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Our annual cruise has again amassed the best of the best to bring you fun, entertainment, friendship, and the perfect learning environment. You will not want to miss one moment of this spectacular opportunity to dance with the best and learn secrets that can only be told on the high seas.
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Ashley fell in love with belly dance while taking classes with Ishara Gamal at the University of Illinois. She immediately became obsessed with Tribal Style and proceeded to take classes and workshops as often as possible. She has studied with Mira Betz, Rachel Brice, Zoe Jakes, Mardi Love, Sharon Kihara, Kami Liddle, Heather Stants, and Jill Parker. Her dance background also includes training in popular Latin dances, Jazz, Hip-Hop, Flamenco, Tahitian and Hula.
Ashley is a certified group fitness instructor and registered yoga teacher, and has been instructing classes since 2003. She began teaching basic belly dance classes in 2005. A year later she formed the Tribal Fusion troupe Trikhala in Champaign, Illinois. In 2008 she joined SF Hula and then formed her professional troupe, Orchid Belly Dance. The Orchids currently perform all over the Bay Area and beyond.
Currently, Ashley teaches in the Bay Area and performs for festivals, nightclubs, restaurants, and private parties. She has also appeared as a guest soloist and belly dance choreographer for the Mona Sampath Dance Co. and has been interviewed by Illinois TV news channels WCIA and WILL. Ashley holds a Bachelor of Music in vocal performance in opera from the University of Illlinois School of Music and has performed with Opera San José and BASOTI in San Francisco.
She likes to collect sparklies…lots and lots of sparklies…and puts them on top of one another with glue and string.
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