Moonshine Fusion Dance Festival: Love into a Weapon with Belladonna

Join Belladonna for a Boho Blade sword sequence to a kick ass song with lots of built in symbolism and meaning. The Boho Blade sword system takes sword dancing to the next level with an ethos built around Powerful purposeful presentation. Your sword can be a beautiful prop but it can also be some much more, a partner and even an extension of yourself. A sword sequence is like choreography in that it is to a specific piece of music but a sequence is movements and combinations arranged in a specific order to a specific piece of music!From making an entrance to finishing strong dancers will bring their fierce forward and wield their weapon with prowess and precision as we tell a story with dance!

Belladonna is a performance artist, entertainer and innovator residing in Washington DC. She is the founder and director of Bohemian Bellydance and the creatrix of the Boho Blade sword dancing system and certification program. Driven by her passion for creative expression and to help people feel good dancing in their body as it is right now Belladonna focuses on creating classes, educational programs, and training that are body friendly, meaningful and fun. She uses her dance education and training, as well as her hunger for knowledge and experience in art, design, and energy healing, to help make her programs authentic and inspiring. The goal of Bohemian Belly Dance is to inspire people to get moving and to find time in their schedule to do something to help them feel good. Be it through sword training, daily drills, fusion fragments, Boho body care, performance projects, choreography or private instruction. Belladonna is a masterful performer, swordswoman and tour guide to help you connect to yourself and to like minded individuals who have similar interests in fantasy, dance, sword play, costuming, character development, creativity and so much more. Belladonna is the creative director of Solanaceae, an international fusion dance company, Belladonna and the Nightshades, a DC based performance company, Co-founder and co-producer of the annual Raven's Night soiree and can often be seen on stage and off with drag king legend Ken Vegas. Obsessed with dance from a young age her dive into belly dance began in 1997. Belladonna has extensive training in a variety of styles of dance including but not limited to fusion styles of belly dance, raqs sharqi, bharatanatyam, flamenco, jazz and hip hop. She has studied with renowned instructors such as Artemis Mourat, Amel Tafsout, Donna Mejia, Rahcel Brice, Zoe Jakes, Amy Sigil, Suhaila Salimpour, John Compton, Megha Gavin, Carolena Nericcio and many more. Passionate about her sword work she also has experience with and enjoys dancing with; fire, poi, fans (feather, fire and fabric) as well as veil, and other appropriate tools depending on the situation. A dancer by nature she had had the pleasure to work with a variety of styles of performance events and venues. Including but not limited to belly dance conferences, music festivals, drag king, burlesque and circus shows as well as haflas, and private events.

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