Follow Belly Dance Life 1, filter it, and define how you want to receive the news (via Email, RSS, Telegram, WhatsApp etc.) https://follow.it/belly-dance-life-1 Sun, 04 Jun 2023 23:30:45 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/2iRXp4t36Zin15KuxA-RdzRQaTQYXBS9 Amie Sultan is an Egyptian belly dancer and classical ballerina. She was born and grew up in Singapore to an Egyptian family that was working extensively in South East Asia. Having established herself first as a successful ballet dancer, she has toured across the world dancing in Swan Lake, La Dame Aux Camellias, Jeune Homme Et La Mort, La Bayadere and Raymonda. In her quest to add a new layer to her dance repertoire, it is Amie's goal as a performance artist to restore the glamour and brilliance of the belly dance technique that was at its height in the 1940's and 50's.]]> Tue, 30 May 2023 21:51:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/2iRXp4t36Zin15KuxA-RdzRQaTQYXBS9 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/2iRXp4t36Zjl5yIJHeFb5gBC78OgjhDM Eva Charkina is the winner of the DariyaM Cup 2018 in the category “Youth. Lovers.”, winner of the competition “The way to the stars” 2018, and many other Ukrainian and international dance events. She has a university degree in modern choreography from the Kyiv University of Culture. Currently living in Kyiv, Eva stays as an active dancer and teacher both in Ukraine and abroad.]]> Tue, 23 May 2023 22:33:48 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/2iRXp4t36Zjl5yIJHeFb5gBC78OgjhDM https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/2iRXp4t36ZiEFdlZIm-eqmnhpmeYcemU We haven’t had many of best of compilation episodes this year so far, so it’s time to fix it! Let’s talk about the nutrition.. You will hear from Cassandra Fox, Jillina Carlano, Alla Kushnir, and Mercedes Nieto.]]> Tue, 16 May 2023 10:45:23 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/2iRXp4t36ZiEFdlZIm-eqmnhpmeYcemU https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/2iRXp4t36ZjzwmOx3Woez_9M7fKGWt0o Silvia Brazzoli is a professional dancer, instructor, yoga teacher, painter, and pizza lover based in Italy. She found her biggest love for oriental dance at the age of 18. Since then she has been dancing and teaching professionally all around the world. The growth of a dancer is a never-ending journey and Silvia is constantly researching, traveling and training in oriental dance and other dance styles, influencing the development of her own style.]]> Tue, 09 May 2023 13:48:18 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/2iRXp4t36ZjzwmOx3Woez_9M7fKGWt0o https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/2iRXp4t36ZhqKhSmN1jE_UFW8UNEQjUn Native Egyptian Nada El Masriya grew up belly dancing fully immersed within the rich cultural and historical environment of metropolitan Cairo. Her first formal dance training began early, with her high school’s folkloric troupe. At Cairo University, Nada earned a degree in Egyptian Law, minored in the History of Egyptian Culture and Dance Traditions. At early age Nada began her intensive training and performance with the prestigious Reda Troupe School. In 2002 she emigrated to Canada inspired by a passionate desire to accurately preserve and pass on her rich historic native Egyptian culture.]]> Tue, 02 May 2023 11:31:42 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/2iRXp4t36ZhqKhSmN1jE_UFW8UNEQjUn https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/2iRXp4t36ZizvBORrHtUoN3hDS9njgCr Oleksandra Kovalova is a professional dancer, teacher, choreographer, and certified judge. She is a director of oriental dance school Amberly based in Zhytomyr (Ukraine), and an organizer of the big international festival Yalla Bina. Oleksandra is a winner of Nile Group competition, as well as a mentor for her award-winning students. After living and teaching classes in Germany during past year, she is currently back to Ukraine, and just managed to run a very success edition of her dance festival, gathering dancers from all over Ukraine.]]> Tue, 25 Apr 2023 18:08:44 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/2iRXp4t36ZizvBORrHtUoN3hDS9njgCr https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/2iRXp4t36ZgTgeDwB8UrPbb9ICM-PHur This episode includes Iana’s lecture that was recorded specifically for her recent Mahraganat intensive at the Iana Dance Club. Since Mahraganat has a very particular mood, this style may feel uncomfortable for many dancers. Diving into such topic can be a great opportunity to train your acting skills, loosen up emotional boundaries related to shyness, and get out of your comfort zone. In addition, we are gonna work on a very fun and dynamic choreo which will provide you a bit of cardio workout. :)]]> Wed, 19 Apr 2023 02:58:07 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/2iRXp4t36ZgTgeDwB8UrPbb9ICM-PHur https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/2iRXp4t36ZhG-YAqgE60xAO5yOwvVe_2 Yunseo is a young talented belly dancer from South Korea. She is the award recipient of the Midas Goldentouch Bellydance Competition, Reina Oriental Dance Festival, Elkaff Festival, Malaysia World Oriental Dance Art Festival, and many others. Her beautiful unique style blends elements of traditional belly dance mixed with contemporary and other non-belly dance genres.]]