"Gothic Bellydance"
featuring Ayshe in "KAL-I-SIS"

"Wings:
The Complete Technique"
instructional DVD

is a New York dance artist, choreographer and designer. Ayshe blends her Greek and American heritage to create an exotic and unusual dance style. She has trained extensively in classical ballet, modern dance, yoga, and numerous ethnic dance forms, particularly Middle Eastern dance, ancient pharaonic dance, and Indian dance. She holds a B.A. from Hunter College in Human Movement, Archaeology, and Middle Eastern Studies.

Ayshe dances throughout the New York area in clubs, museums, cultural festivals, and theater settings. Some notable appearances have been at MTV's Christmas Party; the Taj Mahal Casino and the opening of Ceasar's Palace in Atlantic City: the Museum of Natural History and Lincoln Center's Bruno Walter Auditorium with Morocco's Casbah Dance Experience: and Summerstage with renown Calypsonian, Super Blue, and again with the New York Grand Opera's production of Aida. In the summer of 2002 Ayshe appeared in Jehan's off-Broadway production of Goddessdance, at the American Theater for Actors, and again in 2003 at the Poet's Den and the Director's Studio. Also, in spring 2003 she appeared in an international music and dance festival in Trinidad. In 2004 Ayshe appeared in Lincoln Center's dance series as part of the show, "Divas of Middle Eastern Dance".

In the past Ayshe has appeared with numerous dance companies. Within the Middle Eastern realm these have included the already mentioned, Morocco's Casbah Dance Experience and Jehan's Goddessdance. Besides these she also appeared with the Shoshana Dance Theatre, the American Egyptian Dance Co., and Ramzi El Edlebi's dance troupe. She collaborated with Nadia Moussa for several years on a number of projects appearing and presenting works in venues such as the Public Theatre and the Turkish community's Mayfest Arts Events Series. In the mid-nineties she organized a New Jersey Middle Eastern dance series, at the Istanbul Tavern Dinner Club, that bi-annually presented different dance troupes. These included Oriental Images, Dunyavi Dance Theatre, and Morocco's Casbah Dance Experience.

Currently, Ayshe has been working on creative projects and workshops with Venus Uprising(www.venusuprising.com)and has been performing in dance and fitness dvd's for www.worlddancenewyork.com. She continues performing at restaurants, nightclubs, stage shows, weddings and many thematic events. Her styles include: Turkish and Egyptian style belly dance, Indian dance, and fusion dances. To book Ayshe for your event or venue please e-mail: ayshedancer@gmail.com

Besides, designing a number of the costumes featured in Goddessdance, Ayshe has been designing "wings of Isis", a spectacular dance prop that transforms a dancer into a vision of a winged goddess.

Ayshe is responsible for the initiation of "Isis wings" as a specialty for cabaret performancs. Wings were originally used for costuming in Las Vegas acts & Caribbean carnival parades. They found their way into Middle Eastern dance as a means to depict the Egyptian Goddess, Isis, who appears on ancient wall paintings with large bird wings. Ayshe continues to experiment with wings, using them with many styles of music and movement.

Ayshe designs wings for dancers worldwide. Her wings are featured in BELLYDANCE SUPERSTARS. Her company, "Wings of Ayshe", emphasizes designing wings of unusual fabrics and textures.