Queensland Fusion Belly Dance

Thais Carvalho is a Fusion Dancer based in Brisbane - Australia and Director of Queensland Fusion Belly Dance and Co-founder of the Essence Belly Dance Retreat, a integrative dance Collective that welcome and includes a variety of fusion styles that has influences in MENAHT, Salimpour School, The indigo, FCBD, and Mardi Love styles. Thais is a student and lover of Salimpour School and fascinated about Middle Eastern Belly Dance, where she keep learning and searching it’s deep cultural aspects and appreciating culturally the influences in modern belly dance as in South America, specially in Brazil, where the Belly Dance was strong culturally and highly influenced by Syrian and Lebanese communities.

With a strong background in Classical Ballet and Contemporary dance, these dance styles are strongly involved in her personal dance development and since the choice of following the transnational dance, is a consistent and deep study in Dance vocabularies that are part of culture signatures that involves lots of analysis and group studies to develop choreographies and Showcases with strong concepts so the MISSION is to create a supportive and collaborative environment where dancers can participate and integrate their multicultural aspects in a Share&Learn methodology, where tradition can meet modernity with respect and appreciation.

In 2010 started to study Medicinal plants and their types of extractions and how they affect the body's progress specific for dance. After a few years researching and studying the deep relation between herbal Medicines and Dance therapy, Thais created the Dance Lab Tribal Medicine Studies, which means the Integrated Movement through the use of medicinal plants for body progress, incorporated in Annual Dance Retreat.