
What makes a dancer?
So, I got in a little bit of heat for posting a quote from an interview with Samantha Emanuel on our Facebook page today. While I thought...

What's in a name (or picture)?
To me, tribal fusion belly dance has always been as much about honouring where your dance comes from as it is about being true to your...

Dancer Spotlight: Chantal
Dancer Spotlight: CHANTAL • Biggest dance inspiration: Learning from Rachel Brice back in 2009 changed the way I look at movement...

Dancer Spotlight: Jennica
Dancer Spotlight: JENNICA • Biggest dance inspiration: This answer is always changing, depending on who I've been looking up or how I'm...

Dancer Spotlight: Miranda
Dancer Spotlight: MIRANDA • Biggest dance inspiration: The first time I did a web search for belly dance, the two dancers at the top of...

Dancer Spotlight: Angelika
Get to know the girls of Mascarie through our new dancer spotlight series! What else do you want to know? Leave us suggestions in the...

So you want to choreograph...
Now that a number of my students are moving on to the choreography phase of their dancer lives (yay!), I wanted to take the opportunity...

Learning to dance BIGGER
What do I mean by dance "bigger"? You know those larger than life people who just seem to have energy that takes up the whole room? Just...

Remember your Roots
In many ways, I have always been a big fan of tradition. Of course, this time of year usually makes us think about tradition a lot:...