Resume

Dance Resume
Tascheleia Marangoni

778.215.7418 Email: info@worldbeat.ca Website: www.worldbeat.ca 

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Dance Career Highlights & Projects:

• Creation of Comprehensive Dance Syllabus for Belly Dance Orientale, and Worldbeat Dance & Art.
  
  

• 10 years performing as a professional Belly Dancer throughout Alberta.
  
  

• Owner/Operator of Dance Mosaic, a Dance Studio dedicated to the study of Cultural Dance & Music.
  
  

• Creation of Instructional DVD for Beginner Belly Dance for adults.
  
  

• Production, Direction & Choreography for several major Dance Productions; more details below.
  
  

• Direction of three different professional Dance Troupes:
  Belly Dance Orientale,  Halem al Sahara,  Mosaic Dance
  
  

• Creation of Original Choreography for Vinok Worldance: Christmas Around the World 2010.
  
  

• Featured Dancer in Food Network show “Family Restaurant – Season 1”.
  
  

• Edmonton Team Leader for Shimmy Mob, an annual international Dance Flash Mob organized to raise funds for various women's charities.
  
  

• Collaborated with Salsa Babies inc. to create Belly Dancin' Babies when I was expecting my two younger children. A company focused on providing fun dance classes for expecting Moms, and Moms with babies.
  
  

• Breastfeeding Art Expo: An interdisciplinary art show put together by Interior Health and Kelowna Community Resources in order to bring awareness to the importance of breastfeeding. It opened in Kelowna at the Rotary Centre of the Arts, and toured central BC. I was honoured to be one of fifteen artists selected to participate in this show. My project entitled Pillars of Support encompassed a large scale painting, photo voice component, and dance choreography performed by eight contracted dancers for which I choreographed the piece, and contracted a local music group to compose the music.
  
  

• Owner & Artistic Director of Worldbeat Dance & Arts, dance studio 2015-2016, dance company through present.
  
  

• World Music Manager, HMV

What have I studied:

Began dance training at the age of three, and have never stopped dancing!

Dance styles studied and worked with:

Ballet

Jazz

Tap

Modern/Contemporary

Scottish/Highland

Italian Folk Dance

Ukrainian & Easter European Dance

Middle Eastern & North African Dance (traditional and modern)

Flamenco

Indian Folk & Classical (Rajasthani, Kathak, Bollywood, Bhangra)

Polynesian (Hawaiian, Tahitian)
Greek dance

International Folk Dance

Salsa & various Latin dance styles

Tango

Country line/Square Dancing

Yoga

Training in effective and healthy warm ups and cool downs

Extensive training & experience as dance choreographer
Extensive training in rhythms and instruments from around the world

Where am I Effective:

• Intelligent, comprehensive person who learns quickly

• Able to breakdown and teach movements and choreography very well

• Warm, friendly, and personable

• Love of teaching and sharing dance with others

• Passionate about dance, and dedicated to my students, choreographies, and performances

• Personal love of all cultural dance styles, and sharing them with others.
  
  

Where have I trained:

Lecky School of Dance

Jazz, Ballet, Tap, Highland

Sangudo School of Dance

Jazz, Ballet, Ukrainian Dance & Culture

Ward School of Dance

Jazz

Grant MacEwan Community College

Middle Eastern Dance, Contemporary

Isis Dance Productions

Middle Eastern Dance
Hadia Dance
Middle Eastern & North African Dance
Jalilah
Middle Eastern Dance
Beata & Horatio Cifuentes
Orientale Belly Dance

Usha Kala Niketan School of Dance

Rajasthani dance, Kathak
Devorah of Spain
Flamenco
Flavia Robles
Flamenco, Spanish classical

Vinok Worldance, Leanne Koziak

Flamenco, International Folk Dance
Francine Sweet
Flamenco
Etown Salsa
Salsa

U of A: Michael Frishkopf, Assistant Director Ethnomusicology Department

Middle Eastern music, culture, and language
Fiona Malena
Flamenco
Anar Dana, Helene Erikson
International Folk Dance

Further study of: Flamenco, Polynesian, Indian, Jazz, Ballet, Highland, Salsa, Latin, Tango, International Folk Dance
Through a wide variety of instructors, studios, and workshops

Where have I taught:

I have taught dance on and off since 1990. From 1999 through 2008 I taught approximately 12 classes per week.
Since then I have cut back and taught anywhere from 1-8 classes per week.

