Avani 
Avani has loved dancing since a young girl and has studied ballet, jazz, modern, salsa, and most recently Mid-Eastern and Flamenco. She focused on modern in college for four years and was part of the ASU Dance Ensemble in 1997. Avani began studying "bellydance" in February 2001. She danced with Baraka Mundi for 4 years. Lately she has been studying Flamenco and performing with Marianne Thomason. She is pleased to be a co-creator of Tribalesque and is so excited to dance with them!!
Selenah 
Selenah is an engineer by day and a dancing machine at night. She feels that dance frees her logical mind to see beyond the obvious. Selenah's love of Middle Eastern dance began in Raleigh, NC, in 2002, where she studied from Linda of Belly Revelations. She then moved to Asheville and began dancing with Baraka Mundi for 1.5 years and later formed Tribalesque with Avani in 2005. She has travelled to many countries (Turkey, Greece, Spain, Morrocco) in the past two years to gain greater understanding of Middle Eastern dance origins and culture. She also finds inspiration in her studies of African and Indian dance.
Our former dancers
Soubhi 
Soubhi began bellydancing in 1997 and hasn't stopped since! When her first teacher, Ryan Kate, moved to Saudi, she helped form TribeOm, which later morphed into Baraka Mundi. Soubhi also worked with Transform Venus, fire performers and blacklight ritualists, for many years. Soubhi left WNC for a few years to explore life in Knoxville, TN, but now she's back! Yay! Currently Soubhi is thrilled to be having the best dance experience ever with Tribalesque! She is also doing some fire performance here and there. Currently Soubhi dances with The Forbidden that she and Nur created. Website info coming soon.
Nur -currently dancing with The Forbidden with Soubhi!! Website info coming soon.