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Khalida Bellydance
Khalida is a multi-award winning professional belly dancer and instructor, born in Belgium, living in Germany.
Known for her musicality, stage presence and technique, Khalida is quickly becoming
a sought-after performer and teacher, both locally and internationally. She has dedicated years of study to her art, and continues taking classes and workshops with top teachers from Europe,
the US and Egypt whenever she can. Her main influences at the moment are Aziza of Canada and Orit Maftsir of Israel.
In 2007 she was awarded first place at Leyla Jouvana's 'Bellydancer of the World' contest and in 2009 she won first runner-up at the International BD Congress Isis Awards. She has been featured on several European professional performance DVDs.
Her specialties include classical oriental dance and modern raks sharki as well as drum solos, dancing with zills, silk veil, cane and wings of isis. (See Workshop topics)
In 2009 she performed as part of the folkloric ensembles of Magdy El Leisy (Cairo/
Germany) and Bondok (Cairo/ Germany) and she co-organized the first RAKS.be
bellydance summerschool event in Leuven, BE together with
Razia (USA) and
Artemisia (BE).Recently she has been touring Europe as well as the US and she has performed and/or instructed sucessfully at international belly dance festivals in Sweden, Belgium, the Netherlands, Germany, the UK, Norway, Israel, Greece, Poland and the US.
Khalida currently offers private classes and performance coaching for dancers and troupes next to her weekly classes in Germany, and she travels for workshops and performances across Europe as well as overseas.
Her students describe her as a charming, attentive, generous and knowledgeable teacher and an engaging performer with a passion for the art.
References:1st Place Solo Classical oriental/Raks Sharki (main category) and 3rd Place Solo Fantasy/Fusion at Leyla Jouvana's Bellydancer of the World contest 2007 . Second runner-up at Orits international BD competition in Eilat, Israel in 2008. First runner-up at Bellydance Congress International Isis Awards 2009, UK in 2009.
Featured as guest dancer/teacher:
* MK Hafla in Heerlen, NL (Events)
* EFF in Katowice, PL (Suraiya)
* BDOTY in San Francisco, USA (BDOTY)
* H.O.T. in Seattle, USA (House of Tarab)
* WBD in Tienen, BE (www.labellini.com)
* 1001N in Oslo, NO (www.1001natt.com)
* Oriental in Duisburg, DE (Leyla Jouvana)
* Show Hannan in Leuven, BE (Artemisia)
* Show BOB in Eschweiler (baeda-ac.de)
* BD jury in Eindhoven, NL (IDO.com)
* Orientalicious, NL (www.aisalafour.com)
* WS in Athens, GR (www.unaneyia.com)
* Fantasia Festival - London, UK (Fantasia)
* BDOTW - Duisburg, DE (Leyla Jouvana)
* Aziza WE - Stockholm, SE (Shererazade)
* Liteside - Utrecht, NL (Shimmy shake)
* RAKS.be Hafla - Leuven, BE (RAKS.be)
* Suhaila Show - Brussels, BE
* WBD - Tienen, BE (WBD)
* Ya Salam - Marl, DE (Bondok)
* OP - Duisburg, DE (Leyla)
* 1001 Nights - Gent, BE (Serkan)
* BD - Eindhoven, NL (IDO Holland)
* Planet Egypt - London, UK (Planet Egypt)
* Show Amira - Posterholt, NL
* TDÄ - Düsseldorf, DE ( Magdy El Leisy)
* Eilat Festival - Eilat, IS (Eilatfestival)
* BWC - Leuven, BE (Artemisia)
* Competition judge and performance afternoon Gala - Duisburg, DE (Leyla Jouvana)
* Show and workshops 'Oriental Magic IV' - Etten-Leur, NL (Orientalmagic.eu)
* Show Liteside Festival in Amsterdam, NL (Liteside)
* Show Aziza showcase in Brussels, BE (Nuriyya)
* Show and workshops for World Bellydance Day in Tienen, BE
* TV-interview and demo for 'De Laastse Show' by TV Eén, BE
* TV-interview and demo for 'De Wereld Draait Door' by TV Vara, NL
* Winner and performer at Leyla Jouvanas 15. Orient Festival in Duisburg, DE
Workshops followed/studied with:
Fifi Abdou (EG), Tito Seif (EG), Randa Kamel (EG), Aziza (USA/Canada), Lena Helt (SE), Asi (IS), Razia (UK), Leyla Jouvana (DE), Béatrice Curtis (UK), Jillina (USA), Suhaila Salimpour (USA), Khaled Mahmoud (UK/Egypt), Orit Maftsir (IS), Mayodi (FR/Morocco), Bondok (Cairo/DE), Magdy el Leisy (Cairo/DE) Bozenka (BDSS), Moria (BDSS), Sharon Kihara (BDSS), Sonia/Issam (BDSS), Ava Fleming (USA), Artemisia (BE), Hind Sardi(Morocco), Jolanda Boejharat (NL), Geneva Bybee (BDSS), Momo Kadous (Cairo/DE), Zeyna (NL), Rubina (NL), Hannele (NW), Sarah Chebaro (BE), Serkan (Turkey/BE), Ülkü Klein (Turkey/DE), Myriam (NL), Yamila (NL), Joan Kafri (USA), Sharhazad (DE) and many more..