Elsanne Barrows lives in San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato, Mexico, where she has her dance studio (Libelula estudio de danza) and has trained over 150 teachers around Mexico in her certification program titled “Maestras del Tribal”. Called “the mother of tribal style bellydance in Mexico”, she brought Tribal Style to Mexico in 2001. “Maestras del Tribal” certification consists of more than 90 hours of class, exams, and shows, and is currently in its 16th generation with 150 graduates nationwide. Libelula estudio de danza opened its doors in 2008 in San Miguel de Allende. Combining an M.Ed. with a passion for community and personal growth through dance, her workshops are crafted to optimize learning, as well as have heaps of fun.

Elsanne has headlined festivals all around Mexico as well as in Bogota and Medellin, Colombia; Buenos Aires, Argentina; and been invited guest instructor in Cues & Tattoos Tribal Bellydance Festival in Seattle, WA, and Austin Belly Dance Convention (Austin, TX).

Her first teacher is Terri Walden from Salamat Tribal (Prescott, AZ). Other principal guides and teachers are Katarina Burda, Myra Krien, Kathy Stahlman, and Karim Nagi.

She has taken multiple workshops with Carolena Nericchio and other members of FatChance BellyDance, the founders of Tribal Style Bellydance

With the eternal passion of the nerdly student, Elsanne continually learns new dance moves and “tricks of the trade” of teaching dance, calling her regular classes her Laboratory (of the science of teaching and learning).