Arianna Halima al Tiye

Female

www.nubianmoondaughters.com

Arianna Halima al Tiye is of East Afrikan descent currently living in New York City and abroad. She began her studies in Afrikan Dance at the ripe age of three, when she began studying with her mother, a former dancer/choreographer under LaRoque Bey Dance Company. Later, Arianna became a member of the student body of dancers at Ballet Hispanco, and The Alvin Ailey School of Dance. In addition to studying dance in the United States , she has researched, performed and studied dance abroad, internationally for over 15 years in Africa , Asia, Europe, the Orient, and in the Mediterranean . Some of her dance performance credits include: The United Nations, African Diaspora and World Conference , 2003-04 Olympics– World Music Institute, Viva Brazil – Girls from Ipanema, "Fusion": Tribute concert to Carlos Santana, "In Search of A Goddess": Inspirations of the Divine Enchantress Ruth St. Denis – Off Broadway Production, Beyond Tradition – Lucille Lortel Theatre, Woman Spirits – Aaron Davis Hall , APAP – Alvin Ailey Dance Theatre, Cal's Music – PBS Music Masters Series, Peidmont Symphony Orchestra. She has produced two shows: Nights Over Egypt and Dance Without Borders, and is currently in production for other Folkloric dance theater projects. She was an invited guest choreographer for The Dalia Carella Collective's production of Cabaret Macabre, guest workshop instructor for Nourhan Sharif's Egyptian Academy of Dance and is an invited teaching fellow for Rakassah East Dance Festival. She is considered a leading performer and authority in her field of Ethnic Folklore and World Dance, as she is pursuing her doctorate in Dance Anthropology: Ancient, Folklore to Contemporary. She conducts lectures, workshops, and seminars throughout the United States, but also, she is an international academician and sponsor at various schools in the East and West Sahel areas of Nubia , Aswan. She is the 2004, 2006 recipient of a Fulbright Scholarship to Morocco, North Africa.

Ms. Al Tiye is learned in several different disciplines in the Modern and Ethnic traditions of dance, such as Afro-Brazilian, Afro-Haitian, Afro-Cuban, Congolese, Kathak, West African, Middle Eastern, Flamenco and Katherine Dunham Technique. However, her area of specialty and instruction is in the folkloric belly dances of North, East and Sub-Saharan Africa. She is on teaching staff at the following studios: Djoniba Dance and Drum Center, The Harlem YMCA Dance Arts Center and Mark Morris Dance Theater.

She accredits and gives special accolades to these renowned teachers/choreographers -- her mentors and colleagues:
Felix "Pupy"Insua (Yoruba Andobo-Afro-Cuban), Najma Ayeesha (Kathak), Yousry Sharif (Egyptian Academy of Oriental Dance), Dalia Carella (Middle Eastern Ethnic-Contemporary) Leila Haddad (North African Folklore) and Raqia Hassan, (Egyptian Oriental Raks Sharqui) – the two latter with whom she studied in New York, France and in Egypt.

In 1998, Ms. al Tiye' instituted The Ethnic Dance Programme at Saint Michael Academy in New York City, in conjunction with the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) Dance Workshops for High School Students . She was a principal dancer with the following companies: Fusha Dance Company, Malaki Ma Kongo (Congolese), Oriqui Ballet Folklorica (Afro-Cuban) and with the Dalia Carella Dance Collective , and is the founder/director her own dance company, Nubian Moon Daughters Dance Company: Banat il Nuba, and owner of Caravan Across Sudan (Imports from Afrika, Asia and the Near and Far East). Her dance studio and Healing Meditation Center entitled, Het Rennenutet Sajana: Temple of the Cobra Goddess Adorned conducts "Womb-man" circles for Goddess consciousness and sacred healing.


Arianna Halima al Tiye
nubianmoondaughters@gmail.com
www.nubianmoondaughters.com

Professor of World Literature/Dance Anthropology - Ethnology

Performing Arts

Nubian Moon Daughters Dance Company

Founder/Director