Victoria Teel
Victoria Teel is a world renowned belly dancer known for her stage presence, unique fluid style, and her mesmerizing fan technique.
Victoria is the creator of the Teel Fan Method, her signature style of fan techniques, methodology & choreographies which led her to develop her signature fans, Teel Fans. She has been invited to over 12 countries to teach and gained an online following over 800k people. She has worked with internationally acclaimed directors & producers, including the Bellydance Superstars & the world’s first belly dance reality show, Project Belly Dance.
Today, Victoria is based in Texas, teaching at her online studio, and currently tours the world teaching master classes.
Victoria is the creator of the Teel Fan Method, her signature style of fan techniques, methodology & choreographies which led her to develop her signature fans, Teel Fans. She has been invited to over 12 countries to teach and gained an online following over 800k people. She has worked with internationally acclaimed directors & producers, including the Bellydance Superstars & the world’s first belly dance reality show, Project Belly Dance.
Today, Victoria is based in Texas, teaching at her online studio, and currently tours the world teaching master classes.
Amy Sigil
Amy Sigil is a dancer, choreographer and movement coach from Sacramento California. Owner of Sigil School, director of UNMATA and creator of ITS. Sigil loves working with teams, large choreography and group improvisation. She enjoys bringing movement to people in a variety of settings with unique prompts that provide technique, creativity and spirit to the work.
Crystal Liu
Young Artist of Oriental Dance, Crystal Liu, is the founder of the brand of LIU Chang Oriental Dance. She is a senior judge of the Oriental Dance Competition in China. Crystal has been awarded the Oriental Dance Champion of the Second China International Oriental Dance Carnival and the Champion of the 2018 Si Lu Dong Fang Global Oriental Dance Competition. She has recently swept many competitions in the United States. Including Belly Dancer USA 2023.
Bipasa
Bipasa started dancing at the young age of 6. She has practiced and performed different dance styles namely Bollywood, Contemporary Ballet, Salsa, and Bellydance. She discovered her most artistic self through Bellydance and a fusion of Bollywood and Bellydance, BollyBelly. She was the winner of the Live Music category and Fusion Pro category at Bellydancer USA 2023. She offers private classes, and teaches in-person Bellydance and BollyBelly workshops locally in Seattle. Bipasa absolutely loves performing for her audience, and her audience often remembers her for her adorable spunk!
Nilay
Nilay was born and raised in Turkey, yet began Middle-Eastern and Oriental Dance studies in the US. She studied and worked with many accredited teachers worldwide. She is in love with the passionate and versatile Turkish style, but performs a variety of many different styles. She teaches in California and performs, competes and judges across the States and internationally. She holds 86 awards in various belly dancing categories including Belly Dancer USA, Belly Dancer of the Universe Hall of Fame and Folkloric Champion of Belly Dancer of the World.
Roxy
Roxy is the producer and owner of Oriental Bliss Productions, an organization that produces Oriental and Middle Eastern dance workshops and shows in Seattle and the Pacific Northwest. Roxy has brought to Seattle master teachers and world prestige artists from Egypt, Turkey, Hungary, Japan, Russia, Ukraine, Serbia, Canada, and the USA. Back in the 90s, Roxy studied Jazz, Ballet, and Modern Dance while in college for a B.S. degree in Computer Science. Ten years after college, to boost her physical and mental health, she took her first Middle Eastern dance lesson from Delilah Flynn. Roxy directed and later on became the owner of Zamani World Dance for 4+ years. Roxy won Miss Belly Dancer USA 2015 and the Champion titles at the Belly Dancer of the Universe 2015 Competition in both the Specialty Prop and Universal Categories. Roxy performs, studies, and teaches globally.
Nadira
Nadira began her journey as a performer at the age of 6, starting with ballet, then hip-hop to jazz. She was introduced to Middle Eastern dance after a car accident she thought ended her dance career. Bellydance was the answer and has been an integral part of her life ever since. Nadira has become an accomplished performer, instructor, and choreographer, receiving five dance titles, two instructor awards, has been featured in multiple performance and instructional DVDs, and has traveled the world performing and instructing. She also created a full-length solo instructional DVD, as well as Saqra’s International Ambassador of Belly Dance (IABDC) Instructor of the Year.
