The Gilded Serpent presents...
Charlotte
United Kingdom
Charlotte Desorgher is one of the top bellydance teachers in the United Kingdom. Her popular weekly classes in south London teach students from beginners through to advanced and professional dancers and she regularly teaches and performs at festivals and residential weekends in the UK and Europe.
In 2007 Charlotte founded Hipsinc, which is probably the largest bellydance school in the UK with over 800 students throughout the southeast enjoying a wide variety of bellydance classes plus great social and performance opportunities.
As well as teaching and running Hipsinc, Charlotte is well known for organising high profile events with some of the bellydance world's most famous international stars. She recently co-organised the International Bellydance Congress featuring the legendary Fifi Abdou.
Charlotte's dance style draws on her own background in ballet, jazz and contemporary dance and she is passionate about raising the level of bellydance training in the UK so that we can hold our head high on the international scene.
Website: www.hipsinc.com
www.shimmyinthecity.com.
Articles on Gilded Serpent by or about Charlotte
- 4-18-12 Beyond the Restaurant: How Can We Bring Bellydance to a Wider Audience?
But I’m under no illusions. That audience wouldn’t be present if wives, daughters or friends weren’t performing. And despite people saying we’ve opened their eyes to the beauty and spectacle of bellydance, the truth is that ours is still very much a niche and hobbyist dance genre. - 3-6-12 1st Annual Shimmy in the City, How I Organized an International Festival and Survived (just!)
He literally woke her up at 5am, asked for her help and she immediately dropped everything and got straight on a plane to London! What a star indeed - !5-3-10
A Very British Kind of Bellydance
This incongruity is something that characterizes the English bellydance scene. Many of our festivals are held in historic sites, such as castles or ancient towns, and we are used to the surprising sound of Arabic music floating across an English lawn. - 12-19-11 Learning to Dance the U.K. Way,
Hillary’s "Beginners’ Egyptian Dance" and Charlotte’s "Learn to Bellydance"
Strange names for movements used in the U.K. such as “snaky arms”, and the most repeated “wobbly walk” and “wobbly movement” in describing shimmies, as well as “quiver in your bellybutton” are off-putting.
