Welcome to the world of Tribal and Fusion Bellydance, a colorful exciting new dance community where the very essence of women is celebrated! Tribal and Fusion Bellydance is a new style that has been created using the basic steps of Oriental dance, a dance that developed from the shapes and possibilities of a woman’s body, then mixing it with Western dance styles as modern, jazz ballet, hip hop and more. This contemporary, new dance genre appeals to all shapes and sizes, ages and types of women and has quickly spread around the planet. Dancers use its universal language to communicate with each other and with other dancers in one big strong and supportive community that embraces difference. To bring joy through movement, to touch people’s hearts and to ignite the fire of creativity in those who dance it.
The New European Cultural Collaborations Foundation is the organization that brings you the Shimmy Shake, set up by Gail Pilgrim in 2007 as part of the LiteSide Festival which celebrated the meeting of East and Western culture. This talent discovery project quickly developed into a yearlong talent development endeavor, that supports, develops and provides a platform for this new genre with coaching for all levels, workshops, presentations and a national network community. In 2014 we established a Shimmy Shake office in Rotterdam – the fusion city of the Netherlands, and we started up the most successful annual International Fusion and Tribal Bellydance festival.
It is there, anticipation is in the air. It is time for Shimmy Shake Festival! Did you already have your days planned and tickets booked? Yes? Great! No? No worries, in this article we will tell you everything you can do on Friday November 8th during the Shimmy Shake Festival.
Introducing this year at the Shimmy Shake Festival bazaar: the give-away-corner! Don’t we all have those items which we love, don’t wear and yet are hard to take distance from and let them go?
The Funky Foyer is the beating heart of the Shimmy Shake Festival, open on Saturday October 9th and Sunday the 10th. It is lively, colourful and best of all, free to enter! Whether you visiting our festival for the first time, or visited many times before, your festival experience starts here! In this article, you will read everything there is to discover in the Funky Foyer!
Is this your first time visiting the Shimmy Shake festival and the amazing city of Rotterdam? Or do you want to get everything out of your festival experience and make some new friends along the way? Icons and Underground? Join us for Rotterdam Rocks!
Since you are reading this, you have probably heard about Shimmy Shake. It is our goal to promote and evolve Tribal Fusion Bellydance in the Netherlands! We bring dancers, teachers and enthousiast together in our community, help develop talented dancers in the Talent Search and Next Level and put this amazing dance genre in the spotlight during the Shimmy Shake Festival. A year full of dancing, shimmy’s and shaking!
Just over a month to go until the Shimmy Shake Festival. Time to get to know this year’s Festival Headliners. We kept up with rising talents all over the globe, listened to your wishes and watched shows that made our jaws drop. All of this, to offer you the best of the best, so let’s get to know these ladies!