Joharah

Joharah is devoted to the teaching of Egyptian dance as an art form as opposed to a form of exercise. She is a prolific and driven dance artist focused on expanding the educational and artistic horizons for Egyptian dance within her dance community. She continually creates new ways to bring this dance form to newcomers and new audiences throughout  the bellydance community. 

She is a teacher of Egyptian dance, choreographer, seminar producer and host, retailer of dancewear and imported costumes and the Founder of the successful BellyUp BellyDance studios which she launched in 2006 with locations in Oakville, Kitchener and Mississauga. She has been recognized in Bellydance an International Magazine along with Shimmy Magazine where she shared the cover with her mentor and dear friend Nourhan Sharif and is also a periodic contributing writer.  Joharah was a Master Teacher at the Nile Group Festival in Cairo, Egypt as well as at the International Bellydance Conference of Canada and Ahlan Cairo Nights alongside other major Egyptian teachers.  Her technique and her personable, fun way of communicating with her students is what makes her classes and workshops successful. Joharah’s teaching is highly comprehensive including technique, musicality, cultural awareness, costuming and stage presence. 

She has trained extensively with almost every major Egyptian available in the dance form and has hosted a long list of Egyptian superstars from most recently Raqia Hassan to Mohamed El Hosseny, Faten Salama, Mohamed Shahin, Fifi Abdo, Khaled Mahmoud and Ahmed Hussien and Nourhan Sharif.  Joharah has had many journeys in life. But her ongoing journey is clearly focused on helping women access their inner power and find empowerment though this dance form. For Joharah this is as much a healing dance and an outlet for personal expression as it is an ethnic/cultural dance form that has been around for generations.