Solstice is known for walking the edge of Bellydance with strong influences from Electronic Music and a counter-culture perspective. Solstice is a community of around 250 active members. Our tribe has two distinctive student groups and movement vocabularies: Lunar and Solar, as well as a smaller selection of dancers who represent our presence in the larger community through performance. Solstice choreography and direction is by its founder: Sera Solstice.
 
The name Solstice is chosen as a reference to pre-historic ruins around the world where once celestial structures were built in alignment with the Winter and Summer Solstices. We like to ask the question of “What did they dance like then?” “What did they dance for?” “What was this art about?” We reach specifically for the story of women in those times with our imaginations and our impressions of our own ancestral links, acknowledging that each of us draw from an indigenous lineage and draw not from the historians, but rather from our intuitive and private experiences. These experiences hold an underlying and unspoken place in our work, and we strive to hold this unspoken place during class time and rehearsals, which are typically light-hearted, fast paced and sometimes trance-like in the level of heat and high-energy flow.
 
The style of Bellydance that we are categorized within, according to others, is Tribal Fusion Bellydance, as well as Contemporary Fusion Bellydance, and sometimes just straight-up Fusion dance. We have coined our style “East Coast Tribal” as a notable difference we hold from much of the common vocabulary and approach on the West Coast USA, which is the birthplace of Tribal Fusion Bellydance and American Tribal Bellydance. At heart, we are non-conformists, even to our own style. And we delight in making new rules just to break them.
 
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