Jillanna

About me:

swift like a serpent's strike

slow squeeze

poisonous quickening

do you prefer

a sudden crushing end

or a sumptuous, leisurely suffocation?

I perform Morbid Cabaret dance and performance art as well as Oriental Belly Dance... I have focused my creativity towards belly dancing for nearly a decade, choreographing, instructing, and performing as well as directing my troupes and organizing events. As a professional belly dancer I also perform belly grams.

Beyond belly dancing.. I create visual, verbal and other types of performance art. I earned my Bachelors degree in Fine Arts (summa cum laude/Amherst College) and Masters Degree in Art History/Modern Art (University of Massachusetts-Amherst), with grant-funded study in African Art and additional study in Islamic Art.

www.merrybellies.com I direct several dance and performance troupes, including my Morbid Cabaret troupe, Corpsewax Dollies. I teach Oriental and fusion styles of belly dance in the Chattanooga & Northwest Georgia Area (Ringgold, GA; Fort Oglethorpe, GA; Dalton, GA; Cleveland, TN; Ooltewah, TN; Blue Ridge, GA; Tromaville, Monroeville Mall...).

I write poetry and fiction, and am very pleased to be a contributing writer for Autoeroticasphyxium Zine. I also enjoy acting and modeling, especially in the horror and science fiction genres. Current projects include acting as the werewolf's sister in the online series Monsters Anonymous (Minty Pineapple Entertainment; see the videos in my blog!); performing in Mr Blank's Carnivale of Black Hearts as Lilith the Snake Girl, etc.; acting in an upcoming short video in which I am an evil psychic who gets to kill someone (FultsMelton Studios) and then next year acting in a full length feature film by the same studio... See my blog for more and subscribe for updates, please!

Here I am acting in a short film, as a belly dancing zombie