WHAT IS GLOBAL CARAVAN DANCE?
Global Caravan Dance is more than movement—it’s a soulful practice that nurtures connection, creativity, and feminine strength.
Through flowing, grounded movement and shared leadership, dancers find a sacred space to connect—with themselves, each other, and the rhythm of life. Whether you’re new to dance or a seasoned mover, this dance is a practice that nurtures the mind, body, and spirit, offering lifelong growth and inspiration.
WHAT STYLE OF DANCE IS IT?
Global Caravan Dance (GCD) is a style of group improvisational tribal bellydance founded by Paulette Rees-Denis, in 1991, in the USA.
A blend of dance styles, drawing from traditional dances of the Middle East, North Africa, India, and Spain, GCD weaves folkloric inspiration with modern fusion to create a dance that feels both ancient and modern.
This is a non-verbal group dance—where we move together using a shared language of steps, cues, and connection. The result is a powerful blend of synchronicity, creativity, and flow.
This style of dance is a great workout. It builds strength and grace, cultivates mindfulness, and offers a joyful way to reconnect—with your body, your spirit and others in a circle of supportive women.
global caravan dance founder
paulette rees-denis
Global Caravan Dance (also known as Global Caravan Tribal Bellydance) was founded by Paulette Rees-Denis in 1991, in the USA. She’s a Tribal Bellydance icon and an inspiring entrepreneur, life coach, creative, dancer, writer, musician, photographer.
Here’s some words from Paulette about the dance:
‘This Global Caravan Tribal BellyDance® signature styling is an eclectic, invigorating, and elegant fusion based on urban, folk, ritual, trance, bellydance, and modern dances. With a background in classical dance training, I have created this rich blend of contemporary movement, based on our common non-verbal language and group improvisation, which is aesthetically pleasing, spiritually grounding, and physically rewarding.
While this dance evokes a feeling of ancient times, of tribal spirit and camaraderie, of family, of personal freedom, it is important for it to be recognized as a dance of today. It is a dance for all of us. The community aspect of the dance, the circle, with its exciting creative synchronicity, brings dancers together in total acceptance and support of each other, as they make magic together. When you do this dance, whether on your own or in a class, you can feel the flowing energy of the dance, from your intuitive creative core, from your womb, your energy center, your whole being. Now that’s powerful stuff. The beauty of the dance is that it is different for everyone and every body. Dancers around the world learn the language of our dance, and with artist’s visions, adapt the style to evolve into a tribal version unique to them but with roots grounded in my traditions. Way cool!’
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GLOBAL CARAVAN DANCE IS MORE THAN MOVEMENT - IT’S A LIFESTYLE
LEARN MORE ABOUT OUR GLOBAL COMMUNITY.
We are a global community with teachers and ‘tribes’ in Australia, NZ, USA, Scotland and Italy, who share a love of this dance format. We regularly meet together at festivals and workshops to share our community of dance.