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THANK YOU ALL FOR AUDITIONING! We appreciate your interest! Here are the guidelines for the N1000Goddesses 2008 Season!
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FOR THE DELAY IN SENDING YOU THIS NEWS! WITHOUT FURTHER ADO,
THIS YEAR'S PERFORMERS ARE:
ARIELLAH -CA
MOROCCO -NYC
DESERT SIN - NY and CA
MANHATTAN TRIBAL - NYC
ANASMA - Paris France/NYC
AYLEEZA and JAFFI - NY
AEPRIL SCHAILE - MA
TEUTA ILYRIANA -NYC
CRYSTAL - MI and NYC
and ChoveXani, with special guest dancers!
With your Host Mistress McCutchan
and drumming sequence by Casey Bond
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AEPRIL SCHAILE
Aepril Schaile is an American priestess of the Dark Goddess. Working through the ancient, and ever-evolving, art of Bellydance, she becomes Trickster, Warrior, Ghost, Storm, Grieving Mother, Killer, Seductress...Aepril's performances invoke the archetypal Feminine shamanistically, theatrically, and compellingly. With a background in theater, Jungian psychology, and mythology, Aepril's creativity and style of movement incline naturally toward exploring mythic themes and infusing meaning and story into her dance.
Beginning with Raks Sharqi and American Cabaret as her foundation in 1996, she brings Gothic Bellydance and Tribal Fusion bellydance, modern, interpretive, and a long-time practice and study of of yoga to her dance as well. A musician, Aepril brings a sense of sonic drama and timing to her performances and choreographies; when not moving to music as a dancer, she can be found composing music for her death-folk/ piano-doom project Aepril Schaile and the Judgement. Aepril was a Guest Artist at Rakkasah Spring Caravan 2008; this is her second year performing in Night of 1000 Goddesses. Recently moving her base to Salem, MA, she teaches classes there, and offers workshops everywhere. She directs Exquisite Corpse productions. Aepril holds an MFA in Interdisciplinary Art. www.aeprilschaile.com
ANASMA
Anasma is Performance Arts Dancer, Teacher, and Choreographer. Drawing from her on-going training in Bellydance (traditional "Raks Sharqi", Folkloric dances, and Tribal Dance) and multiple background in Salsa, Hip Hop, Theater and Gymnastics, Flamenco, Wushu, Modern Jazz, and Kathak, Anasma uses dancing as an outlet to express her deepest emotions.
Since 1997, she has performed and taught in many countries, dance festivals, TV shows, and concerts before 3000 plus spectators. Her French, Tunisian and Vietnamese upbringing and heritage are a big influence on how she dances and teaches the art form. www.anasmadance.com
ARIELLAH
Ariellah studied classical ballet with the Royal Academy of Dance of London for
twelve years, beginning at age three. After a four-year break from dance that
included two years in the Peace Corps on Africa's Ivory Coast, she returned to
the United States eager to learn the dance of her Moroccan ancestry.
Ariellah performs tribal and dark fusion belly dance worldwide. She has studied
and performed belly dance for the past seven years, both with Janine Ryle of
Danse Mahgreb and as a founding member of The Indigo with Rachel Brice. Her style infuses
many genres of belly dance, all with a modern dark flavour that is uniquely her own.
She is featured on many DVDs, including the first of its kind "Gothic BellyDance"DVD and her
first instructional DVD, "Contemporary BellyDance and Yoga Conditioning" and she also won
first place in Siren's Insanity belly dance competition in 2004. She is considered a leader in the
innovative new genre of Gothic Belly Dance and is known for her strong technique and precision of movements.
For more please see www.ariellah.com
AYLEEZA and JAFFI
AYLEEZA (Lisa Quattrochi) has been performing Middle Eastern dance for 15 years and drumming for 19. Ayleeza drummed and performed with Layne Redmond's drum group "The Mob of Angels" from 1989 to 1996. Layne introduced Ayleeza to Ancient Goddess figures dancing and playing frame drums as seen in the art of the old world. This influenced Ayleeza to combine the spiritual Goddess energy into her dance. In 2001, She met Jaffi, (Julian) when she started belly dancing at different Renaissance Faires. They started drumming and dancing together and were married in 2003. Ayleeza's hope is for the USA to see belly dancing as a spiritual and sensual art form. Ayleeza co wrote and produced Danse Du Ventre "The Joining" with her husband, Julian, to expressed the spirituality of the dance. This belly dance play features, live Middle Eastern music and dancing. Ayleeza was featured in WESTCHESTER magazine in April 2006 as a belly dance teacher.
