Golden Era Night in San Francisco

Join us for a special evening on Sunday, August 30 as my students and I evoke the Golden Era of Egyptian Belly Dance at Al Masri Egyptian Restaurant in San Francisco. Doors open at 5:30 PM and the show will start at 7:30 PM. Reservations highly recommended: (415) 876-2300 or email chefsausan@gmail.com.

Egyptian Legends of the Golden Era of Belly Dance Samia Gamal and Taheya Carioca.

I am always so inspired by the dancing of this period and I’m really looking forward to this magical evening. I hope you can join us!

Performance at Al Masri Egyptian Restaurant

On Saturday 11/1 I’m performing at Al Masri Egyptian Restaurant in San Francisco! The show starts and 7PM and there will be live music with the Arabian Passion Band. A couple of my students will also be performing to live music for the first time so I am very excited! Join us for a wonderful night of belly dance at Al Masri!

Summer 2024 Belly Dance Wrap Up, Part One

It’s been an exciting summer of belly dance with classes and performances. In the next few posts I’ll share some of what we’ve been up to!

First off, a small group of my students from Better Together Dance Theatre and I performed at Carnival of Stars 2024! It was our first performance together as Troupe Alisa and their first time performing at a belly dance festival. We had great time preparing for and performing in this show. I’m so proud of their hard work. We put our entire set together with very little time and they did a stellar job!

Alisa and students performing at Carnival of Stars Belly Dance Festival 2024

The following day I had the honor of performing the in Carnival of Stars Gala Showcase to live music with Pangia.

Alisa performs with Pangia at the Carnival of Stars 2024 Gala Showcase.

I’ll share video from these shows and more of our summer adventures in the coming weeks.

Tonight is our last night of summer classes at Better Together Dance Theatre. Then we take a two week break and come back refreshed for our Fall season. My fall teaching schedule is available on my Classes page - come dance with us!

Performance Video - SirensFest

Last week in virtual belly dance class we danced to the song Zay el Assal (زي العسل). It is one of my favorites and coincidentally I was cleaning out a cupboard over the weekend and found a DVD recording of a performance I did using this song in 2016 at the North Bay Belly Dance Bazaar! I thought I would share it here:

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The North Bay Belly Dance Bazaar has been renamed and is now called SirensFest. It is a wonderful, positive event that truly celebrates bellydance! I had such a great time there. The festival is scheduled to go on this year, October 3 -4, 2020, and the organizer, TerriAnne Gutierrez, is planning to build a stage outside, so I feel very hopeful about this and I will keep everyone posted as I learn more.

The song Zay el Assal is one of my favorites. It was originally sung by the Lebanese singer and actress Sabah. She is considered one of the greats. Here is a clip of her singing it complied with some gorgeous photos of her throughout her lifetime. She was a glamorous figure until the end! There are many belly dance versions of this song today.

In other news, I am working on the schedule for my Virtual Summer Belly Dance Classes. Please sign up to be notified of these and future classes as soon as the information is available. Thanks so much for your support and happy dancing.