> Wed, 12 Apr 2023 01:05:16 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/2iRXp4t36ZhG-YAqgE60xAO5yOwvVe_2 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/2iRXp4t36Zg2RtpxVJSL5B-xWH3zZqEA Anusch Alawerdian is an Armenian oriental dance performer, instructor and choreographer. She has been interested in dance since she was little, taking up several dance courses like ballet, folk dance and jazz. At the age of seventeen Anusch fell in love with the oriental dance style and traveled the world in search of the best dance instructors to teach her the art of bellydance. She opened her own oriental dance school in the Netherlands in 2002. She is now based in the United Arab Emirates and performs all over the world. In 2011 she also established an International dance festival “Summer Bellydance Festival” in Netherlands. Currently, Anush focuses all her energy on teaching activities and developing her project “Bellydance Abu Dhabi”.]]> Wed, 05 Apr 2023 03:08:05 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/2iRXp4t36Zg2RtpxVJSL5B-xWH3zZqEA https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/2iRXp4t36Zg2RtpxVJSL5BhSCv31NykC Linda Hathor began her studies in belly dance in 1998, in Paraná (Brazil), and since then, she has dedicated herself professionally to this art as a dancer, teacher, choreographer and director of the Hathor Group of Oriental Dances. In 2003, she received her professional registration by the Union of Artists of Paraná . For several consecutive years she remained among the first places in the National Mercado Persa Competition, the most important oriental dance competition in Brazil. She also became the professional Brazilian champion of Belly Dance in the 2011 contest. Gathering her knowledge in the area of Performing Arts with oriental dance, she developed her own methodology to work with expression and emotion through dance. Linda was invited by Dunia and Hossam Ramzy to join their tour in Brazil in 2003.]]> Wed, 29 Mar 2023 00:21:37 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/2iRXp4t36Zg2RtpxVJSL5BhSCv31NykC https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/2iRXp4t36Zg2RtpxVJSL5BeIF_fEM9tn This is a continuation of our special series ‘Student Voices’ where I share my conversations with the members of the Iana Dance Club about life, dance and training. Some of participants are belly dance beginners, some are professionals, but all of us have one thing in common: we all remain being students of dance. :) Today you will hear three interviews at once! Enjoy these inspiring conversations with Fiona, Soukaina and Emily where they share their belly dance transformations with us.]]> Tue, 21 Mar 2023 13:24:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/2iRXp4t36Zg2RtpxVJSL5BeIF_fEM9tn https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/2iRXp4t36Zg2RtpxVJSL5Gw5Ur-z5Bww Meher Malik is a famous belly dancer from Delhi, India, although she grew up in the Middle East, where she lived for 17 years. She moved to India in 2006 after finishing her schooling and went on to study fashion design at NIFT, Delhi. A few months into the course, Meher realized it was dance that was her true calling. She received huge recognition after her performances on India's Got Talent. In July 2011, Meher Malik and her students were selected on Hrithik Roshan's Just Dance Reality Show aired on Star Plus. Meher is also a director of Banjara School of Dance in New Delhi, an India’s Premier belly dance school.]]> Wed, 15 Mar 2023 01:34:54 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/2iRXp4t36Zg2RtpxVJSL5Gw5Ur-z5Bww https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/2iRXp4t36Zg2RtpxVJSL5CuZukmJ4mr4 Nisaa (Heather D. Ward) is a Middle Eastern dance instructor, performer, and researcher based in St. Louis, Missouri. Nisaa’s mission is to foster a greater understanding and appreciation of the complexity, diversity, and beauty of Middle Eastern dance forms. As a researcher, Nisaa focuses on the history of Egyptian dance and its professional practitioners. Her investigations into the transition from awalim and ghawazi dance styles to classical raqs sharqi at the turn of the 19th/20th centuries led to the publication of her first book, Egyptian Belly Dance in Transition: The Raqs Sharqi Revolution, 1890-1930, in 2018.]]