A solo belly dance entertainment for 30 minutes featuring variety of styles and props to make a celebration memorable and live. It is an attention capturing well-designed act moving the audience non-stop. Can include request songs, colors, styles, and props. Props used may include Isis wings, finger cymbals, veils, sword, fans, fan veils, veil poi, cane, tambourine and similar.
4 reviews
Tino V.
December 22, 2022Professional and very entertaining!
Hired as: Belly Dancer
Victoria F.
July 10, 2022We had a great time!! Nilay was Fantastic! Very professional and personable. We had a small space to work with but she used it and was able to perform to perfection! She made my dads 80th birthday party one to remember!
Hired as: Belly Dancer
Maricela M.
April 22, 2022Everyone enjoyed the performance
Hired as: Belly Dancer
Ruby O.
March 7, 2022Nilay was a pleasure to work with. She was open to suggestions and super enthusiastic throughout the whole process. Her performance was just beautiful and the whole party loved it! Definitely recommend her for your next event! Thank you Nilay!
Hired as: Belly Dancer
Price range: $150-$250
Languages: Turkish
Gig length: 10 - 30 minutes
Nilay (pronounced Knee-lie) is Turkish born and raised belly dancer who has studied the art of belly dance for several years with many highly accredited dancers in US and Turkey. She moved to US for further studies in 2001 and started to develop her belly dance technique.
Today she is performs all throughout California and competing in the United States and internationally. Upon developing her style, she has been performing, teaching, choreographing, producing workshops and short videos.
Her style is a lively, joyous and energetic mixture of excitement from modern Turkish oriental belly dance. She has extensive prop usage of, but not limited of tambourine, fans, fan veils, veils, isis wings and sword. Her dance has been expressed to contain fierce, feisty, and fiery quality which makes it unique in the sensuous world of belly dance.
Currently Nilay is working on competitive belly dance choreographies, show production and youtube channel recordings. She has been performing and teaching Belly Dance for over 10 years holding multiple awards including Belly Dancer USA 2018, Belly Dancer of the Universe Hall of Champions, 2017 Belly Dancer of The World Folkloric Champion.
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