Biography

Beginning at 12 years old, April Rose has been studying bellydance for 11 years. Her first few years of training in Raks Sharki Egyptian Cabaret led her to Tribal Style and Fusion Bellydance, which she now teaches in the Los Angeles area and Austin, TX.

After 5 years of dancing with UNMATA, the Sacramento-based dance company lead by Amy Sigil, April now tours internationally with the Bellydance Superstars. She also creates clever, dynamic, and technically complex group choreographies for her dance company, The Nautch Project.

With a bachelors degree in Dance from UCLA's department of World Arts and Cultures, April Rose has studied choreographic method as well as a variety of dance forms (including: ballet, modern, West African, jazz, hip hop, Bedhayo Javanese court dance, Bharatanatyam, Odissi, & Khathak classical Indian dances). Studying the role of dance in the production of culture, April Rose is currently working on her Masters degree in Culture and Performance at UCLA.

As a fusion dancer in grad school April Rose is excited by the task of balancing her love for bellydance technique, the ideology of the Tribal Style dance community, and a concern for the ethics of intercultural performance.

April Rose's passion for the Tribal bellydance community is fueled by her love of Improvisational Tribal Style bellydance, believing that ITS Bellydance connects local communities to one another across the globe, through dance and exploration. She is a certified teacher in the Hot Pot style of ITS, created by Amy Sigil, which uses the initial frameworks set up by Carolina Nericcio of Fat Chance Bellydance.

Outside of dance, April likes to travel (sometimes she blogs about it), loves cooking vegan food with friends, practicing yoga and pedaling her sewing machine.