Darielle Williams
Teaching: Pole, Aerial, Stretch
Dancer with Pole Stars
Location: Hollywood, FL
DivaDari aka Black Cat provides a unique experience
that is bound to elevate any event. Her style is a mixture
of ballet, contemporary and a little sass which
audiences fall in love with.
She specializes in aerial hoop, silk, pole dancing, fire dancing
and stilt walking and can tailor her performance to suit your needs.
Darielle Williams was born and raised in Trinidad and Tobago where she began her dance training in the styles of modern, ballet, jazz and tap at the Caribbean School of Dance.
In 2004, she made the move to Miami in order to attain her Bachelor of Arts in Dance at Florida International University. During that time, Darielle had the opportunity to work with several modern and Afro-fusion choreographers including Augusto Soledade, Clyde Morgan, Gelan Lambert, Katherine Kramer, and Judy Moss. She also partook in the Alvin Ailey Summer Intensive in 2006 and the Florida Dance Festival in 2007. Additionally, Darielle received the Tigertail Productions and Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs FY 2008-2009 Artist Access Grant in order to attend the Garth Fagan Dance Summer Movement Institute.
Since her graduation in 2008, Darielle has been a lead performer in several companies. She has been a member of Brazz Dance Theater – an Afro-Brazilian contemporary dance company under the direction of choreographer Augusto Soledade – since she was a freshman in college in 2004. Under director and choreographer Megan Swick, Darielle has been performing with Binti Ensemble – a modern and belly dance Fusion Company – since her senior year of college. And in 2008, she began working with Animate Objects Physical Theater, under director and choreographer Ileigh Reynolds, with whom she performed aerial dance, bungee, stilt walking, acro-stilts and fire dancing.
Darielle has had a short stint dancing with Temptation Cabaret, choreographed by Kalyn James, in Passions Night Club at the Seminole Hard Rock Casino in 2010 before the show closed for the season. She has also recently started working with a new Afro-Peruvian dance company called Afro conTempo Dance Theater, under up-and-coming choreographer Marcela Diaz.
Additionally, Darielle has been a teacher for Brazz Dance Theater for the past three years, teaching at Miami Senior High School magnet dance program in 2010, Overtown Youth Center in 2009 as well as for several Out-of-School Programs in 2008-2009 throughout Homestead, FL. Apart from this, she has also taught modern dance at the Hot Spot Dance and Production Studio and the Emerald Hills Studio of Performing Arts.
Darielle is currently teaching as an aerial instructor at Artistic Dance Center and Pole Stars in South Florids. She still trains and performs circus arts under the tutelage of Evgueni Baranok.
