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Soul Noir. Oct 2018. Dublin, Ireland. The Chocolate Factory. Performance art/dance/poetry piece: "Intimate". Schedule.
UCC. Performance for the Irish Network for the Study of Esotericism and Paganism—Magic(k) and Festivals Conference at University College Cork Oct 18 2018. Cork, Ireland. Performance art/dance/poetry piece: "Intimate". Event flyer. Shakefest. May 26th 2018. Charleville Castle, Tullemore, Co Offaly, Ireland. The Candle of Vision Exhibition. Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK. 2018 2016: -Trans-States. Northampton, UK. Sept 2016 -Sub Rosa, NYC Oct 2016 2015: The Witching Hour, Oberon, Boston. 2014 The Vanya E’dan Theatre Gothique: Apr 4-6, 2014, Fort Lauderdale, FL./ Roma Tribal Meeting, May 23-25, 2014, Rome, Italy. www.romatribal.com NY Theatrical Bellydance Conference, June 12-16, 2014. NYC. OCCULT II. A weekend long Esoteric Salon celebrating the intertwining vines which feed both Magick and Creative Art. Presented by Sarah Jezebel Wood and Aepril Schaile. September 26-28, 2014. Salem, MA. 2013 OCCULT. Sept 2013. Salem, MA. Oriental Dance Festival Stuttgart Global. March 22-23, 2013. Stuttgart, Germany. Bellyfusions, Paris, France. January 2013. 2012 Shadowdance. Oakland, CA. Oct, 2012. Black Forest Tribalfestival. Offenburg, Germany. Dark Britannia with Aepril Schaile. London. Sept 29-30 2012. New Year’s Eve at Alex Grey’s CoSM. Jan 1, 2012. Dark Goddess Masque. Archer Mansion, Danvers, MA. Lumen Obscura II. Santa Cruz, CA 2011 Nov 2011: Roma Tribal Meeting, Rome, Italy. Teacher and performer. Oct 2011: Black Forest Tribal Festival, Germany. Teacher and performer. July 7: NY Theatrical Bellydance Conference, NYC. Featured instructor and performer. July 1: Sacred World Interdependence Day, Petersham, MA. May 26-29: Rakkasah’s Spring Caravan, Somerset, NJ. Featured instructor and performer. March 23: Temple: Sanctuary for the Unusual, Premier Event, presented by Vadalna and Excess Boston, Boston, MA. Headliner. 2010 October 31: Laurie Cabot’s annual Samhain celebration, Salem, MA. September 3 – 5: “The Book of Lilith: Goddess, Demon, First Woman”. Exquisite Corpse Dance Theatre’s original full-length, theatrical bellydance production; at Salem Theatre Co, Salem, MA. Written, directed, choreographed, lead dance role by Aepril. July 8-11: New York Theatrical Bellydance Conference, NYC. Featured teacher and performer. May 28-31: Spirit of the Tribes 2010, Ft. Lauderdale, FL. Featured teacher and performer. March 6: Laurie Cabot’s birthday party. January 23-24: Bellyfusions Festival, Paris, France. “Festival de danses orientales fusion”. Performance and “Eerie Serpents and Ethereal Grace” workshop. 2009 Oct 10: Exquisite Corpse Productions presents: Descent II: Dances of the Dark Goddess: DESIRE. Salem, MA. Curated by Aepril. Sept 11: World Trade Center Memorial Fund Benefit hosted by Manhattan Tribal with Carolena Nericcio. NYC. July 3: Sacred World Interdependence Day and Expressive Arts Festival. Workshop teacher: Shamanic Dance Theater. Earthlands Preserve, Petersham, MA. June 14: Exquisite Corpse Productions and the Salem Arts Association present: The ART of Bellydance, Artist’s Row, Salem, MA. Curated by Aepril. 2008 Nov 16: Exquisite Corpse Productions presents: Descent: Dances of the Dark Goddess. Cambridge, MA An Evening of Experiemental Middle Eatern Dance (EEMED) Electric Lodge Theatre, 1416 Electric Ave. October 17, 18, 19, 24, 25, 26. Venice, CA Night of 1000 Goddesses, Morocco’s Studios, Sept 14. NYC. 2007 Rakkasah Spring Caravan. Debut of "The Morrigan" piece. |
Extended bio
DARK GODDESS BELLYDANCE
Aepril Schaile is recognized in the Bellydance community for her innovation in theatrical, ritual and shamanistic Bellydance.
Aepril becomes Trickster, Warrior, Ghost, Storm, Grieving Mother, Snow Queen. Her performances invoke the archetypal Dark Feminine as a force of transformation.
Aepril works with the archetype and godform of the Dark Goddess in bellydance. She has been a forerunner in her modern use of mythological motifs, ritual techniques, and the techniques and terminology of ritual magick and witchcraft in bellydance performance and instruction.