> Wed, 08 Mar 2023 03:28:42 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/2iRXp4t36Zg2RtpxVJSL5CuZukmJ4mr4 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/2iRXp4t36Zg2RtpxVJSL5O-bbeigX9oC Hayam Sokar is a midlife transformational coach, born and based in Egypt. She is a certified Neuro Linguistic Practitioner accreted from the American Board, and certified practitioner of Accessing Personal Genius from ISNS, as well as PEAT Processor. She helps women to find clarity in life, go through midlife crisis, re-evaluate who they are and who they want to become, and discover truths about themselves with the goal of becoming happier and build a more positive life. She actively incorporates dance classes into her coaching process.]]> Tue, 28 Feb 2023 19:14:17 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/2iRXp4t36Zg2RtpxVJSL5O-bbeigX9oC https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/2iRXp4t36Zg2RtpxVJSL5NKEpFgimKzx Last months I had my ever first Vipassana course, and I’d like to share some lessons that I had to remind myself during that 10-day meditation course. They perfectly apply to the process of dance training too, so I hope you will enjoy and use them in your own practice.]]> Wed, 22 Feb 2023 00:10:23 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/2iRXp4t36Zg2RtpxVJSL5NKEpFgimKzx https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/2iRXp4t36Zg2RtpxVJSL5C3FFO_xyF25 Nataliya Goncharova has a university degree in Education, and is experienced in working with kids. Her students are champions of Ukraine, winners of the Belly Dance World Cup and many other prestigious awards. Nataliya co-organized the Dance with Stars Ukraine project, providing free online classes for Ukrainian belly dance students (many of whom are children), while also gathers donations from non-Ukrainian participants for families who escaped temporarily occupied territories during the war in Ukraine.]]> Tue, 14 Feb 2023 22:47:45 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/2iRXp4t36Zg2RtpxVJSL5C3FFO_xyF25 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/2iRXp4t36Zg2RtpxVJSL5OGrEXdXG_66 Morocco (Carolina Varga Dinicu) is a member of the Congress on Research in Dance (C.O.R.D.), the Society of Dance History Scholars (S.D.H.S.), the International Council on Dance – UNESCO (C.I.D.) and the International Council on Health, Physical Education Sport & Dance – UNESCO (ICHPER-SD). Morocco was awarded two grants by the State Council on the Arts for her choreography in 1972 and 1981, 3 NYC Department of Cultural Affairs Community Service Grants, 3 Summer Program Grants, a Materials for the Arts Grant and an Arts Exposure Grant. Since 1964, Morocco has written for several publications in her field and been reprinted in dance, medical and feminist publications internationally. A true pioneer in the field, she taught a 3-credit course in Middle Eastern Dance and Culture at the State University of New York (Purchase, NY) in the mid 1970s.]]> Mon, 13 Feb 2023 02:00:38 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/2iRXp4t36Zg2RtpxVJSL5OGrEXdXG_66 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/2iRXp4t36Zg2RtpxVJSL5HCrAHWlao0B Pedro Bonatto is an internationally acclaimed photographer and drummer. Born in Brazil, Pedro works in fine art and fashion photography, with works published in Elle Arabia, Fashion Canada and a number of magazines and books. Pedro is also a drummer focusing on Middle Eastern music and the leader of the world music and dance band Blue Dot. Iana Komarnytska is a professional dancer, teacher, choreographer, and passionate content creator helping dancers navigate their dance lives. She is a graduate from the professional dance program at York University (Canada), host of the Belly Dance Life podcast, creator of the educational online platform the Iana Dance Club, author of numerous articles, and winner of Star Bellydancer Canada 2014 among other international competitions. ]]> Tue, 31 Jan 2023 16:15:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/2iRXp4t36Zg2RtpxVJSL5HCrAHWlao0B https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/2iRXp4t36Zg2RtpxVJSL5P9M7fKGWt0o Sharing 10 practical tips that I use to memorize choreographies faster. These tips will be especially useful during workshop settings, when you need to learn a dance piece within very limited amount of time.]]> Tue, 24 Jan 2023 15:13:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/2iRXp4t36Zg2RtpxVJSL5P9M7fKGWt0o https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/2iRXp4t36Zg2RtpxVJSL5H1d0VB8z-7c Oreet has over 25 years of experience in fitness and dance. She grew up with Yemeni folk and Oriental dance and has a degree in Contemporary Dance from SUNY College at Brockport. SharQuí has been featured on NBC, ABC, CBS and CNN, among other outlets. Some of Oreet’s bellydance awards are: Bellydancer of the Year, and Middle Eastern Dance Champion of North America. She’s led packed classes worldwide and has worked with thousands of men and women to realize their fitness potential.]]> Wed, 18 Jan 2023 01:09:31 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/2iRXp4t36Zg2RtpxVJSL5H1d0VB8z-7c