Sharif Mahmoud

Shariff is a Photographer of ten years and has been working with modelling agencies and dancers across London .

Shariff is from an Arabic/Turkish family and has been brought up surrounded by music and dance. This has connected Shariff to belly dancing from a very early age, and he is developing his skills dancing at out events

Asmahan

Asmahan is a professional dancer with a career that has spanned twenty years including star billing at the most prestigious venues in Cairo. She is the first foreign dancer to perform at the five star hotels: Meridian, Mena House Oberoi, Nile Hilton, Cairo Sheraton, Hyatt El Salem, and Ramses Hilton.

She has trained with Jamila Salimpour, the founder of Bal Anat, in Cairo with Ibrahim Akef, and Raqia Hassan who choreographed her shows.

Asmahan designs and makes all the costumes for her production shows and was the first dancer to do the sword dance in Cairo for a hundred years.

The sword dance show she is presenting for the Silk Route Arabian Cabaret she researched with the Raba Master and leader of Les Musicians du Nile: Metqal Qenawi Metqal.

The saidi music was composed and recorded by Mustafa Hamido. The hook like is the “the light from your eye is sharper than your sword”.

Asmahan is the Egyptian Dance teacher at Pineapple Studios, Covent Garden.

www.asmahan.co.uk

The Wimbledon Morris Men

Greensleeves Morris Men are a band of men who perform the traditional, ritual and ceremonial dances of England. We mostly all live in the South West of London and we practice in Wimbledon.

We travel widely throughout the summer months to perform our dances. Apart from our ‘native’ Wimbledon, some of our past destinations are Nottingham, Rye, South Yorkshire, Chichester, Chester, Germany and Holland. As well as dancing, we also try to keep alive some other English traditions, namely :

Music.
Song.
Good fellowship.

Greensleeves don’t just dance: we play and sing, too. After dancing, we often enjoy an evening of traditional (and sometimes not-so-traditional) music in a friendly pub. Liking the music was one of the reasons many of us joined Greensleeves.

Beatrice Curtis

Béatrice has been part of the Bellydance scene in the UK since 1991, as a performer, teacher and eternal student of Egyptian Dance. She has trained with the top teachers in the UK and overseas. She is a JWAAD teacher, and a tutor on the JWAAD Foundation & Diploma Courses. Béatrice is a respected and well-known performer within the Arabic Dance scene in the UK. Her dance style is resolutely Egyptian and incorporates both the traditional folkloric and the contemporary Cairene styles. She regularly attends workshops with the top Egyptian teachers & dancers.
Website: www.BeatriceCurtis.co.uk

Nicole Marree

Nicole Marree’s dedication to this art form has led her to study with numerous inspiring teachers from Australia & abroad, including Mohammed Kazafy, Jillina, Khaled Mahmoud, Dr Hassan Khalil, Belyssa Radzivanas, Shaheena, Rose Ottaviano, Alma Sarhan & Dawn White. Continuing study of both folkloric & oriental dance styles has allowed Nicole Marree to incorporate several props - such as veil, melaya, cane and shamadan – into her performances with confidence.