TITO SEIF is an internationally acclaimed male oriental dancer, instructor, choreographer and one of the world's top oriental artists. Born in Egypt in 1971, he started to dance at the age of 14 learning folklore and then oriental.
Within
a very short period of time he became one of the biggest names in the
Oriental Dance and a prominent, innovative and mesmerizing dancer
worldwide. Tito has been dancing for 28 years and he has been teaching
for 18 years.
A prominent, technically
proficient, innovative and mesmerizing belly dancer, he is recognized as a leader
in the belly dance world. Tito's talents as an entertainer and a gifted prolific
instructor are sought after all over the world. Source: AlAhram
Videos:
Tito dancing with 4 sticks in Valencia, 2008
Tito performing 'drumsolo on a drum' with Issam Houshan at BDC, 2013
Tito at Stockholm BD Festival 2015
Tito workshop, 2015
Tito in Switzerland, 2019
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xx K.
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Modern Legends - Randa Kamel (EG)
RANDA KAMEL was born in Mansoura, Egypt. When she was a kid, she had
many problems with her family because she used to dance in her friends
and neighbours weddings and in scholar festivals. In that traditionalist
city, her family disapproved her pleasure of dancing.
At the age of 15, she began studying egyptian folklore with the
famous group Reda. She took part of it during 7 years. Nevertheless, she
never attended to oriental dance courses, she always developed her own
style.
After studying to be a psychologist (which is a discipline that helps her
to be a dancer), Randa began her career as a professional dancer at the
age of 21, in Alexandria. She lived there fore two years.
Afterwards, she moved on to El Cairo and worked in restaurants and
cabarets during four months until she began to work in Meridien hotel.
There, she shared the stage during a week with the famous dancer Fifi
Abdou.
Randa danced as soloist in the hotel´s night show for two years, and
later she began to work in Nile Maxim, a luxury cruiser that sails
through the Nile river.
She likes working in El Cairo because she loves live music, but she
also likes traveling and teaching oriental dance. “When I dance abroad, I
feel as my country and my culture´s messenger”. She also tells us about
the belly dance prejudices in her country that: “In Egypt, we believe
that the oriental dance is a representation of the women’s beauty in
order to seduce men. But I don’t agree with this. This is a millenary
dance, and one of the most difficult ways of dancing. That’s why I don’t
dance in a seductive way”.
About her own style, Randa says that she puts together ballet steps,
the folklore style of Suheir Zaki or Samia Gamal and her own invention
steps.
For her: “dance must be energy and power, constant movement. I don’t
like soft movements. I like to show different expressions, feelings;
every single part of my body must move. I want that anyone that looks at
me, feels my movements. It’s the only way to catch the spectator’s
attention, to surprise them”.
Even if she enjoys dancing baladi and modern oriental, her favourite
music is Um Kulthum, because “everything in these songs is beautiful,
the music, the lyrics; there are so many feelings that they catch my
heart”
Sources: Randa Kamel (by Yasmina for Gilded Serpent.com)
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Modern Legends - Nesma Al-Andalus (ES)
NESMA lived in Cairo from 1993–1998, where she obtained her extensive knowledge of Oriental dance, Egyptian folklore, Arabic music, culture and traditions. During this time she performed as a soloist with her own orchestra in over 3,500 shows on the most prestigious
stages of Cairo. She broadened her artistic career in the National
Egyptian Folkloric Ballet, The Reda Troupe, becoming over the years one
of Mahmoud Reda’s closest collaborators.
Since 1998 she has danced and taught around the world. In Spain she founded her own school and a prestigious dance company, Al-Andalus Danza. She presented her shows in prestigious stages in Europe and at the Cairo Opera House, the Opera of Alexandria, and the Library of Alexandria in Egypt. Her early interest in creating shows inspired in the Spanish Moorish heritage made her a pioneer of Andalusian style dance.
Along with her dance company, Nesma has established a record company,
Nesma Music, presenting a great line of authentic music and videos, and a
major festival, Raks Madrid, which takes place yearly in July in the
grand city of Madrid.
Note: I've been lucky enough to take workshops with Nesma at several events, and she is one of the most inspiring artists I have met. If you'd like to know more about Reda style, Andalusian dance, understanding Egyptian music and folklore, and/or working with live music and/or finding femininity and elegance in dance, I highly highly recommend her workshops, festival and formations. Also be sure to check out her music CDs, which have beautiful full-orchestra arrangements of known and new songs.
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xx K.
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NESRIN TOPKAPI (born as Nesrin Gökkaya; 1951) is a Turkish belly dancer. She is known as the first belly dancer to appear on TRT screens.
Nesrin Gökkaya born in Akhisar, Manisa Province, learned to dance from her mother Rabia Gökkaya at a young age. She also took ballet lessons.
She appeared on the stage as a belly dancer in a casino in Adana when she was six years old. However, due to her childhood, she was forbidden to dance in the casino and the casino was also sealed.
Nesrin Gökkaya lost her father when she was 15 years old. She worked in different jobs due to the family's financial difficulties.
She went to London in 1968 and started working as a belly dancer in a nightclub under the name "Nesrin Topkapı". Six years later she returned to Turkey.
She appeared on the stage in 1974 at the Maksim Casino in Istanbul in honor of the Shah of Iran, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi.
Especially in the 1970s, she became one of the most sought-after belly dancers like Tülay Karaca and Seher Şeniz in Turkey.
After she stopped dancing in the mid-80ies, she gave belly dance lessons to people performing on stage such as Hadise, Sertab Erener, Nurgül Yeşilçay and Nil Karaibrahimgil.
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