Shantisha Dance Show​

Shantisha

Hi everyone! Welcome to my page!

 

My name is Miroslava Bronnikova and Shantisha is my stage name. I'm a belly dancer from Russia, who's got the travel bug and is nuts about the Edinburgh Festival Fringe =)

 

In fact, I created this web-site in English (before I'd only had web-sites in my mother tongue) in view of performing at Edinburgh Festival Fringe in August 2014, so that everyone could learn a bit more about me and my show.

 

I take inspiration mainly from the tribal belly dance style as well as all the other kinds of dance I've done in my life (Indian, ballet, flamenco, hustle and even historical and ceilidh). Nature is also a great source of ideas for my performances and costumes. What I do can roughly be described as a fusion belly dance performance with quite a lot of acting. I also love learning new skills and try to keep some surprises in store for my audience each time I perform.
 

I've been performing belly dancing for ages, I'm a professional belly dancer (since the age of 13) and dance teacher (since 15), and I also have my own dance-theatre company in Russia which I run with my husband (so far we've organized dance and theatre events of up to 300 people).

 

I've created this web-site all by myself, so I really hope you like it, spread the word (share it with your friends on Facebook etc.) and, yes, see you at the Fringe!

 

P.S. Oh, I am also an English teacher (certified by Cambridge) and a journalist, but that's a totally different story =)