Manhattan Tribal American Tribal Style Belly Dance

Manhattan Tribal's

West Coast Belly Dance Exchange 2012!

About this project: Succesfully funded via Kickstarter November 2011!**

Two West Coast belly dance festivals - one New York-based belly dance troupe... it’s Manhattan Tribal’s first ever West Coast Belly Dance Festival Tour!

This spring, we’re journeying to Seattle and California to premiere our 2012 repertoire at two renowned dance festivals! We are thrilled to bring our style of dance to the West Coast for the first time, and to infuse the New York tribal belly dance scene with new ideas from our West Coast sisters.

Manhattan Tribal is New York City’s first and only professional American Tribal Style belly dance company. Mimi Fontana, founder and director of Manhattan Tribal, has been invited to teach at two of the most prominent tribal belly dance festivals in the country: Cues and Tattoos, in Seattle, WA and Tribal Fest 12, in Sebastapol, CA.

At each festival, Mimi and Manhattan Tribal will perform new work, participate in workshops, and teach our innovative style of tribal belly dance to a whole new community of dancers from the West Coast and around the world. A special focus of Mimi’s workshops will be the introduction of a traditional Turkish folkloric rhythm to this vibrant and modern form of world dance.

Manhattan Tribal troupe members are director Mimi Fontana, Heather Bondra, Rachel Ehrlich, Debbie Lakis, Kate Reid, Maria “Naja” Richardson, and Stephanie Rubino-Ginsburg.

**Manhattan Tribal would like to thank the following backers for helping to fund our tour! You all ROCK! **