Eastern and infused with feminine energy. Lately, Perizad is busy developing her own style of Gypsy Tribal Dance. The music and
passion of the Romany people has haunted her most ofher life in some form or another, and she feels strongly connected to
the strong and expressive, bold and passionate movements that she now encompasses with her own stylings of the people many
of us know as Gypsies. Perizad's Twisted Tassels Tribal Belts are yet another aspect of her talents, along with the poetry
below. She is also certified in Reiki Level II and practices Shamanic healing through her dance, specializing in helping women as
they go through menopause. Perizad plays the doumbek, darbuke and djembe, bodhran, didgideroo, tambourine, and a plethora of percussive
"toys". She also plays the Native Indian flute, honoring Mother Earth and the spirit of our native tribal people. Perizad
continues to expand her student base and troupe membership as the tribal dance community expands and grows in upstate New York. If
ever you're in her neck of the woods...
Perizad is an old soul living in a present day body. Her passion for Tribal Dance began over ten years ago, and she has immersed herself
into the feminine power of its ancient origins. Perizad has performed in four dance troupes over those years as she transitioned from
traditional Egyptian dance to American Tribal Style (ATS) to Gypsy Tribal Style (GTS) Dance. She has taught ATS and GTS for
over five years through the Society for Creative Anachronism (SCA) and privately in many studios, arts and community centers,
as well as taught many workshops and specialty classes in the Northeast. She holds GTS and ATS classes in her studio Ancient Callings
and is now the leader and creative director of Twisted Tassels dance troupe. Her teachers include Paulette Rees-Denis, Fleur Frascella,
Dahlia Carella, Suhaila Salimpour, Rachel Brice, Kajira Djoumahna and others. Her own thorough class instruction and passion for the
dance has brought women throughout the Hudson Valley of New York to her studio Ancient Callings which is exclusively Middle
The Source from which we dance cannot be measured,
it is an infinite number of possibilities that began in ancient times
and thread
its way through lives reincarnated,
to end up in these bodies we now currently possess.
By movement and creative thought mingling
together i
n an infinite number of patterns we continue that
which in all probability has been learned since the beginning
of time.
How vast is this universe , that in one circle of the wrist, or hip, or chest,
we re-create that which is endless...
