hands of kali
experimental bellydance theatre
ABOUT THE TROUPE:
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hands of kali
experimental bellydance theatre
MAGI
An-Magrith "Magi" Erlandsen is a Norwegian Seattle native and has been studying bellydancing since 1992. After an extensive trip to Indonesia she decided to explore the connections between dance, ritual and spirituality and found bellydancing to be the perfect vehicle for this expression. Magi has primarily studied with Delilah and formerly performed with the Visionary Dancers. Magi is not only a dancer but a painter, muralist and art teacher. Her website is tarotofthepomegranate.com.
hands of kali
experimental bellydance theatre
J9 FIERCE
J9 Fierce grew up in Jersey in a household filled with music. She can't remember a time in her life when she wasn't dancing. Seven years ago, she saw Delilah's belly dancers at the Fremont Solstice Parade and knew this is what she needed to be doing. So she signed up for some classes and just thrived on the experience. J9 has studied with local dancers Katia Sahar, Katrina Hellbusch and Delilah. She has also taken many national workshops with Mardi Love and Zoe Jakes, to name a few. Besides belly dance, J9 has studied jazz, tap, ballet and modern dance. She has a passion for the movement/culture of belly dance in particular because it is an empowering way for her to move through space and time. The joy she experiences from this dance is simply an addiction.
hands of kali
experimental bellydance theatre
CHRISTINA
Christina dances because it is ritual, spiritual, political, physical
and emotional. It keeps her in the present, paves her future but comes
from the past. Every woman was born to do it and bellydance holds
thousands of years of women's history in every move. Regardless of age
or background or body, when a woman bellydances, she is fucking
gorgeous.
Christina has been studying dance formally for 8 years, although she
grew up dancing to the clock radio with her mom in their Detroit
kitchen. Melissa Ruby was her first teacher. Her dance foundation is
in Tribal Fusion Belly Dance which she has studied with Katrina
Hellbusch and Zanbaka. Christina has been a member of the former dance
project Diatribe and The Zamani Dance Company.
At present she is studying with and performing traditional Uzbek
choreography under the venerable Emiko Karuna Noor Nakamura.
It's like Red Emma said, "If I can't dance, it's not my revolution!"
hands of kali
experimental bellydance theatre
KENDRA
Some people say Kendra has danced her life away. One morning in 2000, she crawled out of a goth nightclub with a plan to be a bellydancer. She studied intensively with Delilah, Zanbaka and Tina Sargent; formed troupe Hands of Kali in 2003; and regularly avows that if she were having any more fun, you'd have to arrest her. Dancer, teacher, poet, tarot reader and all-around clever bitch, Kendra currently resides in a haunted house in Seattle with three sweet kitties and one hot boyfriend.
hands of kali
experimental bellydance theatre
MAUREEN
Maureen started bellydancing in 1995. She has studied with Delilah of Visionary Dance Productions and taken numerous workshops from dancers and teachers from around the world, including Bellydance Superstars Jillina, Rachel Brice and Sharon Kihara; Laura Rose (also of VDP); and Egyptian percussionist Hossam Ramzy and his wife Serena. Maureen joined Hands of Kali in 2005.