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Workshop participants at Tassels & Cues, 2025

These talented dancers from around the world have completed my basket certification program. They are sharing this basket dialect in the US, Germany, France, Australia, Greece, Mexico, Italy, and Poland. Whether you're looking for in-person classes or online options, you are in wonderful hands with any of these instructors.

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Alexandra Müller-Burkhardt
Germany

Alexandra Müller-Burkhardt is FCBD Style teacher and performer and a member of Bedauijat al Farha.

Alexandra fell in love with the Basket in 2017 and resumed her basket training with Lisa Allred in 2020. Basket is her favorite prop but she also dances with a skirt, sword, fan, and veil.

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Claudia is the artistic director of Pyramid Tribal Dance Germany.

Claudia has been dancing FCBD Style for 10 years. She loves to dance with different kinds of props and discovered the basket with Lisa at her "Baskets Around the World" event. She continued learning by studying from her videos. Claudia immediately took the chance to learn directly from Lisa as she offered her Basket Certification online. What a great experience!

Claudia Feline
Germany


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Erin Hillier
USA

Erin Hillier is the founder and director of Banduri Tribal in Kansas City, Missouri.

Erin loves performing improv with props--especially basket and frame drum--and exploring new shapes and patterns of movement with them. In addition to being the director of Banduri Tribal, she is a member of Red Sage Collective and The Stygian Collective.

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Sephira Dances
USA

Mickey (Sephira Dances) is a member of Red Sage Collective, Midema, and Azuluna.

Mickey (Sephira) loves props of all kinds. Pair it with FCBD style and it her a prop sh is a win-win situation. Mickey has been dancing since 2010; FCBD style with basket being the recent addition. Want to pique Mickey’s curiosity? Show her a prop she hasn’t danced with yet. Next… fire?

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Sorella Gaïa Magali
France

Sorella Gaïa Magali is the Artistic Director at "Les Filles de Gaia" FCBD dance and Fusion and the President at Assoc Passions et Danses du Monde.

Magali has been belly dancing for 18 years and doing FCBDstyle for 11. She began learning props six years ago with Gudrun Herold and now performs with basket, sword, veil, fan veil, and more!

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Najibah May
Mexico

Najibah is a FCBD Style teacher and performer. She is also a member of Divine Chaos Mexico.

Najibah has been dancing since 2005 and added the basket to her FCBD style dance in 2012. She enjoys experimenting with other elements such as candles, swords, skirts, and veils! She also enjoys teaching and performing other dance styles, including Divine Chaos Fusion and Salamat.

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Sylvia Abdalá
Mexico

Professional dancer, teacher, and eternal apprentice. She began her journey in 2003 and in 2006 delved into the tribal style, which became her primary dance language. She is the director of Tribu Dharma, a collective that promotes creativity, connection, and respect for diversity.

She enjoys using props as extensions of energy. She believes in the transformative power of dance.

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Maria Iosif is an FCBD dancer and teacher and the founder and director of the Eurynome tribe in Athens, Greece.

Maria took her first basket class with Lisa Allred during the online event "Baskets Around the World". She continued to study with Lisa and completed the Basket Certification program for teachers.

Maria Iosif
Greece

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Maureen Soucier
USA

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Rhéìa Sandrine
France

Rhéìa Sandrine is an FCBD dancer, teacher, and member of Assoc Passions et Danses du Monde.

Rhéìa has been a FCBD dancer for10 years with h teacher and friend, Sorella Gaïa Magali. She has been learning basket with Lisa since 2020. She loves props and sharing her passion for dance with my dance sisters and students.

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Mandylynne West
Australia

Mandylynne West is the director of Birds of Paradise Belly Dance located in Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia.

Mandylynne began her Belly Dance journey in late 1999 and then ventured into FCBD style around 2005. Mandylynne has been a FCBD® Certified Studio since 2009,a Siren Society International Rep, and a Red Sage FCBD Basket Dialect instructor since 2025.

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Rossana Delmastro “Ross”
Italy

Ross is a dancer and teacher based in Torino, Italy.

Ross is a FCBD(r) partner studio and loves props. In addition to this basket certification, she is certified by TheSirenProject in manton and Flamenco Fan. She also loves tambourines! You can find Ross on IG @ross.grainroth as well as on Facebook.

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Asia Księżopolska
Poland

FCBD® Style Sister Studio, Divine Chaos International Partner Studio based in Warsaw, Poland.

Asia is a member of the Omphalos Tribe and the founder of Skirtya Banda. She loves traditional FCBD® Style, dancing with props, and has a serious basket addiction! Her basket journey began in 2015, studying videos and DVDs before finally meeting Lisa in person in Athens. Find Asia on
IG: Asia_Ksiezopolska