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Carolena Nericcio is the the dancer credited with developing American Tribal Style Belly Dance (ATS) and the founder and director of FatChanceBellyDance company based in San Francisco. Carolena began studying bellydance at the age of fourteen. She trained for seven years with Masha Archer who was a student of Jamila Salimpour The U.S. Tribal style originated with Jamila Salimpour in San Francisco, California, in the 1960s, with her dance company 'Bal-Anat'. The group created a performance that was a fusion of ethnic influenced dance and modern-day creativity, presented with quasi-historical flavor, especially within the costuming. The presentation consisted of soloists and small groups taking turn coming forward to dance within the context of a troupe performance. Carolena's own particular variation of the Tribal form, known as ATS or American Tribal Style Belly Dance requires a group (troupe) of dancers composing a vocabulary of cues and transitional moves and formations that are designed to be performed as an improvisation in a lead-follow manner. Solos are performed, but are generally supported in a group environment. These formations and cues are the anchor of improvisational choreography. Even when formal choreography is needed, it is created around the logic of the improvisational formations and cues. Pure ATS is typically performed with a chorus of dancers using zills, or finger cymbals, as accompaniment. The music can be folkloric or modern, and the costume is heavily layered, evoking traditions of any or all of its fusion of cultural influences

2007 marked the 20th anniversary of Carolena's FatChanceBellyDance This milestone also marked the completion of eleven dvds, three cds, a Folkwear pattern and a special edition boa and travelok published by Barnes and Noble.

Veganism
Carolena describes herself as leading a compassionate lifestyle that avoids all animal products: food, leather, wool, silk and anything of animal origin. She has a great admiration for Quan Yin or *Guan Yin the Goddess of Compassion, whom she has her tattooed on her arm. Carolena has incorporated Veganism ethics in to her dance company, replacing their silk veils with poly chiffon. Having been an ethical vegetarian since age 14 years old, she became an active vegan in 2006. The fcbd website now includes a link on to 'Carolena's Little Vegan World' which offers resources for a Compassionate lifestyle.

Books
by Carolena Nericcio director of FatChanceBellyDance and originator of ATS]
 * Belly dance a fun and fabulous way to get fit
 * Tribal Talk the voice of FatChanceBellyDance

Instructional DVD's

 * Tribal Basics Vol. 1, Dance Fundamentals (Revised)
 * Tribal Basics Vol. 2, Makeup and Costume
 * Tribal Basics Vol. 3, Zills
 * Tribal Basics Vol. 4, Advanced Workshop
 * Tribal Basics Vol. 5, Cues and Transitions
 * Tribal Basics Vol. 6, Dance Fundamentals
 * Tribal Basics Vol. 7, Creative Steps & Combinations
 * WomanPower

Performance and Dance Education

 * Directors Cut FatChanceBellydance 20 Years of Performance with Carolena Nericcio
 * FCBD present San Francisco Beladi, Behind the scenes of making a show
 * FatChanceBellydance Live
 * FatChanceBellydance Tattooed One

Press Articles
Part 1: American Tribal Style Make-Up and Costuming Part 2: History, www.discoverbellydance.com, November 2001
 * Indiana Herald, Put Your Belly in Motion, March 2006
 * InSearch of a connection, Tattooed Belly dancers Words and photos by Tim Coleman, Skin & Ink Magazine. September 2001
 * Fire in the Belly by Sharon Anderson, The Golden Gate [X]Press Online, 2002
 * An Interview with Carolena Nericcio by Sheri Waldrop
 * World in Motion, Festival spotlights dance, music, cultures from around the globe, San Francisco Independent, June 3, 2003

Wikipedia

 * American Tribal Style
 * Tribal Fusion