With a background in art history and international studies, and a lifelong love of dance, Kalila Indivar brings her unique perspective to the history of bellydance in America. She stumbled across belly dance in 2004 and hasn’t stopped yet. She was inspired to start studying the history of this dance form several years ago by a homework assignment for a workshop with the inimitable Mira Betz. She actively continues her research today and is happy to share the fruits of her labor with the dance community, or random strangers willing to listen. Kalila has studied several styles of belly dance, including Egyptian cabaret (raqs sharqi) and folkloric, ATS® where she is certified as a Sister Studio, and her true love, Transnational Fusion.

Disclaimer: She does not have a Masters of Library Science. She does have a distinct love of research and a brain that functions like a reference librarian. If she doesn’t know the answer, she can probably find it.