Her costuming is often laden with consecrated objects intended to support a bellydance piece as a working.
Aepril views Bellydance as a connector to yogic coiled serpent energies of kundalini. She sees Bellydance as deeply expressive of the tantric Shakti, and the energetic current of the serpent and graal goddesses.
Aepril's affinity for darker motifs has roots in her trauma history, and her struggles with a familial mental heath legacy. She see her interdisciplinary art practice as a transformational catalyst for deeply held traumatic experiences. As life continues to throw challenges, art provides a consistent method of managing difficult emotions and psychic states. What is ugly or violent can be transformed into beauty.
INSPIRATION AND BACKGROUND
Aepril began learning Bellydance in her 20's with Vermont/NY based Lebanese-American dancer Alia Thalbit. A few years later, she began a long term study with Julliard graduate Josie Conte in Portland, ME. She has had many teachers via short term studies/workshops over the years, most notable influences being Dunya and Elena Lentini.
With Raqs Sharqi and American Cabaret as her foundation, Aepril's practice expanded into Transcultural Fusion. Her work developed toward ritual-theatre and Performance Art. She also draws from Butoh.
Aepril experiences the of physical movement of dance to be akin to lucid dreaming. In an attempt to recreate the sensations and appearances of astral travel, Aepril was prompted to create a "ghost walk", a traveling movement which causes her to appear to float. She considers the stage to be a magickal space; an altar. She sometimes plays with perceptions of time/space reality, and she endeavors with the execution of each piece to create a world suspended in time for both performer and audience.
Aepril's lifelong immersion in Jungian psychology informs an artistic impetus toward creating pieces with both personal meaning and transpersonal reach. She is interactive and intimate with audiences, blending showmanship and mediumship. Via the use of archetype and godform, she endeavors to bring psychological and spiritual transformation and signification to her audiences. She sees her creation of Art as revealing of the subconscious and the synchronistic.
Aepril’s has been influenced by such performance artists as Diamond Galas and Rachel Rosenthal, and Butoh artist Kazuo Ohno. She is inspired as well by up-and-coming interdisciplinary artists and dancers with fresh ideas about the intersection of art, dance, witchcraft/magick.
In her early 20's, Aepril immersed herself in an experience of prolonged solitude in a semi-off-grid cabin. There, while inhabiting the remote wild woods of northern New England with her wolf-dog companion Coda, she feels that her heart was broken open. Awakening her to a great love for the natural/supernatural world, Aepril became further immersed in the world of Spirits and Invisibles, and she developed an intimate relationship with winged creatures, wolves, storms, and the sea. The experience contributed to her artistic motivation to create art as a means toward regeneration and redemption.
Aepril is a professional Astrologer and an American living in Ireland. Aepril’s work has contributed to giving a generation of bellydancers example and “permission” and inspiration to explore well outside bellydance norms, albeit with an education and strong respect for cultural roots.
Aepril is mentioned in The Theatre of the Occult Revival: Alternative Spiritual Performance from 1875 to the Present (Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History) by E. Lingan.
EXQUISITE CORPSE DANCE THEATRE
Exquisite Corpse Dance Theatre was the dark Theatrical Bellydance project of Artistic Director Aepril Schaile. Founded in 2006, Exquisite Corpse performances were invocations using mythology, narrative story, and archetypal themes, warping and reshaping traditional bellydance forms endeavoring to create a darkly distinctive presentation of artistic, emotional and spiritual impact and intensity.
At a notable point in EC history, EC performed a piece at Rakkasah Spring Caravan which used the "rules" of traditional Raqs Assaya (cane dance), but "shapeshifted" it into an industrial based, Victoriana stylized take. Still using a traditional Saiidi rhythm in music choice, it was nonetheless a sped up, reconstructed version by artist Maduro. This piece was lauded by some as an act of innovation, and by others as an upsetting distortion.
In 2010 Exquisite Corpse Dance Theatre presented “The Book of Lilith: Goddess, Demon, First Woman”, at Salem Theatre Co. in Salem, MA. Written, produced, and directed by Aepril, it challenged and relished the role of Lilith as villain and femme fatale. Based in Bellydance, it also combined narrative story, dark feminine archetypal imagery, ritual, women's spirituality and empowerment themes and spoken word. Aepril played Lilith as lead dancer, and was lead choreographer.
Exquisite Corpse performed in large scale bellydance festivals, and produced numerous events throughout New England. It produced a recurring ritual-theatre bellydance show “Descent: Dances of the Dark Goddess”, and numerous fundraisers for Wolf Hollow, a wolf sanctuary located on the Massachusetts North Shore.
Aepril Schaile is recognized in the Bellydance community for her innovation in theatrical, ritual and shamanistic Bellydance.
Aepril becomes Trickster, Warrior, Ghost, Storm, Grieving Mother, Snow Queen. Her performances invoke the archetypal Dark Feminine as a force of transformation.