JAFFI (Julian Broughton) began dancing and acting at a young age, studying some ballet, jazz, and modern dance. With this foundation, Julian branched into the world of the theatre in New England. He started performing gypsy dancing, entertaining audiences at King Richards's Faire in Carver, Ma. It was at this faire that he met Ayleeza. Soon they began drumming and dancing together, and were married in 2003. Julian and Ayleeza wrote "THE JOINING" a belly dance play based on live Middle Eastern music and dance at a wedding. Julian and Ayleeza used their own wedding vows for the play. You can reach both Ayleeza and Julian thru www.ayleeza.com
CRYSTAL
Crystal
is a dynamic and powerful performer. She is experienced in
performing classical Egyptian Cabaret, folkloric dances of
the MiddleEast and North Africa, and various fusion styles
of belly dance.
Crystal has performed at private parties, weddings, Middle
Eastern night clubs, and restaurants. She has also performed in many
larger theatre and festival events. Crystal has performed on stage
with such musicians as Raquy and the Cavemen, Karim Nagi,
and Mary Zysk, to name a few.
She was the founder and director of Unveiled Dance Company in
which she frequently performed. Crystal and Unveiled Dance
combined forces with the Aegela Dance Company and Lapis Lazuli
of Toledo for a performance in September 2006. In April of
2007, Crystal made her début performance with Jamila
Salimpour's Bal Anat. Some of her performances and performance
venues have included: Unveiled 2006 at Tappan Theatre, Detroit
Zoo Summer Festivals, Somerset Collection, headlining People's
Dancing 20th Anniversary performance, Ann Arbor Labor Day
Connections Festival, Wayne State University, Summer Nights
Unveiled 2007 at Greenhills School Campbell Center for the
Performing Arts, The Place of Southfield, Studio 4, Ann Arbor
Art Fair, Dancing in the Streets 2006, Concert of Colors at
the Max M. Fisher Music Center, as well as several performances
though the University of Michigan and Eastern Michigan University.
Recently, she moved to New York and joined Bellyqueen, the highly noted dance company featured in The Belly Dance Superstars. She continues to teach and perform at events locally and abroad. For more: www.unveiledbellydance.com
DESERT SIN
Desert Sin's objective is to weave narratives through movement while embracing the beautiful & the grotesque within.
It is from continued experimentation and impassioned creativity that Desert Sin has become one of the most inspirational and ground-breaking dance companies since its unveiling in 1999. Fusing the intricacies of Middle Eastern dance origins with a wide array of other art forms, drama, and effects a style emerges like no other.
A multi-cultural dance company, they develop characters and stories with innovative interpretations that reflect the world in which we live. Desert Sin is a canvas for interpretation, revelation, and catharsis.
Desert Sin has gained international popularity from appearances in theaters,festivals, nightclubs, television, and special events around the world.
They have been featured on HBO, Wild West Tech, and India TV. Desert Sin continues to tour internationally with performances and workshops and has a once a month run at the Zipper Theater this summer.
For further information on Desert Sin please visit www.desertsin.com
MANHATTAN TRIBAL
Manhattan Tribal™ is New York City’s first American Tribal Style
Belly Dance company. Founded in 2007 and directed by Mimi Fontana and
Kate Reid, Manhattan Tribal brings this unique West Coast originated format of
modern world dance to the New York City Metro Area.
Mimi Fontana and Kate Reid can be found teaching weekly classes in New York
City and Westchester. Mimi is also an AFAA certified Group Fitness Instructor
and is certified by Fat Chance Belly Dance (the creators of American Tribal Style) as a General
ATS Studio.
Current Manhattan Tribal Troupe Members are:
Mimi Fontana, Kate Reid, Sarah Gallogly, Debbie Lakis, Heather Bondra, Leigh Ann Eliseo and Maria
"Naja" Richardson.
They have been seen at The Cloisters Medieval Festival, the Queens Public Library,
various NYC Street Festivals, Brooklyn Cable Access Television, Dance Parade and
Dance Festival NYC and at many other venues. They also host their own Tribal Salon,
in New York City.
