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About Me

Tempest is an artist, designer, dancer, and writer recently relocated from the Bay Area of California to Philly/Jersey Shore. Although she enjoys studying what tradition has to offer, Tempest loves exploring the dance through unusual music and creative costuming, pulling on her visual arts background to "paint a picture" with the dance; engaging the audience through dramatic embodied storytelling, passionate expression, and sensuous, mesmerizing movement.

She finds inspiration for her dances in many eras, places, and faces, from ancient cultures and spiritual myths worldwide, to the work of silent film star and original vamp Theda Bara, and turn-of-the-century dance goddess Ruth St. Denis.

She is most well-known for her Gothic Belly Dance performances and instruction, and is featured on the first ever GBD performance DVD produced by WorldDanceNewYork entitled "The Darker Side of Fusion"; and her new instructional DVD "Bellydance for Beautiful Freaks" just released this Fall.

Websites:
-Med'Devi Ink (art, design, the original corset belt...) meddevi.com
-Tempest's Nouveau Noir Dance: darklydramatic.com
-The Gothic Bellydance Resource: gothicbellydance.com

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

other darkly creative individuals...artists, dancers, musicians, writers - everywhere - for networking, project possibilities, and artistic endeavours.Relocated to the Philadelphia/Jersey Shore area in Summer 2007, so especially interested in meeting like-minded folks in the area.By the way, if you send a friend request, and have your profile set to private, please send a message as well letting me know the who/what/why--thanks.

My Blog

definite case of jetlag...

still recovering, more than I actually thought I needed to, from the trip to the UK...cause I was looking at my friends' bulletins, and there's one from John Edwards, about coming to my town...and I'm...
Posted by Tempest on Fri, 22 Jun 2007 05:10:00 PST

Now that that's over...

It's as if this year was somewhat put on hold for the first two months. I felt like I was everywhere but at home...it started with going to Texas for 3rd Coast Tribal Festival the first weekend ...
Posted by Tempest on Tue, 27 Feb 2007 05:50:00 PST

a secret to share...

Our cat, Da Mischief, snores.And I'm not talking if you're right next to her, audible. I'm talking a good 10-15 feet away snore. She takes after her father--on some days, I can hear ...
Posted by Tempest on Tue, 07 Nov 2006 12:00:00 PST

damn it all

enough people pestered me, so as much as I loathe myspace, I've decided to activate this profile, which has been sitting around for about 2 years...apparently I need to subtract 10 years off my age i...
Posted by Tempest on Fri, 27 Oct 2006 03:03:00 PST