April Events

April Events!

Friday April 11th

The King and I Thai Cuisine's first middle eastern dance engagement!  

Amira Iriz is thrilled to perform at this little gem in Nyack, NY. 
Seating for dinner will begin at 8 pm and the show will begin around 8:40
 $10 cover at the door. $20 minimum per person
King and I Thai Cuisine 93 Main Street , Nyack, NY
www.kingandinyack.com

Friday April 11th

Hash O Nash 

Emily al Nar Will be performing at 8pm on Friday April 11th 
at Nash O Nash
441 Mamaroneck Avenue
Mamaroneck, NY 10543
(914)630-7310
http://hashonash.com/4673.html

Thursday April 24th

Middle Eastern Rhythms Drum Workshop with Ramzi El-Edlibi

Josie's International School of Dance presents a Middle Eastern Rhythms Workshop with Ramzi El-Edlibi.
7-9 pm $40 in advance $50 at the door. 
Drums provided!
125 Main Street (top floor), Ossining, NY 
www.josiedance.com

NEW AND EXCITING! 

Stay tuned there are many wonderful events coming up...Some are already posted to the community calendar.

Watch for a new section counting down the days to each of these events!

January Events

January Events!

Thursday, December 31st

New Years Eve at Shukaila with Birnur Siren and Amira Iriz!

The party begins at 9:30 with Birnur Siren performing the early show and Amira Iriz performing the late show.
Two Chefs & Two Menus - Middle Eastern & Indian.

Reserve early at 914-337-2957.

Free Parking

Easy commute from NYC, Westchester, and Rockland.

Shukaila Authentic Indian Cuisine, 2250 Central Park Ave, Yonkers, NY

 

Friday, January 3rd and Saturday, January 4th

Bellydance Show & Live Music/Singer/Dance @ Shukaila

Music, Hukah, and Birnur are all finally here!

Please Join us on Friday, August 9th and Saturday, August 10th and dance with Birnur to the music of Nizar.  Two Chefs & Two Menus - Middle Eastern & Indian.

Reserve early at 914-337-2957

Music starts at 10pm - No Cover.

Easy commute from NYC, Westchester, and Rockland.

Shukaila Authentic Indian Cuisine, 2250 Central Park Ave, Yonkers, NY

 

Thursday, January 9th

Nourhan Sharif's Egyptian Technique and Drills

Belly Dance Bootcamp (Egyptian Technique, Rhythm Training & Drills) (Open Levels):
Be ready to shimmy and sweat!  Utilizing her 4-CDs for training with rhythms (co-produced with Karim Nagi, professional musician).  Learn rhythms while learning combinations, one of her signatures when teaching as she drills technique into your body!  Be prepared to sweat and learn Middle Eastern Rhythms!  Nourhan will apply some of the rhythms we focus on to a piece of music or two ... time permitting!  Nourhan is known for organized upbeat classes and has developed a method of teaching that works!

7:00pm - 8:30pm

 http://www.josiedance.com/josiedance/Nourhan_Sharif_Workshops_In_Westchester_County.html

Josie's School of International Dance, Ossining, NY

 

 Friday, January 10th and Saturday, January 11th

Bellydance Show & Live Music/Singer/Dance @ Shukaila

Music, Hukah, and Birnur are all finally here!

Please Join us on Friday, August 9th and Saturday, August 10th and dance with Birnur to the music of Nizar.  Two Chefs & Two Menus - Middle Eastern & Indian.

Reserve early at 914-337-2957

Music starts at 10pm - No Cover.

Easy commute from NYC, Westchester, and Rockland.

