Tribal fusion is an evolving dance form and in order to understand its direction one must explore its roots. In the late 1980s and early 1990s the American Belly Dance emerging from a community of visionary artists in the San Francisco Bay Area. It began a transformation in American Belly Dance with their creation of American Tribal Style (ATS).

The movement vocabulary as well as the costuming is an eclectic blend of influences from the many cultures throughout North Africa, India, Spain and the Middle East.

“Tribal Fusion” is the latest variant of this “tribal” dance. Its music choices range from authentic tribal recordings to modern DJ mixed tracks. The costumes may be comprised of layers of authentic textiles and tribal jewelry, scaled down sleek club wear or anything in between. The heavy costumes add to the earthiness of the movement style. ”The movement vocabulary may incorporate elements of ATS, modern dance, hip-hop as well as the yoga, and diverse dances of the world.

This performance is a warm-up for the Fusion Belly Dance workshop in August. Dancers will perform Tribal Fusion Belly Dance with all kinds of music, including classical music, traditional Middle Eastern music, Jazz, Gotic, Pop and etc. You will see belly dance with a live electronic band, with Song Zhao’s cello performing, and a soprano!

Li Aping (Dancer)

Champine of “belly dance of the world 2011”solo tribal Duisberg Belly Dance Festival.Studied and performed in the earlist and biggest tribal festival, “ The Year Of The Unicorn –Tribal Fest™ 12”.

Han Songwei (Dancer)

With no dancing bases, Han did cooking before he became a dancer. He got to know belly dance since 2009, and showed great potential. He was the champion of the 2011 Beijing Asian Belly Dance Festival, male group.

Liu Jia (Dancer)

Champion of 2011 Beijing Asian Belly Dance Festival. She had many years experience in belly dance teaching, and especially good at Hula.

Hula (Cellist)

Song Zhao, cello artist. He was once the chief cellist in China Youth Symphony Orchestra, and member of “Forbidden City Trio”, “Central Conservatory of Music Quartet”, and “Xiao Yao Trio”. He also played cello solo for many opera, dance theater, films and TV productions.

Zhang Zhang (Keyboard)

He has learnt the pianosince the age of 5. He is well known in the mainland Chinese music scene, and has carried out many major concerts in China as a music director.

Liu Yang (Bass)

He graduated from Modern Music School with a major in Jazz music. In 2004 he joined the local super rock band “Zheng Jun” as a bassist.

DJ Shiva

The U.K. born DJ bought his very first turntables at the age of 15. Actually, he spends more of his time producing other artists and working on new tracks for the band than Djing. Currently he is producing many tracks for independent artists. This year alone he has worked on more than 100 tracks and spends most of his time doing it.

Liu Ye (Singer)

He studied opera, pop and avant-garde music at the same time. She did many experimental performance, and combined music with dance, poem and other art forms.

Curators: stan, simon, wyai, annie

Partners: Emosh

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