hands of kali
experimental bellydance theatre
ABOUT HANDS OF KALI:
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hands of kali
experimental bellydance theatre
DEIDRA
Deidra has been dancing since 2006, when she decided she just HAD to try it after watching Hands of Kali perform at the Vogue. Little did she know then that it would quickly take over her life! She has studied with Kendra and takes as many workshops as she can cram in her schedule. When she isn't dancing, Deidra can frequently be found making wine, baking things, sewing costumes, or playing with her menagerie of critters, none of whom laugh at her when she shimmies while cooking dinner.
hands of kali
experimental bellydance theatre
CHRISTINA
Christina dances because it is ritual, spiritual, political, physical
and emotional. It keeps her in the present, paves her future but comes
from the past. Every woman was born to do it and bellydance holds
thousands of years of women's history in every move. Regardless of age
or background or body, when a woman bellydances, she is fucking
gorgeous.
Christina has been studying dance formally for 8 years, although she
grew up dancing to the clock radio with her mom in their Detroit
kitchen. Melissa Ruby was her first teacher. Her dance foundation is
in Tribal Fusion Belly Dance which she has studied with Katrina
Hellbusch and Zanbaka. Christina has been a member of the former dance
project Diatribe and The Zamani Dance Company.
At present she is studying with and performing traditional Uzbek
choreography under the venerable Emiko Karuna Noor Nakamura.
It's like Red Emma said, "If I can't dance, it's not my revolution!"
hands of kali
experimental bellydance theatre
KENDRA
Some people say Kendra has danced her life away. One morning in 2000, she crawled out of a goth nightclub with a plan to be a bellydancer. She studied intensively with Delilah, Zanbaka and Tina Sargent; formed troupe Hands of Kali in 2003; and regularly avows that if she were having any more fun, you'd have to arrest her. Dancer, teacher, poet, tarot reader and all-around clever bitch, Kendra currently resides in a haunted house in Seattle with three sweet kitties and that totally hot guy she's married to.