Shukaila Authentic Indian Cuisine, 2250 Central Park Ave, Yonkers, NY

Thursday, January 16th

Erica Joan's Classic Cabaret Choreography with Zills

In this workshop, you will learn a classic cabaret choreography with finger cymbals. Learning this choreography will help to improve your musicality, transitions, as well as introduce you to dancing to a full song incorporating your zills.
7:00pm - 8:30pm
 Prices: $40 in advance (by mail before 10/17) $50 at the door $99 for all three workshops!

 http://www.josiedance.com/josiedance

Josie's School of International Dance, Ossining, NY

Friday, January 24th and Saturday, January 25th

Bellydance Show & Live Music/Singer/Dance @ Shukaila

Music, Hukah, and Birnur are all finally here!

Please Join us on Friday, August 9th and Saturday, August 10th and dance with Birnur to the music of Nizar.  

Two Chefs & Two Menus - Middle Eastern & Indian.

Reserve early at 914-337-2957

Music starts at 10pm - No Cover.

Easy commute from NYC, Westchester, and Rockland.

Shukaila Authentic Indian Cuisine, 2250 Central Park Ave, Yonkers, NY

Sunday, January 26th
2 Amazing Workshops!
Sensuality, Femininity, and The Inner Goddess with Birnur Siren
Candle Trays, Swords, Water Glasses and More! A Balancing workshop with Amira Iriz
1 - 4 pm
Early bird:$95.
Door: $105.
Contact: Amira at danceamira@gmail.com or Payable via PayPal at www.danceamira.net.
Dance 2B Fit, 656 Van Ranst Plance, Mamaroneck, NY
(At Jefferson & Van Ranst Pl just one block off Mamaroneck Ave)
Metro North (New Haven Line) is right around the corner!

 

Sunday, January 26th

Bellydance Showcase featuring Birnur Siren, Amira Iriz, and many more!

Dancers from the workshop perform including Birnur Siren and Amira Iriz

6-8pm
Cover charge $15
Food minimum: $15

Reserve early at 914-337-2957

Free Parking

Easy commute from NYC, Westchester, and Rockland.

Shukaila Authentic Indian Cuisine, 2250 Central Park Ave, Yonkers, NY

Friday, January 31st and Saturday, February 1st

Bellydance Show & Live Music/Singer/Dance @ Shukaila

Music, Hukah, and Birnur are all finally here!

Please Join us on Friday, August 9th and Saturday, August 10th and dance with Birnur to the music of Nizar.  

Two Chefs & Two Menus - Middle Eastern & Indian.

Reserve early at 914-337-2957

Music starts at 10pm - No Cover.

Easy commute from NYC, Westchester, and Rockland.

Shukaila Authentic Indian Cuisine, 2250 Central Park Ave, Yonkers, NY

December Spotlight: Amira Iriz

December Dancer Spotlight


Every month we will be spotlighting a dancer in Westchester county.  This month, our spotlight turns to Amira Iriz!

Amira Iriz's great grandparents settled in San German, Puerto Rico, having immigrated from Sevilla, Spain. Amira's actual surname, Irizarry, is Basque. Amira was born in Manhattan and lived on West 64th Street where Lincoln
Center for the Performing Arts now stands. She lived most of her life in the Bronx until she moved to Scarsdale, New York. Throughout her life she had been an avid ice skater, dancing and gliding since the age of 11 with accomplished ISIA levels in Free Style Ice Skating. Growing up Amira loved classical music and took up the clarinet at age 13 playing in orchestras as a teen at Lincoln Center, The Waldorf Astoria, Avery Fisher Hall and on local radio stations. In addition, she also played guitar and "dabbled" in piano and oboe. Because of a jaw surgery Amira does not play clarinet anymore but still enjoys classical music. Amira had also served 24 years in the New York Air National Guard (Air Force), retired in 2009 and holds the rank of Master Sergeant.

In Middle Eastern dance, Amira Iriz is best known for her easy style and ready smile. She has performed for over 15 years at numerous multi-ethnic restaurants, private functions and clubs in the tri-state area, including regular international performances in Cancun, Mexico. Amira Iriz has also sponsored student showcases, professional only shows with notables such as Aszmara Sherry, Julia-Jewel of the Nile, Layla Mary, Rayhana, Shoshana, Oreet Jehassi Schwartz and Zoë Kennedy. She was also the director of New York's only sword dancing Troupe, The Serpentine Sword Dancers.

