Bellybeat Dance Company is celebrating their third season together.  The troupe is made up of 4 core belly dancers, and 3 modern dancers.

Founder and artistic director Christina Ackley (Odella), received her BFA in dance teaching in 2003 and her MFA in dance in 2006. Drawing from her diverse dance background, she utilizes her twenty-six years in the field to create highly intricate and unique choreography for the company. Since their debut in August of 2010, Bellybeat has been received with open arms by the dance community and has been invited to dance at various events. Their work to date includes twenty choreographies, and a total of three full-length productions.

The troupe has been seen dancing with a wide array of props ranging from swords, silks, fanveils, canes and even battery operated clicklights (as seen in their unique drum piece "The Hunt"). The name "Bellybeat" does not pin the troupe to one specific style, but instead allows for limitless exploration and unique fusion style pieces. The members of Bellybeat share a collective hope that their work and presentation of new ideas will progress the art form, honor tradition, and entertain through the utmost grace and elegance.

Isobel Valo took her first steps dancing to her mother's copy of Black Celebration and hasn’t stopped since! With experience in traditional Indian and bellydance, some run-ins with modern and jazz, and a life-long love for costumes, Isobel takes pleasure in creating burlesque with a dark theatrical flair.

Springtime once meant the re-appearance of the traveling shows and all their...varied entertainment. What's causing all the hooting and cheering in that tent set back from the main fair way? Isobel invites you to slip past the curtained entrance and find out!

In the spirit of the Sanskrit word for "change" which lends them their name, Vadalna walks a continually shifting line between contrasting elements, melding Middle Eastern movement and rhythms with hip-hop and beats of the electronic underground, the ancient with the ultra-modern, the intensely personal with the universal and archetypal. The result is something neither one extreme nor the other, but both, and uniquely Vadalna.

A unique and progressive performer, Tyler started his journey into the world of the movement arts only two years ago as a healing method to counteract the effects of Multiple Sclerosis, a challenge which continues to both influence and encourage him as a dancer.

Today, Tyler works with array of cirque skills including fire eating and breathing, but finds his true passion in hooping, which has turned into a means of expression, art, and dance, through performance that continues to evolve and inspire him.

Having found success on single body hoops, Tyler progressed and found his specialty in working with double mini hoops and debuted as a professional performer at Wildfire, a circus and fire arts retreat, in 2011.

Despite being a lifelong lover of dance and movement within the Goth club scene, it was not until two years ago when he picked up his first hoop, that Tyler truly realized himself to be a dancer.