Director
Jill Parker is the founder and director of Ultra Gypsy and a respected member of the vibrant Bay Area dance community.
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Parker Director Jill Parker is the founder and director of Ultra Gypsy and a respected member of the vibrant Bay Area dance community. |
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| She has been teaching and performing bellydance since 1989, and running Ultra Gypsy since 1996. In addition to directing Ultra Gypsy and teaching five belly dance classes a week, Jill directs a student troupe called Djun Djun and co-directs Zambra Bailar Yalla!, a flamenco and belly dance fusion company. | |
| Jill moved to San Francisco from
upstate New York in 1987. In 1989 she became a founding member of the widely
recognized FatChance BellyDance, pioneering a new style and aesthetic of
bellydancing. In 1996 she founded her own company, Ultra Gypsy, in order
to further explore her creative ideas. Jill loves dancing in a company and
feels that her artistic expression is fully realized in Ultra Gypsy’s
unique brand of bellydance theater. |
Her extensive dance and movement background includes yoga, salsa, Afro-Haitian, pilates, flamenco, Tunisian, Turkish, Egyptian dance, martial arts, fire dance and theatre. |
