Instructors for TFF-2025
Silvia Salamanca
Silvia Salamanca is an internationally acclaimed performer, choreographer and instructor from Mallorca, Spain. A life-long dancer, she graduated at the age of nineteen as a major in ballet and performed professionally as a modern dancer in major Europe festivals with the contemporary dance company of the University of Barcelona.
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She started her career as a belly dancer in 2001, when realizing the enormous benefits that this art-form brings to women in both body and soul.
Devin Alfather
Devin Alfather is a multidisciplinary dancer currently specializing in Theatrical Fusion Raqs Sharqi, Theatrical Circus acts, and other world Fusion dances. This notorious noodler is a multi-award winning dancer and choreographer.
She can't wait to share her brand of strange and unusual works with you, dear audience.
Drake von Trapp
Drake von Trapp is a belly dance historian, researcher, teacher, and performer, recognized for his pioneering research on male belly dancers in the U.S. He holds a BA and MA in Dance, a post-master’s in Multicultural Women’s and Gender Studies from Texas Woman’s University, and is currently pursuing a PhD in Performance Studies at UT Austin. His biographical and archival work on male belly dancers has sparked thoughtful discussions about history, femmephobia, and Orientalism. Presently he is working on a biographical project of Bert Balladine, the father of American cabaret, as part of a larger genealogical project of formative male figures in US belly dance history.
Aya
Aya is a Fusion Style dancer with over a decade of dance experience and learning. She is a current active member of the Renaissance Faire Troupe Hands of Fatima, the Texas Salimpour Collective and April Rose's Cohesion Collective.
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Her constant experience with group performance has lead to a level of versatility and knowledge in the mechanics of dance.
Colleen
Colleen has been performing and teaching around Central Texas for over 15 years and in the last 3 years has had the honor of traveling around America performing with BECOMING and teaching workshops.
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She is the co-founder of Shimmy on the Colorado Bellydance Festival that is held on the second weekend of October in Bastrop, TX.
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Since 2021 Colleen has received awards in Raq Sharqi & Fusion from 4th place to 1st place and, of course, Most Entertaining. Colleen’s goal when teaching and performing is to encourage Body Positivity and Body Love through Dance. By combining her love of dance and theater, Colleen brings all the emotions to the stage. You never know what to expect when she hits the stage or teaches a workshop!