After graduating high school, I moved from Northern California to Los Angeles. In addition to being a regular “house” dancer at Byblos Night [...]

When I was thirteen, I wanted to take private dance lessons with Yuki, a well known jazz teacher in Castro Valley. I begged [...]

In August 2012, Christy of Eighth Wonder Studios in Calgary interviewed me about my certification program, mentorship, stylization and more. Many of her [...]

I was greatly saddened to hear the news that John Compton passed away this week. He had a long and prosperous belly dance [...]

Kajira and Chuck are the co-producers of the extremely successful Tribal Fest that is held annually every May in Sebastopol, CA. Tribal and [...]

Many of you have already seen this video of dancers performing to a recorded version of "Batwanes Beek" sung by Warda al-Jazairia. The [...]

  Our dance world has suffered a major loss with the recent passing of Warda Al-Jazaairia (1939-2012) this past May. She was an [...]

This May, I had the amazing opportunity to meet one of my greatest dance inspirations: Mikhail Baryshnikov. He is truly amazing; he vibrates [...]

Suhaila Salimpour & Ziad Islambouli present Enta (You Are) Volume 1 & Omri (My Life) Volume 2 An intimate love letter telling the [...]

When I was in high school (it was probably 1982 or 83), I learned about a performance in Oakland featuring local tap dancers. [...]