For more, please see: www.manhattantribal.com or contact Mimi Fontana at manhattantribal@yahoo.com
MOROCCO
Morocco
(Carolina Varga Dinicu) is considered the leading performer
& authority in her field in the U.S., Canada and abroad,
evidenced by frequent invitations to teach master seminars
and perform in Germany, Sweden, Norway, Austria, Switzerland,
Finland, Australia, Israel, Malaysia, Egypt, England, Morocco,
Brazil and Italy.
She
was awarded two grants by the State Council on the Arts for
her choreography in 1972 and 1981 - first in her field to
be so honored and the only two-time recipient - 3 NYC Department
of Cultural Affairs Community Service Grants, 3 Summer Program
Grants, a Materials for the Arts Grant and an Arts Exposure
Grant. She was one of the first inducted into the AAMED Mideastern
Dance Hall of Fame as "World Class" for "International
proliferation of her art, her myriad of talent and for her
untiring pioneering in this, her chosen field of ethnic dance",
was named 1997 Instructor of the Year by IAMED, was voted
Best Dancer & Best Instructor + Casbah Dance Experience
was named Best Troupe of the Year 2 years in a row by Mideastern
Dancer magazine. Morocco was also voted Ethnic Dancer of the
Year in '97, Instructor of the Year in '98 & given the
Lifetime Achievement award in 2002 by Zaghareet Magazine.
In 2005 MECDA voted her their Humanitarian Award for her “body
of work” over a lifetime in furthering and enriching
Near and Mid-Eastern music and dance & in 2006 the Isis
Foundation gave her a Lifetime Achievment Award in Ethnic
Dance from the Near and Middle East.
Since 1964, Morocco
has written regularly for several publications in her field
and been reprinted in dance, medical and feminist publications
in the U.S., Germany, Sweden, Finland and Norway. She continues
her extensive performing career as a soloist and with her
dance company, including Lincoln Center, the U.N. (General
Assembly and Dag Hammerskjold Theater), Delacorte Dance Festival,
Columbia University, Statue of Liberty, Cooper-Hewitt Museum,
lecture/performances for the NYC Department of Cultural Affairs,
Asia Society and Museum of Natural History, in Moscow And
Leningrad (USSR), on Broadway ("I Had A Ball"),
her own TV Special: "Testspiele" (WDR#l/Koln, Germany),
1st Women's Festival of the Performing Arts, numerous U.S.
TV shows and films, *4* 5-Lecture Series at the Museum of
Natural History and innumerable clubs and ethnic/family celebrations.
Director/researcher/choreographer
of Morocco & the Casbah Dance Experience (Mideastern and
North African dance & music in concert), her award-winning
non-profit, tax-exempt dance company and school, which had
its debut at Lincoln Center in '78 and was the only dance
company to be presented five times at Riverside Dance Festival,
which also honored CASBAH by placing a tape of their '83 concert
in its permanent archive (1 of 4 shown at their '85 fundraiser!).
Morocco created the
Casbah Dance Experience to show the varied, fascinating ethnic
dance forms of the Mideast and North Africa to the general
public and give "a bit of home" to North Africans
and Mideasterners in the West. She's spent over 46 years trying
to find, recover, preserve and present them before they disappear,
due to modernization and/or fundamentalism. It's a valuable
heritage that must be saved from extinction!
Morocco collects all music, steps & styles possible of
each dance from many on-site viewings, questions & participation,
etc. and chooses a variety of the most typical steps &
figures, presenting them in choreography true to their origins,
while pleasing to the eyes & ears of the theater public.
Morocco opened the door for Mideastern Oriental dance in museums,
schools, at Lincoln Center, SUNY-Purchase and as a valid,
valuable concert form. Research has taken her to Morocco,
Egypt, Tunisia, Algeria, Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, Iraq, Iran,
Turkey, Azerbaijan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan,
Tadjikistan, Kirghizia, Georgia, Armenia, Greece, Yugoslavia,
etc.
Morocco continues to perform, teach, research, write and lecture
and hopes to keep on "till 6 weeks after I'm dead"....
For more, please see: www.casbahdance.org
TEUTA ILYRIANA
Teuta Ilyriana is a darque fusion bellydancer, a fire spinner, and an acolyte of Desire. Teuta allows the music she interprets to speak through her. Through strong foundation in, and appreciation of ethnic tribal fusion, locks and pops, modern fusion, ATS, Middle Eastern and Spanish dance, combined with her own sense of drama, she projects her vision to the audience.
