Performer Bios

Anissa is a bellydance artist from the Baltimore/Washington area. She strives to let the music inspire her performances and draws upon her education in traditional bellydance, as well as tribal fusion, jazz, and modern dance to interpret each melody with style.

She is currently certified in the PiperMethod School of Bellydance and the Suhaila Salimpour School of bellydance, and performs both as a soloist and as a member of Middle Eastern dance troupe Banat al-Beled.

Mara Burke is a tribal fusion dancer and incorporates a lifetime of experience and expression into her craft. She has studied many styles including traditional belly dance styles, tribal improvisational, tribal fusion and flamenco. She believes that one should never stop learning and she continues to expand and refine her dance skills through workshops, advanced instruction and performance.

Mara has loved dance her entire life, though never discovered the true joy the art form could inspire until she experienced belly dance for the first time.

She is an honorary co-director of Sestraluna, a belly dance and world fusion dance troupe based in Annapolis Maryland, and is currently dancing with Nujum Al Raqs of San Diego California.

Tribal Remix is a tribal fusion dance troupe that uses both choreography and improvisational dance to explore the diversity, elegance and playfulness of the ever-evolving tribal fusion dance genre. The troupe is based in the Washington, DC area and has performed at events along the East Coast. Guest artist Patricia will be joining us on this introspective journey into the moonlight.

Eugenia is a respected professional tribal bellydancer in the DC area. Recently returned from grad school in Boston, MA, she is a frequent performer at many local venues for tribal bellydance, including Tribal Cafe at Asylum and Palace of Wonders, as well as bellydance festivals and events all over the country. She is co-director of the pure American Tribal Style troupe Sammati, co-director and founder of the Brain Dance collective, and also performs as a tribal fusion soloist. With a love of theatrics and “old school” hip hop, she constantly experiments with fusing both elements into her solo work, and attempts to create “dance that means something”. Her dance background includes substantive training in tribal fusion, hip hop, American Tribal Style, flamenco, and Level 1 certification in the Suhaila Salimpour format, and she has studied extensively with Mars of Devyani Dance Company and Asharah.

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