sirena on August 31st, 2008Rishi is a professional belly dance performer and teacher from Melbourne. Love her dancing - please someone, let me know more about her!
Having just written about the Tribal belly dancer Azzura reminds me I haven’t yet featured for the other Azura, with one “z”. The lighting in this video clip is not the best, but it’s worth perservering as she displays a wonderful variety of moves - love the back bends!
Azura’s Oasis in Brunswick, Melbourne, [...]
And now for a trip to the darker side of belly dance with Ma’isah, founder of Raqs Gothique in Melbourne
Her Gothic belly dance troupe, SerpentSkirt, performs below:
I have to confess I know nothing about Temirah other than the fact that this performance took place in Melbourne, so I’m assuming she’s a Victorian belly dancer. Please leave a comment if you can tell me more!
Thanks to Bellyslap for posting this video.
Maria is an exceptional teacher who combines her knowledge of yoga, visualization, mind body centring and many other techniques with Raqs Sharqi to create a unique belly dance teaching method.
Maria is a member of the Underbelly Dance studio at www.underbellydance.com
Prue Welsh has combined a cheeky attitude with solid technique to develop her own original style - Belly dance Burlesque.
Prue is a member of Underbelly Dance - website www.underbellydance.com
Andrea is the co-director of Underbelly dance, along with Trisnasari. She’s an engaging dancer with great belly dance technique, as you’ll see in this video.
The Underbelly website is at www.underbellydance.com
Trisnasari is the Creative Director and founder of Underbelly, an amazing collective of dance teachers and performers in Fitzroy, Melbourne.
Check out their website at www.underbellydance.com and also their DVD, Ancient Contemporary Dance Beats. Here’s a sampler:
I’m told this sword dance by Melusina had the audience holding its breath!
Melusina is based in Fitzroy, Melbourne and is part of the amazing Underbelly - see their website at underbellydance.com
Melbourne belly dancer Dominika has a refreshing and contemporary approach to belly dance. This video is a good example!
Read more about Dominika at her website, www.goddessbellydance.com.au
By the way, she’s a pretty mean artist as well - see her work at www.dominikakellergoddessart.zoomshare.com/
An Australian of Italian background, originally from Melbourne but now living in Oman - how’s that for a cosmopolitan belly dancer!
If you’re not familiar with Tribe, it’s worth checking out. It’s a site like Facebook or MySpace and has nothing to do with belly dance - but, for obvious reasons, it’s been adopted [...]
Our next performer is Jewel, from Melbourne. A ballet background can be a handicap to a belly dancer, because ballet is very “up” whereas belly dancing needs to be grounded. Jewel has no such problem, retaining the gracefulness and discipline of a ballet dancer yet staying down to earth.
I’ve attended Jewel’s belly dance workshops and [...]
