Sera Solstice
Recent video
SERA's Choreography for Solstice Ensemble: Tribal Fest 09
Sera Solstice is an international performer/choreographer/
instructor/artist/shaman/pioneer of Bellydance, based in New York City. Founder and Director of Solstice Studio: a Bellydance Studio in New York, Sera is director and choreographer of the dance troupe Solstice, Creatrix of "East Coast Tribal", And "Foundations" (Tribal Fusion DVDs produced by World Dance New York), and the director of the East Coast Tribal Community in NYC, a community of over 200 New Yorkers 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, at the forefront of evolution of bellydance as an artform." Sera has performed multiple shows as a featured dancer for the bands: Raquy and the Cavemen, Djinn, Copal, Beatbox Guitar, and the Rhythm Shamans. Sera is fed
artistically from underground electronic music culture as she works in collaboration with musicians such as Sub Swara and Chronomad. Sera has a passion for electronic music, but also enjoys earthy, acoustic elements: she has participated in American 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. Although she challenges dancers to find deeper expression in their movements, Sera is known for her hard-driving, highly technical classes. She believes one must first master their tool-set before putting it to use. Sera is a former core member of 3 internationally acclaimed dance companies: Bellyqueen, Raqs Sahara, and The Silk Road Dance Company. Sera's foundation of technique, form, and discipline was by means of her formal apprenticeship with Rachel Kay Brookmire (of DC's Sahara Dance). Sera has 3 new DVDs produced by World Dance New York, to be released in 2010.