CHOVEXANI
ChoveXani is New York City's premiere theatrical ethnic dance troupe. Created in 2003 by director Zan Asha, the troupe embodies elements of dark fusion, experimental, and theatrical ethnic dance.
With a love of art from childhood, Zan eventually took her theater training from NYU, her DJ experience, and her production skills and combined them with training in Eastern dances to combine the story-telling world of dance. ChoveXani (the Romany word for "gypsy" or "witch" ) focuses on mythos and magic, social commentary, and much more. ChoveXani combines dance with traditional stage blocking and narrative to tell compelling stories.
Their work has been seen in at Theater for the New City, the Mermaid Parade, Renaissance festivals, the BAAD Ass Women's Festival, Philly's Raks Gothique, Hybrid, and more...
Ever the innovator, Zan has also focused on CREATING events, including the FIRST full fledged Experimental (Non-tradional) Dance Showcase (Urban Oasis, 2004),and the first monthly Gothic Bellydance Showcase (Shadows of the Harem, 2006). Night of 1000 Goddesses is ChoveXani's triumph, showcasing dancers of all genres from around the country. The goal of each event was not only to showcase ChoveXani, but to provide opportunities to the dance community at large.
When not choreographing, story-boarding theater pieces, sewing costumes, advertising, or revamping websites, you can find Zan doing other curious things:
She is regular writer for Zaghareet, a Middle Eastern themed magazine. She is also an occasional consultant for other events planners and dancers, utilizing her own experiences in helping others create successful events of their own.
If this weren't enough, she also recently launched
a website business with Wess Murray, in which the same magical work for ChoveXani's site can be utilized for other websites...
In the wee moments of her spare time, you will find Zan speaking to animals, traveling her own enchanted path, and daring others to come with her. Her motto, as always: "DREAM all you DREAMERS."
Aepril Schaile is an American priestess of the Dark Goddess. Working through the ancient, and ever-evolving, art of Bellydance, she becomes Trickster, Warrior, Ghost, Storm, Grieving Mother, Killer, Seductress...Aepril's performances invoke the archetypal Feminine shamanistically, theatrically, and compellingly. With a background in theater, Jungian psychology, and mythology, Aepril's creativity and style of movement incline naturally toward exploring mythic themes and infusing meaning and story into her dance. 
Anasma is Performance Arts Dancer, Teacher, and Choreographer. Drawing from her on-going training in Bellydance (traditional "Raks Sharqi", Folkloric dances, and Tribal Dance) and multiple background in Salsa, Hip Hop, Theater and Gymnastics, Flamenco, Wushu, Modern Jazz, and Kathak, Anasma uses dancing as an outlet to express her deepest emotions. 
Ariellah studied classical ballet with the Royal Academy of Dance of London for 
AYLEEZA (Lisa Quattrochi) has been performing Middle Eastern dance for 15 years and drumming for 19. Ayleeza drummed and performed with Layne Redmond's drum group "The Mob of Angels" from 1989 to 1996. Layne introduced Ayleeza to Ancient Goddess figures dancing and playing frame drums as seen in the art of the old world. This influenced Ayleeza to combine the spiritual Goddess energy into her dance. In 2001, She met Jaffi, (Julian) when she started belly dancing at different Renaissance Faires. They started drumming and dancing together and were married in 2003. Ayleeza's hope is for the USA to see belly dancing as a spiritual and sensual art form. Ayleeza co wrote and produced Danse Du Ventre "The Joining" with her husband, Julian, to expressed the spirituality of the dance. This belly dance play features, live Middle Eastern music and dancing. Ayleeza was featured in WESTCHESTER magazine in April 2006 as a belly dance teacher. 
Crystal
is a dynamic and powerful performer. She is experienced in
Desert Sin's objective is to weave narratives through movement 
Manhattan Tribal™ is New York City’s first American Tribal Style 
Morocco
(Carolina Varga Dinicu) is considered the leading performer
& authority in her field in the U.S., Canada and abroad,
evidenced by frequent invitations to teach master seminars
and perform in Germany, Sweden, Norway, Austria, Switzerland,
Finland, Australia, Israel, Malaysia, Egypt, England, Morocco,
Brazil and Italy.
ChoveXani is New York City's premiere theatrical ethnic dance troupe. Created in 2003 by director Zan Asha, the troupe embodies elements of dark fusion, experimental, and theatrical ethnic dance.