Bonita Brockert - Bonita has been introduced to belly dance audiences as a “cross-over” artist, coming from her extensive successful dance career as a Latin American and ballroom competitor, performer. teacher, and choreographer.
She holds a Silver and Bronze Medal respectively from the United States National Professional Championships in Rhythm and Smooth Ballroom, achieving the Final three times with two different partners. She is a former New England Ten Dance Champion, with three Boston Cups, two top titles from the Classique du Quebec as well as many regional titles in International and American styles of ballroom dance.
Please view Bonita’s full bio to see her dance and teaching background preceding her journey into Belly Dance.
She started studying Belly Dance six years ago with well known belly dance artist Conchi Madson. Her show, Mediterranean Echoes, and particularly Conchi’s performance, inspired Bonita to move into belly dance and from there to explore fusing it into the styles she has taught for the whole of her career. The following year Bonita performed her first Belly Dance number in Mediterranean Echoes, and often delights ballroom audiences as well, exposing many to Belly Dance who have not appreciated it before.
With a lifetime of training in multiple dance styles, she started teaching belly dance after a year of studying and performing.
Her amateur performing group “Mirage” presented their first performance last year in “A Christmas Cruise”. The Arabian dance is a classical piece from “The Nutcracker”, so it is presented with a classical influence and Oriental flavor. The choreography is appropriate to the level of the performers who had all started taking class less than a year from the show.
Bonita uses her classical background as a format to many of her class drills, working through the basic arm and body positions with various styles of hand and wrist articulations as well as zill rehearsals and body disciplines. She emphasizes an elegant carriage of the upper body and awareness of stage profile and presentation.
To see a clip of Bonita’s amateur performing group “Mirage”, click on this link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kIXJQlx1rKc&feature=related
