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Tempest

Tempest (aka "The Gothmutha) is an artist, designer, dancer, and writer recently relocated from Bay Area of California to the Jersey Shore. Although she enjoys studying what tradition has to offer, Tempest loves exploring the dance through unusual music and creative costuming, pulling on her visual arts background to "paint a picture" with the dance; engaging the audience through dramatic embodied storytelling, passionate expression, and sensuous, mesmerizing movement.

She finds inspiration for her dances in many eras, places, and faces, from ancient cultures and spiritual myths worldwide, to the work of silent film star and original vamp Theda Bara, and turn-of-the-century dance goddess Ruth St. Denis.She is most well-known for her Gothic Belly Dance performances and instruction, and is featured on the first ever GBD performance DVD produced by WorldDanceNewYork entitled "The Darker Side of Fusion", it's sequel "Gothic Belly Dance: Revelations", and Hollywood Music Center's "Bellydance Underworld". She also has an instructional DVD geared towards the alternatively-minded entitled "Bellydance for Beautiful Freaks" produced by WorldDanceNewYork.
Websites:
-Med'Devi Ink (art, design, the original corset belt...) www.meddevi.com
-Tempest's Nouveau Noir Dance: www.darklydramatic.com
-The Gothic Bellydance Resource: www.gothicbellydance.com

Sashi

Sashi is an internationally recognized performer, instructor and choreographer based in Orange County, California. Sashi has been a student of dance for seventeen years and began studying African Haitian and West African dance while a student at San Francisco State University. In the years following, Sashi found Middle Eastern dance to be the style she was most drawn to as it spoke to her Semitic roots and aesthetic interests. She has studied many forms of Middle Eastern dance including American Tribal Style Bellydance, Tribal Fusion Bellydance, Gothic Bellydance, Egyptian and Lebanese Cabaret Bellydance, Israeli and Turkish Debke, Saidi, and Nubian Folkloric dances. She is most recognized for her alluring and dynamic performances of Gothic Tribal Fusion Bellydance and Improvisational Tribal Fusion Bellydance. Inspired by the "Spirit of the Dance", Sashi views bellydance as the honoring of the divine feminine by creating spiritual and physical unions through movement. This is evident as her ability to cultivate the energy that the dance evokes is translated to each audience member with a look, a gesture, a presence that is unmistakably unique to Sashi. You can see her perform solo or in collaboration with internationally acclaimed performance troupes in many venues, settings and shows. Information on her upcoming performances, workshops, tour dates and collaborations can be found at www.ascendtribaldance.com

Anaar

Anaar is a long time practicing witch in the Feri Tradition and brings to her performances a large body of dark lore and ritual.

Her body of work focus on sensual ecstasy and expressionistic storytelling. She walks between the worlds, dancing between technique and passion. Every performance is an homage to her Triple Muse; Mystery, Power and Ritual.

Fear not to step into the circle, Fear not to dance with the Fey.

http://www.anaar.info

Romka

Washington DC's premier tribal fusion duo Romka mingles the ancient and modern to create a new and captivating performance experience. Romka dances along the edge of tribal and fusion belly dance through skilled fusion of global dance forms and cultural elements.

Laura Rose

She began her professional belly dance career in 2003 with a tour of the East Coast, dancing live and improvised with Armando Mafufo and Suliman El Coyote of Sirocco. Since then she has brought her unique and dramatic belly dance style to stages all over the northwest and abroad. Her latest highlights including shows in Tokyo, and teaching and performing in a tour of Korea last year. Laura Rose dances both American classic cabaret style and alternative genres of belly dance. She adores live Middle Eastern music and
recorded electronic, techno and industrial. In all her classes and performances she values creativity and originality; practicing belly dance as an evolving performance art. She is also known in and around Seattle as Evilyn Sin Claire, wild child of Sinner Saint Burlesque.