Ruby is an award winning and internationally recognized bellydancer and instructor who has been dancing for eight years. She continues to build on her expertise, always ready to study and practice bellydance in new ways. She travels nationally and internationally to gain a traditional flair that makes her dance style authentically diverse. Her passion for bellydance has taken her to Turkey twice where she spent a total of ten weeks intensively studying Turkish Roma (Gypsy) dance as well as Turkish Oriental and Folk dancing. She has also traveled to Mexico where she led a weeklong bellydance retreat as well as Greece, Canada and around the U.S. where she has learned from some of the best teachers in the world. A few of Ruby’s influences are Delilah, Yasmela, Artemis Mourat, Sabura, Suhaila Salimpour, Amy Sigil as well as many Turkish dancers.
From these various sources of inspiration Ruby creates a fusion of bellydance flavors where American Cabaret, Turkish Roma (Gypsy), Oriental and Folkloric styles combine in a unique and stylish interpretation of the dance. Her devotion to improvisational dance gives her performances a raw and energetic quality.
Ruby has extensive training in Kung Fu and is also a certified Pilates instructor. This background in Kung Fu and Pilates lends an athletic precision to her passionate and sensual performance style. Ruby’s combined precision, spontaneity and skill has resulted in critical acclaim by several world class bellydancers and won her the titles 2008 East Coast Bellydance Classic "Grand Champion" and "Peoples Choice", 2008 Emerald Rain Bellydance Competition 1st Place, 2007 Double Crown Gypsy Stylist and 2007 Emerald Rain Gypsy Stylist.
Ruby has hosted local workshops and performances that featured the amazing bellydance performers Nadira (2007), Elisa Gamal (2007), Mirabai (2007), Delilah (2004, 2007 & 2008) and Dalia Carella (2005). Ruby currently teaches Bellydance and Pilates in Bellingham and Anacortes, Washington. She is availible for workshops and performances internationaly. Please see www.DivineBelly.com for more information.
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