The Hipnotic team is made up of dedicated Belly Dancers who wanted to bring fabulous dance form to a wider audience through teaching, performing and hosting events in a setting that can be appreciated by all.
Emma Pyke
Emma is a Hipnotic teacher, the director of the troupe Covert Bling and contributes to the organisation of the Hipnotic events.Deborah Fox
Deborah is a Hipnotic teacher, a member of Covert Bling and contributes to the organisation of the event. She started to take belly dancing classes 8 years ago and has been
obsessed ever since.
The
obsession has grown and as Blackwillow
she creates one-off tribal and fusion belly dance costume pieces and for the
last two years she has taught belly
dance and improvised tribal belly dance in a venue close to Reading town centre. In 2009 she was invited to teach and perform at Celebrating Dance in Devon, and will be doing so again in 2010.
Both a member of Covert
Bling and a soloist she is keen
to convert more people into the sensual and challenging art of Middle Eastern Dance (belly
dance).
Kathryn Goddard
Kathryn
discovered Middle Eastern dance 7 years ago after flicking through
the adult education book, and she was hooked. Kathryn is one half of
Chez Arabie and regularly performs in the area at local events. Chez
Arabie are known for their fun style and they regularly perform at
London's Saqarah event.
Kathryn's
other passion is photography and loves combining this with dance. "I
enjoy capturing the beauty, the diverisity, the skill of the dancer
as well as the fabulous costumes and the interaction between the
dancer and the audience". She is the event's resident photographer. All of the performance photographs on this site are taken by her. She is also available for private photo-shoots or to photograph other events. Her website is Capture this Moment .
Kathryn Whittington
Kathryn
is one of the school's teachers, a member of Covert Bling and contrubites to marketing the events, troupe and school. She has been dancing for 6 years, having been drawn to belly dance by
it's vibrancy, inclusivity and fabulous costumes. She has explored
many different styles of belly dance and loves all of them, though
admits she does have a tendency towards weird fusion sometimes.
She
can regularly be seen performing with troupe Covert Bling, as well as
on her own across the country. She has recently started teaching
Tribal Fusion at Hipnotic and now runs her own classes (see her
website for details). She is excited about this new event, as she
would like everybody to see how great belly dancing is.