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Aug 20th - 22nd, 2010!
 
           

August 21st  7:00 - 10:30 pm

Please join JILL and KAMI in this Boutique Experience for advanced-level dancers.

 
JILL PARKER is an international, award winning instructor, choreographer & director.
Jill moved to San Francisco from upstate New York in 1987. She has been teaching and performing bellydance since 1989. In 1989 she became a founding member of the widely recognized FatChance BellyDance, pioneering a new style and aesthetic of bellydancing. In 1996 she founded her own company, Ultra Gypsy, in order to further explore her creative ideas. Jill loves dancing in a company and her troupe Foxglove Sweethearts, she feels that her artistic expression is fully realized in its unique brand of bellydance theater. Jill not only teaches five belly dance classes a week, she directs a student troupe called Djun Djun and co-directs Zambra Bailar Yalla!, a flamenco and belly dance fusion company.
 
Jill's big heart and deep love for her art, shines through in her bustling classes and exquisite performances.  Her extensive dance and movement background includes yoga, salsa, Afro-Haitian, pilates, flamenco, Tunisian, Turkish, Egyptian dance, martial arts, fire dance and theatre. She's an exceptional teacher with a knack for demystifying this sensuous and challenging dance, making its techniques accessible to new dancers, while offering tremendous insights for refinement to experienced dancers.

 

 

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