Greater St. Louis Area, MO, USA
Founder & Director of the Stygian Collective
Metal & Dark Fusion Belly Dance Performance & Instruction - Online & In Person!
Specializing in Metal Fusion, Emotive Choreography, Sword Dance, and Group Choreography
Greater St. Louis Area, MO, USA
Eurythmic blend of fusion dance, hip hop, fire and badassery.
Classes, workshops, performance, production, creation.
Stygian Collective member since 2020
Lunar Fusion director since 2008
Amortcious established 2008 - Intentional adornments for modern mystics.
Central Illinois, USA
Central Illinois
The friendliest ghost!
Artist of dance, graphics, video, costumes, photography, & audio.
Central Illinois, USA
Central Illinois
Gothic Fusion and Alternative Belly Dance Performance
Specializing in Gothic Fusion, Emotive Dance and Choreography
Las Vegas, NV, USA
GothikDoll is skilled in many styles of bellydance however, her love of magic, alchemy, the macabre, swords, fire and metal music inspire her to push boundaries and create a style that is all her own.
Central Illinois, USA
Morgana started in Egyptian cabaret 20 some years ago and considers herself a perpetual beginner.
Champaign, IL, USA
Fusion dancer, emotive dancer, storyteller, Mother of Monsters, and Weird Al fangirl!
Glendale Heights, IL, USA
An industrial rivethead with a big hug waiting for you. Watch out, Ima coming!
Illinois, USA
“I am that very witch. When I sleep my spirit slips away from my body and dances naked with The Devil.”
Kansas City, MO, USA
Aeryn is a transnational fusion and improv performer, founder and director of Banduri Dance Collective, a member of the Stygian teaching team, and has taught and performed at festivals and shows throughout the US. She loves swords, fire, and music with crows and thunder.
Georgia, USA
“My, my those eyes like fire. I’m a winged insect, you’re a funeral pyre.” - Sleep Token
Minneapolis, MN, USA
Sitri Sophia, lover of all things dark and magical, is fusion bellydancer, instructor, and gogo dancer who can be found summoning specters on various stages around the Midwest as well as in the virtual realms.
Sweden
A dancer with a twist!
Swedish performer, teacher and organizer in Dark Fusion, FCBD®Style, Oriental, Burlesque
and more.
Australia
Gothic and theatrical fusion dancer
Bellydance and trauma conscious yoga teacher
Specialist trauma therapist
Director and founder of Gothla AU
Montréal, QC, Canada
The Art-Chemist | Dark Fashion Dancer, Corset Designer, Fire, Circus, Dance and Sewing Teacher, Model
Champaign, IL, USA
The son and student of Lilith, KinderNacht shares her passion for theatrics and narrative in dance. Using her blend of Egyptian and fusion, he brings high energy and raw enthusiasm wherever his presence is felt.
Things I love include Fusion/American Cabaret belly dance, rock/grunge music, fantasy, horror, cosplay, and finding ways to combine some or all of the above.
St. Louis, MO, USA
Sweet, sultry, and sassy siren with experience in fusion styles, Datura Style, FCBD style, Raqs Sharqi, and Old School AmCab. Certified 8 Elements Cultivate, Boho Blade Technician and Dance Cohesion student and practitioner.
Maryland, USA
Stygian teacher, Bohemian Blade / Bellydance Certified Teacher, Masala Movements Certified Teacher, Soloist and Troupe performer, Specializes in Sword and Theatrical Fusion.
Las Vegas, NV, USA
Lillith Hellhouse is a lover of the lowbrow, the weird, the over the top, and the macabre. She has studied and enjoys everything from folkloric and traditional to fusion; however, her greatest passion lies in synchronized group improv. Lillith is a certified Foundations and Metamorphosis instructor in Fly Fusion Dance and the Director of Silver Sage Collective.
New Jersey, USA
Performance artist and choreographer intertwining rock music and heavy metal with fusion style dance.
California, USA
A forever bellydance student, always seeking to learn and grow. member of Eyes on Fire Fusion Dance and Daughters of Darkness
Edmonton (Alberta, CA)
Emerge certified dancer
Former member of Les Nuits d'Émeraudes (QC)
Lover of metal and creative freedom
Specializing in Raqs sharqi, Iraqi and metal fusion
Las Vegas, NV, USA
Dancer with a special focus on Group Improv, Fusion and Fire!
Washington D.C., USA
A queen of swords, founder and director of Bohemian Belly dance and the Boho Blade format. Co producer to the Raven's Night soiree.
