Golden BellyDancers App

To clean up the bad reputation that BellyDancers have, specially in the Arab World, I have created this mobile Applicaton. You can install it on your phone, to watch videos from Golden BellyDancers, I will be selecting the high quality BellyDancers that people should watch, to help in my way to clean up this bad reputation.

I will include bellydancers from all times, but I will only accept the good ones, the ones that are pure quality dancing (not sexy) and the ones that also dress properly. I also give you the chance to rate the application, but please, don't forget that I am starting, and the App. is getting updated very often.

It's very easy to use, very basic, as the only info that comes is the names of the dancers, and once you have clicked their names, you enter to another link where scrolling down you will find the videos of that dancer. 

Thank You for helping me to develop the good quality a bellydancer should have performing facing public.

If you are having problems to find it, try this link: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=golden.bellydancers

Nemat Mokhtar Biography

Nemat Mokhtar is an Egyptian actress and dancer who was born in Alexandria in 1932. She became known for her dancing at a young age she was raised by artist Nabaweeya Saleem who was the head of a dance troupe. She began acting at the beginning of the 1950s when director Hussein Fawzi cast her in the film “Fata El Serk” (Daughter of the Circus). She acting and danced in more than 40 films, including: “Ismail Yassine Yoqabil Rayya Wa Sekina” (Ismail Yassine Meets Rayya and Sekina), “Bayn El Qasrayn” (Palace Walk), Zaqaq Midaq (Midaq Alley), “Tharthara Fawq El Nil” (Chitchat on the Nile), “Hamam El Malatily” (Malatily Bathhouse), “Alma’ra Alaty Ghalabat Al Shaytan” (The Woman Who Beat the Devil). She stopped acting in the mid 1970s to focus on her family life. She died in 1989 at the age of 57.

Click here to watch her videos

Hind Rostom Biography

Hind Rostom (Arabic: هند رستم‎‎; November 12, 1926 – August 8, 2011) was one of the great icons in the golden era of Egyptian cinema. Her physical appearance earned her the name "Marilyn Monroe of Arabia". Born into an aristocratic Egyptian Turko-Circassian family, Hind Rostom starred in more than 80 movies throughout her career.

Rostom was born in the neighborhood of Moharram Bey, Alexandria, Egypt on November 12, 1929 to a middle-class Egyptian father of Turkish origin and an aristocratic mother. She started her career at the age of 16 with the film Azhaar wa Ashwak (Flowers and Thorns). Her first true success was in 1955 when the famous director Hassan Al Imam offered her a role in Banat el Lail (Women of the Night). Her famous films include Ibn Hamidu in 1957, Youssef Chahine's Bab El Hadid (Railway Station) with Farid Shawki in 1958, Salah Abu Seif's La Anam (Sleepless) with Faten Hamama, Omar Sharif, and Rushdy Abaza in 1958, Sira' fi al-Nil (Struggle in the Nile) with Omar Sharif and Rushdy Abaza in 1959, and Chafika el Koptia (Chafika the Coptic Girl) in 1963. Rostom was known as the queen of seduction in Egyptian cinema, and the "Marilyn Monroe of the East". She decided to retire acting in 1979 because she wanted the audience to remember her at her best.

Rostom once more turned down an offer of one million gineih (Egyptian pounds) for her biography in December 2002. The offer was made by an Egyptian satellite channel to portray her life as a drama series. She was asked to submit a complete history of her past achievements, and work experiences with prominent actors of the past, such as Farid Shawki, Faten Hamama, Yousif Shahin, Shukri Sarhan, and Shadia. The actress stated that she refused to sell her life as a means of entertainment and felt that her personal life was of her concern and no one else. Rostom made a statement when she turned down belly dancer Fifi Abdo's invitation to attend a party held in Hind Rostom's honour.

At the age of 81, Hind Rostom died on August 8, 2011, due to a heart attack after being hospitalised for a few hours in Mohandesseen, Cairo.

Filmography

• 1949: Ghazal El Banat (غزل البنات)
• 1950: Baba Amin (بابا أمين)
• 1954: El sittat maarfoush yiktibu
• 1955: El Gassad
• 1955: Banat el lail
• 1957: Inta habibi
• 1957: Ibn Hamidu
• 1958: Bab el hadid (باب الحديد)
• 1958: La anam
• 1958: Ismail Yasseen fi mostashfet al-maganin
• 1959: Siraa fil Nil
• 1960: Bayn el samaa wa el ard
• 1960: "Eshaeat Hob"
• 1963: Chafika el Keptia
• 1965: El Rahiba
• 1967: El khouroug min el guana
• 1971: Madrasatee al-hisnaa
• 1972: Wakr al-ashrar
• 1979: Hayati azaab

 Videos of Hind Rostom

Help to Clean Up the bad reputation that BellyDancers have in Egypt !

Help Amora Shams to rise the money she needs to

 Clean Up the bad reputation that BellyDancers have in Egypt!