Today, Amira Iriz enjoys mentoring fellow new Middle Eastern dancers, dancing for Belly Dancers for Charity, and helping others achieve their goals in dance. With her first Manhattan showcase, The Light of the Arabian World in 2002, her goal was to bring new dancers to the forefront by sponsoring them and putting them in the limelight. While time has gone by and so have many shows, Amira has returned to this original goal by privately mentoring dancers and started showcases in restaurants such as Shukaila Lebanese & Indian Cuisine in Yonkers, NY once again as she did this past November 2013. She plans to expand showcase events in 2014 in both Westchester County which she now calls home since 2009 in Scarsdale, NY and New York City.

Amira has been reviewed by Jareeda Magazine as "breathtaking" and "having beautiful hand gestures complimentary to her every move...."

Dazzling in the Triumphant Scene with her belly gyrations and exotic footwork with The New York Grand Opera Company in “Aida” while eliciting gasps of admiration from the audience by The Brooklyn Daily Eagle

Amira Iriz was characterized as a sword fighter by The New York Sun in The New York Grand Opera Company’s “Aida” Amira Iriz was lauded as a highly professional belly dancer by Gay City News formerly LGNY in The New York Grand Opera Company’s “Aida”

Press:
The New York Times
Jareeda Magazine
Brooklyn Daily Eagle
The New York Sun
Gay City News formerly LGNY

Specialty: Swords / Double – Triple Swords / Feather Fans

Upcoming January events with Amira Iriz!

Thursday, December 31st

New Years Eve at Shukaila with Birnur Siren and Amira Iriz!

The party begins at 9:30 with Birnur Siren performing the early show and Amira Iriz performing the late show.
Two Chefs & Two Menus - Middle Eastern & Indian.

Reserve early at 914-337-2957.

Free Parking

Easy commute from NYC, Westchester, and Rockland.

Shukaila Authentic Indian Cuisine, 2250 Central Park Ave, Yonkers, NY

Sunday, January 26th
2 Amazing Workshops!
Sensuality, Femininity, and The Inner Goddess with Birnur Siren
Candle Trays, Swords, Water Glasses and More! A Balancing workshop with Amira Iriz
1 - 4 pm
Early bird:$95.
Door: $105.
Contact: Amira at danceamira@gmail.com or Payable via PayPal at www.danceamira.net.
Dance 2B Fit, 656 Van Ranst Plance, Mamaroneck, NY
(At Jefferson & Van Ranst Pl just one block off Mamaroneck Ave)
Metro North (New Haven Line) is right around the corner!

 

Sunday, January 26th

Bellydance Showcase featuring Birnur Siren, Amira Iriz, and many more!

Dancers from the workshop perform including Birnur Siren and Amira Iriz

6-8pm
Cover charge $15
Food minimum: $15

Reserve early at 914-337-2957

Free Parking

Easy commute from NYC, Westchester, and Rockland.

Shukaila Authentic Indian Cuisine, 2250 Central Park Ave, Yonkers, NY

  If you are a teacher, performer, or student in Westchester county and would like to be featured in our monthly series, please email Oracle at delphidme@gmail.com.

December Events

December Events!

Thursday, December 5th

Nourhan Sharif's Veil Technique/Drills/Combinations

(Open Levels):   (Veils Required with NO TRIM on them please ). Available for purchase if needed. 
Dancing with air - the art and mystery of veil work. Mesmerize your audience with the poetry of swirling silk and the promise of lands long forgotten. Nourhan teaches how to make it look easy, natural and feminine. The spirit of every dancer is unique. The truly creative dancer calls all the elements into the realm of her performance ... the excitement of fire, beauty of air, wateriness of emotion, and grounding to the earth. Nourhan Sharif invites you to explore your own relationship to the elements and your own creative spirit through the magnificent experience of Middle Eastern Dance!
7:00pm - 8:30pm

 http://www.josiedance.com/josiedance/Nourhan_Sharif_Workshops_In_Westchester_County.html

Josie's School of International Dance, Ossining, NY

Friday, December 6th and Saturday, November 7th

Bellydance Show & Live Music/Singer/Dance @ Shukaila

Music, Hukah, and Birnur are all finally here!

