Colleena shakti biography of barack

Through the struggles of questioning her existence in her early years, Colleena found visual art expressed the confusing and isolating emotions of life.

Colleena Shakti, 34, an American expat from Ventura, Calif., dabbled in Middle Eastern folk and belly dancing before beginning serious study of.

Colleena Shakti, 34, an American expat from Ventura, Calif., dabbled in Middle Eastern folk and belly dancing before beginning serious study of.

I studied dance during college and one of the classes was on Middle Eastern dance.

Colleena Shakti is an artist of great subtlety and depth.

This is the story of Colleena Shakti, a girl brought up in the US who made India her home, learnt Odissi classical dance here and started running a school.

Colleena Shakti is an artist of great subtlety and depth.

Searching for her place in the world took her down both dark and illuminated paths. The times of chaos and hardship she has survived, became valuable lessons which deepened her soul. Exploring truths fearlessly is a motto in her life and in her art.
“The depth of our art reflects the work which we have done within our selves.”
Colleena’s dance life began with exploring dance as a child and deepened as she began Belly Dancing in 1997.

Belly Dance captured her spirit with its freedom in movement, passionate music and the way it connected her with other women whom she was learning with. It was the richness in Belly Dance vocabulary that sparked a curiosity in the wide range of cultures across the Orient which Belly Dance drew its movement from.


After learning about Odissi classical Indian dance, it took 2 years of se