Always evolving, Ananda Dance Company is an artistic partnership that has found its own timeless voice, unique in the world of bellydance fusion. Amanda has twenty five years of experience in modern and ballet, and recently rehearsed the Moscow Ballet during their US tour. Jaia has over ten years of experience in yoga and maintains a teaching pratice in both bellydance and yoga. Together, they bring right intention, raw emotiveness, precise technique, and a strong sense of underlying narrative to the new face of Tribal. In 2007, they began teaching workshops throughout the SouthEast.
Ananda Dance Co., has opened and performed for the likes of The Mezmer Society, The Yard Dogs Road Show, Brent Thompson and his Wandering Circus, and international artists HuDost. Ananda has also taught workshops at Shakori Hills Grassroots Festival, Floyd Fest, and TribOriginal.
Upcoming Events (Click on links to event page)
Awalim Workshops in Knoxville, TN
Class schedule
Jaia's Classes
Belly Dance Skillz - Tuesday Evening 7:30pm @
Broadway Academy
Belly Dance Technique - Wednesday Evening 7:45pm @
Maryvilles Yoga room
Performance (video after the click)
Triboriginal 2008
Members
Jaia
Jaia blends bellydance, and yoga in a powerful and audience-pleasing fusion. She has been a devoted yogini since 1999, and had dedicated her life to seeking understanding in the ancient practices and philosophies of this path. Along the way she has absorbed ideals in the modalities of Kundalini, Reiki, and Ayurveda. Since walking into her first bellydance class in 2000, Jaia has spent the past 10 years seeking classes among the industry's most renowned teachers. in 2007, Jaia began travelling the southeast, teaching and performing professionally. Finding the natural immersion of Yoga and Bellydance came easy to Jaia, one being the inner path to awareness, the other, the outward expression to connect. Together, the passions foster whole awareness, and further expansion of mind and body.
Jaia's particular blend of posturing and armwork can be attributed to years of Yoga practice and training, and allows her to create unique extensions and dynamic lengths throughout her dancing. Working closely with her partner, Amanda, has allowed Jaia to draw stylizations of the Modern/Contemporary dance world into her own Bellydance classes, combinations and solo work. While Amanda remains the Modern force of the duo, Jaia enjoys the unique and raw edge this fusion brings to their dancing.
Amanda
Amanda Bolli has dedicated her lifetime to the art of dance. Approaching her work with the intent that movement is her medium and the dance floor is her canvas, she seeks to bring audiences performances that process the human experience through dance. Fostering a life long dedication to Modern dance, she has taken her years of experience in this dance genre and fused them with the precise yet organic art of belly dance.
Amanda is a senior level instructor at The Tennessee Conservatory of Fine Arts, a soloist for Ballet Gloria, and a founding member of The Repertory Dance Theater. She has performed with both The Oak Ridge Civic Ballet and The Appalachian Ballet, and recently had the profound honor of working with The Moscow Ballet while they toured the US with The Great Russian Nutcracker. In addition to teaching and performing, she is also a dedicated student, investing 27 years of her life into honing her skills as a dancer
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