Aepril works with the archetype and godform of the Dark Goddess in bellydance. She has been a forerunner in her modern use of mythological motifs, ritual techniques, and the techniques and terminology of ritual magick and witchcraft in bellydance performance and instruction.
Her costuming is often laden with consecrated objects intended to support a bellydance piece as a working.
Aepril views Bellydance as a connector to yogic coiled serpent energies of kundalini. She sees Bellydance as deeply expressive of the tantric Shakti, and the energetic current of the serpent and graal goddesses.
Aepril's affinity for darker motifs has roots in her trauma history, and her struggles with a familial mental heath legacy. She see her interdisciplinary art practice as a transformational catalyst for deeply held traumatic experiences. As life continues to throw challenges, art provides a consistent method of managing difficult emotions and psychic states. What is ugly or violent can be transformed into beauty.
INSPIRATION AND BACKGROUND
Aepril began learning Bellydance in her 20's with Vermont/NY based Lebanese-American dancer Alia Thalbit. A few years later, she began a long term study with Julliard graduate Josie Conte in Portland, ME. She has had many teachers via short term studies/workshops over the years, most notable influences being Dunya and Elena Lentini.
With Raqs Sharqi and American Cabaret as her foundation, Aepril's practice expanded into Transcultural Fusion. Her work developed toward ritual-theatre and Performance Art. She also draws from Butoh.
Aepril experiences the of physical movement of dance to be akin to lucid dreaming. In an attempt to recreate the sensations and appearances of astral travel, Aepril was prompted to create a "ghost walk", a traveling movement which causes her to appear to float. She considers the stage to be a magickal space; an altar. She sometimes plays with perceptions of time/space reality, and she endeavors with the execution of each piece to create a world suspended in time for both performer and audience.
Aepril's lifelong immersion in Jungian psychology informs an artistic impetus toward creating pieces with both personal meaning and transpersonal reach. She is interactive and intimate with audiences, blending showmanship and mediumship. Via the use of archetype and godform, she endeavors to bring psychological and spiritual transformation and signification to her audiences. She sees her creation of Art as revealing of the subconscious and the synchronistic.
Aepril’s has been influenced by such performance artists as Diamond Galas and Rachel Rosenthal, and Butoh artist Kazuo Ohno. She is inspired as well by up-and-coming interdisciplinary artists and dancers with fresh ideas about the intersection of art, dance, witchcraft/magick.
In her early 20's, Aepril immersed herself in an experience of prolonged solitude in a semi-off-grid cabin. There, while inhabiting the remote wild woods of northern New England with her wolf-dog companion Coda, she feels that her heart was broken open. Awakening her to a great love for the natural/supernatural world, Aepril became further immersed in the world of Spirits and Invisibles, and she developed an intimate relationship with winged creatures, wolves, storms, and the sea. The experience contributed to her artistic motivation to create art as a means toward regeneration and redemption.
Aepril is a professional Astrologer and an American living in Ireland. Aepril’s work has contributed to giving a generation of bellydancers example and “permission” and inspiration to explore well outside bellydance norms, albeit with an education and strong respect for cultural roots.
Aepril is mentioned in The Theatre of the Occult Revival: Alternative Spiritual Performance from 1875 to the Present (Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History) by E. Lingan.
EXQUISITE CORPSE DANCE THEATRE
Exquisite Corpse Dance Theatre was the dark Theatrical Bellydance project of Artistic Director Aepril Schaile. Founded in 2006, Exquisite Corpse performances were invocations using mythology, narrative story, and archetypal themes, warping and reshaping traditional bellydance forms endeavoring to create a darkly distinctive presentation of artistic, emotional and spiritual impact and intensity.
At a notable point in EC history, EC performed a piece at Rakkasah Spring Caravan which used the "rules" of traditional Raqs Assaya (cane dance), but "shapeshifted" it into an industrial based, Victoriana stylized take. Still using a traditional Saiidi rhythm in music choice, it was nonetheless a sped up, reconstructed version by artist Maduro. This piece was lauded by some as an act of innovation, and by others as an upsetting distortion.
In 2010 Exquisite Corpse Dance Theatre presented “The Book of Lilith: Goddess, Demon, First Woman”, at Salem Theatre Co. in Salem, MA. Written, produced, and directed by Aepril, it challenged and relished the role of Lilith as villain and femme fatale. Based in Bellydance, it also combined narrative story, dark feminine archetypal imagery, ritual, women's spirituality and empowerment themes and spoken word. Aepril played Lilith as lead dancer, and was lead choreographer.
Exquisite Corpse performed in large scale bellydance festivals, and produced numerous events throughout New England. It produced a recurring ritual-theatre bellydance show “Descent: Dances of the Dark Goddess”, and numerous fundraisers for Wolf Hollow, a wolf sanctuary located on the Massachusetts North Shore.