Michelle has performed for audiences in Turkey, Australia, Japan, India, The Bahamas, and the US. She has also won several dance competitions, including the People’s Choice Awards, The East Coast Classic, and the North Valley Competition.

Her resume may sound glamorous at first glance, but her articles on the Gilded Serpent go into the comic details of some of her most bizarre international shows.

She and her dance partner, Sandra, have long fought for fair wages and fair treatment for dancers in the San Francisco Bay Area. She has written several articles about the business side of professional dancing.

Michelle is the producer of the By Dancers For Dancers DVD series and makes websites for professional dancers.

www.arabicdance.net

Michelle's Articles on Gilded Serpent
5-6-07 How to Charge What You Are Worth by MIchelle Joyce
The first step to becoming an effective negotiator is to emotionally detach yourself from the outcome. If you can’t walk away from the deal, you have already lost.

10-24-06 Adventures in Turkey 2006 by Michelle Joyce, photos by Michael Baxter
I am not exaggerating when I say that Sandra actually threw herself into Bella's arms and wept when she first laid eyes on her. 

1-13-05 The Grand International Bellydance Tour or How We Fled India at Midnight, Eluding Our Captors and Evading our Go-Go-Dance Responsibilities. or What Would Fifi Do? by Michelle and Sandra
It may not have been such a problem for us had the prostitutes not been posing as bellydancers!

1-28-03 How I Accidentally Became a Successful Belly Dance Teacher (and you can too!) by Michelle Joyce
Now mine is the most popular class, which led to a snowballing of other gyms adding belly dance aerobics classes.

3-8-04 Hindu Extremists Riot at Belly Dance Show by Michelle
At the time, I was beginning to understand that this was a potentially dangerous and explosive situation. But I had no way of knowing how much danger I was really in.

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