Lurainya Koerber has been a full time professional performer, instructor
and choreographer of Bellydance and her own Ethnic fusion since
the year 2000. In 2003 she also created, and is producer and
director of Lurainya's Realm™, LLC and MoonGypsy™ Productions.

She is dedicated to respectfully and responsibly heightening the
awareness and prestige of Bellydance as an ancient art and innovative
form of exercise. Equal efforts are focused on healing and empowering
women and girls around the world through dance and with the start
of her organization, WomenMove™.

MEDIA: With hopes of reaching as broad a public as possible with her art,
Lurainya consistently strives for new means of communication. Her television
appearances include CN8 "Your Morning" and Fox29 "Good Day with Kerri Lee".
She has been featured in Kimberly Garrison's Health and Wellness PodCast as well as
several newspaper articles including The Intelligencer, The Bucks County Herald, Out
and About, PhillyFit and more.

PRODUCTION: Lurainya produces, directs and choreographs annual dance productions and
student recitals. Additionally, she has been working toward the debut of her full-scale dance
theater production called AMRITA CANDRA™. This, in conjunction with her newly formed
organization called WomenMove™, will further Lurainya's goal of healing and empowering
women around the world.

Using her background in film production, she has produced, directed and edited two
performance videos as well as her 90minute Instructional DVD. She also has a
Bellydance T-shirt and Bellydance CD single on the market.

Area Appearances: Lurainya has performed at World Café Live in Philadelphia,
the Sellersville Theater, Puck in Doylestown, the PA Renaissance Faire, numerous
shows and haflas in the tri-state area, and several Arts and Ethnic Festivals.

Additionally, she has been a featured performer at the Casablanca restaurant in Warrington since the year 2000.

Instruction, Workshops, and Lectures: Since the year 2000, Lurainya has taught at Healing Arts & Fitness Centers throughout Bucks/Montgomery Counties & neighboring areas. Among others to house her "Bellydance" and "Dance Fusion for Fitness™" classes have been The Health & Wellness Center of Doylestown Hospital, Dance Elite, Slim & Tone Women's Gyms, Soul Works Healing Arts Center, Pilates for Sport Studio, The Sandi Spicer Dance Studio, Body Dynamic Gym, DragonFly Yoga Studio and more.

She has taught workshops on Costuming & Makeup, the Basics of Bellydance, Tools & Techniques for Proper Isolations, and Creativity in Your Dance..

Additionally, she has taught and lectured on the Benefits of Bellydance at The University of Pennsylvania's Women's Health Convention, the American Holistic Nursing Association, the Women's Business Forum, the Philadelphia Women's Health and Wellness Expo, Bucks County Community College's Day for All Women, the Hatboro-Horsham High School Health Faire, and more.

Misc: Lurainya has been the voiceover artist for D'lang Studios since 2005. She was assistant for 3 sessions to Jon Wilner at the Kathy Wickline Film Production Camp in 2001. She has been a featured metal Sculptor and appeared in the 2000 edition of The Anvil's Ring and was a featured artist in the "Women Do Iron" exhibit at the North Carolina Arts and Craft Gallery. She was chosen to direct the 1996 Bucks County Community College theater production of The Lady of Larkspur Lotion.

Currently, she continues to create unique costuming, teach weekly classes, prepare for upcoming events and work toward the debut of AMRITA CANDRA™.

Performance Style: Lurainya feels that being a woman means being a combination of strength and sensuality, and it's that combination that exudes when she performs. Though she appreciates and respects the traditional styles of "Raks Sharki" (an authentic term for Bellydance meaning "Dance of the East” in Arabic), she prefers to perform in her own modern fusion, which she calls "American Bellydance”. In love with both the glitz and glamour of "Cabaret” and the earthy, raw femininity of "Tribal”, Lurainya performs both, switching easily between the two - yet always making sure to add her own style!

Personal and Teaching Philosophies: As an artist her entire life, Lurainya has always expressed herself through a multitude of mediums, but it wasn't until her mid twenties that dance become one of them. Not letting her shyness get the best of her, she took her first steps in this world of dance in 1997, and knew immediately that it would forever be a part of her life. Like most women, she had to overcome her insecurities, but with desire and determination, she found the courage to do so. 

Lurainya teaches not only the beauty of this dance, but the many benefits to the mind, body and spirit as well. She has worked with occupational and physical therapists who concur that the intense muscle control and isolations necessary for this dance are ideal forms of rehabilitation for many patients. Her efforts are constantly focused on bringing this dance into the main stream as not only a form of respectful entertainment, but as a healthful dance for women searching our their entirety.

Lurainya knows the power that Bellydance has to change lives, and for that reason, she loves teaching. With patience and sensitivity, she is able to reach students who wouldn't normally venture into such an experience. Many women who inquire about classes are sometimes shy and unsure, but years later, the same women are still in her classes as devout students with more confidence and higher self-esteem!

Lurainya attributes much of her teaching skill to her life experiences. Her sister was born totally blind, so Lurainya grew up teaching someone who never had sight, how to see through other senses. Describing a color to someone who's never known any takes an unusual creativity. Along with her blindness, there are other severe disabilities that make her sister's every day a struggle. Lurainya grew up right next to her, seeing the best and worst of people at a very early age. She's thankful for the challenges she and her family have endured, as they've given her an endless supply of strength and compassion. Lurainya is proud to have such an amazing person for her sister, and learned from the beginning never to take for granted even the "simplest” of tasks. It's this compassion she brings to her students that puts at ease even the most shy of personalities.