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in bellydance, connections with the Mother Earth are consecrated as beautiful and sacred. Body and spirit are one; life on earth, a sacred celebration.
With beauty, grace, and an ability to entrance audiences, Ms. Poole re-births ancient movements and gestures into the modem world, combining authenticity with contemporary appeal.
She has developed a personal style that includes a wide range of expression. She can be hypnotic, lyrical, solemnly priestess-like, folksy, impishly humorous and charming... all in the same dance!
Intimately connected to the spiraling melodies and magical rhythms of the Middle Eastern music to which she moves, Ms. Poole performs improvisation as well as self-created choreography and traditional dances. As reviewers of the Washington Area Mid-East Dance Association have said, she is “a joy to watch.”
A student of the dance for over 10 years, a teacher since 1986, Ms. Poole conducts ongoing classes for the Albemarle Community Education Department in Charlottesville.
She is also co-artistic director of the Topkapi Dancers, a folkloric troupe based in Fairfax.
Her talents also flow into the creation of delightful and inventive costumes. All of her costumes are handmade. Influenced by tradition, her costumes also reflect her originality of vision and clever resourcefulness in the use of materials at hand.
Some in Rappahannock County will remember Kawakib dancing in Sperryville at craft festivals or at the foot of the mountain on the day of the Harmonic Convergence (August 16, 1987.) That day she danced a special dance, the Zar,
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