ACE-certified, TAHYA is a vibrant and natural dancer with over 30 years of Danse Orientale teaching and performance experience both nationally and internationally.

She offers on-going dance and frame drum classes and weekend workshop/retreats which explore multi-cultural sacred and secular dance traditions. The Tahya Technique™ "Healing Dance" program uses ancient dance traditions as a pathway to relaxation and healing. Her grounded, earthy, sensual style celebrates the beauty within and her artistry has led her to collaborations with internationally-acclaimed artists/musicians/composers including David Amram, Paul Chou, Lori Cotler, Mimi Janislawski, Paulo Mattioli, Morocco, Grant Smith, and Glen Velez. To date, her art has led to engagements throughout the U.S. continent and Hawaii, Bali and Scotland. In 2006 she succesfully passed the certification examination for ACE (American Council on Exercise) Group Fitness Instructor.

OBJECTIVE: Promote, preserve and present music and dance traditions of the Middle and Far East as a means of kindling one's creativity and the healing potential within. Utilizing drumming & dance movements "grounded"/rooted in the sacred and secular traditions of North Africa, and the Middle & Far East, the intent is to introduce these arts as accessible tools for relaxation, reconnecting with our deeper selves (and each other), increasing individual creativity and reviving one's health & well being.

PERFORMANCE EXPERIENCE: Recognized as the Lehigh Valley's leading authority on Eastern arts, Tahya captures the mystique of Middle and Far Eastern cultural traditions. Her artistic expression celebrates a grounded, earthy, sensual style while simultaneously building cultural awareness and dance appreciation, replacing misconceptions with informed concepts and boosting a respect for art forms steeped in antiquity.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE: Recognized as the Lehigh Valley's leading instructor of Eastern dance, Tahya has developed a program utilizing Middle and Far Eastern cultural traditions that gently strengthens and tones muscles, improves coordination and flexibility while liberating new dimensions of self-expression. Participants in her programs express appreciation for an expansion in their imagination, creativity, individual growth and fulfillment ~ important components to recovering a personal, spiritual connection to health and well-being.

OTHER:

1984-Present	Member, Lehigh Valley Dance Forum
1990-Present	Member, Lehigh Valley Council on the Arts; sub-committee member Lehigh Valley Arts-in-Education Coalition; contributing writer to Artlinks Resource Book
March, 2000	Professional Development: 'The Arts & Healing' / Seminar with Gianna Volpe, Sponsored by Pennsylvania Council on the Arts
2000-Present	Self-produced instructional DVD and three guided visualization/meditation CD's with percussive "soundscapes" provided by prominent master drummers
2006-Present	Hostess, World Rhythms Program WDIY.FM
2006-Present	ACE-certified Group Fitness Instructor.

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