Directory
Dancers
The professional people layer of Raqs Atlas — performers, instructors, choreographers, schools and the legends who shaped the art form.
153 profiles · showing 97–120
Choreographers
Barcelona · Brazil
Munique Neith
Munique Neith is a Brazilian dancer of Arab descent who established a major professional career in Barcelona. She founded large Oriental dance schools and has trained substantial numbers of dancers and teachers. Her international career includes performances…
Dancer · Mexico
Nabila Aswan
Nabila Aswan is a Mexican dancer who began studying Arab dance at approximately thirteen years old. Before relocating to Egypt she was active as a teacher and event organiser in Mexico. Around 2020 she moved to Egypt and began building a professional career…
Toronto · Egypt
Nada El Masriya
Nada El Masriya grew up in Cairo immersed in Egyptian music, dance and everyday cultural traditions. Her formal dance training began in school folklore activities and later continued through the prestigious Reda Troupe School. At Cairo University she studied…
Dancer · Japan
Nadia Sueoka
Nadia Sueoka is a Japanese dancer who established her professional career in Singapore in 2005. She has trained extensively in Egypt and Türkiye and has travelled to more than thirty countries for dance. Her work includes Oriental dance, folklore…
Legend · Egypt
Nelly Mazloum
Nelly Mazloum was an unusually versatile Egyptian dancer, choreographer, actress and teacher. A child performer, she later became associated with ballet and appeared as a prima ballerina at Cairo's Royal Opera. She also worked extensively with Egyptian dance…
Dancer · Spain
Nesma
Nesma is a Spanish dancer and choreographer who established a major part of her early professional career in Cairo. Between 1993 and 1998 she performed thousands of professional shows in Egypt, gaining direct experience within the Cairo entertainment…
Istanbul · Turkey
Nesrin Topkapı
Nesrin Topkapı became one of the most culturally significant Turkish Oriental dancers of the television era. She began professional work abroad before returning to Turkey and building a major career. Topkapı became famous as the first belly dancer to perform…
Cairo · Russia
Nour
Nour is a Russian-born dancer who became one of the most important foreign performers to establish a long-term professional career in Egypt. She began choreographic training at around eight years old and was exposed to several Soviet and Central Asian stage…
Kyiv · Ukraine
Olena Sinelnikova
Olena Sinelnikova is a Ukrainian dancer, choreographer and educator with a substantial competition and teaching career. She founded the Isfahan Dance School and created the Isfahan Bellydance Festival. Her own competitive achievements include major results at…
Dancer · Israel
Orit Maftsir
Orit Maftsir is an internationally recognised Oriental dancer particularly associated with the elegant aesthetics of Egyptian Golden Era cinema. Her artistic development was strongly influenced by old Egyptian films and the movement quality of dancers such as…
Dancer · Argentina
Oscar Flores
Oscar Flores began his professional artistic career in Argentina in 1995 and has worked across dance, theatre and fashion for more than thirty years. His training is unusually broad and includes ballet, flamenco, Oriental dance, theatre and music. In 2001 he…
London · Turkey
Özgen Özgeç
Özgen Özgeç is a Turkish Cypriot dancer who established his international career from London. His repertoire centres on Turkish Oriental and Turkish Romani dance while also incorporating theatrical storytelling. He has worked extensively as a performer…
Dancer · United States
Petite Jamilla
Petite Jamilla grew up in a dancing family and was trained from childhood by her mother, folkloric dancer Jamilla Rasa. She began working professionally at fifteen. Later she became a founding member and choreographer for Bellydance Superstars, touring…
Thessaloniki · Greece
Prince Kayammer
Prince Kayammer is a Greek male Oriental dancer and instructor from Thessaloniki. His professional experience spans more than two decades and includes performances, teaching and choreography in dozens of countries. He has undertaken extensive study of…
Portland · United States
Rachel Brice
Rachel Brice became one of the defining figures in the development and global visibility of Tribal Fusion belly dance. She performed with Bellydance Superstars and founded The Indigo, whose visual and movement aesthetic became highly influential during the…
Dancer · Netherlands
Rachid Alexander
Rachid Alexander was born in Curaçao and developed his professional career primarily within the European and international Oriental dance community. He became one of the most widely recognised male belly dancers of his generation and has performed and taught…
Cairo · Egypt
Randa Kamel
Randa Kamel began with ballet and entered the Reda Troupe as a teenager, where she spent several years performing Egyptian folklore. She later moved into solo Raqs Sharqi and became known for extraordinary power, speed and emotional intensity. Her…
New York City · United States
Ranya Renée
Ranya Renée began her professional dance career in 1993 after earlier work in theatre and comedy. She became strongly focused on Egyptian dance, particularly Raqs Sharqi and Baladi. Ranya has taught and coached dancers since 1996, combining movement technique…
Cairo · Egypt
Raqia Hassan
Raqia Hassan began her dance career in the Reda Troupe as a teenager. Although her own stage background was rooted in folklore, she ultimately became most influential as a teacher and choreographer of Raqs Sharqi. From the 1980s onward she coached numerous…
Bucharest · Romania
Ruxandra
Ruxandra is a Romanian dancer whose formal background includes study at the Floria Capsali Choreography High School and later performing-arts education. Her broader movement training encompasses ballet, contemporary dance, Romanian folklore, Latin dance…
Los Angeles · United States
Sabah Saeed
Sabah Saeed developed an unusually broad professional foundation through ballet, modern dance, folk dance and Middle Eastern performance. Her classical career included work connected with companies such as Chicago Festival Ballet, Ballet Chicago and Alabama…
Colorado · United States
Sadie Marquardt
Sadie Marquardt became internationally famous for exceptionally precise isolations, percussion interpretation and technically demanding drum solos. She built a full-time professional career in the 2000s and eventually taught and performed in more than fifty…
Cairo · Egypt
Sahar Samara
Sahar Samara developed professionally through Egyptian folkloric performance before establishing herself as a Raqs Sharqi soloist. She worked with Tito Seif's performance environment and later entered Cairo's professional Oriental dance scene. International…
Dancer · United States
Sahra Saeeda / Sahra C. Kent
Sahra Saeeda combines professional dance experience in Egypt with academic research in dance ethnology. She lived in Cairo from 1989 to 1995 and completed more than a thousand professional performances in Egyptian venues. She later earned a master's degree in…