Petite Jamilla Bridging the generation gap	More Profiles | Print | Search | Email This
With an award winning style that escapes definition, and talent that is inescapable, this Southern Beauty has been bellydancing her entire life, and charming her way across the world. Petite Jamilla is carrying on her mother's legacy, Jamilla Rasa, by bridging the generation gap between the traditional folkloric style and modern bellydance fusion. She has been performing and studying her eclectic style of bellydance intensively for over 11 years becoming professional and touring the Southeast U.S. from the age of 15, a seasoned instructor by 17, and by the time she was 19, she had 2 instructional independently filmed DVDs on the market. Before her 5 years of touring history with Bellydance Superstars, Petite Jamilla traveled to Paris France as the featured artist for Karen Graffeo's art exhibition which documents life in Roma refugee encampments throughout Europe. She has performed alongside the Rabat Orchestra, and even, American Idol Ruben Studdard. Zaghareet Magazine recognized Petite Jamilla's talent twice by gracing her as the cover artist and featured story in 2004, and awarding her with the title "Best Kept Secret" in 2006. Petite Jamilla joined the BDSS in 2004 as a "Rose" or corps dancer but was also given a solo to perform her unique whirling dervish piece that has since become a mainstay of the show in ever more complex progressions. Soon the intensive BDSS training and touring experience combined with her inherent talent had her officially moved to the front line. With the BDSS Petite Jamilla has toured in 20 countries performing in top of the line venues alongside the ballet and shows like Riverdance. She also became one of the BDSS image icons gracing the front cover of the "Live From Paris" DVD and many tour posters. Meanwhile she also became an important member of the BDSS teacher team giving workshops all over the world and being a featured teacher at all of the BDSS Raqs annual events. Through all of this and the countless TV and radio performances and press features she has become one of the most recognized names in Bellydance. She can be seen as a dancer in the following BELLYDANCE SUPERSTARS DVDs: "Unveiled: Double Veil Instructional with Petite Jamilla", "American Bellydancer", "Live at Folies Bergere", "Solos from Monte Carlo", "30 Days to Vegas", "Babelesque: Live from Japan", "3D Superstars" (Vol. 1 and 2), "The Art of Bellydance: Live from Shanghai", and our newest release, "Bombay Bellywood: Live from Los Angeles". Petite Jamilla showcases her musical talents as a featured musician in the BELLYDANCE SUPERSTARS Tribal Fusions DVD, in addition to playing bagpipes on the Baghdad Heavy Metal CD. http://facebook.com/petitejamilla http://myspace.com/petitejamilla http://hifive.com/petitejamilla other sites we have: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SouthernBellydancer http://www.bohemianmarket.com myspace.com/sirqojreams (sirqus of Jreams) My Bellydance troupe myspace.com/MOHHema (Moe O Hakina Hema) My Polynesian Troupe http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SouthernBellydancer http://www.myspace.com/petitejamilla http://www.bellydancesuperstars.com
"Petite Jamilla" Aaron Stipkovich | Published: Fri, 1 Jan 2010 |