Sangudo School of Dance

Jazz

Grant MacEwan Community College

Egyptian Belly Dance & Middle Eastern Dance, Bollywood, Worldbeat Dance

Isis Dance Productions

Egyptian Belly Dance & Middle Eastern Dance

Millennium Place

Egyptian Belly Dance & Middle Eastern Dance

NAIT

Egyptian Belly Dance & Middle Eastern Dance

L.A. Dance Academy

Egyptian Belly Dance & Middle Eastern Dance, Flamenco
Edmonton Ukrainian Dance Hall
Egyptian Belly Dance & Middle Eastern Dance

St. Albert, Spruce Grove, Stony Plain, Leduc, Sherwood Park Dance Studios

Egyptian Belly Dance & Middle Eastern Dance

Prana Yoga, From Within Wellness Centre, Footnotes Dance Ltd.,

Egyptian Belly Dance, Yoga fusion
Mosaic Dance, Edmonton
Egyptian Belly Dance & Middle Eastern, Jazz Orientale
Worldbeat Dance & Arts, Kelowna
Egyptian Belly Dance, Middle Eastern Folk, North African, Flamenco, Indian, Polynesian
Rotary Centre for the Arts
Flamenco, Middle Eastern Dance
Parkinson Recreation Centre
Middle Eastern Dance, Bollywood

Where have I performed:
Professional Belly Dancer

I performed weekly as a professional Belly Dancer in a huge variety of Greek & Arabic Restaurants around Alberta from 1999 through 2008. I averaged 2-5 shows per weekend during these years, more during special occasions and holidays, plus private performances at weddings, cultural celebrations, and festivals. I was also responsible for scheduling of the dancers for these performances along with another dancer, as there were about ten of us performing weekly in around twenty restaurants.
Vinok Worldance
One Season – International Folk Dance
Professional Cultural Dancer
I have had many opportunities to perform in a wide range of cultural dance styles at cultural celebrations, festivals, and events over the years. Some examples would be Alberta Dance Alliance Feats Festival, Edmonton Heritage Days (this is a huge festival), Taste of Edmonton, West Kelowna World Music Festival. There are too many to list and I often forget a lot of the places I have performed until reminded, but my favourite always was performing at Heritage Days in Edmonton!
Stage Productions
I have performed in an enormous amount of stage productions since the age of three and beyond. Encompassing all of the dance styles I have learned at different stages of my life.
I continue to perform professionally in a variety of cultural dance styles and capacities!

Dance Productions:

Between 1999 and 2008, I produced, directed and choreographed 7 successful, large scale cultural dance productions, averaging 100 performers each. Two of the seven shows were sold out 2 weeks before the performance, all shows were sold out by opening night. One of these productions detailed the history of Middle Eastern Dance from ancient times through present day.
Desert Dance, Desert Dance 2, The Dancer's Gift, The Desert's Gift, The Oldest Dance, At the Bazaar, An Evening of Belly Dance
As well, I have organized, choreographed, and hosted a wide variety of Hafla's and Dance Parities.
Currently I am producing dance productions for the Central Okanagan Performing Arts Festival entitled ASPIRE.

Competitions:

From 1983 through 1989 I performed and competed in the Evergreen Dance Festival. Throughout those years I was awarded various medals for talents and achievements in dance and choreography.

My Dance Company:
Worldbeat Dance & Art
I have had my own Dance Company since 1999. It began as Belly Dance Orientale, then evolved into Tascheleia Dance, and finally became Worldbeat Dance & Art in 2015. Through this company I have many dance and art offerings. Regarding Dance specifically, I can be hired as a:
-Dance Instructor -  for classes, workshops, or events
-Choreographer - for classes, performances, projects, and stage productions
-Dance Performance Artist – for events, celebrations, festivals, etc
www.worldbeat.ca