Category: Sunday

Sarah Joy is an award winning professional bellydancer currently from Columbus, Ohio who brings her charisma, extensive dance training, contagiously bubbly personality, and polished persona with her every time she takes the stage. She discovered bellydance in 2009 and has been obsessed ever since. Sarah Joy is also the founder and troupe leader of GeekChic Entertainment, a bellydance and variety show featuring Sci Fi and Anime themed choreographies who perform at Comic Cons and other geek-related events.

IG: @sarahjoybellydance
FB and Youtube: Sarah joy Bellydance

Spectre and Sable are two lifelong-dancers-turned-aerialists who have been moving in parallel and together since 2016. United in their styles by a deep love of technique, limbliness, and all things strange, Spectre and Sable approach their movement with an intent to play and a blank fascination with that fluttering sense of unease sleeping in all our chests.

Based in Charlotte, NC, Spectre and Sable have performed their work at opera galas, in invitational showcases, and for art festivals including Shadows, Critters and Tea, LadyFestCLT, and Bloom.

https://www.instagram.com/spectreandsablearts/

For over fifteen years, this mother and daughter partnership learned belly dance (from Fusion to FCBD to Cabaret) from various North Carolina teachers (such as Magic-Hips alumni and Sarah Hahn). As a result, they now put together choreographies to songs that inspire them.

https://www.facebook.com/oftentimesfusion

Serpentine Jade is Laura Jae and Angela Dee. These two friends met through bellydance in 2017 and have performed with each other since 2018. They decided to begin working as a duet in 2020 and are excited to finally start bringing that idea to fruition.

https://www.facebook.com/SerpentineJade, instagram: @serpentinejade

Jessica started her performing journey when she learned belly dancing from Sarah Hahn in her teens. Since then she has learned lyra, silks, and fire eating. This year marks her 7th year in Bloom.

@forbiddencastle (instagram)

By day, Raven Lotus is a UX writer. By night, she’s either flying through the air, dancing her butt off, gliding across the ice, or possibly eating or dancing with fire. Raven started her circus journey only three years ago when she stumbled across a groupon for silks classes at a studio two blocks from her work. From day one, she was hooked. Then, she quickly added lyra and trapeze to her repertoire, and eventually even started to add double loops, fire, and dance silks. Raven has a love for performance, expressing herself through dance and circus arts, and can’t wait to share her latest piece with you.

https://www.instagram.com/ravenlotusarts/

Metamorphosis Movement has been established in 2020 by Dani Rodriguez with the help of Breanna Toney and newest member on the management team, Kailee Lewis. Metamorphosis Movement has members that use all kinds of props and all kinds of talents such as: all types of dancing, hoops, levi-wands, staff/dragon staff, fire manipulation, and more. Metamorphosis Movement’s goal is to exhibit life through flow and fire.

https://www.facebook.com/metamorphosismovement
https://www.instagram.com/metamorphosismovementarts/

Bekah has been training aerial for 4 years. She currently trains on silks, hammock and lyra. Her silks performance is a declaration representing strong, independent woman and inspired by all the badasses she has met through Bloom! This will be her third year attending Bloom Festival, but first year performing! She is very excited for this opportunity to perform among so many talented artists she admires and respects!

http://www.instagram.com/bekkro/

Leena is a lifelong dancer who discovered bellydance in 2016. She is a mutli-faceted dancer, trained by many different instructors, including Nayna, Serena, Naima and Satya Jvala, across many different styles of bellydance. A multi-Bloom veteran, a former member of the Raq-a-bellas and 1/2 of the duo known as Seleena, Leena continued dancing thru the darkness in her kitchen until she felt it was time to rise up on her own. Leena is also learning aerial arts and has been known to play with fire.

Instagram @TanyaTheGr8est
Facebook https://www.facebook.com/tanyawilliams.tompkins

Allison is originally from the southwest suburbs of Chicago, and moved to Greenville, SC in 2010. She first discovered aerial arts in late 2015 and was instantly hooked. After years of being a dedicated student, she immersed herself in a training program and became a certified aerial instructor for her local studio. That same year, her studio downsized and she started her own coaching and performing business, Skyward Aerial Arts. Allison specializes in aerial sling, but you can also find her training dance trapeze in her free time. When she’s not working or coaching aerials, you can find her running, at the gym, or spending time with her Aussie, Luna.
Allison is available for sling classes, private lessons and performances.

IG: @skywardaerialarts (studio) and @allie_cat19