Little Egypt

Stars of Spring

April 30 - May 2, 2010

Dallas, Texas

Aida Nour, Lubna Emam, Shabanna, and Mercedes!

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Your slot will be guaranteed by payment of registration, NO refunds will be given.

Your slot will be guaranteed by payment of registration, NO refunds will be given.

Please contact Dee Dee if you have not previously danced at a Little Egypt event and would like to be part of the show!

FRIDAY NIGHT SHOW

SATURDAY NIGHT SHOW & DINNER

Aida Nour is originally from Alexandria in Egypt. She started her dance career as a young dancer in the Alexandria Troup. She was performing Egyptian Folklore Dances and solo Dances for many years with them.  After many  years of touring with the Alexandria Troup, Aida moved to Cairo. There she became a member of the famous Reda Troup for many years Aida began to perform as a solo dancer later on and her success was big.  She performed on many of Cairo's most famous five star Hotels and Nightclubs, and became a very popular and loved artist with lots of regular guests that all adored her beautiful dance.  Aida Nour also designs Costumes for dancers and other artists with her own elegant and exclusive design.  http://www.welcome.to/aidanour

Lubna Emam from Cairo in Egypt,she started to dance oriental dance only nine years old in the Egyptian Kaomeya School troupe.She has been traveling all the world most of her life,performing with the Kaomeya Troupe and other groups.Lubna has also been working with the famous belly dancer Nagwa Fuad.  When she some years ago returned back to Egypt,she stopped to perform and started to teach Oriental Dance for Egyptian dancers and foreign dancers.Now she is traveling everywhere in the world Teaching Classical Oriental Dances and Egyptian Folklore Dances. Lubna has a very distinct style with very powerful "heavy"movements, she is specially appreciated for her interprentation of the Saiidi Style. http://egyptianacademy.com/jml2/lubna-emam

Mercedes Nieto was born in the heart of Europe, Budapest, to a hungarian-spanish family. She is dancing and deepening her knowledge of the oriental dance for 13 years. Before that she was studying flamenco, afro dance and jazz ballet. Up to these days she still involves herself in improving and developing her classical ballet and contemporary dance knowledge. Merging these with the traditional and contemporary Egyptian dance forms Mercedes created her own style, which is dynamic and floating, delicate and sensual, mysterious, still sincere and natural.  The choreographies for her students are professionally real amusement and challenge, as Mercedes does not keep anything for herself, she loves to give and she is guided by whole transmission independent on whether it is about her own modern ideas or traditional styles. Technically her requirements are quite high, the emphasis are on presenting the variegation of the bellydance through the personal message of the dancer. As there is no dance without real emotions – especially no oriental dance...www.nietomercedes.com

Shabanna has participated in countless events in and out of Venezuela. She is considered one of the best dancers, choreographers and teachers of the country.  That the reason why, in July 2009 she was invited to perform at the teachers `Gala by Madam Raqia Hassan, as the first Venezuelan Bellydancer in the biggest and most important Arabian Dance Festival in the world, the “Ahlan Wa Sahlan”, in Cairo, Egypt. http://shabanna.es.tl/

Below are DVDs from previous Spring events

Nour Friday- Workshop Saidi   $60	Nour Saturday- Workshop Oriental Choreography $60	Nour Sunday Workshop Drum Solo, Choreo & Technique $60	LuLu Saturday Workshop   $50	LuLu Sunday Workshop   $50
Buy two Nour Workshops $100		Buy all Three Nour Workshops! $120	Buy Two LuLu Workshops $80
Ousama Emam Saturday Workshop Saidi $50	Ousama Emam Saturday Workshop Saidi $50	Khaled Saturday Workshop   $50	Khaled Sunday Workshop   $50
Both Ousama Workshops $80		Both Khaled Workshops $80
Friday Night Show $35	Saturday Night Show $50	Buy both shows! $75	Buy all DVDs for the March Event! $350

Nour

Nour, a native Russian, is very famous in Egypt, appearing on TV, in films, video clips, and charity concerts. She teaches Oriental dance, Egyptian Raqs Sharqi, Veil dance, Tabla, Halieegy, Melaya, Saidi, Asaya. Visit http://www.nour-orientaldance.com/

Khaled Mahmoud

Khaled began dancing at parties and weddings in Cairo when he was just seven years old. Now based in London, Khaled travels the globe for workshops and shows. Visit http://www.khaled-goldenhips.co.uk/

Osama Emam

Osama Emam is a Teacher and Director of the Kaoumeya Troupe for folkoloric dance. He performs at many festivals all over the world. Ousama also has his own Egyptian folkloric dance group called “Layali El Sharq” Visit http://www.ousamaemam.dances.it/ 

LuLu

Lulu Sabongi is Brazilian, born in Sao Paulo. In 1983 Lulu began her studies in Oriental Dance with the Armenian dancer Madeleine Iskandarian (Shahrazad).  In 1986 in her first trip to the United States she met Ibrahim Farah and took private classes with him. In 1989 she started her career as a teacher and without planning it was born what later would turn out to be the best belly dance school in the country. Today it counts with seven teachers and approximately five hundred students. The school is exclusively focused to oriental dance.  in may 2002 Lulu opened her new dance studio (O Harem) in Itu, Sao Paulo State, with capacity for more than 600 students. Visit http://www.lulusabongi.com/english.php  On Saturday, she will teach "Using movement to create magic on the stage (learn how to use traveling steps and arabesques to set to mood of your dance create magic".  On Sunday, she will teach "Getting Hip effects without effort ( A new approach on how to direct your hip movements for all shimmies)".