Exquisite Corpse Bellydance

About Me

"She is not evil, although She is dark. By bringing death, She causes new life..."
Exquisite Corpse is a gothique/experimental collaboration of Bellydancers--troupe members and soloists from northern New England---working together to create a shadowy, evanescent and beautiful body of dance...
Drawing from the collective unconscious of the group, each pair or group adds their own piece of choreography into the larger dance piece. An "exquisite corpse" is formed, its final outcome being greater than the sum of its parts...
Unlike a traditional "troupe", Exquisite Corpse is a temporary collaboration. In a cycle yet to be revealed, Exquisite Corpse is to be (re-) incarnated, performed by souls old and new, and dissolved again until its next lifetime, corresponding with a change of season.
Choreographers/performers for the current incarnation:
Aepril Schaile (aeprilschaile.com)
Karina Khan, and Dima of Lotus Moon
Aonochi and Zanjibal of Paradigm/P3
Jessica Jane Means and Cory Bucknam of Naya's Trance
For this Exquisite Corpse, we have chosen to use Blood, Oil, Gold by Solace.
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What we're up to/ how EC works

I can't tell you how rewarding it has been to work with the other dancers who have been part of this incarnation of Exquisite Corpse!!!We put this thing together this past January, performed it in ear...
Posted by Exquisite Corpse Bellydance on Thu, 14 Jun 2007 08:13:00 PST

MA performance: Shimmies for a Cure

* Shimmies for a Cure*When / where is it?April 28th, 2007 at the City Club in Somerville, MA (easily accessible by T)20 Inner Belt Rd Somerville, MA 02143Workshops - 12:30pm 5:15pmHafla 6pm 9pmSho...
Posted by Exquisite Corpse Bellydance on Tue, 10 Apr 2007 06:22:00 PST

Hafli performance--new pics in gallery

This picture was taken by Michael Mazzenga at the Naya's Trance Spring Hafli this past Sunday. We have more posted in the photo gallery, so take a peek. Thank you to Naya's Trance for putting on such ...
Posted by Exquisite Corpse Bellydance on Tue, 20 Mar 2007 07:33:00 PST

Naya's Trance Hafli Sunday 3/18

So much Maine bellydance talent! Come check it out--and for a good cause......
Posted by Exquisite Corpse Bellydance on Sun, 11 Mar 2007 07:00:00 PST

Friday performance

We wanted to take this oppurtunity to thank everyone who came out to see us perfom Friday night at the USM Pagans' gothic themed Valentine's Ball! We were psyched to see so many of our fellow bellydan...
Posted by Exquisite Corpse Bellydance on Tue, 20 Feb 2007 11:47:00 PST

About the name: Exquisite Corpse

"The exquisite corpse will drink the new wine."I wasn't sure what I would name this project, if anything, when I was first coming up with the idea for it. I knew that I wanted something that embodied ...
Posted by Exquisite Corpse Bellydance on Mon, 05 Feb 2007 08:55:00 PST