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Myself and a few friends had the priviledge of attending the The Arab Quarter event - The Call of Arabia at the Bloomsbury Theatre London.

The production was stunning with music from the amazing Arab Quarter Band, (Bashir Abdel Aal, Emile Bassili)

The performances at the show were just beautiful. Performers were: Melanie Norman, Magdy El-Leisy, Mercedes Nieto, The Nymph Oriental Dance Company, Anne White, Emma Chapman and more. I was utterly inspired by their stunning and beautiful performances.

The next day we attended workshops with Magdy and Mercedes.....they put us through our paces and had us sweating!

We left feeling inspired, in awe and feeling thankful for a wonderful event.

Bring on the next!

Well I've been enjoying some time to myself and have choreographed a new belly dance track for my classes to learn, it's been great fun! I'm feeling really excited about teaching it and I know people are going to love the track as it's nice and upbeat.

I'm also extremely excited to be performing with Stephi Briggs at L Dubstock festival in Bristol. It's going to be a really great event and I'm even more pleased that it's raising money for an extremely good cause, cancer research!

Perhaps I'll even include this new choreography in the performance list!!

Suraya xx

Wow, Ozgen. What a truly fabulous person. I attended a wonderful Oriental Technique workshop with him. He was outrageous, polite, funny and he put everyone at ease with his wonderful personality and hilarious descriptions.

Later in the evening was the Habiba relaunch at the Falafel King, Bristol. There were live musicians and performances from Tangerina Dance Company, Shema and Ozgen!

It was a fantastic day/night and I can't wait for the next one!!