*TribalCon VI - 2010 Official Announcement*
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*We are pleased to annouce our fabulous instructors for TribalCon VI, Feb.
25-28 2010!*
*Heather and Juli of Urban Tribal
Donna Mejia
Ariellah
Asharah
Megha of Devyani
Jen Speiden
August Hoer of the Mezmer Society
Denys Proteau
Kevin "Nevik" Hartnell*
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Plus, a return of Donna Mejia's fantastic lecture **For the Love of the
Craft: A Thoughtful Approach to Our Dance Legacy on Thursday evening!!!*
Below you will find short bios of all the 2010 instructors. Stay tuned for
workshop schedule!
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*Heather Stants (CA)*
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Heather
Stants is a lifelong artist and dancer with a degree in photography and fine
arts. Her career in tribal fusion dance began over twelve years ago when she
became the assistant director of Read My Hips
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in Chicago, Illinois. In 1999 Heather moved to San Diego, California and
launched the southern california tribal movement through her classes and the
formation of Urban Tribal Dance Company.
Heather's diverse movement and arts background feeds her creativity and her
groundbreaking approach to choreography. Urban Tribal Dance Company is known
for it's contemporary approach to belly dance, a pared down costume
emphasizing body movements over ornamentation, athleticism and the use of
the dance form as a means of personal expression and interpretation. Their
creativity has twice earned them the title of "Troupe of the Year" in
Zaghareet! Magazine's Golden Belly Awards. In addition to teaching several
weekly classes in San Diego since 1999, Heather Stants and Urban Tribal
Dance Company tour extensively sharing their love of modern tribal fusion
dance with dancers in the U.S. and abroad. Urban Tribal Dance Company can be
seen in dvd releases produced by The Bellydance Superstars and Hollywood
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*Donna Mejia (CO)*
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Donna
Mejia is a choreographer, lecturer, teacher, administrator, and performer
specializing in contemporary dance, traditions of the African Diaspora, and
new fusion traditions in world electronica. She taught at Colorado College
for 10 years and was Director of the Colorado College International Summer
Dance Festival for the last half of her term.
For twelve years she served as managing director of the award-winning
Harambee African Dance Ensemble of CU-Boulder. She continues to teach,
choreograph and perform Modern dance, Improvisiation, Hip Hop, Jazz, Arabic
Tribal Fusion and traditional dances of the African Diaspora for Colorado
College as well as colleges and dance festivals internationally. Donna is an
authorized instructor of Brazilian Silvestre Modern Dance Technique.
Donna is finishing up a two-year assignment as Guest Artist in Residence
with the Smith College Dance Department and the Five College Dance
Department in Massachusetts.
Donna shares her life with husband, Shatta (educator and musician); and
daughter, Ajah (born 2001).
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*Ariellah (CA)*
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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.
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*Asharah (DC)*
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Asharah
is renowned for her strong technique and dramatic fusion of tribal and
cabaret bellydance, and she has extensive experience in Turkish, Egyptian,
and American bellydance. She has teaches and performs her unique tribal
fusion style around the world, and she is currently a faculty member at two
of the Washington DC area's finest dance schools: Saffron Dance in
Arlington, Virginia, and Joy of Motion Dance Center in Washington, DC. She
released her first instructional DVD, Modern Tribal Bellydance, in early
2008, and she is featured on the groundbreaking DVD, Gothic Bellydance: The
Darker Side of Fusion. As a student of Middle Eastern history, she believes
that every belly dancer must know the history and culture of this dance,
whether she is performing it in its traditional forms or fusing it with
others.
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*Megha (AL)*
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Megha
began performing very early in life. She took her first dance classes at
about the age of 4 and has been creating and performing ever since. Theatre
soon caught her attention and that was her passion throughout her schooling
years. It was in 1996 that she discovered American Tribal Style Bellydance
and immediately shifted her focus to this art form.
In San Francisco, Megha studied ATS with the originator of the style from
1996 - 1998. Upon returning to the Southeast, she began teaching ATS classes
in order to create a community of people to dance with. She was the first to
offer these classes in this region and has continued teaching pure ATS for
the last 10 years. She continues to teach and perform at sold out workshops
across the country and around the world both individually and on the Tribal
Pura tour with her teacher/partner, Carolena Nericcio.
In 2003 Megha completed teacher certification with Carolena Nericcio
(creator of ATS and founder of FatChance
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and entered into an exclusive partnership with her. They now take their love
and appreciation of this elegant dance style in its original form on the
road to co-teach the technique and artistic vision created by Carolena over
the last 20 years.
Megha directs the Birmingham, AL based Devyani Dance Company and runs
Devyani Dance Center, home of her dance company and a hub of international
and ethnic dance styles in Birmingham. Under her direction, Devyani has
performed at countless festivals, weddings, corporate events and private
parties over the last 9 years and has been nominated for multiple cultural
and artistic awards.
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*Jen Speiden (VA)*
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Creative
movement has always been an integral part of Jennifer's personal and
professional life. She enjoys integrating movement arts and healing arts
into her work and play for overall health, well being, and enjoyment.
Jennifer enjoys incorporating principles from Eastern and Western medicine
and movement approaches to encourage people of all ages and ability levels
to become more aware of their bodies and how to heal themselves from
within. She also hopes to help individuals enjoy the beauty of movement
regardless of physical limitations.
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*August (NC)*
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August
taught himself to play accordion as angsty teenager, and after discovering
Middle Eastern music, began working with Tribal dancers in 1999. Discovering
a mutual interest in Balkan music and quirky party songs, he formed The
Mezmer Society with Onça (Baraka Mundi) in the Autumn of 2007. They have
taught and performed at events including Tribal Fest, TribalCon, and Tribal
Revolution, and they are scheduled to continue touring throughout the United
States. The Mezmer Society is fully committed to spreading the aesthetic of
hafla joy as quickly and loudly as possible.
In addition to to The Mezmer Society, August is a member of the quartet
Ashes in Order, and maintains a career as an internationally represented
figurative painter. He is the president of the Institute for the Advancement
of Occultism and Aerophonics (previously Asheville Accordion Club), and he
has released albums with the cinematic trio Soora Gameela, and Greek fusion
band Makari. August lives in Asheville, North Carolina and is currently
working on material for his first solo album.
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*Denys (PA, SC)*
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Denys plays kaval (a Bulgarian flute), cumbus (a Turkish fretless banjo),
various reed instruments, and spoons. He plays with the Pittsburgh Bulgarian
Women's Ensemble, now called Zvesda, and with Turku, a Turkish and Eurasian
music band.
Denys has also played Bulgarian and International music at various festivals
and theatrical productions with the Bulgarian-Macedonian Educational and
Cultural Center dancers and with the Pittsburgh International Folk Theatre.
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*Kevin "Nevik" Hartnell (OH)*
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Kevin
"Nevik" Hartnell comes from a family of percussionists. His good fortune has
provided opportunities to study and perform with many great drummers and
share that wealth of knowledge by teaching. With a lifetime of drumming
experience that includes thousands of performances in the United States as
well as various other countries, studio session work since the age of 15,
contributions to music for films, commercials, and many recordings, he
travels regularly, performing and teaching workshops from his darbuka
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