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Solo Artist from: Boston, Massachusetts, United States (available for travel) Melina (Melinda Heywood Pavlata, Ph.D.) is a belly dance artist, choreographer, teacher, writer, mother, trapeze artist, circus performer & former scholar of medieval French literature. Born to a folk-rock guitarist father and a gypsy-artist belly dancer mother during the late 1960s Berkeley, California cultural revolution, Melina exited her mother's womb into a vibrant life of dance, Mediterranean music & eclectic performance arts. She is co-founder of the belly dance and circus arts companies Daughters of Rhea and Cirque Passion. She has performed at prestigious venues throughout the world: from The Four Seasons Hotel to Taiwan's Taipei Arena, from The Ritz Carlton in Boston to Singapore's Victoria Theatre. She has been featured as a performers and trainer on MTV's "Made" and "Bridezilla". Melina tours the U.S. as an aerialist and dancer with Circus Flora and performs a sensual trapeze duet with circus star partner Alexandre Sacha Pavlata at festivals and galas worldwide. Melina teaches popular belly dance classes and specialized seminars in dance and circus arts in the Boston area and abroad. Melina first belly danced on stage at the age of 2 with a costume pinned to her diapers. When she was 6, Melinda�s maverick mother, oriental dance trailblazer Rhea, left the U.S. to lead a permanent life of dance in Athens, Greece. Throughout her childhood Melina criss-crossed the Atlantic traveling between amicably divorced parents. She danced professionally alongside her mother and sister Piper in the ancient city of Athens, Greece, then turned cartwheels in the circus ring on America�s West Coast where her father Phil Marsh was bandleader and songwriter for the Pickle Family Circus. Whatever the context, Melina presents her art with passion, fun, fire and grace. She is noted for her precision technique, finger cymbals mastery, Dionysian gypsy leaps & spins and acrobatic agility. She specializes in balancing a large bronze tray of lit candles on her head while belly dancing, performing deep backbends and articulate floorwork all the while. She is the only dancer in the world to balance a sword on the tip of a dagger gripped in her teeth. Contact Melina of Daughters of Rhea:Phone: 781 209 0950 Get your own free listing on belly-dancing.info! For professional performers only: register as a belly dancing performer / Update Lisitng Belly Dancing 
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