Roslin Atreides - Belly Dancer

From an early age, Roslin loved to dance.  Her love of dance started around 1995 when a family friend gave her family a VHS of the Riverdance. The music and the movements entranced her and she loved watching the tape over and over again. 

 

In third grade she began taking dance classes at her local community center.  It was a small space and she loved her teacher.  She started learning tap and ballet, and kept taking ballet for 10 years.  The music, costuming and choreography made her happy and brought a light to her life. She danced demi-pointe for eight years, and for the last two years she moved to full pointe and lyrical ballet. After she granduated high school, she was convinced that she wouldn't be able to find someplace to dance again.  The FAU Ballroom Dance Club proved her wrong. 

 

She danced with the club for a year and a half, her boyfriend at the time Jose being her partner through that time.  She loves the Latin dances as well as the Waltz.  She also had the perfect dance partner in Jose, because he had the height and the patience to keep up with her and remind her that he was supposed to be leading, not her.

 

A car accident in 2008 stopped her dancing for a time, her injuries preventing her from fully enjoying dance.  Physical therapy for her back and resting her knee put many things on hold until she was fully recovered.   Soon the itch and need to dance again began to eat at her and was reminded about her curiosity towards belly dance when she attended the Florida Reniassance Festival; watching theMasala Middle Eastern Dance Fusion troupe performing.

 

She began searching for classes in her area, and came across a belly dance basics class in her home city, taught by Eugenia of Arabella; an Egyptian Cabaret and fusion troupe based out of Coconut Creek, FL. After about a year she joined the troupe and performed with them for about a year and a half.  Her true love was Tribal Fusion and after a time she found The Indigo Garden and started taking Tribal Fusion and ATS classes there.  For two years she danced with the Vanya E'dan Dance Company, and now she's branching out on her own. 

 

Her idols are Rachel Brice, Zoe Jakes, Bozenka, Sharon Kihara and many other dancers in the belly dance world.  She hopes to one day learn from them all and be able to perform more often.