Saturday, 24 November 2012

Belly Dance Store

Belly Dance Store Biography
Michelle Joyce is currently a working dancer based in the San Francisco Bay Area. Formerly a social worker, she has used her counseling skills to develop workshops that help dancers to overcome stage fright, body image issues and and creative blockages.

In 2007, she edited and produced her first belly dance performance DVD, By Dancers For Dancers, a collaborative project by local dancers who had decided to stop waiting for someone else to "discover them" and took matters into their own hands. The success of this DVD launched Cheeky Girls Productions, a company that produces and distributes belly dance instructional and performance DVDs internationally.

She generously donates back to the belly dance world. Every holiday season she creates a $2,000 scholarship fund for dancers who are struggling with serious illness or caring for a sick loved one.

Career Highlights:

2011
Workshop and performance - Zagreb, Croatia
Workshop and performance - Torquay, England (Headliner at Celebrating Dance Festival)
Workshop and performance - Tulsa, Oklahoma
Workshop and performance - Boise, Idaho
Judge - Belly Dancer of the Year Competition 
2010
Created Project Belly Dance (a reality show) 
Judge - Belly Dance Nationals Competition

2009
Workshop and performance - Sydney, Perth, Brisbane and Melbourne, Australia
By Dancers For Dancers Live DVD Shoot - Berkeley, California
Club Med - Port St. Lucie, Florida

2008
Workshop and performance - Torquay, United Kingdom 
Club Med - Ixtapa, Mexico 
Workshop and performance - Zagreb, Croatia 
Workshop and performance - Tokyo, Japan

2007
Founded Cheeky Girls Productions
Club Med - Columbus Isle, The Bahamas 
Workshop and performance - Brisbane, Australia

2006
Gar Gazino - Istanbul, Turkey 
Club Med - Antalya, Turkey 
East Coast Classic Competition - 1st place - Virginia 
Palace Grounds - Bangalore, India
North Valley Competition - 1st place

2005
Sirens in Sanity Competition - 1st place
People's Choice Awards - 1st place

2004: Tour of India 
2003: Sayaji Hotel - Indore, India
1999: Lounge DandyD - Nagoya, Japan 
1998: Orient Nightclub - Istanbul, Turkey
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