She is currently balancing her mom & bellydancer lives, and has a hybrid of online and in person classes. She also just wrote & published (on Amazon) her FIRST EVER Children’s book, “How Tia Got Her Sparkle Back” as a way for her to not only explain the pandemic to her toddler son, but as a way for her to find her sparkle again
She is currently balancing her mom & bellydancer lives, and has a hybrid of online and in person classes. She also just wrote & published (on Amazon) her FIRST EVER Children’s book, “How Tia Got Her Sparkle Back” as a way for her to not only explain the pandemic to her toddler son, but as a way for her to find her sparkle again
Laura Ayllón
Laura Ayllón is an award winning dancer who has worked as a teacher, director and event producer. Originally a California girl she has spent most of her dance life oscillating between the SF Bay Area and Humboldt County, dancing to live music late at night in tightly packed city restaurants, to large dusty outdoor venues in the hot sun of the redwoods.
Now a resident of Willamette Valley in Oregon with her husband and daughter, Laura is excited to be teaching classes in Corvallis. She loves to build community through dance and is excited about all the opportunities the Pacific Northwest has to offer.
Now a resident of Willamette Valley in Oregon with her husband and daughter, Laura is excited to be teaching classes in Corvallis. She loves to build community through dance and is excited about all the opportunities the Pacific Northwest has to offer.
Emilie Lauren
Since the age of four, Emilie Lauren has been involved with dance and gymnastics. She was a gymnast for seven years before moving on to classical ballet, which she continued to study in college. She took her first belly dance class in high school and has been studying belly dance ever since. Emilie has studied and performed a wide variety of belly dance styles, including ATS, American Cabaret, and Classical Egyptian. She has studied and performed in both the United States and Germany. In addition to her dance training, Emilie is a certified full-studio Pilates & Balanced Body Barre instructor.
Emilie draws on her ballet and gymnastics background to create her own elegant and athletic style of belly dance. Known for graceful floorwork, thrilling sword-balancing, and the creative and deft integration of silk props into her performances, she is a sought-after performer and choreographer in the Portland, Oregon belly dance community. In addition to her solo work, Emilie currently dances with the award-winning Raqs Ayana Collective. She was also a founding member of the influential Znama Dance Company, and an original member of Ashley Lopez's Allegro Dance Company. Emilie won first place in the Seven Veils Category at Belly Dancer USA in 2023 and is thrilled to be back as a judge.
Emilie draws on her ballet and gymnastics background to create her own elegant and athletic style of belly dance. Known for graceful floorwork, thrilling sword-balancing, and the creative and deft integration of silk props into her performances, she is a sought-after performer and choreographer in the Portland, Oregon belly dance community. In addition to her solo work, Emilie currently dances with the award-winning Raqs Ayana Collective. She was also a founding member of the influential Znama Dance Company, and an original member of Ashley Lopez's Allegro Dance Company. Emilie won first place in the Seven Veils Category at Belly Dancer USA in 2023 and is thrilled to be back as a judge.
Gabriella
Gabriella is an award winning dancer and choreographer from Salem, Oregon. She took her first bellydance class at the age of 14 through Rose Empire Dance Company where she is now the Co-choreographer and Co-director as of 2021. Gabriella’s passion for bellydance was deepened by her love for middle eastern music as a musician herself. She started studying music at the age of six, learning to play various string and percussion instruments, in addition to vocal studies. Her musical background led her to study middle eastern percussion more in depth, as well as specializing in finger cymbals.
The love and enthusiasm Gabriella has held for this art form has opened up many doors over the years from competing and performing, to teaching, choreographing and directing. Gabriella was crowned the Ambassador of Belly Dance in 2019. She was also cast as one of the lead roles in Jillina’s BDExperience: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz as the Tin Man in 2023.
The love and enthusiasm Gabriella has held for this art form has opened up many doors over the years from competing and performing, to teaching, choreographing and directing. Gabriella was crowned the Ambassador of Belly Dance in 2019. She was also cast as one of the lead roles in Jillina’s BDExperience: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz as the Tin Man in 2023.
