Stella Marra Hotel, Ain Sokhna, Egypt, 2025
Raqs el Shemadan (Egyptian Candelabra Dance)
Ain Sokhna, Egypt 2025
Drum solo, Luxor, Egypt 2021
Shining working on the Nile Crystal in Cairo, Egypt circa 2023
2015"Pro Grand Champion", Belly Dance Off , Competition
Encourage your guest to have a great time, get up a learn a new dance move!
Professionalism, grace, artistry and enthusiasm-Shining has what it takes to create wonderful memories for all your guests!
Shining is an internationally respected performer and instructor with over 20 years of dedicated training, committed to providing exciting and educational performances of Egyptian Traditional Dances.
She has been an instructor to dancers around the globe and the featured entertainment for weddings, art festivals, dinner parties, dinner cruises, hotels, corporate events, restaurants, hookah lounges, birthday parties and more! Her happy customers all agree that her dedication to learning and respect for the cultures that originated these dances are the root of her high quality and joyfully remembered shows and educational seminars.
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Write a reviewPrice range: $300 and up.
Languages: English
Gig length: 10 - 90 minutes
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"I would hire Shining for any event where expertise and skill in dance was important and trust her to deliver a professional show at all times.”
-S. Jaad, The Back Door Gourmet Food Group, Republic, WA
As an entertainer, she is willing to customize any of her basic show options around the needs of your event-or work with you to create something special that will be enjoyably remembered by you and your guests for long after the event is done.
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🌟Short show (15-20min)
Traditional shortform bellydance show with dramatic entrance, character or prop dance, and exciting drum solo finale!
-One costume
-Choice of prop: candelabra or cane or veil
🌟Full show (45min- 1 hour)
Straight from the Cairo stage to your event! This multi segment show highlights a mix of traditional music, classic oriental dance songs and modern Egyptian hits with costume changes between sections.
-Two costumes (third on request for longer shows)
-Choice of prop/character dance: Shamadan (candelabra) or Saiidi (Upper Egyptian cane dance) or Baladi (Lower Egyptian "homestyle") or American Oriental (veil and floorwork)
🌟Zeffah & Stage Show
Traditional wedding procession with dancer leading the bride and groom or entire wedding party into reception area with customized stage show.
🌸🌸🌸Educational Seminars🌸🌸🌸
“Shining is a very talented and beautiful dancer. She is very educated on the history and different cultures as well as the different styles of Middle Eastern Dance. She was very quick to respond to event, and was very professional and patient from beginning to end. My friends and I had such a great time learning something new.”
-Cookie W.
As an educator, Shining strives to give the most to her students by enhancing her own understanding of Arabic language and Egyptian cultural practices and continuing to research traditional dance and music in Egypt as well as learn from teachers of the culture. Lessons or seminiars can be customized to best suit your event.
🌸🌸Lesson Choices🌸🌸
🌷Party Lesson
Great for ladies night, themed dinner party, teen birthday activity, coming-out parties, transition celebrations or other queer and non-binary celebrations.
-Combines a Short Show & 30 minute dance party lesson with movements led by Shining to get everyone in the flow!
🌷6 Class-Friends Pack
Do something fun with your friends whether you live in the same city or on other sides of the planet! This series will introduce you all to basics of Egyptian Raqs Sharqi ("bellydance")
-In person or online
-2 person minimum
🌸🌸Lecture/Lecture-Demo Options🌸🌸
🌷Raqs Sharqi in Egypt: what, why, how?
Lecture about what "bellydance" in Egypt is and it's role in society as well as the place of dancers their treatment and why the trade persists despite social stigmas.
🌷The Banat Mazin
Lecture about the history and legacy of Luxor's most famous family of traditional entertainers.
🌷Traditonal Entertainment in Egypt
Lecture-Demo on the historical overview and development of Raqs Shaabi in lower vs. upper Egypt.
Shining is internationally recognized for her work in the reconstruction of early Raqs Sharqi and the candelabra-balancing dance named “Raqs al-Shamadan” as well as her research with Khyria Mazin to create banatmazin🌸com, an online school and research tool on the legacy of the Banat Mazin, even appearing in interviews with Masry al-Youm newspaper and CNN Arabic.
With over 20 years of dedicated training, and experience living and working in Egypt between (phone number hidden)6, Shining is a respected performer and instructor committed to providing exciting and educational performances of Egyptian traditional dances (Raqs Sharqi and Raqs Shaabi)
She has been the featured entertainment for weddings, art festivals, hotels, dinner parties, dinner cruises, corporate events, restaurants, hookah lounges, family gatherings, birthday parties and more! Her happy customers all agree that her dedication to learning and respect for the cultures that originated these dances are the root of her high quality and joyfully remembered shows.
As an instructor Shining is excited about helping students around the world find their own voice in dance and enhance their modern Raqs Sharqi presentation by using historical movements and references to construct culturally accurate and respectful artistic choices for the stage that will bring a vitality to their performances as well as an expanded understanding and appreciation of Egyptian Oriental Dance (Raqs el-Sharqi)
She holds multiple performance awards including:
“1st place Props” (Candelabra Dance) 2016 La Danse Oriental Competition
“Professional Grand Champion” 2015 Belly Dance Off (live music competition)
“1st place Alternative Music Professional” 2009 Belly Dancer USA Competition
Shining knows how to give you the best! Hire your entertainment today!
Lighting and sound are an important part of any professional show, to give your guests the best experience please provide a clean, open space for Shining to perform, with a sound system that can accommodate either CD or MP3 players, loud and clear enough to be heard in every corner of the room.
Many prop options are available and will change the size of the space needed but a good rule of thumb is at least a 10' x10' space with a clean floor and no low hanging chandeliers or ceiling fans.
Shining has always been strongly influenced by videos of dancers from the "Golden Age" of the Egyptian Cinema, from Tahia Carioca to Fifi Abdou, the dance stars of Egypt have been the subject of endless study and fascination, but Nabaweya Mustafa, remains a top inspiration.
Shining began to study Egyptian Belly Dance and many folk dances from the surrounding regions, with American born career dancer A'isha Azar after being introduced to bellydance through American fusion/offbranches with other teachers a few years prior.
She became a member of A'isha's professional dance company Baharat!!, and assisted in the creation and presentation of their twice yearly narrated shows featuring skits and dances from across the Middle East, North Africa and the Arabian Gulf before moving to the Seattle region where she was strongly influenced by her studies with Helene Erikson (Dance Ethnologist and director of ANAR DANA International Dance Theater), Sahra Kent (Dance Ethnologist and founder of the "Journey Through Egypt" course), Mish Mish (Karavans Dance Troupe) and later Nisaa (Heather Ward, author of "Egyptian Dance in Transition").
Shining moved to Egypt in 2021 to immerse herself in the culture and deepen her research on traditional entertainment, spending more than a year in Luxor to learn from Khyria Mazin and build an online school on the the Mazin family legacy. Based now in Cairo, she continues to learn and grow as a performer and educator, bringing new insights and experiences with her when she periodically visits the US.
Clear/loud Sound system with CD or MP3 player hook up
Clean dance floor
Clean, private changing area
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