Nowadays to be a BellyDancer in Egypt is very bad reputation, because most of Egyptians can not go to watch live dancing the famous BellyDancers, so they go to watch the less famous bellydancers, and those are performing in clubs and also in weddings.

Regarding this, Prof. Amora Shams had an interview with USA Today, and the journalist published in the newspaper just an Amora Shams comment about the bad reputation of all BellyDancers in Egypt, read the article here:

  http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2014/08/27/egypt-belly-dancing/14437739/ 

For an Egyptian to bring a BellyDancer to their wedding, brings good luck, therefore they bring who they can afford. 

Watch this documentary to understand why Egyptians lost their respect towards BellyDancers and why in Egypt nowadays to say that you are a BellyDancer is like saying you are a prostitute:

Amora Shams has created an Android Mobile Application known as 

Golden BellyDancers

that is fr sharing with the World the Egyptian Golden Age BellyDancers

so like this she can start helping to develop this project

share the application with your friends to change the bad image that bellydancers have towards the Egyptians. 

Tahiya Karioka biography

Her name in Arabic: تحية كاريوكا‎)  also Tahiya Mohamed (born as: Badaweya Mohamed Kareem Al Nirani), (February 22, 1915 – September 20, 1999) was an Egyptian belly dancer and film actress.

Born in the Egyptian town of Ismaïlia to Mohamed Kareem, Tahiya was discouraged from performing as a dancer by her family. Due to family differences that could not be settled with her father and brothers, she moved to Cairo to stay with an old neighbour, Suad Mahasen, a night club owner and an artist. Tahiya had asked several times for employment in Suad's nightclub but Suad refused to employ her due to the disreputability of working at a night club. However, many of Suad's associates and friends became acquainted with Tahiya through various visits to Suad's home. They all advised Suad to add her to one of the shows as a chorus girl but still she refused. Soon, Tahiya was mentioned to Badia Masabni, the owner of Casino Opera, one of the most prominent nightclubs of the time. Badia offered a position in her troupe to Tahiya. Tahiya accepted and was given the stage name Tahiya Mohamed. She soon began gaining popularity as a solo dancer and as she became more experienced she learned a popular Samba dance from Brasil at the time called the Karioka. After that she became known as Tahiya Karioca. Tahiya began starring in movies during what is dubbed as the Egyptian film industry's "Golden Age". She was a talented dancer, singer, and actress. In 1972, the film “Watch out for Zouzou”, starring Soad Hosni with Tahiya performing the supporting role, was released to become the biggest box- office hit in Egyptian cinema to date!.

Tahiya was married 14 times; among her husbands were actor Rushdy Abaza and playwright Fayez Halawa. Tahiya was unable to conceive any children of her own and hence adopted a daughter (Atiyat Allah). Tahiya also was very involved with her sibling's children. Tahiya later moved to London.

Tahyia died of a heart attack on September 20th, 1999, aged 84.

Filmography

• Mercedes (1993)
• Iskanderiya, kaman wi kaman (Alexandria Again and Forever) (1990)
• Weda'an Bonapart (Goodbye Bonaparte) (1985)
• Saqqa mat, al- (The Water-Carrier Is Dead) (Film, 1977)
• Tareek, al- (The Road) (1964)
• Imm el aroussa (Mother of the Bride) (1963)
• Hira wa chebab Ana zanbi eh? (Is It My Fault?) (1953)
• Ibn al ajar (A Child for Rent) (1953)
• Muntasir, El (The Conqueror) (1952)
• Omm el katila, El (The Criminal Mother) (1952)
• Zuhur el fatina, El (The Charming Flowers) (1952)
• Feiruz hanem (Mrs. Feiruz) (1951)
• Ibn el halal (The True-born Son) (1951)
• Khadaini abi (My Father Deceived Me) (1951)
• Akbal el bakari (A Large Family) (1950)
• Ayni bi-triff (My Eye Is Winking) (1950)
• Aheb el raks (I Like Dancing) (1949)
• Amirat el djezira (The Princess of the Island) (1949)
• Katel, El (The Murderer) (1949)
• Mandeel al helu (The Beauty's Veil) (1949)
• Hub wa junun (Love and Madness) (1948)
• Ibn el fellah (The Peasant's Son) (1948)
• Yahia el fann (Long Live Art) (1948)
• Li'bat al sitt (The Lady's Puppet) (1946)
• Ma akdarshi (I Can't Do It) (1946)
• Najaf (1946)
• Sabr tayeb, El (Have Patience) (1946)
• Aheb el baladi (I Like Home Cooking) (1945)
• Hub El awal, El (First Love) (1945)
• Lailat el jumaa (Friday Evening) (1945)
• Naduga (1944)
• Rabiha-takiet el ekhfaa (The Magic Hat) (1944)
• Taqiyyat al ikhfa (1944)
• Ahlam El shabab (Dreams of Youth) (1943)
• Ahib Al ghalat (I Like Mistakes) (1942)

Click here to see Taheya Karioka Videos

Amora Shams biography

Amora Shams didn't born in Egypt, but she dances like a Golden Age Egyptian BellyDancer, and she teaches in Egypt her program since 2008, and she is a well known and respected teacher in Egypt. 

