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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.



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 keepteaching 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.


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