Kurvy, aka Kellie Harkin, is a Sydney belly dance teacher and performer. Her style fuses fire, traditional oriental and tribal styled bellydance.
She teaches at Amera's Palace and also runs classes in Ashfield
Visit her website at kurvy.com.au.
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Jul
I'm so glad to be able, finally, to add Amera to this site!
Amera Eid was one of the founders of the belly dance community in Sydney, and had a sparkling career bellydancing in the Middle East for many years.
Because she's retired it has been hard to find a clip of her dancing - but here's a recent one, which shows she's still got her mojo!
Amera's website Ameraspalace.com.au is well known to most Sydney students of bellydance, because of the range of excellent teachers who offer classes there - including Jamil, Georgette, Lisi, Rachel and Kurvy (Kellie Harkin).
Jul
Sophie Alize is a busy Sydney belly dance performer and teacher.
As well as teaching (at Bondi) and performing with Jamil's fabulous bellydance troupe Attar, she can be seen regularly at the following venues:
The Cushion House Turkish Cuisine Glebe
Anahita Persian Cuisine Lane Cove
Mythos Greek Taverna Leicharddt
Zenobia Lebanese Cuisine Leicharddt and North Strathfield
Erciyes Turkish Restaurant Surry Hills
For more details, visit her website
Dec
Josefina has been teaching belly dance in the Northern Beaches area of Sydney for over ten years. She teaches a wide spectrum of belly dance styles from classical to tribal fusion, as this photo gallery illustrates!
For details of her classes and more, visit the Northern Beaches Belly Dance website.
Oct
Faye is part of the Cabaret Arabia troupe and bellydance school, along with Jessica and Danielle.
I'm just beginning to get used to dancing with a sword, so I was taken aback when I saw Faye balancing not just one sword, but two in this clip!
Faye is multi-talented - she's also an accomplished artist and a writer/illustrator of children's books (for more information, visit her website). For details of bellydance classes or to book a performance, visit fayebellydancer.com.
Sep
I'm including Georgina because I saw this performance at the Sutherland Belly Dance Expo a few weeks ago - but I have to admit I know nothing about her, other than she's from Spain.
Here's another clip from a Spanish festival:
Read more about Georgina on her website
Category: Sydney
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May
Sophia is a busy Sydney performer. Her background in ballet, jazz and samba shows in her muscle control and sense of rhythm. Her style is her own mix of Egyptian, Greek, Lebanese, Turkish with a dash of South American flavour.
Sophia will soon be teaching in the Northern Beaches and North Shore of Sydney. If you're interested, register your interest on her website, Born to Bellydance.
May
Annette runs the Hippy Hippy Shake belly dance studio in South-West Sydney. Her extensive knowledge and qualifications in human movement bring an extra dimension to her belly dance teaching. Here she is in action in class:
May
One of Sydney's doyennes of belly dance, Leonie Sukan not only runs a successful belly dance school but organises one of the premier events on the Australian belly dancing calendar, the Sydney Middle Eastern Dance Festival. For Sydney dancers, it's quite simply an unmissable event - and bellydancers come from all over Australia to take part in workshops, dance in the Sunday showcase, attend the concert and ball, and shop at the Souk.
Leonie is a fun and knowledgeable teacher and one of the few in Sydney who teaches the Turkish style. For more information on classes, visit her website.
Below is a clip from the 2008 festival concert:
Mar
What can I say about Georgette? I've taken her classes (currently at Amera's Palace in Newtown and Hips Don't Lie Belly Dance Academy at Parramatta). Her lively, bubbly personality is a great motivator - plus she really knows her stuff. She's also a lovely entertaining dancer, with precise technique and an irreverent sense of fun - book her through Born to Bellydance.
This performance at the 2008 Sydney Middle Eastern Dance Festival is typical. I wish you could have seen the whole thing - I saw it live and she shimmied...and shimmied...and shimmied some more. Then she mimed feeling a bit faint (still shimmying) and a roadie rushed out with a bottle of water. She took it and threw it back - still shimmying - then, revived, shimmied even more! Comedy and awesome skill at the same time - amazing!
The next clip is of a surprise performance sprung on Georgette at the Hips Don't Lie Hafla, so it's totally improvised:
