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Kaeshi
Kaeshi
Chai was born in Brunei and brought up in New Zealand and
Australia. She co-founded the New York-based dance company
Bellyqueen with Amar Gamal in 1998 and has been it's primary
director since 2005. Kaeshi also co-founded PURE (Public Urban
Ritual Experiment), a healing dance and music community, which has
rapidly spread into many branches all over the US and
internationally and has been PURE's main facilitator since 2006.
Kaeshi
has performed and taught in many countries including the US,
Canada, Europe, Mexico, Caribbean, Australia, South America and
throughout Asia. In 2002, she performed 5 shows a day to live
Arabic music at Aladdin's Desert Passage in Las Vegas. In
2003-2004, she was part of the first professional touring
bellydance company in the world, the Bellydance Superstars and
held the position of dance captain for the 2004 US & Canadian
Spring tour. She has performed at Central Park's Summerstage,
Lincoln Center Out of Doors, Folie's Begere in Paris, Bloomsbury
Theater in London, Teatro Smeraldo in Milan and has made
television appearances on Conan O'Brien as well as BBC's Blue
Peter. In 2006, she made history as the first US based dancer to
teach a workshop in mainland China. From 2007-2009, she toured
6-13 dancers representing Bellyqueen Dance Theater through the US
3 times, Canada 3 times, Western and Eastern Europe and Japan. In
2009, she was honored to be the featured soloist in Turkish dancer
Ahmet Luleci's Collage Dance Ensemble Psiphas / Rituals show.
Recently, she was invited to team up with the one and only Jillina
for the Bellydance Evolution project.
In
between her extensive travels, Kaeshi co-hosts a weekly Wednesday
night happening in New York's east village called "Djam Under
JeBon" showcasing international and local talent, with live
band, Djinn. She can be seen in the following DVDs: "Bellyqueen:
The Bellydance Experience", "American Bellydancer";
"Bellydance Jam" by Bellyqueen; "Live in Paris at
the Folies Begere"; and "Crazed: The Bellydance".
(Source: http://www.bellyqueen.com/bio_kaeshi.html)
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