Nemra Khan
The Iconic and Award winning Nemra Khan began her career in the Greek nightclubs in the Portland area in the 70's, specializing in Badawia's flamboyant style, which later became known as American Cabaret! She has continued to teach, coach, choreograph, perform, trying to keep alive the Amcab style, and judge competitions in the Pacific Northwest. She is very proud of her award winning students,( including her daughter, Tamara Khan) many who have gone on to become performers and/ or teachers themselves. She is honored to be invited to judge this fantastic Bellydance USA Competition !
Jewels
Jewels is an award winning dancer living in Portland, Oregon who is known for her emotive and joyful stage presence and mastery in veil and zills. Performer, teacher, coach, choreographer and competition judge, she has been performing and creating dance art for over 20 years. She loves the community that the dance brings, and is the admin of the Portland, Oregon Bellydance Community page on Facebook. She has danced and competed in troupes and as a soloist in Oregon, Washington, Texas and California. Past awards include 2014 Belly Dancer USA Goddess and 2010 Jewel of the Sierra Professional Dancer.
Roxana
Roxana is an international award winning dancer and choreographer from Los Angeles CA.
Her dance background includes Middle eastern dance, Latin American folk styles , and latin dances just to name a few.
She holds multiple titles including the 2015 BDUC Hall of fame Award.
Roxana is the director and founder of International award winning Latin Mirage Dance Studio. A school of world dance dedicated to teach children and teens different art forms and cultures. She is also the director of Latin Mirage Dance Company the adult division of Latin Mirage. Latin Mirage are the 2022 Belly Dancer USA Troupe champions.
Her dance background includes Middle eastern dance, Latin American folk styles , and latin dances just to name a few.
She holds multiple titles including the 2015 BDUC Hall of fame Award.
Roxana is the director and founder of International award winning Latin Mirage Dance Studio. A school of world dance dedicated to teach children and teens different art forms and cultures. She is also the director of Latin Mirage Dance Company the adult division of Latin Mirage. Latin Mirage are the 2022 Belly Dancer USA Troupe champions.
Summer Wang
"Summer Wang is founder of Summer Flower Oriental Dance Academy in Seattle from Oct, 2017, producer of Summer Flower Annual Oriental Dance Show (which invites international and local dancers), and her Summer Flower Dance group is known as Raqs Sharki and Chinese Fusion belly dance. Summer got top 3 in many international professional oriental dance competitions (Korea, Japan, Greece, France, China, USA) from 2015-2019. "
mezdulene
Mezdulene has belly danced for most of her life and her passion has taken her on many adventures including sharing the stage with George Abdo and dancing for the King of Zaire in Luxor, Egypt. She is the original producer of Belly Dancer USA and her annual belly dance retreat is in its 33rd year. She loves watching her students blossom as they gain confidence and self-esteem through the healing powers of belly dance. And, she's written and published four books on belly dance plus a cookbook of recipes from the Middle East and Mediterranean.
Claudia
Widely regarded as an expressive and powerful dancer, Claudia has devoted over 20 years to this passionate, musical, technical and living art form! Claudia is a beloved dancer in the Portland area but has brought her unique style to many dance events nationally and internationally. She has taught and performed in places as far as Turkey, Japan and Egypt!
In addition to her achievements as a performer, instructor and choreographer, Claudia hopes to expand her contribution to dancers and non-dancers alike, inspiring understanding and appreciation of this beautiful dance.
In addition to her achievements as a performer, instructor and choreographer, Claudia hopes to expand her contribution to dancers and non-dancers alike, inspiring understanding and appreciation of this beautiful dance.
SAQRA
Saqra has had many years in belly dance and related folk dances under her coin belt.
Event producer, instructor, musician, costumer and world traveler, she has taught and studied wherever the wind blows. This lifelong resident of the PacNW recently moved to Texas because her feet were cold, but she hopes you are saving her a spot back here when it is time to move back.
Event producer, instructor, musician, costumer and world traveler, she has taught and studied wherever the wind blows. This lifelong resident of the PacNW recently moved to Texas because her feet were cold, but she hopes you are saving her a spot back here when it is time to move back.