voice. To me, it is mixing different styles and genres of music and dance into the dancer’s own individual interpretation and expression of their art form. My own personal stylization, or Fusion, is a mix of Tribal Fusion, Hip Hop bits I love to use, and something I call ‘gooey-gothic’, which is something I’ve sort of created over the last year of performing in MECHANISMUS, an Industrial Art & Music show
About the workshops I teach:
We will be jumping down the rabbit hole of ‘Fusion Belly Dance’ each week, where I will share the foundations of my favorite moves, explore stylization, and touch on subjects like; musicality in dance, and intent in performance. I hope to challenge and inspire my students to think outside the belly dance box and discover their own groove, with exercises in breaking the rules, listening to your body, and increasing your intuition.
This is an intermediate-to-advanced class focusing on my own funky stylization. This is treated like an intensive and we will be moving fairly quickly. I won’t be teaching any ATS or Cabaret, so it is essential that the students already have a basic knowledge of belly dance mechanics as taught in some of the more traditional disciplines, so we can move beyond the basics and get to the juicy stuff. There are many wonderful teachers to learn from first to build a solid foundation. Essentially, I want you to know the rules before I tell you to break them!