Stephiniti
Stephani D. Salazar
Originating as a fusion and free-form dancer out of the jamband scene in the mid 90s, Stephiniti uses dance as a meditative tool to catalyze personal transcendence and conscious evolution. In 2003, Stephiniti began hoop dancing and fire dancing with poi. Since then, she has additionally taken up various unique dance elements, including fire dancing with palm torches, hand torches, and the hoop. Apart from hoop, fire, fusion, spirit, shadow, and go-go dancing, Stephiniti engages in prop manipulation with the wand, rope dart, juggling hoops, and rope. Her background in dance also includes elements of Yoga, NIA, Modern, West African, Tai Chi, Ba gua, Contact Improv, Tribal Belly, Jazz and nature Herself.
Stephiniti is co-organizer for Kaivalya and a performer for Cosmic Fire. She is a 2005 University of Colorado, Boulder graduate, majoring in Philosophy and Religious Studies, with an additional emphasis in Studio and Performance Art. Her hobbies, among many, include mindful conversations, drawing and painting mandalas, skiing the bumps, writing, and reading fantasy fiction. She has performed at numerous private parties, special events, clubs, concerts and music festivals throughout the country, and is specialty insured for her art.
“An inconceivably sweet longing
Drove me to roam through woods and fields,
And with a thousand burning tears
I felt the world rise up in me.”
-Goethe’s “Faust”