St. Louis, MO, USA
You can take the girl out of the goth club, but you can’t take the goth club out of the girl!
St. Louis, MO, USA
Dancer, Gym Rat and Wastelander
St. Louis, MO, USA
Just a regular guy...living the extraordinary Stygian life!
Maryland, USA
Boudica is an eclectic and dark fusion dancer with a penchant for swords and geekery.
Level Two Certified Stygian Dancer and teacher. Weaving between the light and dark.
Havre de Grace, MD, USA
April Monique is an artist of many genres (performing and visual), but is primarily a dancer. She loves horror, she loves bellydance, she loves weird music, she loves making art with friends. Stygian is a perfect home for this weirdo. Here... Everyday is Halloween! (cue Ministry...)
Baton Rouge Louisiana, USA
Heavy metal Horticulturist who paints, sings, rescues animals and dances
Fort Ripley, MN, USA
Fire & fusion dancer since 2012, and one of the founding members of Olive Branch Belly Dance troupe. Fire is her favorite dance partner!
Israel
Tribal fusion and dark tribal enthusiastic, practicing for eight years under the guidance and inspiration of Elizabeth Zohar, Ariellah, Dud, Gothla, the Stygian Collective, and many others to come!
Dallas, TX, USA
Inanna is an award winning performance artist and instructor. Belly Dance, Fire, Swords, Daggers and Metal!!!
O’Fallon, IL, USA
An entrepreneurial black-heart, her spirits are in her practice of all things art and movement.
Orlando, Florida, USA
Nazirah is a multitalented dancer that specializes in Dark Fusion and Metal Belly Dance.
Decatur, IL, USA
metal is a huge part of my life, and I love how it dancing makes me feel. it let me express myself in ways I never knew where possible. I love learning new styles and am always expanding my dance knowledge.
"The dance is a poem of which each movement is a word." -Mata Hari
Worcestershire, United Kingdom
A dancer and heavy metal maniac from the United Kingdom
Gaithersburg, MD, USA
Lindsey is a goth, nerd, cosplayer, dancer, animal lover, and very happy to meet you!
Champaign, IL, USA
Lilith is a member of Hip Drop Hooligans and a dance instructor at Urbana Dance Company.
Lincoln, Nebraska, USA
The serpentine queen of slink! Belly Dancing since 2010, trained in many stylizations; but a Dark Fusion badass at heart!
Denver, CO, USA
Burlesque, bellydance, music composition, metal head gremlin, sacred space in movement, butoh, yoga, mythology, folklore, witchcraft
Montréal, QC, Canada
The Red Scare of Burlesque
Flint, Michigan, USA
Sara Shewolf is a dynamic fusion artist, healer, and entrepreneur dedicated to movement, creativity, and spiritual empowerment. As the co-owner of Flint Fusion, LLC and founder of Howl & Heal Sanctuary, she blends dance, fitness, and energy work to inspire growth and transformation.
Muncie, Indiana, USA
Instructor and Director of Rebellyon
Flint, MI, USA
Coco Bang is a seasoned musician with a lifelong passion for music and dance. Co-founder of Flint Fusion LLC
Rural Missouri, USA
Sometimes a warrior, sometimes a pirate, a mermaid or a witch, always a passionate dancer who loves to tell a story onstage.
Orangevale, CA, USA
An enthusiastic, if clumsy dancer who is getting her groove back after a long hiatus.
Florida, USA
An Original Stygian Sister returned to us at last!
West Michigan, USA
A mom with a dark cottage core aesthetic with a love of bellydance and chasing littles on her budding homestead.
Indianapolis, IN, USA
A budding bellydance soloist, with a background in FCBD and Stygian Style dark metal fusion. Come, see the spark catch.
Michigan, USA
Deana is the troupe director of Triskelion Belly Dance and half of the duo Madd Geek. She has studied and performed a wide variety of dance styles and taught raqs sharqi, burlesque, and fusion belly dance. The older she gets, the more she wants to unleash her inner badass, so watch out!
Missouri, USA
Newspaper artist, leather carver, rodeo association co-owner and dancer. "Exploring the contrast of power and vulnerability though dance seems to be how I fight my inner dialog of knowing I'm a powerful being, yet in the same breath terrified of being that strong woman I feel fighting to get out."
Illinois, USA
From the ashes of trauma, the depths of hell, I rose, covered in dirt, glowing, crowned, creating my own f'n Queendom.
South Carolina, USA
Fusion dancer from the Upstate of South Carolina.
Illinois, USA
Designer and dance enthusiast with a love for both Fusion and Raqs Sharqi. Always learning, always moving.
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