Female

Classes offered through the North Kansas City School District's Community Education program:

www.nkcsd.k12.mo.us/communit...index.htm

and the Salaam Dance Studio:

www.SalaamDance.com

Her name is JoLynne Martinez, and she dances under the stage name of Inanna Bint Ali.

In addition to being a co-owner of Salaam Dance Studio, Inanna teaches belly dance through the North Kansas City School
District's Community Education program and lead a troupe of talented local dance students, Banat el Shamal (Daughters
of the Northland).

They say you never stop learning, and this is especially true in dance. In the last year, alone, Inanna has attended workshops with
Washington, D.C.-based Egyptian teacher Faten Salamah ... with Shareen El Safy, who has danced in the nightclubs of Cairo ... and
with top up-and-coming American belly dance instructor Jim Boz. She also was privileged to attend a teacher training workshop last summer with Mahmoud Reda, founder of the national folkloric dance troupe of Egypt.

Inanna takes class regularly with leading local instructor Siham Ali and dances in her troupe.

Known in large part for her choreographic skills, Inanna's choreography has appeared at the Cleveland Performance Art Festival,
at the Lawrence (Kansas) Arts Center and in the City in Motion New Dance series, as well as in belly dance workshop shows
throughout the Midwest.

A writer as well as a dancer, Inanna once worked as a freelance dance critic for The Kansas City Star newspaper.

She has been dancing for more than two decades.