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Back
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"You
must do the thing you think you cannot do." Born in Brunei and brought up in New Zealand and Australia, Kaeshi began her exploration of world dance and movement at an early age. Although becoming a professional bellydance seems like an unlikely path for someone who was very shy as a child, Kaeshi has found it has given her tremendous strength by facing and overcoming fears of performing in front of others, and learning to accept herself and others for being who they are. In early 1996, she started her bellydance training under the guidance of Jeannie Kasis and Terezka Drnzik from Sydney Australia. She continued on in the US and Egypt studying with many top dancers, too numerous to list individually for this short bio. (Please refer to resume.) Kaeshi is an AFAA (Aerobics and Fitness Association of America) certified instructor, and was also certified by ACHPER (Australian Council for Health, Physical Education and Recreation). She has undergone Tamalyn Dallal's Bellydance Teacher's Training 2 times, and Suhaila Salimpour's Level 1 Certification.
She has performed at Lincoln Center Out of Doors, Haft Auditorium, Mercury Lounge and in two off-off-Broadway shows at the Here Theater and PS122 in New York among many other venues. In 1999 she was flown to Dallas, Texas to perform at the 2nd Annual Turkish Festival hosted by TURANT. Performance trips in 2001 include travelling to Miami, Iowa, Portland, Trinidad, and in 2002, a 6 month full time performance contract in Aladdin's Desert Passage in Las Vegas. In 2003, she travelled to Bali to perform at a World Peace concert and toured the US with the Lollapalooza music festival. In 2004, she was the dance captain for the Bellydance Superstars and Desert Roses when they performed in 58 US and Canadian cities, and also toured through Europe and London. In May
2004, Kaeshi co-founded PURE (Public Urban Ritual Experiment), with
Darshan from Portland. Kaeshi has taught dance workshops in Mexico, Spain, 7 countries in Asia and many cities all over the US.
Kaeshi
graduated with honors from a 4 year degree in Visual Communication Design
from the University
of Technology, Sydney, Australia. You can e-mail her at kaeshi@bellyqueen.com Read Kaeshi's favorite poem. Read a
beautiful poem written by Lisa Sarasohn, Kaeshi in the Media November
2002 : Backstage November 2002 : Gilded Serpent Review of off-Broadway show "Transparency". April
10th 2003: TimeOut
NY June
2nd 7.50am 2003: WB11 Morning News |
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Kaeshi
practises Yoga and Qi-gong meditation on a regular basis and is inspired
by Eastern philosophy.
