American Tribal Style belly dance
A Summary by Kelly of Kalash ATS tribe
American Tribal Style Belly Dance (ATS) is a modern style of dance created by FatChanceBellyDance director, Carolena Nericcio. It is the origin from which all other tribal styles of dance have developed.
The dance itself is an eclectic blend of many dance influences from India, Central Asia, the Middle East, North Africa and Spain whilst the name makes it clear that it is an American invention and ‘Tribal Style’ describes the dancers working together as a group with a ‘tribal’ look.
The dance is largely improvisational and has evolved over the last 20 years or so into a well developed and intuitive dance form which uses a system of formations and cues to communicate to fellow dancers what is going to happen next.
The dancers interact with each other with plenty of eye contact, attention trained on the lead position looking for the cue for the next step - a group focused on presenting the dance as one entity in much the same way as a flock of birds are able to all change direction at precisely the same moment.
http://www.kalash-ats.com/news.php
Click here to go to a more in depth article by Liz Jarrett.
...And here to go to an article by Carolina Nericcio herself on the FatChanceBellyDance website.
A Summary by Kelly of Kalash ATS tribe
American Tribal Style Belly Dance (ATS) is a modern style of dance created by FatChanceBellyDance director, Carolena Nericcio. It is the origin from which all other tribal styles of dance have developed.
The dance itself is an eclectic blend of many dance influences from India, Central Asia, the Middle East, North Africa and Spain whilst the name makes it clear that it is an American invention and ‘Tribal Style’ describes the dancers working together as a group with a ‘tribal’ look.
The dance is largely improvisational and has evolved over the last 20 years or so into a well developed and intuitive dance form which uses a system of formations and cues to communicate to fellow dancers what is going to happen next.
The dancers interact with each other with plenty of eye contact, attention trained on the lead position looking for the cue for the next step - a group focused on presenting the dance as one entity in much the same way as a flock of birds are able to all change direction at precisely the same moment.
http://www.kalash-ats.com/news.php
Click here to go to a more in depth article by Liz Jarrett.
...And here to go to an article by Carolina Nericcio herself on the FatChanceBellyDance website.
