Sera Solstice Sera Solstice

Sera Solstice is a performer/choreographer/instructor/artist/shaman/warrior/pioneer of Bellydance. Founder and Director of Solstice Studio: a Bellydance Studio in Times Square New York City. Sera is director and choreographer of the dance troupe Solstice, Creatrix of “East Coast Tribal” (a Tribal Fusion DVD produced by World Dance New York), and the director of the East Coast Tribal Community in NYC, a community of women who use Bellydance as a means for building self-empowerment, expression, and creativity. Sera’s Choreography has been described as “complex, content-rich, sublime, technically superb, physically demanding, at the forefront of evolution of bellydance as an artform.” Sera is fed artistically from underground electronic music culture as she works in collaboration with musicians such as Chronomad, Freek Factory and Sub Swara, collectives of cutting edge artists who fuel her choreographies. Sera has a passion for electronic music, but also finds balance in earthy, acoustic elements: she has participated in fire-circle culture for nearly 2 decades, therein developing bellydance as a sacred movement form, used in ritual and for healing. In 2005, Sera was invited to India to teach movement as a form of healing and empowerment for young women who had been rescued from sexual abuse and other oppressive circumstances. Sera was a full-time Sculptor upon discovery of Bellydance, and has transferred from her medium of clay and metal into the body moving through space. These experiences have opened Sera to further discovery of dance as a medium for communication, spiritual manifestation, and artistic expression. Although she challenges dancers to find deeper expression in their movements, Sera is know for being hard-driving and highly technical in class-settings. She believes one must first master their tool-set before putting it to use. Sera is a former core member of 3 internationally respected Troupes: Bellyqueen, Raqs Sahara, and The Silk Road Dance Company; a founding member of DC Tribal, Transcendance Tribal, and Raqs Caravan West. Sera’s foundation of technique, form, and discipline was by means of her two-year apprenticeship with Rachel Kay Brookmire (of DC’s Sahara Dance).

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