Directory
Dancers
The professional people layer of Raqs Atlas — performers, instructors, choreographers, schools and the legends who shaped the art form.
205 profiles · showing 73–96
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Belgrade · Serbia
Jelena Leila
Leila is one of the most internationally recognised dancers and instructors representing Serbia. She has been involved in oriental dance for more than two decades and also has experience in ballet, ballroom dancing, and Serbian folklore. She has performed and…
Dancer · United States
Jessaiah Zuré
Jessaiah Zuré began belly dancing in 1997 after growing up in a musical and artistically diverse environment in California. Her early teachers included Katarina Burda and later Jamila Salimpour. In 2004 she began a decade-long pattern of living and studying…
Los Angeles · United States
Jillina Carlano
Jillina Carlano built an international reputation as a performer and choreographer before becoming one of the most visible directors in modern belly dance. She served for years as artistic director and principal choreographer for the Bellydance Superstars…
Dancer · Portugal
Joana Saahirah
Joana Saahirah is a Portuguese Oriental dancer who spent nearly a decade living and working professionally in Egypt. During her Cairo career she performed regularly with her own orchestra and experienced the demands of the Egyptian professional entertainment…
Dancer · Brazil
Ju Marconato
Ju Marconato is a prominent Brazilian Oriental dance educator with a background in physiotherapy. Her work became well known in Brazil through professional teaching, workshops, performances and published educational material. She approaches belly dance…
Dancer · Ukraine
Julia Farid
Julia Farid is a Ukrainian dancer, choreographer and educator who has built an extensive international career. She founded the Isadora Dance Academy and became the organiser of major events including the Isadora Cup and Dream & Dance. Julia is particularly…
Buenos Aires · Argentina
Julieta Maffia
Julieta Maffia is an Argentinian fusion dancer whose work developed within the country's large and technically sophisticated belly-dance community. Unlike many Argentine artists focused primarily on Egyptian-style Raqs Sharqi, Julieta became strongly…
New York City and San Francisco · United States
Kaeshi Chai
Kaeshi Chai is a multidisciplinary dancer, teacher, choreographer, producer and designer. She co-founded Bellyqueen, a professional dance company and school that became internationally recognised for theatrical world-fusion performance. Chai also co-founded…
San Francisco Bay Area · United States
Kami Liddle
Kami Liddle trained in ballet, tap, jazz, modern and hip-hop before returning to belly dance as a young adult. She explored American Cabaret and improvisational belly dance before developing a contemporary fusion vocabulary. In 2005 she joined Bellydance…
Dancer · Brazil
Kamilia
Kamilia is a Brazilian-born Oriental dancer whose career has unfolded largely within professional Middle Eastern entertainment markets. She began dance at a very young age and later received training connected with the renowned Caracalla dance environment in…
Dancer · France
Kaouther Ben Amor
Kaouther Ben Amor is a French-Tunisian dancer and choreographer with a long international career in Oriental dance. Her work combines Raqs Sharqi with a theatrical sensibility shaped by her North African cultural background and extensive performance…
Paris · Egypt
Kareem Gad
Kareem Gad is an Egyptian dancer, choreographer and musician whose professional work spans both Egyptian theatrical traditions and contemporary international education. His background includes singing, music, percussion, poetry, acting and dance, giving him…
San Juan · Puerto Rico
Karlos Khalil
Karlos Khalil is a Puerto Rican belly dancer, choreographer, actor, director, playwright and producer whose career bridges oriental dance and theatre. Active in bellydance since the early 2000s, he began with training in ballet and modern dance before making…
Dancer · Hungary
Katalin Schäfer
Katalin Schäfer began her broader dance education with classical ballet in the late 1980s and specialised increasingly in Oriental dance from 2000. In 2004 she became part of the award-winning Art of Orient company alongside several important Hungarian…
Dancer · Ukraine
Kateryna Siham
Kateryna Siham is a Ukrainian professional dancer whose career has included major competition achievements and long-term work in Middle Eastern entertainment markets. She gained international recognition after winning a world championship title in Oriental…
Dancer · Australia
Keti Sharif
Keti Sharif began belly dance at seventeen and later moved her professional life increasingly toward Egypt. She spent approximately two decades living between Cairo and the Red Sea and performed professionally with live Egyptian music. During those years she…
London · Egypt
Khaled Mahmoud
Khaled Mahmoud is an Egyptian dancer and teacher from Cairo who built a major part of his international career in the United Kingdom. His training encompasses Raqs Sharqi as well as Egyptian folkloric material. He became highly respected on the European…
Luxor · Egypt
Khyria Mazin
Khyria Mazin is the last actively teaching representative of the renowned Banat Mazin family tradition of Luxor. She began dancing professionally as a teenager alongside older members of her family. International belly-dance communities frequently describe…
Dancer · Ukraine
Kira Lebedeva
Kira Lebedeva began her Tribal Fusion journey around 2010 and developed into one of Ukraine's best-known artists in the genre. Her training combines detailed muscular control with yoga and other physical disciplines. She built an international career through…
Legend · Turkey
Kudret Şandra
Kudret Şandra was one of the notable male figures in twentieth-century Turkish Oriental dance. He began performing professionally as a teenager and developed a career in both dance and acting. His presence is particularly significant because male professional…
Dancer · Azerbaijan
Laman Hendricks
Laman Hendricks was born and raised within the cultural environments of Azerbaijan and Türkiye and began movement training through acrobatic gymnastics and regional folk dance. She later studied at the Baku Choreography Academy and developed a professional…
Paris · Tunisia
Leila Haddad
Leila Haddad was born into an Arab-Berber cultural environment in Tunisia and developed an artistic career that would become highly influential in European Oriental dance. Her first major stage experience came through politically engaged theatre while…
Palma de Mallorca · Spain
Levana
Levana is a Spanish dancer whose background includes ballet and competitive gymnastics before she developed a professional career in Oriental dance. She founded **Etoiles d'Orient** in Palma de Mallorca and later became director of Aloha Dance School. Her…
Dancer · Germany
Leyla Jouvana
Leyla Jouvana became one of the most established Oriental dance teachers and performers in Germany. Her dance background included Yugoslav folkloric and jazz dance before she dedicated herself deeply to Oriental dance. She became especially well known for…