NW Víla Fest

The Seattle's NEWEST Bellydance Festival

Friday, Saturday & Sunday

April 4-6 2025

Shoreline Community College

Seattle, WA

Welcome to the dazzling realm of Belly Dance!

NW Víla Fest invites you to grow the Bellydance community while enjoying special performances, lively workshops & fantastic vendors.

Show off your dance skills with numerous performance opportunities.

Eat, shop, connect, and most importantly DANCE!

MORIA'S WORKSHOPS

Moria will teach two LIVE workshops this April 4-6!

Join her at this NEW FESTIVAL where she will be

teaching all her tips, tricks, and combos to dance with

BIG SKIRTS and how to make HEADDRESSES

in person with tools and step-by-step guided instruction!

BIG SKIRT

Moria's Big Skirt workshop is on Friday

April 4th from 12:30-2:30pm

Swishing a big skirt on stage is a great way to add fiery flair to a solo, duet, or group stage performance. Brandishing a skirt to a tribal-folkloric beat pumps up the audience and gets the energy coursing.

In her BIG SKIRT workshop, Moria explores

bellydance's fun and feisty side by sharing a new Fusion choreography.

This face-paced piece utilizes skirt flourishes as well as quick-and-slow speed changes, elastic time sequencing, and draped suspension movements peppered with rapid-fire flurries of clustered musicality.

The choreography can be used at the most festive occasions while adding a memorable and talked-about dance to a dynamic performance repertoire.

Big skirts go with most musical scores from badass Balkan to feisty Flamenco and jazzed up acoustic guitar.

If you own a big skirt, please bring it to the workshop.

All levels welcome.

HEADDRESS DESIGN

Moria's Headdress Design workshop is on

Saturday April 5th from 3:00-5:00pm

A showy headdress is often the most eye-catching

part of a performer’s costume.

While a spectacular headdress can’t make up for a

lackluster costume, a stunning headdress can make

a good costume great.

Because of the many types of headdress designs in keeping with fusion belly dance, a way to begin deciding which one would be right for your performance is to consider the style of dance you would like to stage.

These styles may include Javanese Fusion, Dark Fusion,

Hula Fusion, Odissi Fusion, Tunisian Fusion, Nouveau Fusion, Yogini Fusion, or Temple Dance Fusion.

Determining the style of dance establishes the initial parameters of the costume’s overall design.

The name of a choreography such as “Nocturnal,”

“Court of the Red Snake Queen,” “Aquarius,” “Bones and Sinew,” or “Jaguar” begins to refine the piece’s

thematic considerations and plays a fundamental role

in determining the most impactful headdress.

Vigorous dances that include backbends or floor-work require a different type of headdress than one suitable for a more statuesque or subdued choreography.

Fast-paced movements around the stage can cause a headdress malfunction that undermines an otherwise flawless performance so it’s important to know what

will work in various situations.

In HEADDRESS DESIGN, Moria will show you how to create a gorgeous headdress that is dynamic, practical, usable, and cost effective—a headdress that can be made from ordinary materials to make something extraordinary.

Whether your vision is a diadem of flowers and feathers,

or a tiara of eye-catching sparkle, Moria will show you

what to do and explain why so that you can

successfully create your own crowning glory.