ABOUT DAPHNEE'S CLAN

Daphnee's Clan is a dance ensemble based in Berlin.

 

 The five members have very different dance backgrounds: One is a Kathak dancer (a classical indian dance form), while others are trained in ballroom dances, North African and Middle Eastern folklore and Raqs Sharki. This variety of knowledge and dance styles opens possibilities  to new and exciting ideas. We also create our own movement dialect and use formations and concepts of other improvised dances.
In the beginning, we only danced FatChanceBellydance® Sytle but with time, other dance aesthetics influenced our stylisation. While FCBD® Style is the root we strongly relate to, we are drawn to extend the defined boundaries of its format. We combine the FCBD®Style vocabulary with unusual concepts and contexts rather than the movements of other dance styles. This manifests in our choice of music and costumes. We perform 'classical' FCBD® Style sets, with a more contemporary approach to the look and feel of the FCBD® Style repertoire. We like to combine these feminine, proud movements with a rather plain and elegant aesthetic.

 

We are currently five dancers : Kathrin Isberner, Saskia Hapke, Silke Peigert & Alicia Pasternak  under the artistic direction of Jane Pasternak (Fara la Sombra).

 

And Diana is always dancing with us. Unforgotten!

 

 

 JANE Pasternak (FARA LA SOMBRA)

 

Dancing and playing instruments were always my greatest passion. After dancing ballet and classic oriental dance for some time I swiched to FCBD® Style which I am dancing for several years now. I am always looking for new inspiration and ideas to realize my own vision of improvised dance.

I passed the FCBD®Style teacher training in 2011 and I am teaching ever since.

I am greatly Influenced by the aesthetics and expression of  Flamenco.

 

 

 

 SILKE PEIGERT

 

I began dancing Ballroom and latin dance when I was 13- four years in dancing school and three years of tournament training. Since many friendships and dancing partnerships broke up after school I started looking in 2005 for a dance form where I would not need a dance partner: oriental dance. In 2008 I was infected with the FCBD® Style-enthusiasm by Diana Hirsch which is part of my life ever since.

 

 

 

 

 

 

SASKIA HAPKE

 

After very intense and long experiences in oriental dance I discovered my passion for FCBD® Style and Fusion dance in 2008. Since then I dance -besides oriental dance- FCBD® Style and Indian Fusion Dance.

 

 

 ALICIA PASTERNAK

 

I got in contact with Raqs Sharki when I was eight years old. In the next ten years I learned movements, conzept and theory about oriental dances by teachers as Momo Kadous, Rhani Krija and Magdy El-Leisy but also different folcloric dances from North Africa and the Middle East.

I took my first fusion workshops when I was sixteen and the next one and a half years I traveled through europe to learn from the famous american Fusion Dancers. Since 2011 I concentrate on learning FCBD®-Style Dance.

 

 

 

KATHRIN ISBERNER

 

My first big love is the north indian classical dance Kathak in which I was intensely trained since 2002. Besides that I exercised Bollywood-Dance and was introduced to Oriental and Contemporary Dance. In 2011 I was struck by the thunder of Fusion Dance. Since then I took classes and every workshop by international dancers I could get my hands on. On the search of a solid basis I dedicated myself to FCBD® Style and unexpectedly found pure bliss in the collective improvisation.