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Geek Out with Linda Faoro and Anasma

Geek Out with Linda Faoro and Anasma

Building a career in fusion

Belly Dance Geek Clubhouse Episode 18:
My guests, Anasma and Linda Faoro of the International Urban Belly Dance Collective, will talk to us about how to build a successful career as a fusion artist, both from an artistic and business perspective.

 
(We’re going to focus on the special needs of fusion dancers, but even traditionalists like me can benefit from thinking beyond the “belly box”.)
 


 

You’ll learn:

  • How career-building differs for fusion vs. cabaret dancers
  • How the audiences, venus, and opportunities differ
  • Why the “belly dance” label can be both an asset and a liability
  • How to market yourself when your dance doesn’t fall under a commonly-understood label
  • Why it’s smart to leverage resources outside the belly dance community

We’ll also have some discussion time, so you can ask Anasma and Linda your questions.

 

About the International Urban Belly Dance Collective

Anasma and Linda Faoro met in 2009 at the Bellyfusions festival. A relationship of trust and dialogue built up over time and they progressively developed a mutual desire to share their artistic experience and pedagogy. Their complementarity offers an explosive collaboration. In 2010, both being recognized internationally for their unique and innovative styles, Anasma and Linda toured together in the US. In 2012, Linda Faoro’s Traveling Dance School and Anasma World Citizen Dance School teamed up on a regular basis to launch a common training for Oriental Fusion with weekly classes and week-end intensives.

After fours years of artistic collaboration, the multi-faceted dancers and choreographers decided to co-found the International Urban Bellydance Collective in 2013. Their idea is that artists from all over the world can bring to the Collective their unique perspectives on Urban Bellydance fusions during exclusive choreographic encounters.

Today for the first time and especially for Bellyfusions 2014, Anasma and Linda Faoro team up with Lei the Night – Waacking Bellydance specialist and Edenia Archuleta – Popping Bellydance specialist, to present a World Premiere choreography together!

Check it out at:
http://urbanbellydancecollective.com/
 

About Anasma

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Co-founder and co-director of the New York Theatrical Bellydance Conference, director of World Citizen Dance Inc and World Citizen Dance School, co-founder of the International Urban Bellydance Collective, Anasma is a Performance Arts Dancer, Oriental Fusion Master Instructor, Choreographer and Singer. Drawing from her crossed-training in academic and ethnic dances, acting, yoga, martial arts…, Anasma focuses on making dance meaningful and touching through storytelling, character development, truthful emotions and esthetic powerful movement. She is recognized by her peers for her wild creativity, great expressivity, constant risk taking and pushing the enveloppe.
 
 
Seen in 5 continents and more than 30 countries, featured in many performance DVDs, instructional DVDs and albums, Anasma currently tours Europe, North and South America and Asia to teach and perform in dance festivals, intensives and prestigious theaters. In 2013, she releases her first singing album “CHANCE IS BACK”.

Join her on facebook and read more on:
www.anasmadance.com.

 

About Linda Faoro

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From an early age, Linda Faoro trained in ballet, jazz, music and acting. She passed her State Dance Diploma in jazz, and soon after started teaching and choreographing in her own style: Jazz New School. Always eager to enrich her art, she kept training in other styles – hip-hop, african dance, bellydance – to broaden her range of motion. She has made her mark with many renowned dance companies and TV shows.

In 2000, Linda Faoro created her first company the “Jazz New School company ” followed in 2003 by the troup “Les Muses”; a company formed as a result of Linda’s depth and maturity in bellydance.
Since 2004, she goes regularly to Lebanon to choreograph major TV shows. This allows her to express both her western and oriental sides.
 

In 2008, Linda Faoro created the group “L’Espèce Urbaine”(“Urbankind”) and performed “Ma Maison ne ressemble pas à celle de ma Mère…” ( “My house looks nothing like my mother’s…” ): a moving dance/drama solo in which she shares with audiences her background as a multicultural woman and artist.

In 2009, Linda Faoro took part in the 1st BellyFusions Festival in Paris, France, an occasion to meet other international artists of the Fusion scene. There she teamed up with Anasma and then in 2010 with Amy Sigil of Unmata. Both urged her to export her style to the US.

In 2011, she is proud to present her new personal concept : Linda Faoro’s Traveling Dance School which the mission is to bring Linda’s different dance techniques refined over these several years all over the world.

Resolutely different, Linda Faoro sees herself as an expression of the urban society she lives in, diverse and pluricultural.

International choreographer for both entertainment and cultural events, she also teaches in several professional dance schools.

Official web site:
http://www.lindafaoro.com/ 

Resources mentioned on the call:

 

1) Anasma on Facebook

2) Linda Faoro’s Traveling Dance School Facebook page

 

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