bellydance, hamsters, boots, rodents, Clint Eastwood, german expressionism, Totoro, dolls, costumery, Japan, Käthe Kollwitz, Japanese language, macroeconomics, Otto Dix, marches, corsetry, Lip Service, butoh, The Vietnam War, coffins, the Hapsburgs, torture, Vienna, lunacy, Christian Dior, maggots, bones, hair falls, crowns, The World Wars, Beatrix Potter, The Czech Republic, The Neue Sachlichkeit, pearl milk tea, Film Noir, skulls, art history, terror, Ludwig II, The Northern Renaissance, all things German, the opera, skeletons, Destroyer Ships, cannibals, the color grey, the black forest, vertebrae, Kyoto, Dita Von Teese, Ero Guro, napoleon bonaparte, make up, bats, and jewelery.
Music
Einstürzende Neubauten, Joy Division, Bach, Bauhaus, Pentaphobe, Wumpscut, Depeche Mode, Rasputina, Die Form, And One, Pink Floyd, Helium Vola, David Bowie, That 1 guy, Zilch, Beats Antique, Bjork, Assemblage 23, Maduro, Goldfrapp, Danny Elfman, Queen, Combichrist, Monteverdi, SINA, Vivaldi, Tchaikovsky, and Purcell.
Movies
A Clockwork Orange, The Cremaster cycle, Amelie, V for Vendetta, There Will be Blood, Lawrence of Arabia, American Psycho, The Dark Knight, Dangerous Liasons, Moulin Rouge, Hero, Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence, Cabaret
About me: PALOMA is a bicoastal bellydancer who splits her time between New England and the San Francisco Bay area. With a penchant for the eerie, doleful, and the absurd, she executes her performances with the decadence of a bygone era and the astuteness of a post apocalyptic survivor. She firmly believes that life is a journey of learning and jumps on every opportunity to expand her knowledge of her craft.
She has studied the dance since 2003 and has studied under Laurel "Zephyra" Sill and briefly under Kathy Stahlman (of Tribal Moon). She is a former student of Ariellah of Oakland and Fat Chance Bellydance and currently studies with Tempest in Rhode Island. Initially drawn to to the folkloric routes of the dance she eventually found her niche by watching one of Tempest's performances in 2004 and has since started exploring the experimental and gothic sides of bellydance.
Paloma looks forward to performing in new venues and expanding her repertoire. She is the recipient of the 2008 NBDA People's Choice award in Best Drum Solo, Best Floorwork, Most Out of the Box and Best Choreography in the New Professional category.
Paloma loves to perform and create, telling stories that may otherwise go untold and bringing forward peculiar points that may go unsaid.
Who I'd like to meet: Other dancers, club people, darkly inclined folks, people not afraid to learn...
yes. My sister and i watched it on her huge plasma screen. It was good because i didnt get to see a few peoples performance including yours that night.... And I always have a good laugh watching myself
hmm, i usually do food after, just like crap in the box or something. i have to get ready right after i get off work, so we may not have too much time. yay i'm excited!
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