Shivati - Experience

prior performances & events~

Rakkasah's Spring Caravan Festival with Angelique

and the Bellydance Collective May 2, 09

Moroccan Night at La Riva Gauche March 08 / Aug. 08 / April 09

Hudson Valley Hafla / Show & workshops featuring Asharah 03.21.09

Tribalantics Woodstock, NY 02/ 09

Harvest Cafe New Paltz NY 12/08

Tribal Cafe D.C. Aug. 08 / July 07 / May 06

Tiffany / Lathia Wedding Aug. 08

Cure Salle Pennsic 37 Aug. 08

Yanni's Greek Restaurant Winter 08

High Fall's Wonderland Grand Opening Spring 08

Hudson Valley Hafla Nov. 07

Schally / Hunt Wedding October 07

Pennsylvania Renaissance Festival October 07 / October 06

Music Fest Harrisburg PA 4th of July 2007 / 2005

Tribal Fire @ Smalls Harrisburg re-occurring event winter 07

Private New Years Performance Edison, NJ Dec. 31 2006

Cedars Lebanese Restaurant 2006

Aangan Indian Restaurant New Years 06 / Spring 06

Melinas Hafla New Holland PA Nov. 05

Dracula's Ball Philadelphia PA Nov. 04

As part of former duet Sangiore (Shivati and Zarinne) ~

Spring Caravan 2007

Harrisburg Bi-Annual Hafla Summer / Spring 2006 / 2007

Mangia Qui Restaurant 2007

Mitrani 2007

Hipnosis Belly Jam Hafla Nov.06

~Various other private events, woman's gatherings, pagan celebrations, renaissance faires, haflas and salons.

What is Tribal Belly Dance~

"When we think of the term ‘tribal’ in relation to belly dance, we generally think of the traditional folkloric styles associated with the many tribes in the Middle and Near East and North Africa. These originate within the tribal community and are distinguished by a series of common steps, gestures and clothing quite specific to the tribe and its culture. The culture of the tribal community may remain largely unchanged unless significant events and influences force an adaptation of traditional patterns. "

More on Tribal~

TRIBAL FUSION BELLY DANCE

By Heather Stants

Edited by Tom Rehor

" Tribal fusion belly dance is a modern style of belly dance that blends classic Raqs Sharqi, the American Tribal Style (ATS) of troupes such as San Francisco's FatChanceBellyDance and other dance forms such as classical Indian dance, Flamenco, hip hop, and club dancing which would normally not appear in the ATS or Raqs Sharqi dance vocabulary. Tribal fusion dancers are noted for their strength, poise, precision, and isolations as well as their use of music that often combines Western electronica and traditional Middle Eastern, North African, and South Asian instruments. Tribal fusion is also unique in that its costuming combines indigenous tribal textiles from the Middle East and South Asia with modern and Western elements. Unlike ATS, which by definition must be performed by a group of dancers, tribal fusion can be performed in a group or by a soloist.

Tribal Fusion is a living, evolving, dynamic form and in order to understand its innovative direction and future, once must explore its roots. In the late 1980s and early 1990s the American Belly Dance world was struck by the other worldly beauty and power of a new form of dance emerging from a community of visionary artists in the San Francisco Bay Area. Carolena Nericcio and her company, Fat Chance Belly Dance, have begun a transformation in American Belly Dance with their creation of American Tribal Style (ATS). This form focuses on the company dancing as a unit. Most often in an improvisational format of leaders and followers all attuned to the same core movements, cues and combinations. The movement and transitional terminology as well as the costuming is an eclectic blend of influences from the many cultures throughout North Africa, India, Spain and the Middle east. The ATS costume usually consists of layers of pantaloons, skirts, belts, and cholis made of antique textiles and tribal jewelry. The heavy costumes add to the earthiness of the movement style.

The beauty of ATS has spread to dancers nationally and internationally and, like any evolving art form, as it reaches new artist it takes on their characteristics and influences. The latest variant of the "tribal" dance is given the title "TRIBAL FUSION". A new generation of dancers has discovered ATS and stamped it with their experience and imagination creating a new dance form altogether in its own standing..."

flyers made by Shivati and others

photos courtesy of ~

Frank Cerillo - Saugherties, NY

Dan Kim - Camp Hill, PA

Barbara Strnadova Photography- Kingston, NY