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About

Anaid is a soloist and director of Mystique Fusion Bellydance, a Dark Tribal Fusion company in San Antonio. She actively performs and instructs ATS, Tribal Fusion and Gothic Bellydance and is the first Dark Tribal Fusion company in the San Antonio area. Her dance uses American Tribal Style as the core foundation, but incorporates elements of other forms of ethnic dance and theatrics into her own stylization. With a love of all things dark and eclectic and bellydance without boundaries, she considers herself amongst a developing genre of dance known to some as Gothic Bellydance or Raks Gothique.

She has been a student of various dance forms since the age of 4, yet her bellydance journey begain in 2003. She briefly studied with Little Egypt of San Antonio, and then found herself studying with Asheba of the Bedouin Bellydance Company and soon after discovered American Tribal Style and Tribal Fusion Bellydance. Anaid then pursued American Tribal Style bellydance with the Gypsy Rogues of Austin and became a member of the performance troupe. Although people thought she was crazy for driving to another city for Tribal Bellydance Anaid was taking 2-3 trips weekly to learn as much as possible and was offered a teaching assistant position. She taught under the direction of Zira of the Gypsy Rogues for several months in San Antonio. In early 2007 Anaid created her vision of dark tribal fusion bellydance and named it Mystique Fusion Bellydance. She decided in 2008 to pursue this project full time and actively performs, instructs, and choreographs American Tribal Style, Tribal Fusion, and her interpretation of Gothic Bellydance.

With the desire to learn as much as possible and to keep her choreographies fresh and innovative, she continuously takes classes and workshops around the U.S. Most notable workshops/classes have been with master artists such as: members of the Indigo, Sharon Kihara, Tempest, Unmata, Ariellah, Asharah, Karim Nagi, Rose Harden, Mira Betz, Shakra, Frederique, Lorelei (Houston), Sashi, Jillee of the Fire Lillys, Michelle Manx, and Stacey Lizette. Anaid is interested in dancing for not just the self, but for the love of dance. She encourages up and coming dancers in the community, doesn't embellish her dance style with fancy words and stays true to bellydance by promoting at dance and belly dance events nationwide and locally. She is part of a non-competitive, new emerging dance community, and welcomes new collaborators with open arms and hosts bellydance events of all genres. She has worked under collaboration with students Freya (2007-present), Giomara(2008), Cristal(2008) and Kaye(2008) and fellow instructor Samara of San Antonio.

"Anaid is a truly dedicated dancer. Her devotion to the dance clearly shows in her quality-minded teaching, her community-mindedness, excellent attention to detail in performance and event production, and her desire to continue to learn and expand her dance horizons."
- Tempest

Past Appearances

These are a selection of some of our public past performances:

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