About BellyCraft

Founded in South Florida in 2004 by director & choreographer, Alicia Sparaco, BellyCraft has quickly become the face of Dark Fusion Bellydance with a truly unique and innovative style all their own. Joined by Heather Chapin (co-choreographer) in 2006, this “charmed” pair has consistently pushed the boundaries of the genre creating theatrical performances charged with subtle undertones of other worldly passions and accented with vibrant shades of aggression.

About Alicia

Alicia is a second generation belly dancer who got her first taste of traditional Belly Dancing at age five through her mother who performed in South Florida as Aleta between the seventies and early eighties. An innovative and stylistically unique artist from the start, Alicia naturally went on to integrate this foundation with the eclectic, artistic and experimental expressions so common to the gothic, industrial and punk clubs she inhabited weekly as a young adult.

An avid student of her creative passions, Alicia has actively pursued her love for dance and studied with some of the top belly dance instructors and tribal fusion originators. She continues to travel and explore the experience of dance in between teaching and performing.

Alicia currently teaches her unique blend of Tribal Fusion Bellydance at Bozenka's Bellydance Academy (formerly the Mideastern Dance Exchange in Miami's south beach) in North Miami and at Lotus Dance Studio in Pembroke Pines. She is the founding member, director and main choregrapher of the very original and South Florida's very own, BellyCraft.

When not studying, teaching, or performing, Alicia is also a pro-active, positive, and consistent voice in South Florida's ever growing and developing belly dance community. She has experienced dance as an ever present, rewarding and nurturing thread in her life. Being able to give back to bellydance by sharing it has become central to her vision of a community united through the love of music, creativity and movement.