Discover the steps to be an innovative instructor of Middle Eastern Dance.

Ruth St. Denis
I see dance being used as communication between Body and Soul, to express what is too deep to find for words.

Ibrahim Farrah
Dance is so important in the world. It needs no language. Our bodies speak a language of its own.

Mahmoud Reda
Don’t let a little fear stop you from getting what you want.

Soheir Zaki
(courtesy of P. Saretta, Arabesque Magazine)
Raqs Sharqi is a way for the body to smile.

Tahia Karioka
(courtesy of P. Saretta, Arabesque Magazine)
Each decent oriental dancer must express life, death, happiness, sorrow, love and anger, but above all she must have dignity.

Nadia Gamal
(courtesy of P. Saretta, Arabesque Magazine)
I have traveled the world to prove that my dance is not a dance of the belly but a refined, artistic dance full of tradition, of dreaming and beauty.