The short version...

I am a professional dancer, yoga teacher and dance mentor based in Italy, specialised in Indian Fusion Bellydance.

I graduated with a BA as best student in Indian Music and Dance (Bharatanatyam) at the Conservatory of Vicenza, and my soul’s purpose is to teach dance and help passionate dancers like you embody technique, artistry and confidence!

For more than 15 years I've toured in over 20 countries around the world, sharing with hundreds of students my method based on detailed technique, in-depth cultural immersions and the art of Bodyfulness.

But it wasn't always like that...

In my early 20s I was in a very dark moment: I had a dysfunctional family, a very toxic relationship, and on top of that I got injured and had to stay in bed for 30 days, and for this reason got fired on the spot from my 9-5 graphic designer day job. 
I was supposed to fall apart... 

What I did instead was to find the courage and set off to make my passion my job!

Dance healed my soul when I felt lost, it became my light, giving me a beautiful new purpose in life: to show you how dance can change your life from the inside out.

I now live with my beloved family: my lil baby and my chef husband, and I love reading tons of books, herbal teas, walks by the seaside and tarot cards.

The longer version...

I started my journey in Bellydance when I was 18, looking for a way to reconnect with my "femininity" after years of abuse and disconnection with my body. That's when I started studying a variety of Bellydance styles, including Raqs Sharki, Tunisian dance and American Cabaret.

Soon after, I watched just a few seconds of Rachel Brice dancing on a Bellydance Superstars DVD during a theory dance class and immediately fell in love with what I saw: the aesthetics, the precise and serpentine movements, and the empowered posture... Everything was calling me. 
Unfortunately my dance teacher at that time discouraged me to study  what she referred to as "Tribal Fusion" because she said it was a mix of cultures and not "authentic" Bellydance...
And even so, just watching a few seconds of Rachel's movements changed the way I danced forever.

During those years of reconnection with my body and my deeper self I started my journey in Vinyasa Yoga as well, and one afternoon I googled "bellydance yoga" and one video of Samantha Emanuel popped up: it was such an emotional one, I remember myself crying in front of the computer watching her soulful empowered way of dancing, and telling myself: "THIS is what I want!"

I immediately purchased all the DVDs I could (it was 2009 and Tribal Fusion Bellydance classes did not exist in South Italy) and started practicing early in the morning, before going to my 9-5 job as a graphic designer.

Destiny wanted me to dance: immediately after, I fell from stairs and got injured, had to stay in bed for 1 month and fired from my job because of that...
That's when I decided to go ALL IN: as soon as I recovered I used all my savings to travel and learn from great teachers worldwide.

What later became my personal style was greatly influenced by my mentors and inspirations: Suhaila Salimpour, Rachel Brice, Samantha Emanuel, Mardi Love, April Rose, Ariellah, Colleena Shakti, Manca Pavli and Violet Scrap just to name a few, and by my collateral studies in theatre-dance and contemporary dance.

In 2012 I met my Indian classical dance teacher Nuria Sala Grau and my life was transformed again: under her guidance I earned a Bachelor's Degree cum laude in Bhāratanāṭyam dance at the Conservatory of Vicenza. 
I had the honour to study with great exponents of this style: Praveen Kumar, Leela Samson and Shobana Jeyasingh, with whom I explored the hybridisation of Indian and contemporary dance languages.

Indian classical dance gave me a structure on how to approach the geometry of the body and to convey emotions through an elaborate vocabulary of gestures: this is when I started to experiment and "fuse" a lot of Indian elements in my Fusion Bellydance performances and teaching method, and that's when I started to call it Indian Fusion Bellydance.

Around the same time I started to be invited to teach and perform abroad, which led me to dance in over 20 countries around the world, including India where I taught during the first Tribal Fusion festival in India in 2016 (such a full-circle moment for me!)