Please Join us on Friday, August 9th and Saturday, August 10th and dance with Birnur to the music of Nizar.  Two Chefs & Two Menus - Middle Eastern & Indian.

Reserve early at 914-337-2957.

Music starts at 10pm - No Cover.

Easy commute from NYC, Westchester, and Rockland.

Shukaila Authentic Indian Cuisine, 2250 Central Park Ave, Yonkers, NY

Friday, December 13th and Saturday, December 14th

Bellydance Show & Live Music/Singer/Dance @ Shukaila

Music, Hukah, and Birnur are all finally here!

Please Join us on Friday, August 9th and Saturday, August 10th and dance with Birnur to the music of Nizar.  

Two Chefs & Two Menus - Middle Eastern & Indian.

Reserve early at 914-337-2957.

Music starts at 10pm - No Cover.

Easy commute from NYC, Westchester, and Rockland.

Shukaila Authentic Indian Cuisine, 2250 Central Park Ave, Yonkers, NY

Thursday, December 19th

Erica Joans Classic Cabaret Choreography with Zills

In this workshop, you will learn a classic cabaret choreography with finger cymbals. Learning this choreography will help to improve your musicality, transitions, as well as introduce you to dancing to a full song incorporating your zills.
7:00pm - 8:30pm
 Prices: $40 in advance (by mail before 10/17) $50 at the door $99 for all three workshops!

 http://www.josiedance.com/josiedance

Josie's School of International Dance, Ossining, NY

Friday, December 20th and Saturday, December 21st

Bellydance Show & Live Music/Singer/Dance @ Shukaila

Music, Hukah, and Birnur are all finally here!

Please Join us on Friday, August 9th and Saturday, August 10th and dance with Birnur to the music of Nizar.  

Two Chefs & Two Menus - Middle Eastern & Indian.

Reserve early at 914-337-2957.

Music starts at 10pm - No Cover.

Easy commute from NYC, Westchester, and Rockland.

Shukaila Authentic Indian Cuisine, 2250 Central Park Ave, Yonkers, NY

Friday, December 27th and Saturday, December 28th

Bellydance Show & Live Music/Singer/Dance @ Shukaila

Music, Hukah, and Birnur are all finally here!

Please Join us on Friday, August 9th and Saturday, August 10th and dance with Birnur to the music of Nizar.  

Two Chefs & Two Menus - Middle Eastern & Indian.

Reserve early at 914-337-2957.

Music starts at 10pm - No Cover.

Easy commute from NYC, Westchester, and Rockland.

Shukaila Authentic Indian Cuisine, 2250 Central Park Ave, Yonkers, NY

November Spotlight: Nahara

November Dancer Spotlight


Every month we will be spotlighting a dancer in Westchester county.  This month, our spotlight turns to Nahara!

Passionate, sensual, and earthy, Nahara weaves baladi feeling with Egyptian oriental technique. She came to this dance with a long history of other genres of dance: Disco, ballroom, jazz, ballet, and Sub-Saharan African but after one belly dance class in 1990 she left all those behind. By 1992 she was teaching and founded the Cornell University Belly Dance troupe Teszia.

In 2001 she spent a month in Cairo learning about the culture, dances, and performing on a Cairo 5 star stage. She would later return again to Cairo in 2008 to continue her studies and attend the famous Ahlan Wa Sahlan festival. In 2003 and 2005 Nahara hosted a three day conference on North African Dance featuring several world renowned teachers and performers such as Aisha Ali, Sahra Saeeda, Morocco, Faten Salema, and Amel Tafsout.

