Find a DanceCraft Certified Teacher near you!
Becoming a DanceCraft certified Diamonds instructor takes years of hard work and dedication with over 120 hours of instruction and countless hours of preparation and years of training. Zoe has high standards and is very proud to have these dancers representing her format, which includes a focus on technique and a specific way of training.
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Aastha Gulati
Namaste, I'm Aastha, a passionate mover and choreographer who has always believed that dance is an expression of life and your deeper conversations when words fail! A versatile belly dancer...
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Parisa Ahmed
Parisa has been pulled deeper into the beautiful rabbit hole of bellydance for over 20 years. She is based in Santa Cruz, CA and performs regularly throughout the Bay Area....
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Sylvana Celeste
Sylvana is a fusion artist from Fresno CA who has been studying belly dance for nearly two decades. She is endlessly inspired by all this art form has to offer,...
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Dahlia Jade
Emerging from the shadows of Las Vegas's desert glow, Dahlia Jade enchants audiences with a fusion of grounded power and liquid grace. With over 1,300 hours of training and completion...
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Shannon Burla
Shannon Burla is an international performer and a teacher of sword dance hailing from Oakland, California. Shannon is inspired by the seasons and by change...by the crossroads, mist and wildflowers....
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Erika Noble
Erika is a Montana native who loves to share her passion of dance with others. Teaching out of Missoula, MT, she specializes in World Fusion dance and loves to learn...
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Erin Mariele
Erin Mariele has been dancing for nearly 19 years and teaching for over a decade. She began her DanceCraft journey in 2016 after training with Zoe Jakes at Fusion Evolution...
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RebL
RebL, one of the first class of Zoe's certified DanceCraft teachers, is based in inland Washington and has always loved to move. She explored ballroom, hip-hop, and modern dance before...
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Alice Shantala
Alice Shantala is a dancer and teacher with over 20 years of experience and more than 3,000 hours of international training. Based in Italy, she is celebrated for her eclecticism...
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Amani Maharet
Amani began bellydancing at the age of 9. She now has over 25 years of experience training, performing, & teaching multiple styles of bellydance including American Cabaret, ATS (American Tribal...
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Anji
Anji is a Fusion Bellydance teacher, choreographer and performer based in Freiburg, Germany. Her artistic focus and dedication lies on the West-Coast Bellydance scene and styles, where she continues to...
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Cecilia Ephedra
Dancer, choreographer, and teacher, Cecilia discovered Fusion Bellydance in France in 2010. She became passionate about this art form and since then has traveled the world to train with the...
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Erika Miller
Erika Miller is among the first class of Zoe's Certified DanceCraft Teachers, is the troupe leader for Tranquilessence Bellydance, and is also a member of the LunaChix. As a performer, she...
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Jasmine June Cabanaw
"Jasmine June has a passion for creating connection and community through dance, both through performing and producing events. She is the former director of the San Francisco quarterly revue Blue...
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Jessica Cooper
Jessica Cooper, a native of the Big Sur/Monterey Peninsula area, has been dancing and performing professionally for over 20 years (however she was an avid baton twirler since age 7!)...
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Julie Orchid
Julie Orchid is a devoted explorer of fusion belly dance. A Brisbane-based teacher and performer, she loves exporing archetypes and bringing ritual intent to dance.
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Kristy Anderson
Kristy Anderson is a Wisconsin-based dancer/teacher who enjoys many forms of movement art. In addition to her love of DanceCraft, she enjoys aerial arts, flamenco, hula, tap and sword work....
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Michiyo Salisbury
Michiyo began her Fusion Bellydance journey in 2006 and has studied with Zoe Jakes since 2009. After exploring FCBDstyle®, she returned to Zoe and the DanceCraft format in 2016, drawn...
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Nancy Chen
Nancy is a fusion belly dancer and teacher based on Cape Cod. She discovered belly dance in 2012, and it transformed her life—opening the door to a global community of...
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Nora Hinomaïra
As a French- Moroccan, I first learned dancing during family celebrations. I finally started learning Bellydancing from a teacher in 2010 and soon I discovered Zoe Jakes and dived in...
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Shirin
Shirin is a first-generation Iranian American and second-generation dancer whose lifelong passion for movement began at age four with her grandmother, who taught her Persian and Turkish folk dances, yoga,...
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Super Beth
Director of Tamarind Tribal Bellydance, Super Beth has been featured on DVDs, was amongst the first individuals certified to teach DanceCraft, is teacher on FCBDU, and toured the globe as...
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Pamela “Xatia” Ludwig
Pamela “Xatia” Ludwig, in addition to raqs sharqi and fusion forms, loves learning about and performing folk dance forms from all over the Middle East/North Africa region as well as...
