Electric Vardo
presents Tribal Fusion Belly Dance with
SAMANTHA HASTHORPE
& Special Guests
Friday October 10, 2008. 8pm-10pm.
Bollyhood Cafe 3372 19th Street @ Mission in SF
$5-10 sliding scale at the door.
www.electricvardo.com

Workshop Thursday Oct 9 - 7:30-9pm at FCBD studio
670 South Van Ness SF

Electric Vardo presents an exclusive evening performance with
SAMANTHA HASTHORPE & Special Guests FatChanceBellyDance and DJ Amar.
Back in the US for a few days, Samantha joins us at Bollyhood for a night
before she returns to tour with the Bellydance Superstars.
Don't miss this unique opportunity.
Once again Electric Vardo brings you another top notch unique performer.

Doors at 8pm, performance at 9pm.
$5-10 sliding scale cover.
www.electricvardo.com

About Samantha: http://www.snakecharmah.co.uk/

Samantha is The Bellydance Superstars' newest Tribal Contingent member.
Born to a Belgian mother and English father, she is currently based in the UK.
After quitting ballet at age 6, when her teacher told her she would
never make a dancer, Samantha did not return to dance again until she
was 16, when her mother took her to a local belly dance class. Within
six weeks she had appeared in her first public performance.
Everything she has done since then has, directly or indirectly, fed
and reinforced her passion for the art.

A free-spirited nomad by temperament - with Eco-activist tendencies -
she traveled through Europe for several years in caravans and
converted buses. Along the way she became an expert Fire Dancer,
performing at many festivals. This developed into an interest in
Martial Arts weaponry (Kung Fu) and within her first year of training
she had won the local Ladies Free fighting Tournament. This in turn
led back to belly dancing, where in 2003 she was re-inspired by a Fat
Chance Belly Dance performance in Glastonbury, and later by personal
encouragement from Rachel Brice in the UK. There was a dignity and
strength in Tribal Style that has Samantha hooked ever since. Her own
signature style includes strong posturing, sharp locks and 'liquefied'
arms. She loves the interaction between dancer and audience, and is
happiest on stage.

Largely self-taught and self-funded (for a long time her day job was
as a construction worker), Samantha is a committed teacher as well as
performer. Her accessible teaching style reflects the fact that she
still considers herself to be a beginner student, always hungry for
more training and new ideas, always refining basic techniques and
fusing new inspirations from mentors both in and out of the belly
dance scene - anything from a new DVD to a picture hanging in a
gallery, to a sea-creature moving through the water. Her great
ambition is to raise respect for belly dance as an art form in Europe
and to help raise the standard among practitioners there.

Samantha is Level 1 certified and Member of Suhaila Salimpour's school
of dance, California. She is the only British member of The Bellydance
Superstars and features in the new Tribal Fusions DVD. She has
performed widely on stage in Canada, the UK and Ireland. In 2005 she
joined Wendy Marlatt's Dublin based performance troupe Rashani
International and returns to Dublin whenever she can.
In 2007 she was nominated for Zaghareet Magazine's annual Best Kept
Secret Award.

Get your tickets early to ensure best seating. This is a SMALL VENUE and has Very LIMITED SEATING.

Once seats are sold out, there will be standing room only for the performances.

Doors open at 8:00 and performances begin at 9:00 sharp.

BOLLYHOOD CAFE
is located at 3372 19th Street
between Mission & Capp in the Mission District of San Francisco