It is a pleasure to present Moria Chappell Portfolios, artistic explorations focusing on the many facets of the Fusion Belly Dance Genre.

Moria's portfolios are listed below in order of the

most recent publication.  To view a portfolio,

scroll down and click its cover.

Spring has special intoxications.  In this portfolio Moria invites us into her garden, featuring poetry by Rumi.

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Join Moria as she rides the poet-eating Night Mare.

Her portfolio features "The White Goddess" by Robert Graves and "La Belle Dame sans Merci" by John Keats.

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Meet an archangel and a dragon engaged in passionate pursuit at the haunted Ruzhany Palace in Western Belarus.

The portfolio features the poem "To the Muse"

by Aleksandr Blok.

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Moria invites you to join her on the

most remote island in the world, Rapa Nui.

The portfolio features "The Poet's Obligation"

by Pablo Neruda.

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Moria takes us on a tour of the Malamute Saloon,

home of an abandoned gold mining camp founded during the 1800s Gold Rush.

The portfolio features "The Shooting of Dan McGrew"

by Robert W. Service.

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Moria invites you to explore Gothic Romance in "Nevermore" featuring Edgar Allan Poe's  poem

"The Raven."

The photoshoot was held in Birmingham's Oak Hill Cemetery, the oldest cemetery in the state of Alabama

with additional shots taken at Edgar Allen Poe's grave

in Westminster Hall and Burying Ground,

Baltimore, Maryland.

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The portfolios are also listed on the upper left of this screen.