Hello! My name is Courtney, I work as a professional dancer in the Portland Area. My first passion is Belly Dance. I have studied belly dance for upwards of eleven years. What I love the most is that belly dance is an inspired mix of grace and control but when the tabla starts in strong you loose yourself in your hips, control goes out the window and yet still there is grace and beauty to the dance! I also work as a gogo dancer and it has become another great passion of mine! I love the raw sexuality of gogo, the high energy and the fusion of many different dance genres depending on the music. I think these two dances compliment each other well because they are improvisational and feminine by definition. Though, that isn't to say boys can't do either dance. ;-)

I have worked here and there modeling usually for promotional shoots related to dancing, acting or singing but I am interested in expanding my portfolio beyond what has been taken our of necessity. Whether that be high fashion, body challenging images or wacky cosplay, I am up for it. That being said, I don't do glamor, erotic, fetish or nudity, I don't think my husband would approve.

I am interested in making art, being part of a concept captured on film. I have a great and long held interest and respect for photography. I am a fun and easy going person, I don't get nervous and I am never rude, I love to travel, dance and eat and I can't wait to meet and work with you! :-D

For other creative ventures:

I am a professionally trained singer, studying under Chrissy Faith for years: http://www.chrissyfaith.com/

I sang in choirs since I was a young girl and even traveled to New York to sing at Carnegie Hall when I was sixteen. My voice has been featured on several tracks by a band from Costa Rica called Huba & Silica: http://www.jazzrobot.com/

Here are some clips of performances though the sound is awful, I am sure they were taken on small hand-held digital cameras.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0SqbfeKlFmE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wo7CeTjD9ZU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AfY6d8YKqdk

For the recordings: http://hubasilica.bandcamp.com/album/el-origen-de-las-especies

I am featured on DemWant, Your Love, and Loco Texano. I have other tracks not currently posted on the internets, so if you want them, let me know and I can send you the MP3s.

My vocals are featured on an Alles Mist original production for the film Reverie: http://www.reels.allesmist.net/TRK3.mp3

Reverie is the first full length feature film shot on a Nikon D90, I am also credited as Chris, in the film. I do acting, here is my IMDB page, though a few credits are missing. I will be sure to post my reel as soon as it is finished, in the mean time I hope this suffices:

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm3425888/

I did voice over work for the film The Rat King by Benjamin Parslow: http://www.openfilm.com/videos/the_rat_king/

The voice in the opening is mine, as well as the vocals used in the score.

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