Iris Bellydance
Modern Oriental Expression with a balady heart
Roberto Bogers
Up and coming events
09-2024/06-2025 Coming Soon! 3rd Annual "Supreme Saturday Specials" workshop series for advanced dancers
@ Eindhoven, Netherlands
07/08-2024 Coming soon! 2nd Annual 'Sharqi Summerschool'
@ 't Trefpunt, Eindhoven, the Netherlands
02.06.2024 - Workshop Lyrical Oriental
@ Sheila's Buikdanscentrum / Dansstudio Meijers, Zutphen
25.05.2024 Workshop Electro Sha3bi / Mahragan
@ Studio Maiarosa, Huizen, Netherlands
20.04.2024 Iris & Farha Company Show
@ Postcards from Cairo to Los Angeles, Viersen, Germany
23.03.2024 Iris & Farha Company Show, Sense of Bellydance's "Sense of Pink!" extravaganza @ Torenlaan Theater, Zeist, Netherlands
10.03.2024 - Iris & Farha Company Show
@ the A'isha Azar Dance Project Later Winter Hafla, Spokane WA (USA)
11.11.2023 Iris & Farha Company Show
@ Roos Belinfante & Gerie Den Besten's Jubilee Hafla @ Torenlaan Theater, Zeist, Netherlands
07.06.2023 Competition Jury at CIAD Brazil's Dancando Com Arte
@ Santo Andre, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Latest news
Farha Egyptian Dance Company has had a wonderful 2nd year with a plethora of incredible events we got to be a part of.
First international gigs have been booked and we are working hard to bring you the best of the best.
Click on through to discover our all new showgroup!
Showgroup classes continue at 't Trefpunt Eindhoven!
Sharqi Summerschool will return for the 4th time in July/August 2024!
Supreme Saturday Specials Monthly Intensive programme will be announced before summer!!
The A'isha Azar Project Late Winter Hafla in Spokane, WA (USA) was a blast!! We had so much fun performing amongst a fabulous lineup of international dancers!!
Farha Egyptian Dance Company will soon be a guest at the 'Postcards from Cairo to Los Angeles'
in Germany organised by Anna Radici and Asra!
Last but not least, rumor has it...
A revival of a beloved international collaboration between two powerhouse dancers might be up and coming...
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BIOGRAPHY
"Each decent Oriental dancer must express life, death, happiness, sorrow, love and anger, but above all she must have dignity." ~Tahia Karioka
"Egyptian dance is a very naked kind of art, in the sense that
on stage, we expose our deepest emotions through movement.
The height of a good Oriental dance performance is in the depths you can move your audience to on a visceral level. It's living poetry:
this moment is all there is and it's bound to make you feel something."
~ Iris
Iris' Egyptian oriented style is technically solid, soulful and versatile, exploring modern concepts while remaining 'baladi' at heart. She is internationally sought after for her groundbreaking taqasim work, authentic artistry within classical, folkloric and contemporary Egyptian dances and extensive musicality.
Iris performs and teaches internationally, forms a duo with dance partner Tato and has toured music festivals throughout Europe with Electro-Shaabi collective ‘Cairo Liberation Front’. She is an active coach and choreographer for Oriental dancers of all levels, featuring her work in shows and competitions throughout the world. She recently entered the dance world as lecturer as well, researching and speaking on all topics body image and body positivity from both historical and modern viewpoints within Egypt and the international Oriental dance scene beyond.
Iris teaches weekly Egyptian Bellydance classes at Trefpunt Eindhoven, is part of CKE Eindhoven's 'Dance Around the World' teacher team and provides intensive in-depth Egyptian dance training through her CKE-based 'Supreme Saturday Specials'.
Iris has received multiple international awards, among which various notations as BeNeLux champion, Bellydancer of the World, an Orientalicious cup and an honorary 'Miss Bellydance CIAD' award for her work as a performer, choreographer, guest teacher/lecturer and competition judge.
"4 of my relatives booked her the day after our wedding" - Tunesian newlyweds
"Dances like an Egyptian." - Egyptian restaurant owner
"Brilliant, just brilliant" - Taqasim course participant, Denmark
"Richtiges Powerpaket!" - Spectator at a live music show in Germany
"Nobody has given us this kind of tuition in Egyptian musicality before." - Taqasim course participant, Denmark
"Her crazy energy drew us in from the street to watch. It's contagious" - Passers by at Shi Sha restaurant, Den Bosch, NL
"Posture, technique, musicality... the full package. I feel like I've learned so much" - Beginner student
"Iris really gets it." - Dancer at 'Baharat!' dance company, Spokane (WA), USA