Currently Nahara teaches Egyptian oriental (raqs sharqi) and all of its associated props, as well as Baladi, Tunisian Sha’abi, and Moroccan Shikhat at Josie’s International school of Dance. Nahara’s passion is hosting shows and workshops in order to bring this dance to more people and inspire the ones who already know it to learn something new. She will be hosting Spring Shimmie this spring 2014 and soon will be starting a monthly drum and dance circle at Josie’s studio.

Nahara enjoys supporting the local belly dance community as a whole and inviting all local dancers/teachers to participate in her events. She truly lives by her own quote “Without dance I cannot feel my soul, hear my heart, or see my dreams”

For more information, you can contact Nahara through Facebook or visit: www.naharadance.com

  If you are a teacher, performer, or student in Westchester county and would like to be featured in our monthly series, please email Oracle at delphidme@gmail.com.

November Events

November Events!

Friday, November 1st and Saturday, November 2nd

Bellydance Show & Live Music/Singer/Dance @ Shukaila

Music, Hukah, and Birnur are all finally here!

Please Join us on Friday, August 9th and Saturday, August 10th and dance with Birnur to the music of Nizar.  Two Chefs & Two Menus - Middle Eastern & Indian.

Reserve early at 914-337-2957.

Music starts at 10pm - No Cover.

Easy commute from NYC, Westchester, and Rockland.

Shukaila Authentic Indian Cuisine, 2250 Central Park Ave, Yonkers, NY

Thursday, November 7th

Nourhan Sharif's Bellydance Technique and Drum Solo

(Open Levels):  Nourhan will teach a 3-minute Egyptian Drum Solo.  The choreography uses shimmies, locks and other juicy movements that reflect the musicality of the drum!  Utilizing your technical skills with expression, we will focus on music interpretations, analyzing the relationship of each combination with the rhythm and soloing pattern in accompanies.
7:00pm - 8:30pm

 http://www.josiedance.com/josiedance/Nourhan_Sharif_Workshops_In_Westchester_County.html

Josie's School of International Dance, Ossining, NY

Friday, November 8th and Saturday, November 9th

Bellydance Show & Live Music/Singer/Dance @ Shukaila

Music, Hukah, and Birnur are all finally here!

Please Join us on Friday, August 9th and Saturday, August 10th and dance with Birnur to the music of Nizar.  

Two Chefs & Two Menus - Middle Eastern & Indian.

Reserve early at 914-337-2957.

Music starts at 10pm - No Cover.

Easy commute from NYC, Westchester, and Rockland.

Shukaila Authentic Indian Cuisine, 2250 Central Park Ave, Yonkers, NY

Thursday, November 14th

Recologie Dinner & Music Series: Middle Eastern Menu and Bellydance by Oracle

The Recologie Dinner & Music Series begins on Thursday, November 14th at 7pm.
Mediterranean three course dinner accompanied by Oracle of the Delphi Dance Ensemble who will delight us with an exciting presentation of world-fusion belly dance, representing areas of the Mediterranean, Middle East, India, and America!

“Meze plate” - Babaganoush, tabouli salad, olives, hummus, pomegranate glaze  w/ toasted pitas, Grilled Eggplant Rollatini filled with Moroccan couscous, garbanzos, spinach, and finished with a Cumin tomato sauce Or Marinated grilled Halloumi Cheese & vegetable kebobs. Entrées are served with sautéed kale & grain pilaf.  Surprise dessert!
Make your Reservations NOW!    $30 per person.  Limited to 20

Pay online: http://www.recologie.com/events/events/dinner-and-music-belly-dancing-and-mid-eastern-menu/

For more information, email or phone Judith at 914.450.5916 
Recologie, 49 Lawton Street, New Rochelle NY 10801

Friday, November 15th and Saturday, November 16th

Bellydance Show & Live Music/Singer/Dance @ Shukaila

Music, Hukah, and Birnur are all finally here!

