Aepril Schaile
An “American priestess of the Dark Goddess", Aepril Schaile is an astrologer, musician, dancer, writer, mythologist, animal rights advocate and Witch. Aepril teaches traditional, theatrical, and shamanistic bellydance, and has been an instructor and performer at curated events in Europe and throughout the U.S. Aepril is the Artisitic Director of Exquisite Corpse Dance Theatre, which produced and performs its original full-length ritual-theatre bellydance show, The Book of Lilith. She holds a MFA in Interdisciplinary Art.

She is an accomplished Tribal-Fusion dancer, Fire Circus performer, Argentine Tango dancer, innovator of Tango-Bellydance Fusion, and DJ. Her own "United Styles Dance Method", blends elements of World Dance styles, Popping, Waving, Hip Hop, & Groove theory.
She has extensive experience and knowledge in various other dance styles including ballet, capoeira, and classic and fokloric dances of the Middle & Near East.
Themes in her dancing include a strong musicality, imagination, unique costuming, intricate isolations, and fluidity. Some of her influences are found in nature, especially in creatures who live in the ocean, (both real and fantasy).
She is curently a company member of Neville Dance Theater, and has also worked with several renouned dance companies such as Bellyqueen, with whom she was a principle dancer. Her choreographic works are featured on several performance DVD’s, on the Neville Dance, Hollywood Music, & World Dance NY labels, and she has created the instructional DVD’s “Fluid Tribal” & “Android Goddess”.
She believes that dance is a powerful avenue for a person to grow and to connect to oneself and others, and uses methods to strengthen the connections between healing and body/mind awareness, She encourages dancers to develop great technique and control of their movement in order to best express what they want to say with their dance and have the ultimate freedom.

Neon is an acclaimed bellydance instructor and a star performer based in New York City. Infusing classic bellydance with high-impact modern flair, Neon's dance style is characterized by organic fluidity, precise intricate hipwork, and hypnotic evocative flow.
Neon performs contemporary bellydance in NYC, and works on her line of instructional videos featuring her breakthrough fast-track, accelerated-learning method: Breaking down belly dance movements into trajectories following 3-dimensional shapes, grouping dance moves into clear-cut categories to enable systematic learning and easy recall of dance patterns when improvising.
Neon is the Publisher of "World Dance New York" video publishing house, conceptualizing and producing videos and DVDs for danceeducation and entertainment. Her work has set a new standard for the treatment and presentation of belly dance as a sophisticated mainstream dance art, and has contributed significantly to popularizing bellydance among entertainment consumers, New York
nightclub goers and students of dance.

Email: neon@neonissima.com Web: www.neonissima.com

Tana Valentine
After falling in love with bellydance as a young girl, Tanna Valentine began years of serious study in NYC with an outstanding roster of dance artists. Her long-term instructors have included Gamila elMasri, Jehan Kamal, Elsa Leandros and Samara. Other key teachers have been Reyna Alcala, Anahid Sofian, Rayhana and the late Serena Wilson. Tanna has performed at a myriad of venues from tiny hookah lounges to modern theater stages, and has enjoyed teaching many delightful students of varying levels.

Tanna's training is primarily in the classical forms of both Arabic and American cabaret bellydance. In recent years she has applied her extensive knowledge of this art form to “alternative” bellydance projects, including directing her own ongoing nightclub show series, and as an original member of the Venus Uprising artistic collective.

In 2004 Tanna was the Grand Champion 2^nd place winner at the East Coast Classic, and in 2008 she became the Bellydancer of the Universe Veil Champion. To date, she has appeared as a performer and instructor on ten DVDs published by WorldDance New York .