Aepril was featured in Yallah Magazine: “Teaching Styles: What Makes a Master Teacher” by Tuari Perez. Also interviewed in this article are Suhaila Sailimpour, Carolena Nericcio, Amy Sigil, and Kajira Djoumahna. New Issue out now! (Dalia Carella on the cover!)

“Dance of the Dark Goddess: An Interview with Aepril Schaile” by Belladonna Black in Carpe Nocturne Magazine, Summer 2011, beginning on p.210.

Aepril had a wonderful time teaching and performing at Rakkasah’s Spring Caravan 2011! Many thanks to all of her workshop students and everyone who made it possible!

Next, Aepril is looking forward to teaching and performing at the NY Theatrical Bellydance Conference in NYC, July 6-10. See you there!

Praise for Aepril’s piece “The Heart Asks Pleasure First”, performed at Rakkasah Spring Caravan and posted on YouTube. ‎”Surprised by Melancholy: Musings on Tribal and Cabaret Bellydance” by Jenny Binckes Lee. Zaghareet! Magazine, Jan-Feb 2011.

Aepril will be included in “Mystic Women of Salem”, a book of fine art photography and interviews by Rebecca Fox! Read Rebecca’s teaser blog about Aepril’s interview.

Aepril has been invited back to teach and perform at the 2011 New York Theatrical Bellydance Conference! More info as soon as it’s available.

Thank you again for a sold out debut run of The Book of Lilith!

Two reviews in Carpe Nocturne magazine, by Sarah Coflan and Melynda Amann, with photos by Liza Piper. “The Book of Lilith: Two Reviews of an Exceptional Performance”. Beginning on page 156.

Review in Belly Dance New England by Amy Smith, with photos by Liza Piper. “… an extraordinary, powerful, and I would even say important production.”

Aepril will be teaching and performing at Rakkasah Spring Caravan 2011!

Workshop, Sunday, May 29: “Dark Raqs Assaya”
More info and to register

Aepril Schaile’s signature mystically themed, theatrically oriented bellydance instruction. Dramatic expression, spiritual and artistic authenticity, technical precision and power.

6 weeks: Thursdays Sept 16 – Oct 21
Bellydance Basics (Level I)
Beyond the Basics (Level II): Raqs Dramatique 

More info and registration

Exquisite Corpse Dance Theatre and Salem Theatre Company present:

THE BOOK OF LILITH
Sept 3, 4, 5 at Salem Theatre Co
90 Lafayette St, Salem, MA
Show times: Fri and Sat 7:30pm, Sun 3pm
Tickets on sale August 1!
Get your tickets here!
More info here!

THE BOOK OF LILITH
Goddess – Demon – First Woman
A theatrical bellydance production

Come with Lilith as she flies through the ages…

From her beginnings as handmaiden to the Great Goddess, initiating men into Her mysteries through sacred eros, to her appearance as First Woman in the Garden of Eden.

She has since been called Blood Sucker, Harlot, Seductress, Impure Female, Alien Woman Witch, Hag, Vixen, Strangleress, Enchantress, End of All Flesh, End of Day, Flame of the Revolving Sword. Her dark powers have grown over the millennia in which she has been worshipped and demonized, adored and feared. She is the force of nature and the supernatural in all women.

Exiled from her home in the Tree of Life, and from the Garden of Paradise, she battles with angels and Falls from Grace.

Queen of Demons, she is the Winged One and Torturous Serpent, taking life through her strange and dark seduction; cast out, banished to the desolate wilderness, her home the Red Sea. Overwhelming in her nocturnal power, She demands nothing less than her full pleasure. Saintly and satanic, “the soul of every living creature that creepeth”, she perhaps, too, can offer redemption…

For, once upon a time, in the days when the Great Goddess was still revered, Lilith, nature spirit and soul of women, was called simply “The Beautiful Maiden”…

So begins The Book of Lilith.