Egyptian Oriental Dance

Prolific, gifted, and tireless, New York ’s Nourhan Sharif keeps expanding the educational and artistic horizons for Middle Eastern dance. She persistently creates new ways to bring this dance to newcomers and new audiences and executes opportunities, new ideas, and projects for professionals.

Turkish Oriental dances-Kim Leary (Alexia) is a belly dance performer, choreographer and instructor in Central New Jersey. Kim Leary’s (Alexia) dance accomplishments include teaching both credit and non-credit dance at Princeton University.  She is Co-Artistic Director of Groove Merchant Drum & Dance Ensemble and Co-Director of her school,  The Drum & Dance Learning

Asharah is internationally renowned for her strong technique, dramatic fusion of tribal and cabaret belly dance, tough but compassionate teaching style, and her dedication to raising professional and artistic standards in belly dance.  She has taught throughout the United States, Canada, Europe, and Asia; her 2008 instructional DVD, Modern Tribal Bellydance with Asharah, is considered one

"Dance is emotion in motion" describes accurately the quality of Aszmara’s dance. Performing and teaching workshops regulary in the USA and Europe, she is one of New York’s best interpreters of the ethnic dance.

choreographer and designer. Ayshe blends her Greek and American heritage to create an exotic and unusual dance style.  She has trained extensively in classical ballet, modern dance, yoga, and numerous ethnic dance forms, particularly Middle Eastern dance, ancient Pharaonic dance, and Indian dance. ]]> tayyarakdeniz@hotmail.com (Tayyar Akdeniz) USA Camp Event Dance Teachers past and future Sat, 04 Dec 2010 23:44:15 +0000 http://folktours.com/usa-dance-teachers/zenaide.html http://folktours.com/usa-dance-teachers/zenaide.html

Zenaide has been a performer, teacher and choreographer of Oriental Dance for more than 30 years.  She has mastered the Egyptian, Turkish, and Arabic dance styles and has expanded her repertoire to include Spanish-Arabic and Latin Fusion.

ails from Denizli, Turkey and graduated from the respected Manisa Youth and Sports Academy in 1979.

After graduation Ibrahim performed in various folk dance organizations in Izmir until 1981 when he joined The Turkish State Folk Dance Ensemble as a performer and an instructor for "Zeybek" dance.

Tayyar has been involved as a dancer, musician and director of folkloric troupes for 25 years in Turkey. He has performed and traveled extensively around the world with the Turkish State Folk Dance Assemble and several other distinguished dance companies from Turkey.

Is well known for her sizzling Turkish Oriental dance style. She has danced since her childhood in Brasil. At age nineteen, Eva discovered Oriental Dance through Anahid Sofian in New York City and later worked in several of the night clubs there.

Arabic Oriental Dance

"Fahtiem brings a touch of class to Oriental Dance, as well as a delightful sauciness, making her not only a grand entertainer, but an artist as well. It's no wonder that as a performer, teacher, and choreographer,

 One of the “Ladies” of Oriental Dance in Turkey, was born in Sulukule the gypsy quartier of Istanbul. She started her professional career in 1973 dancing in Kervansary, even today the first place for bellydance in Istanbul.She also performed many years in Gar casino in istanbul.

Sahra C Kent, "Sahra Saeeda," has performed and taught Egyptian style Orientale and Folkloric dance on five continents. Originally from the Los Angeles, California area, Sahra lived, danced, and researched in Egypt from 1989 to 1995. Since then she has been touring the world teaching and performing Egyptian Orientale and Folkloric dance.

Morocco (C. Varga Dinicu) is considered the leading performer & authority in her field internationally, evidenced by frequent invitations to teach master seminars everywhere - even in Morocco, Egypt & Turkey.

Cassandra Shore began performing Middle Eastern dance in 1975, as a student of Jamila Salimpour, and quickly became one of the most popular and respected performers in the San Francisco Bay area. Her intensity, musicality and technique set her apart from the average performer.

(Veil, drum solo, floor work) Artemis has been dancing and teaching dance history worldwide for over 30 years. She brings her spirited and articulate technique to workshops, which always includes a lecture on the history and culture that generates the dances that she teaches.

American Tribal Style Dance

Darshan aka Cammi Vance chose the dancer's path in 1991 as she began the avid study and practice of
bellydance. Oh, there had always been dance in her life: music, dance, and spirituality were key elements
in her family. Growing up, her movement studies included ballet, jazz, gymnastics, martial arts. As with
many on the path, her soul ran off with bellydance and left no return address.

Karim is a native Egyptian who has lived in the Boston area for over 20 years. Karim performs primarily Arabic, Turkish and Andalusian hand percussion, including the Egyptian Tabla (goblet drum), Riqq (tambourine) and Segat (brass castanets also known as finger cymbals). He is a faculty member of the New England

(Dunvayi World Dance) is a world-renowned Middle Eastern Contemporary Dancer, Choreographer, Instructress and Global Fusion Artist. Audiences from around the world have applauded her mystical and innovative dances and choreographies that are taken from the tradition of the countries she is representing.

Tribal is the director of the Gypsy Caravan from Portland, Oregon and has been researching, performing, and reinterpreting the tribal, Gypsy, and folk dances of many countries for 15 years.

believes that though dance and music people around the world can transcend their differences and overcome perceived boundaries to achieve oneness and joy.

Mohamed is a choreographer and performer from Cairo, Egypt. Mohamed began his studies at the age of fourteen and earned his degree in dance at the famous school of El Kowmaia in Cairo.

Life is a dance. Dance is a ritual of breathing, movement, harmony of the body and expression of our emotions; it is the oldest art form performed in ancient history. Oriental dance is an expression of femininity  and life experiences. From ancient history to the present, we have been receiving, preserving and transferring the tradition of Oriental dance in our everyday life.

American Tribal Style Dance

A life-long dancer, athlete and musician, Mimi has performed extensively throughout the United States and Europe .  Upon herintroduction to belly dancing, Mimi quickly established herself as anemerging artist, serving as a principal dancer for Serena andMaqamikaze dance companies. She was also a founding member of Alchemy Dance Theater, and co-founded Vadalna Tribal Dance Company.

Balkan, Hungarian, Romanian, International Traveling in Germany for over seven years, he worked with ethnic communities (guest workers) in Munich, while teaching dance and performing -- and taking advantage of his proximity to Balkan and eastern European countries to pursue his interest in the study and research of their dances. He also lived in Bucovina for a while, learning local folklore.

Christina King, A dancer of many styles since childhood, Christina discovered Middle-Eastern folkloric dance and began her studies in 1992 with Tahjah of Madison, Wisconsin. She was performing with Tahjah's troupe within the year, traveling throughout the Midwest with them. She eventually started teaching informally and choreographing for the