Her biography could be devided in 7 stages:

1st: Daughter & asistant of Alia Shams since 1982-1993, meanwhile she gets formed in the hard discipline of Classical Ballet career in the Professional Conservatory of Dance in Spain, studying 10 years in full-time basis, 5 hours per day Monday to Friday.

2nd: First dancing years between Spain, England, France & Morocco 1993-99

3rd: BellyDance career as a teacher and performer between United Kingdom & Spain  2000-2007.

4th: In 2007 one of Amora's videos (recorded in 2006 and published in 2007), jumps to fame quickly getting in just few months more than 1 million visits on her YouTube channel, and becomming one of the most watched BellyDance Videos on YouTube. 

From 2005 until 2007 she keeps performing in Spain & by end of 2007 she moves to Egypt.
  
5th: Dancing and teaching in Egypt since end of 2007.

Working as an Egytpian BellyDancer in Sheraton 5* Hotel in Sharm el Sheikh, and also as a Folkloric Egyptian Dancer for tourists and egyptians at parties and regular egyptian places, with two different groups from Cairo, "Sheko Show" & "Derviches del Cairo", while she keeps teaching BellyDance to private students. 

During her stay in Egypt, she works for the Spanish Embassy as the Graphic Designer to produce two books which were a gift of the Spanish Ministery of Education for the Egyptian Ministery of Education, which were to be used by public High Schools in Egypt. Was a project to help the teenagers of poor families to learn Spanish.

6th: After already teaching and performing for 15 years, she creates in 2008 the BBDC, and gets focus into creating professional BellyDancers in record time while she keeps dancing in Egypt and from 2009 teaches and dances between Egypt and Spain. 

7th: in 2011 the CID which is UNESCO World Dance Certifcations department, recognizes Amora Shams as Professor in BellyDance and her BBDC becomes Worldwide recognised with the extra course known as BQBDTC "Become Qualified BellyDance Teacher Course" to get qualified as a BellyDance Teacher.


Since 2015 comes once a year to teach her BellyDance program formed by two courses, to the USA.

Complete Biography at: http://www.becomebellydancerschool.com/#!amora-shams/c15yd

Recognitions

Amora has been recognised several times in her dance career as one of the best BellyDancers where she has been performing, lets expose some:


-> Best BellyDancer of Morocco in 1997 at BellyDance competition at the Sheraton 5* Hotel in Casablanca (Morocco). Public chosed Amora as best BellyDancer in Morocco.

-> Chosen in March 1998 from all BellyDancers of Spain after a national audition to participate in a dance & drama theater play based in Al Andalus times produced in a real Royal Palace of Seville (Spain)
 
-> Best BellyDancer of Paris on summer 1998 :
* owner of 3 high class  "Fakr El Dine" Lebaneese restaurants with live musicians in Paris (France) said "you dance like the dancers of Golden Age Egyptian films, you are the best in France!"
 

-> Best BellyDancer of London (UK) between 2001 - 2005 said by different restaurant owners:
 
* Owner of the Apollonia Greek Restaurant, after watching her for first time, he was for about 10 minutes shaking the hands of Amora while he was telling her "I have seen thousands of BellyDancers all my life, and never saw anyone like you, you are the best BellyDancer I ever saw in my life!"
* Owner of Safir Moroccan restaurant said "after 3 years since I openned my restaurant, you have been so far the best bellydancer I had performing at my place". Amora was their first bellydancer from oppening date until few months later.
* Owner of the Efes II Turkish restaurant said "you are the most traditional BellyDancer I have had, you dance like old style dancers, you are the best in London"

-> Best foreigner BellyDancer in Egypt 2008-9 by:
* Artist director of the Sheraton 5* Hotel in Sharm el Sheikh, his words were "from the 200 bellydancers that are dancing in Sharm, you are the best"
* Artist director of the Sheraton 5* Hotel in Alexandria, his words were "You are the best foreigner bellydancer I have ever seen in Egypt!"


-> Best BellyDancer in Spain said by a moroccan female singer on one of the 3 arabian night clubs with live musicians that Amora was performing in Barcelona area on 2010. Amora answered her back "how come you tell me that? there are thousands of BellyDancers in Spain" and she said back "all of them just dance from CD's and choreographies, you don't accept CD's when there are live musicians and you dance by improvisation making a coordinated, traditional and complete show" 

So far, Amora has been always seen by experts in BellyDance as a one of the best BellyDancers on stage but sadly she has been out of stage since 2012.

Nowadays the world is following another type of BellyDance styles, which she does not like, and that's why she is unique, she keeps teaching the Traditional style of BellyDance, specialist in Ancient Egyptian Techniques & Egyptian Golden Age BellyDance style and dancing not very often.

In Amora's BellyDance program, she teaches her students to become unique, not a copy of others, and respecting the Traditional BellyDance Style rules, her Course students end the course creating a 20 minutes show as a professional performer.

Check her Next Group Courses:
www.BellyDanceHolidays.com