As belly dancers, we refer to a dance performed to music from the Said region (upper/Southern Egypt) as sa’idi. The more correct name for this dance is raqs-al-assaya/raqs-al-assayah (sometimes transliterated differently), which means stick dance. Learn more on our blog!
Blitz with student of the Vaganova Ballet Academy Mara Tudose. Photo Ira Yakovleva Translate Ekaterina Bornovitskaya First entering the stage I was only 4 years old when I went on stage for the first time. We were doing The Nutcracker with the private ballet school I was at. I was just a little snowflake […]
It has been long time the Russian ballet has opened its doors to the world, and our domestic theatres confirm the statement. The companies have become very multinational: with the dancers from Korea, Japan, Brazil, USA and Europe. The foreign names are so hotly favourite to the Russian audience, and we’ve been already watching the […]
Special project Foreigners in St. Petersburg It has been long time the Russian ballet has opened its doors to the world, and our domestic theatres confirm the statement. The companies have become very multinational: with the dancers from Korea, Japan, Brazil, USA and Europe. The foreign names are so hotly favourite to the Russian audience, […]
by Ani Andreani de Herrera Would you like to do more tango embellishments but feel unsure how to do them? Did you ever wonder how profesionales manage to make them look so natural? Are you afraid to disturb your partner or even hurt them or you? I remember how long I was searching to find […]
