Your Tribal Revolution 2010 Teachers Are :

Ariellah

Ariellah is an international modern belly dance performer and instructor. She has an extensive dance background that includes strict classical ballet training for 12 years with the Royal Academy of Dance from London. She has studied and performed belly dance for the past nine years. She began her training with Janine Ryle of Danse Mahgreb and as a founding member of The Indigo with Rachel Brice. Most recently Ariellah began training in classical Indian Odissi dance, studying in India at the Shakti School of Dance. Her style infuses many genres of dance, all with a modern dark flavour that is uniquely her own. She is featured on the first of its kind "Gothic BellyDance" DVD and has also released her first instructional DVD. www.ariellah.com

Amy Sigil

Amy Sigil, director/choreographerof UNMATA, and owner of Hot Pot Studio in Sacramento, CA, has been spreading her high octane performances and workshops around the globe for the last 7 years and has been dancing for 13 years. She likes her dance Fasty and her music Loudy! She is an athlete; a full force tough love dancer, with 110% heart for the game. Her workshops will make you sweat till you bleed and UNMATA will make you smile till you scream! Influenced by her studies in Bellydance, American Tribal Style, Hula, and Hip Hop, Amy brings you...SIGIL Style...not just a dance style, it's a life style. www.unmata.com

Samantha Riggs

Samantha Riggs is the Founder, Artistic Director, Choreographer and Lead Dancer for both Boom Boom Bollywood and The Sexy Scallywags Dance Circus in Tempe, Arizona, and is a performer with Jamila Lotus Renaissance bellydance troupe and Fyrae fire arts troupe. She was the assistant director as well as a core dancer, teacher, musician and choreographer for Domba Tribal Fusion Dance Troupe (winners of the 2006 Zaghareet “Best Troupe” award) from 1996 until their dissolution in October of 2006. Samantha has traveled the world teaching Bollywood Style Dance, Bhangra, Tribal Style Bellydance, Tribal Fusion, Fire Arts and “Pirate” Bellydance. She has sold out classes at TribalFest every year since 2005. Her innovative “Minnat Kare” choreography won Boom Boom Bollywood first place in the Aashiyana All-Indus Dance Competition in 2007. Samantha is also a tall ship sailor and gunner. She can often be found somewhere off the west coast of the United States or Canada, 70-90 feet in the air in the rigging, hauling like mad on a halyard, happily covered in pine tar or firing the black powder cannons of the brig Lady Washington. She has recently formed a non-profit organization dedicated to building a replica of the USS Porpoise, a brig launched in 1836, which was involved in hunting slavers off the west coast of Africa in the 1840s. www.boomboombollywood.com

Deb Rubin

Deb Rubin, MA, CMT, RYT  has been a life-long dancer and performer, trained and proficient in many styles, including Salsa, West African, Modern, Jazz, Ballet, Hip Hop, 5-rhythms, Contact Improv, Gymnastics, and of course Tribal Fusion Belly Dance.  She has been a 5+year core member, and co-choreographer with the ground-breaking, trend-setting Ultragypsy Bellydance Theater, until Fall, 2007, and a regular sub for Jill Parker’s classes, who is known by many as the founder of tribal fusion. Deb has also studied extensively from, and been creatively influenced by Rachel Brice and Mardi Love, as well as  Zoe Jakes, Mira Betz, and Heather Stants. She also holds a level 1 certification from Suhaila Salimpour School of Dance. A sponge for learning, and a seeker of continually deepening her repetoire and relationship to the dance, Deb is well versed within the tribal fusion genre, having also studied with Kami Liddle, Frederique, Amy Sigil, FCBD, Cera Byer, and others.  Currently, Deb teaches and performs nationally and internationally, offering her yogic approach and unique stylization of Tribal Fusion Bellydance. Most recently, she assisted Rachel Brice in her 5-day Tribal Massive intensive 2008, performed with Heather Stants and Urban Tribal at Tribal Fest 2008, and co-taught a retreat with Sharon Kihara in Hawaii, Dec. 08. She also produces SF Mecca Immersion, the first Tribal Fusion Belly Dance retreat/immersion event in the heart of the San Francisco. www.sattyabody.com

Blue Lotus Tribe

Your Tribal Revolution hostesses, Chicago's Blue Lotus Tribe is one of the up-and-coming forces in the tribal bellydance world. Heralded for their tight improvistaional skills, original choreographies, impeccable technique, and party-like stage presence, Blue Lotus Tribe is working hard to bring the Midwestern tribal scene to the forefront. With their background in both Tribal and Egyptian dance, Blue Lotus Tribe has created their own style,, "Egypto-Tribal Fusion Bellydance." Blue Lotus Tribe strives to create a bridge between authentic dance and the modern innovation that honors the ancient art of Middle-Eastern bellydance while still moving forward with today's tribal fusion movement. Apart from their popular local performances and workshops, Blue Lotus Tribe has had the honor of teaching and performing around the country to enthusiastic students and appreciative audiences at such events as Tribal Fest, TribOriginal, Elevation, Midwest Tribal Mafia, and the Rak the Boat Bellycruise. www.BlueLotusTribe.com

Elisha

Elisha has been around the darbuka, also known as tabla or dumbek, all his life, drumming since he was a child, when he broke one fragile clay drum after another. Born in Morocco, raised in Israel & emigrated to the U.S., he embodies the diversity and cultural riches of the Middle East. Trained in West African djembe, he drummed for dance troupes in the Boston area.  Elisha has come full circle, returning to his heritage through his wife Zoh'ra's discovery of & love affair with Middle Eastern dance. An accomplished musician, Latin dancer & budding M.E. dance student in his own right, Elisha is excited to share his knowledge of Egyptian and Moroccan rhythms at Tribal Revolution.