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More about the next Hafla
The Delaware Drum and Dance hafla continues into 2023. 3rd Sunday at 3:30pm
Check the list below for which months.
We are currently HYBRID: online via Zoom, with some performers in person at the Newark Arts Alliance.
contact Lorelei if you need the Zoom link for any Hafla
The Newark Arts Alliance is no longer open on most Sundays. Keep checking their website for updated hours and activities.
Dates for 2023: any live music dates or other area events will be announces ASAP
Check the list below for which months.
We are currently HYBRID: online via Zoom, with some performers in person at the Newark Arts Alliance.
contact Lorelei if you need the Zoom link for any Hafla
The Newark Arts Alliance is no longer open on most Sundays. Keep checking their website for updated hours and activities.
Dates for 2023: any live music dates or other area events will be announces ASAP
- 3rd Sunday in Jan: 1/15 Hafla Anniversary Theme: Party or "Classic" music
- 3rd Sunday in Apr: 4/16 (Theme TBD, but likely Spring/Faeries/Flowers)
- 3rd Sunday in Jul: 7/16 Theme: Hafla-con (Scifi/comic book)
- 2nd Saturday in Oct: 10/15 Theme: Spooky and Blacklight hafla
- Some years we also hold Improv Roulette in Summer, Special fall night for Blacklight, or Bellyanna in Dec. More details TBD
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Guest Performers:
Will be updated for Jan 2023 soon. See the Nov 2022 performer details below:
Jan 2023 Hafla will also be Hybrid. We have room for some people at the Newark Arts Alliance. AND we will be streaming over Zoom from there (contact Lorelei if you need a link. It is available on the facebook event) Performers may be live at the Newark Arts Alliance, live over Zoom, or pre-recorded. We have a projector at the Newark Arts Alliance for those who are there. (Note, we will often start with recorded performances and then move to live performers at the Arts Alliance. ) Performing Dancers/Musicians: Joining us in person at the Newark Arts Alliance are several members of the Salimpour collective from DC, dancing solo, not at a group. |
Jezibell(GA) Jezibell Anat studied belly dance in Manhattan with many iconic teachers, including Serena, Elena, Anahid Sofian, Morocco, Gamila el-Masri, Dalia Carella and Jehan, and she has studied Turkish dance with Artemis Mourat. She has performed as a soloist throughout the NYC area, and has danced with the Egyptian/American Folkloric Group, the Serena Dance Theatre, Gamila el-Masri Nileside Dancers, Nadia Moussa & Company, and PURE (Public Urban Ritual Experiment). She performs traditional cabaret and Turkish dance, as well as cosplay, Goth, and Goddess fusion styles. She is also a writer and actress and often combines dance with poetry, theater and percussion.
Now in Augusta, she performs throughout the area as a soloist, and and as a cast member of Murder
House Live, a horror-themed cabaret show. She is the founder/organizer of the Geektastic Bellydance
League, an eclectic group of dancers that performs cosplay fusion belly dance at conventions such as
Atomacon. She coordinates and performs in traditional belly dance shows for medieval-themed events at EastWind Castle. As Regina Serpentina, she dances with her snakes at the Black Cat Sideshow at Le Chat Noir.
www.youtube.com/@jezibellanat5047
www.facebook.com
Candlelora (MN) candlelorabellydancer
Candlelora is the Light in your Darkness. A sassy siren whom craves adventure, invites her audience to join her.
Candlelora has studied fusion belly dance along with other various dance styles the last eleven years as well as other movement arts for most of her life with a variety of celebrated dancers and instructors. Candlelora thrives on out of the box Choreography; taking experimental risks with her dancing often including props of in many abundant styles, favouring her Sword. Candlelora studies the Fire Arts including Fire Manipulation and Fire Prop Work. As a Fusion artist would, she often marries Fire and Belly Dance.
She is an instructor of Fusion Belly Dance and is delighted to share her love and knowledge of movement.
She performs around the Midwest (with aspirations of the entire the world).
You can find her doing her solo work all over and also with 2 On Point: her Fire/Acrobalance/Dance Duo; as well with well-known Fandazzi Fire Circus, Wicked Wenches Parody Troupe, Steel Stiltleos, and anywhere there is dancing to be done.
Helena(MD)
Helena is a Salimpour student in the MVA. She currently holds a certification in Fundamentals 2 (formerly JL1) and Foundations 1 (formerly SL2) and is excited to be included in Bal Anat Albuquerque in April 2023! (You are not gonna wanna miss this one!!)
Shannon (MD)
Shannon took her first belly dance class after she moved to Maryland in 2010. It was "love at first glute contraction". She continued taking dance classes from local area instructors soaking up as much knowledge, technique, and experience as possible. It wasn't until 2019 when she enrolled in the Salimpour School (now The Salimpour Institute) where she feels she's been truly immersed in the art and challenged properly to grow within her truest potential. She will be dancing to "Ismaouni", with a Suhaila Salimpour Choreography
Jo (NJ)
Jo dances and stuff. Highly recommended, 10/10. She creates costumes too. Go sewing power. brickhousebdblog.com/2022/12/27/purple-people-eater-part-2
Now in Augusta, she performs throughout the area as a soloist, and and as a cast member of Murder
House Live, a horror-themed cabaret show. She is the founder/organizer of the Geektastic Bellydance
League, an eclectic group of dancers that performs cosplay fusion belly dance at conventions such as
Atomacon. She coordinates and performs in traditional belly dance shows for medieval-themed events at EastWind Castle. As Regina Serpentina, she dances with her snakes at the Black Cat Sideshow at Le Chat Noir.
www.youtube.com/@jezibellanat5047
www.facebook.com
Candlelora (MN) candlelorabellydancer
Candlelora is the Light in your Darkness. A sassy siren whom craves adventure, invites her audience to join her.
Candlelora has studied fusion belly dance along with other various dance styles the last eleven years as well as other movement arts for most of her life with a variety of celebrated dancers and instructors. Candlelora thrives on out of the box Choreography; taking experimental risks with her dancing often including props of in many abundant styles, favouring her Sword. Candlelora studies the Fire Arts including Fire Manipulation and Fire Prop Work. As a Fusion artist would, she often marries Fire and Belly Dance.
She is an instructor of Fusion Belly Dance and is delighted to share her love and knowledge of movement.
She performs around the Midwest (with aspirations of the entire the world).
You can find her doing her solo work all over and also with 2 On Point: her Fire/Acrobalance/Dance Duo; as well with well-known Fandazzi Fire Circus, Wicked Wenches Parody Troupe, Steel Stiltleos, and anywhere there is dancing to be done.
Helena(MD)
Helena is a Salimpour student in the MVA. She currently holds a certification in Fundamentals 2 (formerly JL1) and Foundations 1 (formerly SL2) and is excited to be included in Bal Anat Albuquerque in April 2023! (You are not gonna wanna miss this one!!)
Shannon (MD)
Shannon took her first belly dance class after she moved to Maryland in 2010. It was "love at first glute contraction". She continued taking dance classes from local area instructors soaking up as much knowledge, technique, and experience as possible. It wasn't until 2019 when she enrolled in the Salimpour School (now The Salimpour Institute) where she feels she's been truly immersed in the art and challenged properly to grow within her truest potential. She will be dancing to "Ismaouni", with a Suhaila Salimpour Choreography
Jo (NJ)
Jo dances and stuff. Highly recommended, 10/10. She creates costumes too. Go sewing power. brickhousebdblog.com/2022/12/27/purple-people-eater-part-2
