Blue Damsel

Rachel Lazarus Soto, aka Blue Damsel, is an experimental performance artist using tribal style belly dance as a foundation and adding ethnic sensibilities from many cultures and dance forms. She is currently immersed in a haze of all things Asian, which can be readily seen in her performances. Rachel teaches regular classes in the Inland Empire of California, and workshops around the country (and soon internationally!) sharing her insights into body awareness, movement, and stylization within belly dance. Blue Damsel is also the name of her performance group, featuring collaborations with other dancers of similar minds.www.bluedamsel.orgThe Damsel also has some brains in that pretty little head of hers. She has an instrumental role in the inner workings of independent record label Eventide Music Productions, and has just finished her first production resulting in the recently released compilation Strange Flesh. You can find her hawking the labels wares at events, cooridinating tours, working on artwork, buggin' artists to send their contracts in, and a multitude of other things that she wishes not to be mentioned here.www.empcds.com I edited my profile with Thomas' Myspace Editor V4.4