The Dashing: Darshan

Oh, this is the sweet Darshan! I love her =D We are both members of PURE NYC and is the mother dancer of my dance partner (& close friend) Sahjaza. Darshan is professional NYC bellydancer who performs both cabaret and tribal East Coast Fusion. She's talented beyond measure and wonderful person to know =)

What inspired me to pick her Youtube video clip this week was the fact her birthday was on the same day as my mom's birthday, how cool is that! I went to see her perform live with a set of other bellydancers including (my inspiration) Kaeshi, Irina, my awesome dance partner Sahjaza and many others. It was a great night where I sat and took 100 years to finish a passion fruit Slurpee... LOL

Here is a clip of Darshan performing a tribal east coast experimental piece along with a veil. By the way, the live band rocking out music is Djinn. And yes they kick ass.

I picked this particular clip because I believe here you can get a grasp of what Darshan's dance presence is like. The woman is fierce, sensual and seductive. She has an amazing way to use her breathing energy to enhance her dance technique. A quality that she passed on to Sahjaza ;-)

Here you see her hypnotizing the room filled crowd with her earthly colored veil. She breaks into juicy isolation's and controlled movements. Darshan weaves beauty and strength together in this piece. It's a short clip I know, but something about this clip made me choose it over the others. I find essence here, I guess that's the best way to describe why.

What probably makes Darshan fusion technique so powerful is that fact she has the ability to pull in her audience and literally ease them into a trance. Maybe it's her stature, maybe it's her grace, maybe it's her cat shaped eyes... but I believe it's just Darshan being Darshan.

Happy Birthday Darshan!

And happy birthday to all the other lovely Virgos!

Adishakti dancing to "Zeina"

This is a wonderful dancer I found on youtube dancing to the classical song Zenia. This is a very popular song that most dancers love to perform with.

I absolutely love the way Adishakti dances to this song. She has strong dance technique and superb way to execute the moves. Take a look at her dance clip...


Adishakti dances smoothly, soft and flawless. She's a woman with curves and a sassy attitude. She's graceful, classy and a little bit spicy. I absolutely believe she's a wonderful performer. She has a natural talent to tease and play with the audience with a coy smile, a little wiggle and fun shake.

The second part of the video Adishakti performs a live drum solo which is really cool. Her drum solo is soft but completely on point with the rhythm. She's dances so clean and smooth. I think she's adds a different flavor to drum solo technique.

Hooray for Adishakti for rocking Zenia!

Hey, by the way, isn't that lime colored costume and betti page hair style super cute!

Egyptian child star: Kabalyan Liliya

The moment I saw this video I was tears. Tears of joy that is. This child dances so beautifully she made me feel completely emotional. I don't know why I feel so sentimental when I see children belly dancing but I do. I guess I always had a weakness for little girls and to see them dance like me makes me melt with joy.

This here is Kabalyan Liliya a gifted little belly dancer who could one day be a belly dance superstar. She's so full of grace and majestic technique. Kabalyan dances like a dream, she even dances better than many professionals today.


Not much information is posted by her video clip so it's hard know anything about her. I imagine that someone in her immediate family (usually the mother) must her taught her the dance since she was a toddler. I'm guessing the girl is probably around 10 years old in the clip, I'm not sure.

Notice the way she dances with her veil, she reminds me a younger version of Saida. Her technique is very clean and graceful. Kabalyn is child professional dancer you can't help fall in love with. When she releases the veil, she really begins to show off her Egyptian belly dance style.

Kabalyan dances lovely. She has great control of her body turns and arm movements. I adore the way she tosses her hair around-- it's so cute (=D)

I hope you enjoy this clip as much as I did. Well, you don't have to be emotional like me, but at least she'll put a smile on your face to brighten your day!

*I wish if I had a daughter some day she'd dance like that*

Zafira the Tribal Gypsies

Here are some Tribal Gypsy style dancers. This is the first time I post a fused Tribal & Gypsy piece here on this video blog and this clip was the best pick. The 3 dancers on the video are Christine Andrews, Olivia Kissel and Maria Hamer. It's a wonderful trio of dancers. Here's the clip:

I love the earthiness of these dancers. They are so lose and grounded, I love it. Here the dancers are performing a number of colorful dance combinations. They are really creative in this piece, it kind a reminds me of the way me and my dance partner Sahjaza dance together.

This live performance speaks for it's self so sit back and enjoy!

Cane dance by Olga Nour

This is a classical cane dance by Olga Nour. I wanted to post a video clip of what traditional cane dancing looked like and this is one of the best examples I found. Olga Nour does a wonderful performance in this video, so I needed to share this clip.


One of the first things I must mention is the fact she is not wearing the traditional long dress but I don't seem to mind (nor does the audience). But forget her costume, lets focus on her dancing.

I love the way she enters the room. She appears from the back of the audience and walks up the stage after dancing a little bit with the crowd. I also love the fact she's dancing with a live drummer. The energy between them makes the performance twice as nice.

About Cane dancing: Take note how this dancer holds the cane and the way she twirls it around. All these movements she does with the cane come from tradition and has a story behind them. I don't want to pluck around history right now but I do want to get you to understand that these movements have culture and tradition written all over them. Admire the cane dance technique, Olga Nour does a wonderful performance here.

Next you'll notice that suddenly Olga Nour breaks into a short drum solo toward the end of this dance clip. I wanted to post only the cane dance but of course there isn't anything I could do to change the video clip. But her drum solo is hot to watch. She's lively and great to watch, she's makes you want to join her on stage.