A life- long dancer, competitive runner, and gymnast, Vi has been studying and performing bellydance since childhood in the 1990s. She joined a professional performing troupe as a teen and started teaching and professional solo work soon afterwards. She is well known for innovative choreography and improvisation in many styles: from traditional Middle-eastern, folkloric, Fat Chance Bellydance Style^TM and fusion. She regularly collaborates with other performers, DJs and live musicians. The Black Moon Bellydance student troupe is a well known group at community events and festivals all over Australia.

Her passion for dance carries through to her classes where her detailed and encouraging teaching style of 16 years inspires students from beginners to the well advanced.   She has a strong knowledge base in the safety and mechanics of movement technique. She has studied human anatomy and physiology as part of her science background. Many Black Moon alumni are now professional teachers and performers.

She was a long-term student of the Academy of Middle Eastern Dance, (Brisbane); Underbelly (Melbourne) and also with Cayetana Rodenas (Flamenco, Townsville). She has undertaken intensives and workshops with internationally renowned teachers including Rachel Brice, Paulette Rees-Denis, Deb Rubin, Jill Parker, Elizabeth Strong, Michelle Joyce, sword dance specialist Sabine, Dr Mo Geddawi and Aida Nour, as well as many Australian teachers.

As well as solo performances, her career has included troupe membership of gypsy-tribal group Shisha Drum and Dance (Melbourne), Middle Eastern percussion group Bellyslap (Melbourne), Underbelly’s tribal troupe Red Belly Black (Melbourne), and fusion outfit Opalesque (Brisbane).

Vi has an interest in dance as a spiritual journey and also facilitates workshops and courses in ritual, ecstatic dance, dancing the chakras and runs women’s circles. In 2005 she became a certified facilitator of Kundalini Dance^TM. She has studied bodymind modalities such as yoga, martial arts, contact improvisation and butoh.