I love art, I have always been into drawing and painting when I was a kid and teenager, but when I discovered belly dance as a teenager I was immediately impressed by this beautiful dance style. Although I studied many different dancing styles trough out my life (like ballet, Latin and ballroom dance, Bharat Natyam and Indian folkloric dances), my major interest is still belly dance. In 1995 I began teaching and performing belly dance in The Netherlands. Later in 1998 I went India to study different dancing and costuming styles. My latest interest is tribaret style, a combination of classical belly dance and tribal belly dance.
I went to the Rietvelt Academy of Arts in Amsterdam in 1994, but this was totally not my kind of thing. They had a different look on art then I do so I left and went my own way. Just lately I got back into painting, till now I have always too busy with dancing.
I also do my own costume design for belly dance (see gallery).