Pip E-Lysaah of .: Hedonistacal :. will present workshops at Cinnabar Red on Saturday 31 July and Sunday 1 August.

[ 31/03/2010 - Please note revised dates! ]

E-Lysaah Bio:

E-Lysaah began with ballet and moved through modern jazz, a foray into yoga led to Turkish Belly Dance and then onto Tribal Style.  E-Lysaah quickly took to this variation on Middle Eastern dance, combining it with her ballet and modern dance training, and yoga background to isolate and control her movements.

She is an active member of Kiwi Iwi, an ocean tribal style performance troupe, teaches Tribal and Tribal Fusion Style at the School of Contemporary Belly Dance in Christchurch and independently in Wellington, has taught internationally and regularly directs/produces/choreographs belly dance and cabaret shows.

Over the last 18 months E-Lysaah has attend Tribal Fest in San Francisco, and twice attended Tribal Massive in Las Vegas. These trips collate to over 135 hours training with some of the top US Tribal and Fusion Belly Dance Teachers such as Rachel Brice, Mardi Love, Heather Stants, Amy Sigil and Mira Betz. She still attends classes in belly dance locally when she can, especially with A’mal, and cross-trains skills with her Red Queen crew.

It is E-Lysaah’s stylised use of muscle control and isolation over theatrical belly dance movements and genuine admiration of her belly dance crew (A’Mal and Tria), that that has created her individual style. Choosing to extend yourself by trying something new, however humbling can lead to greater personal growth, E-Lysaah is a beginner now and always.