Snake's Kin Studio presents... Photo & Art Gallery Click on thumbnails or links for larger file, if it's there, it will come. The photos below cover my 20+ year career as a dancer and performer. Some of the more recent photos have been labeled with the year they were taken. Note to potential clients: I have retired from performing but may be able to refer you to more youthful talent! Please visit our fascinating online journal for Middle Eastern Music and Dance- The Gilded Serpent, Thank you! View various photos just below or More Snake Photos Pregnant Dancer, Non-Bellydance Gigs, stilting, fusion (!) attempts Rock & Dance, character medical Press, Ads or Art NEW!- video at bottom of page

photo by Kathryn Dykman 300 dpi 8x5 inch		photo by Bob Giles 300 dpi 4x5		by Marty Sohl		photo by Kathryn Dykman
"Friz Head" photo session with Kathryn Dykman, 1993. More- #1,#2, #3, #4 Frizhead with veil #1,#2		photo by David?		photo by Kathryn Dykman 300dpi sword on hip		photo by ? 300dpi 9x6 inch
Tartar Birthday Party		Blue Assuite Dress		Blue &White Pose		One way to put down a basket
Hawaii		Red skirt, "Costless" bra & belt		photo by Bob Giles		photo by Bob Giles
a very early photo, ~ 1982 in Sonora, CA , first bra and a belly jewel		A Khaleegy Thobe		'Posing in front of Cesaer's Palace in Las Vegas		White and gold moon costume, photo by Jerry Parker who disappeared with all our negatives.

• Lynette's first gig ever, dancing for Melvin Belli's birthday in Sonora, CA. Probably in 1981. More from this gig here.
• Trouble is what this pic gave me when I put it in adds and on my biz card. Photo by Bob Giles. (66 kb) Another sword photo at same session.
• a hairy portrait of Lynette in a Saudi dress. Photo by Bob Giles. (140 kb)
• In blue beaded dress,Lynette is dancing with a customer at Couscous Royale in Berkeley. Photo by Ali. (125 kb)10-98 portrait- #1
• "In Vision"
• Tourist photo posing with my hero, Soheir Zaki, in Cairo. Taken in 1991.
• Just an odd photo I found of the Sheherezade Restaurant in Oyster Point, South SF. You may recognise some of the customers and remember the wierd decor with all the silk flowers everywhere. Band would have been off of photo to left.

More Snake Photos

photo by Cynthia Cushman		2 snakes is much more complicated!		In Sheep Ranch at Tatseena's birthday
Medusa, wrapped on my uplifted arm. I like to think of this as Eve & the Snake, photo by Kathryn Dykman		Bacchus was given to me several years ago by Vickie Noble. photo by Bob Giles 300dpi 4x7inch		1997 photo by Walter Rasmussen
photo by Kathryn Dykman 200dpi4x9		photo by David?		photo by Bob Giles
photos by Carl Sermon
At the Peter Pan Preschool with Maloos		Rakkasah Festival 2000 dancing with Bacchus -more from this show -300dpi 4 x 5 jpg		Please don't ever do this with your snake! One revolution please!
~1986, snake arms and snake. smooth out those angles! Najia's student recital at Hillside club in Berkeley		Closeup portrait of Lynette with Medusa. Photo by Kathryn Dykman. (123 kb)		Snake Knot (153 kb) at Pasha, photo taken by a customer
2004 Sandra's Gig Tobias on drum		2006 Yahoo Holiday Party time to retire!

• Photo with Sharifa! A mentor and friend
• Early photo by Kathryn Dykman. Medusa at lower border.
• Maloos and Lynette performing at Petra, a nightclub in SF Bay Area. She is an Albino Brumese Python (88 kb)
• Rakkasah Festival 1999 : #1, #2, #3
• Video clip through "Sidewalks," a cable tv show. Old! Poor snake! I think the video must have been speeded up!

Pregnant Dancer

Veil dance #1 while pregnant #1(39kb) 300dpi		Veil Reach		Veil lift 300 dpi 4x5 jpg		Veil 2
Photos by Julie Faisst Taken in 1994 one more- "Don't tread on me!"
		Snake mama 300dpi		Snake Mama2 300 dpi 4x5 jpg		Snakes aloft
Club Townsend gig with Bobby G				new mom, Babies can be a delicious distraction from your dance career! 200dpi 3x5		Sophia enjoys performing! 200 dpi

"Non-Belly Dance" gigs

"Dance of Early Morning Light", was a gig with Project Bandeloop off of El Capitan in Yosemite after sleeping the night in a hammock pinned to the rock, (Ack!!!!) in approximately 1992. By far the scariest public thing I've ever done. See more photos at Bandaloop's site. I'm only in the early photos on El Cap. Here is the article by Melody Ermachild article from Climbing Magazine
and just a couple more pictures- photo from above*valley floor*spiders Below are some lame attempts to Bellydance in the vertical plane. It didn't work very well. location- Melicot in Yosemite

Stilts fringe pants
A pic in the local paper of getting those sticks on. That is Terry Sendgraf next to me on the car hood.	at a Dead concert in the Oakland with WWT Lynette is center right below "eyeball"	Parading down Mission in SF with Wise Fool another of same day	"Ugh!" says the poor man behind me! Warming up for doing the SF Carnival parade with Wise Fool
Lynette at left margin with boa helping out on May Day	Stilting as LadyLiberty 2003 Sleepy Hollow July 4th parade	Nurse's Strike	Earthday in Berkeley

Wise Fool's "how to build stilts", "how to make stilting pants"

Entertaining at theme parties

Entertaining at the SF Academy of Sciences		As Serpent Queen at a party celebrating a new wine for the Beaulieu Vineyard in Napa Area
Safari gigs with Lora's help. 1998?		Tropical theme party for Ross Department Store

Snakes, Women, Goddesses & Gods in Art

Celtic Snake God	Mary with snake at feet	Aztec God travels on a snake raft!
Hygia	Buto of Egypt	Nikki
	Cadeasis is a medical symbol depicting the healing snakes Moses formed out of bronze	Qadash	African art depicting a snake head
Hercules and the Hydra			Thor kills the World Serpent

• Demeter
• Egyptian Heiroglyphic depicting snake dancing. (34 kb)
• Athena dancing with her snakes. (60 kb)
• Cretan Snake Goddess or prietess statue dancing with her snakes. (60 kb)
• Campy! From a cover of a reprint of an old book on snake worship. Does anyone know anything more about this book? (93 kb)
• From theLouvre, a small portion of a much larger painting of a woman with snakes that my friends, Tad & Naomi photographed for me on their travels. (73 kb)
• The Garden of Hesperides by Leighton
• Sculture of Medusa
• Primitive Wall Art
• Sheet Music
• Snake Kiss
• Silly St Pat chasing the snakes from Ireland

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