Please Join us on Friday, August 9th and Saturday, August 10th and dance with Birnur to the music of Nizar.  

Two Chefs & Two Menus - Middle Eastern & Indian.

Reserve early at 914-337-2957.

Music starts at 10pm - No Cover.

Easy commute from NYC, Westchester, and Rockland.

Shukaila Authentic Indian Cuisine, 2250 Central Park Ave, Yonkers, NY

Sunday, November 17th

Shukaila's Goddess Showcase

Join us for an afternoon of professional dancers joined by their friends and students.
Cover Charge: $15.00 / $15.00 food minimum. Free parking.

1:00pm - 4:00pm

Shukaila Authentic Indian Cuisine, 2250 Central Park Ave, Yonkers, NY

Thursday, November 21st

Erica Joans Drills & Zills

Add excitement and professionalism to your performance with finger cymbals. Build on your basic movement vocabulary of bellydance with finger cymbal (zill) patterns. Explore the basic and popular rhythms and learn how to layer different bellydance movements with drills to help build stamina, coordination and agility. Short combinations will be taught and drilled.
7:00pm - 8:30pm
 Prices: $40 in advance (by mail before 10/17) $50 at the door $99 for all three workshops!

 http://www.josiedance.com/josiedance

Josie's School of International Dance, Ossining, NY

Friday, November 22nd and Saturday, November 23rd

Bellydance Show & Live Music/Singer/Dance @ Shukaila

Music, Hukah, and Birnur are all finally here!

Please Join us on Friday, August 9th and Saturday, August 10th and dance with Birnur to the music of Nizar.  

Two Chefs & Two Menus - Middle Eastern & Indian.

Reserve early at 914-337-2957.

Music starts at 10pm - No Cover.

Easy commute from NYC, Westchester, and Rockland.

Shukaila Authentic Indian Cuisine, 2250 Central Park Ave, Yonkers, NY

Friday, November 29th and Saturday, November 30th

Bellydance Show & Live Music/Singer/Dance @ Shukaila

Music, Hukah, and Birnur are all finally here!

Please Join us on Friday, August 9th and Saturday, August 10th and dance with Birnur to the music of Nizar.  

Two Chefs & Two Menus - Middle Eastern & Indian.

Reserve early at 914-337-2957.

Music starts at 10pm - No Cover.

Easy commute from NYC, Westchester, and Rockland.

Shukaila Authentic Indian Cuisine, 2250 Central Park Ave, Yonkers, NY

October Spotlight: Gina

October Dancer Spotlight


Every month we will be spotlighting a dancer in Westchester county.  This month, our spotlight turns to La Gina!

Gina Bergamini was most recently seen at the New York Renaissance Faire with the dance company, Gimme Shimmy. Previously, she danced as a company member of the NYC based troupes the Dalia Carella Dance Collective, Altagracia’s Caribbean Rose Dancers, and of Westchester’s own Bellyissima.

Lately, Gina has focused her energies in Westchester. She performed for a few seasons as a dancer in New Rochelle Opera Company, with choreography by Aszmara Sherry. Gina has also gone back to her musical theater roots and appeared as the Nightingale in Bedford Community Theater’s Once Upon a Mattress.


Gina trained extensively in Oriental dance, under the tutelage of Dalia Carella, Altagracia Bruno, and the late Serena Wilson of Serena Studios. Gina has also trained in ballet, modern, jazz, voice, and musical theater. She holds a Master of Arts in Teaching and a Bachelor degree in Music. When she is not performing or teaching dance, she is found conducting early childhood music and dance classes and maintaining a preschool classroom. Since she believes that striving for excellence as a performer and a teacher means lifelong learning, Gina continues to takes lessons and workshops in music, dance, and education.

For information about adult belly dance classes or children’s music and dance classes, contact Gina at Ginabdanza@aol.com.
 

If you are a teacher, performer, or student in Westchester county and would like to be featured in our monthly series, please email Oracle at delphidme@gmail.com.