Sam's website...
www.snakecharmah.co.uk/


A free-spirited nomad by temperament - with Eco-Activist tendencies - she traveled through Europe for several years in caravans and converted buses. Along the way she became an expert Fire Dancer, performing at many festivals. This developed into an interest in Martial Arts weaponry (Kung Fu) and within her first year of training she had

won the local Ladies Free fighting Tournament.

This in turn led back to belly dancing, where in 2003 she was re-inspired by a Fat Chance Belly Dance performance in Glastonbury , and later by personal encouragement from Rachel Brice in the UK.

There was a dignity and strength in Tribal Style that has had Samantha hooked ever since.

Her own signature style includes focus on extension,

strong posturing, sharp locks and 'liquefied' arms.

She loves the interaction between dancer and audience, and is happiest on stage.


Largely self-taught and self-funded (for a long time her day job was as a

construction worker), Samantha is a committed teacher as well as performer. Her accessible teaching style reflects the fact that she still considers herself to be a beginner student, always hungry for more training and new ideas, always refining basic techniques and fusing new inspirations from mentors both in and out of the belly dance scene - anything from a picture hanging in a gallery,

to a sea-creature moving through the water.

Her great ambition is to raise respect for belly dance as an art form in Europe and to help raise the standard among beginning practitioners there.


Samantha is Level 1 certified with Suhaila Salimpour's school of dance,

California and attended Carolena Nericcio’s first ever General Skills certification course in American Tribal Style. She is the only British member of The Bellydance Superstars and appears on their Tribal Fusions and Tribal Fusion Fundamentals DVDs. She has performed on stages internationally in countless countries including, the USA, Canada,

Mexico, UK, Ireland, France, Spain, Italy, Belgium, Taiwan, Japan, Morocco, and Dubai.

Samantha married her long term partner in crime Oscar last year and they are currently based in the UK after 3 years on the road traveling, studying and working in the US, Canada and Mexico.

http://tribes.tribe.net/samanthaemanuel