BDT Teachers
| Taaj Location: VA Teaching Formats: workshops, private lessons Awards: Madison’s Who’s Who, Oasis of Color 2006, Tonya & Atlantis’ Golden Lantern, Taaj’s students have won 47 contest titles while under her tutelege Teaching Highlights: workshops from FL to CA; star of Belly Dance Basics DVD Performance Highlights: opened for Hakim in Washington DC in 2004. Performed at the Grand Opening for the Oberoi Sahl Hasheesh in Hurghada, Egypt in 2001. |
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| Kalaa Location: Hampton Roads area, VA USA Teaching Formats: weekly classes, workshops, private lessons Awards: 2007- Winner Headliner East Coast Classic; People’s Choice Headliner East Coast Classic 2006- 2nd place Rising Star East Coast Classic; People’s Choice Rising Star East Coast Classic; Winner Bronze Personal Best Teaching Highlights: Having award winning students and teaching workshops from FL to VA Performance Highlights: Being invited to dance in the Gala show with Aziza and Orit of Isreal, as well as dancing with Shareen el Safy. |
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| Memie Ayat Location: Salem and Danvers, MA USA Teaching Formats: workshops, private lessons, goddess parties Performance Highlights: Co-ordinator and events organizer of the Northeast Belly Dance Association, Northshore Chapter |
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| Rachel Location: Chesapeake, VA USA Teaching Formats: weekly classes, workshops, private lessons Awards: 2005 3rd place Rising Star East Coast Classic; 2008 People’s Choice Headliner East Coast Classic; 2009 Habibi Holiday Wild and Crazy Contest Most Entertaining and Most Creative. Teaching Highlights: Opening the first Belly Dance studio in Chesapeake, Virginia. |
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Charlotte Aaberg (aka Halaki)
Location: Cultus Lake and Thetis Island, British Columbia, Canada
Teaching Format: Weekly Classes near Cultus Lake (Gypsy Roma); Private Lessons on Thetis Island
Teaching Highlights: World Music Symposium (International Baccalaureate Schools)
Performing Highlights: Abbotsford Multicultural Festival; Yukon Riverside Arts Festival ( Dawson City ); Danceaway La Manzanilla Mexico
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