Katarzyna Lidia

Katarzyna Lidia

Katarzyna Lidia is a instructor of FCBD® Style, FCBD® Sister Studio and author of Movement Dialect with flamenco fan: the Siren Project.

Teacher’s experience / work in Poland
She teaches FCBD® format at Hamsa Dance School which is the greatest school in Warsaw dedicated to diverse oriental styles. An important event during the school year is the dance camp (FCBD® Flow Camp in September), which they organize together with Agata Zakrzewska (other FCBD® Sister Studio in Warsaw and dance partner of Katarzyna).

Flamenco inspired ATS® Dialect Movement / in Poland and abroad
She likes to emphasize the flamenco background in FCBD® and supported her dance with flamenco classes (recently she fell in love with Bravat's fusion flamenco style).
Since 2014 she has developed the flamenco inspired Dialect Movement with flamenco fan. At the beginning of 2016 she with Agata Zakrzewska set up the Siren Project – dance troupe and workshop project. It is also the name of their flamenco-inspired movement dialect with fan and manton.

She is also inspired by Devi Mamak dance style. She met Devi for the first time in 2014 in the UK and since that time she has explored flamenco flavor in fusion bellydance. In 2016, when Devi was in Warsaw at Tribal Halfa Festival, they performed together with the whole group The Siren Project to song Lhasa desdenosa in Devi's choreography.
The dialect is still developing; Agata and Katarzyna are open to other styles and props as long as they support the overall flamenco expression in FCBD®. While the fan dialect is taking the final shape.

Flamenco inspired FCBD® Dialect Movement become more popular and since 2016 Katarzyna has taught during international festivals and events (as Tribal Weekend in Kiev, Roma Tribal Meeting, Sommerfrishe in Offenbach, Tribal Bridge China, 200% ATS® Monfalcone, Tribal Fest Budapest, ATS Retreat in France, Tribal.Pro in Kazakhstan). Over the past year, she has produced a five-step dialect-fan online course (including one in collaboration with Devi Mamak) and she was exploring the connections of flamenco and fusion.

Silvia Salamanca

Silvia Salamanca

Silvia Salamanca is an internationally acclaimed performer, choreographer and instructor from Mallorca, Spain. A life-long dancer, she graduated at the age of nineteen as a major in ballet and performed professionally as a modern dancer in major Europe festivals with the contemporary dance company of the University of Barcelona.

She started her career as a belly dancer in 2001, when realizing the enormous benefits that this art-form brings in both, body and soul. In her own studio, she keeps observing how women can get closer to their self identity and discover oneself in a new level, increasing self-esteem, and getting deeply in touch with the feminine essence in their soul through bellydance. Silvia deeply believes that belly dancing can be profoundly healing as a practice for reclamation of the body, pleasure and integration of many aspects of the being that our culture tends to negate.

As a natural evolution in her journey, Silvia discovered what was called tribal fusion in the USA and combined it with a deep research into her own cultural roots: Arabic and Spanish gitana. Hence with her work in the field of Zambra Mora (spanish gitano-oriental dance fusion), Silvia gained international recognition and is currently invited to teach workshops and perform as a headliner in major festivals world-wide. Silvia is also known for her work dancing with swords, which she feels depicts the strength of the human soul. Silvia is also the director of Shunyata Belly Dance, a nationally awarded tribal fusion company and a proud member of Urban Hips, Houston’s premiere ITS Troupe.

Moria Chappell

Moria Chappell

Moria Chappell is a world-renowned performance artist, dance instructor, ancient dance researcher, artistic director, and costume designer who specializes in Fusion & Experimental Belly Dance, Temple Dance, and Indian Odissi Classical Dance. She has performed, taught, and researched ancient dance in more than 50 countries over her 20-year dance career.

Known for her archetypal approach to performance craft, her style is both feminine and fierce, ancient and modern, sacred and strange.

A popular and sought after teacher, Moria has developed a unique methodology and approach to belly dance control, the foundation of which is her trademark teaching style: Muscular Belly Dance Technique (MBDT). MBDT synthesizes the intensity and precision that epitomizes Fusion Belly Dance isolation and individualism.

The diaspora of movement from which she engages and connects ancient dance via modern Muscular Belly Dance Technique creates innovation in movement, increases the palette of movement art, and explores ancient methods of physical language and body articulation to create an exquisite and rich pastiche of original and experimental dance.

Moria researches world temple dances by traveling to countries along the ancient trade routes that connected Asia and the Indonesian and Polynesian islands with India, North Africa, Mesopotamia and early Mediterrnean civilizations over 5,000 years ago. Finding seed movements that are linguistic tags connecting an ancestry of ancient dances going back millennia, her performances and trademark style represent a conversation of various ancient temple dance technique as it has survived and developed through the ages.

Her field of research and study include Fusion Belly Dance, Odissi Indian Temple Dance, Javanese Solo Dance, Cambodian and Chinese Apsara Dance, Chinese Dai and Thai Peacock Dance, Hula and Polynesian Dance, Tibetan and Nepalese Tantric Dance, North African and Middle Eastern Belly Dance, Spanish Flamenco, and Balkan-style movements.

Melody Bustillos

Melody Bustillos

Melody’s vast dance experience began early with studies in modern dance. Later, she integrated classic and folkloric belly dance. Other movement activities also included certified ACE® group fitness and Spin instructor.

Melody discovered the passion for sword dance early on. Forever the student, she continues to study with many sword masters enhancing her ability as a sword handler/dancer. Her ATS® journey began in 2004, later to achieve Sister Studio status, and stays current on the SSCE program.

In 2009, she co created the Davina Tribal Collective. She was the key initiator to integrate sword work into the ATS® vocabulary. Through collaborative efforts with Carolena Nericcio, the sword dialect DVD “ATS® with an Edge” was produced. The new updated single and double sword material is included on the dual DVD/digital set “Any Way You Slice It” ATS® Sword Dialect. Melody has traveled worldwide teaching and loves sharing her craft offering encouragement and support for everyone.

Rahil

Rahil

Belly dance has been Rahil's constant companion throughout her adult life. Through this dance, she has discovered new forms of creativity and expression, and she loves to share the joy of belly dance with audiences and students of all kinds.

Rahil is the owner of the KC Raqs World Dance Studio in the Kansas City area, where she teaches several classes each week. She hosts regular shows, student recitals, and events, including her annual KC Raqs Showcase, featuring guest instructors and performers from around the world.

Rahil performs across the country, has been a featured instructor all around the Midwest, and in 2019 was crowned "The Queen of the Prairie" at a Des Moines belly dance festival. As a teacher, she loves to blend technical knowledge with personal expression, and she particularly enjoys sharing historical and cultural information in order to inspire dancers of all backgrounds. You can find out more about her classes, shows, and events on her website, www.kc-raqs.com or find her on Facebook and Instagram.