Violet Kind

Violet is the creator of Fly Fusion®, owner of Satori Violet Belly Dance Company, director of The Bleuebellatrix Project, and a founding member of Dubrikato. Born and raised in south-central Minnesota, she was lucky enough to stumble upon a fusion belly dance class with Anna Kimm in her hometown in 2005.

Of her favorite things about belly dance, teaching is #1. Her teaching style is unique, upbeat, and pushes students through frustrating moments with laughter. She is always searching for new ways to encourage creativity and growth, in herself and her students. Violet has been fortunate enough to study in the certification programs of Rachel Brice, Ashley Lopez, Zoe Jakes, and Shannon Townsend.

When Violet is not busy dancing and running a business, she spends her time drinking copious amounts of coffee, cycling through the Minnesota river valley with her right-hand dude, and hanging out with her tuxedo kitties: Bruce Lee-Wayne-Willis and Miles Davis-Tails-Standish.

Interested in booking Violet for workshops or an intensive in your area? Find more information here.

Classes

Slow Expansion Dance-Along #1

Once you've reached Expansion, you've got everything from Foundation, Metamorphosis, and now this crazy phase to choose from! Rock out with Violet for a whole song.

Slow Metamorphosis Dance-Along #1

You've learned the combinations... let's put them together and dance a whole song through! This video is for those familiar with the Metamorphosis vocabulary (with the assumption that you've also learned Foundation).

Serpent Drill

This is the drill section of the larger breakdown class. Serpent is a 24 count slow combination featuring lots of funky hipwork and quick turns.

Capricorn

Capricorn is a 16 count combination in our Metamorphosis slow vocabulary. It gives a nod to famous belly dance Capricorns, Zoe Jakes and Carolena Nerriccio-Bohlman.

BSB: Chest Lifts & Drops

Chest lifts and drops are great on their own for accenting music or making fun combinations. They are also the foundation for learning more challenging chest and ribcage movements.

Serpent

Serpent is a 24 count slow combination featuring lots of funky hipwork and quick turns. Isolations include pelvic mayas, elbow lifts, hip drops, and more!

BSB: Posture

Good dancing begins with good posture. Violet will walk you through the key components to beautiful posture. Beginners, be prepared to receive a lot of information and watch again! Experienced dancers, try and find one area of the body where you can bring your focus to in order to improve your posture.

BSB: Pelvic Locks

The pelvis is a fundamental part of many key belly dancing movements. We will start small with learning the difference between imprint and neutral and then apply our new knowledge while doing standing drills. Pelvic awareness can lead to safer posture and gorgeous hip movements.

BSB: Escher Step

The Escher Step is a simple footwork pattern created by Violet to help beginner students with zero dance experience. While it has nothing to do with belly dance specifically, it’s a handy tool in learning how to do footwork and eventually for layering basic belly dance movements over.

Mutespell Bloopers

We had a ton of fun filming the Mutespell Choreography, but so much of that is left outside of the tutorials! So, here you go… enjoy the weirdness that is Violet, unfiltered!

Mutespell Choreograpy

This choreography was created and instructed by Violet Kind in 2018 to the song “Mutespell” by Afrit Temple. The dance was designed for intermediate belly dancers; specifically with the new Fly Fusion® dancer in mind. Mutespell Choreography uses many hints of Fly Fusion® movements in addition to musical timing.

Four Corners Drill

This is the DRILL section of the Four Corners class. Let’s get funky with this 32-count Fast Combo!

Bring It! Drill

This the drill section of the Bring It! Breakdown class. This combination is cued out of the Fly Shimmy and involves fun footwork with gooey arms and isolations.

Hourglass

This slow, 24-count Expansion combo is cued out of the Bodywave and features some of Violet's favorite isolations. The shapes in this combination are fun to watch and there are really great moments where the combination and music make magic!

Hourglass Drill

Wake Up, Warm Up!

Good morning! Fresh outta bed? Been sitting all day? This class will get all parts of the body gently moving and wake up your lower body quicker than a quad-shot mocha.

Aquarius Drill

Aquarius is a 16-count combination in Expansion's Slow Vocabulary. This is just the drill segment of the longer Aquarius breakdown video.

Bodywave Drill

The Fly Bodywave Drill! This is the one-and-only slow Metamorphosis stall movement and we find it equal parts beautiful and powerful. We hope you do, too! Please be sure you warm up (especially in the upper torso) prior to beginning!

Bodywave

Introducing: The Fly Bodywave! This is the one-and-only slow Metamorphosis stall movement and we find it equal parts beautiful and powerful. We hope you do, too!

Aquarius

Aquarius is a 16-count combination in Expansion's Slow Vocabulary. Much like an Aquarian, this combo is sassy, complex, and seriously good-looking. ;) Please warm up prior to beginning!

Four Corners

Let’s get funky with this 32-count Fast Combo! Give yourself some time with this one because there are lots of sassy layers and details to catch.

Bring It!

This Fast 16-count Combination is cued out of the Fly Shimmy and involves fun footwork with gooey arms and isolations. We will break it down layer by layer, then put it all together and drill.

Introduction

Grab a cup of tea and take a short tour of Fly and how it works. We'll talk about some of the most basic concepts of Fly which will come in handy as you work through Phase One: Foundation.

Counting Music

This short class is for those of you who are new to counting music: A fundamental part of performing Fly Fusion®! So, grab a notebook and grab a seat! We’ll discuss how to count music as a dancer using a few different techniques.

Foundation Series Class 1

In this short introductory class, Violet covers one slow Foundation stall movement and one slow Foundation combination. She also describes what they are and how to use them.

Foundation Series Class 2

In this 25 minute class, Violet does drills, introduces more combinations and concepts, discusses how to do some of our classic Fly formations and finally, gives you a chance to take the lead in a dance-along.

Foundation Series Class 3

Fasten your seat belt, we're moving right along! In class 3, we're finishing all of the Foundation Slow Vocabulary! We suggest watching these videos as many times as you need to while you're building your strong foundation! Included: Drills, new material, formation discussion, and your chance to take the lead!

Foundation Series Class 4

In this class Violet introduces the first of the fast vocabulary. Learn the Fly Fusion Shimmy and Halcyon Cha-Cha, review slow vocabulary from Class 3, and do some drilling along the way. Please be sure to warm up prior to beginning.

Foundation Series Class 5

In this video we will start by drilling what we have covered in the previous Foundation Series classes. We will then learn another fast stall movement - The Fly Arabic! We will finish with a drill of the material covered in class 5. Let's dance!

Silk Maya Breakdown

Foundation, Slow | The Silk Maya was the first stall movement of the Fly Fusion® vocabulary and is often the first one taught at Fly classes and workshops. Be patient with yourself as you learn the upper and lower body layers.