Moroccan Dance Culture

Authenticity! Artistry but also joy and energy lifting. Inviting people to enjoy and grove with me!

Soumaya MaRose is an award-winning international performer, teacher and cultural ambassador based in New York and Boston. A member of the International Dance Council of UNESCO. She is the only dance artist to have been repeatedly invited to perform at the Boston Global Music Festival "CrashFest" and has been honored to collaborate with Atlas Soul (North African music), Club Mediteranee (Arabic and Balkan music), Salma Dance Company, Walid Zairi and Talween, Boston Camerata, Moroccan Festival in Revere, and The Dance Complex. She was member of a music ensemble in Belgium "EL Housna", and is more recently the creator, producer and director of the live multimedia tableau "Morocco Nights" in collaboration with the Institute for Global Arab Media, Democracy and Culture in Chicago, artistic director of « Ya Msafer » in collaboration with Center of Arabic Culture (CAC), " Madarej El Naghem" featuring George Maalouf music composition, "Moroccan Rhythm of life" in New York City, and "Attaï Sharq - Thé à l'Oriental", a cultural exchange forum. Presently, she has expanded Boston-based Moroccan but also MENAT Region folk dance troupe, Lionesses El Atlas. As a teacher, Soumaya has been invited locally and internationally to share her cultural heritages as Universities, Schools but as well as international Festival were she also was judge of competition. Recently, Soumaya was invited to the "Chaabi Habibi Festival" in Brussels as one of the few artist working and focusing on Moroccan dance chaabi and present her work on Moroccan dance to the international convention organized by Laila Ameziane & Helene Sachehaye from the Universite Libre de Bruxelles. She combines her academic training in Geography with her personal heritage and self-reflection to deepen her audience understanding of dances from the Arabic-speaking world and the Amazigh heritage. More info at (link hidden)

It's very important to have a very good sound system. A private room where I can change and a real place where to perform.