Scene · Levant
Belly dance in Lebanon
Beirut's theatres and TV stages produced a polished, balletic school of oriental dance and some of the region's most beloved music.
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Dancer · Lebanon
Estelle Zaghloul Ramia
Estelle Zaghloul Ramia is a Lebanese-born dancer whose international career became particularly significant in Latin America. She lived in Lebanon until her teenage years and carried direct cultural knowledge of Lebanese music and movement into her later…
Dancer · Lebanon
Amani
Amani became one of the defining artists of modern Lebanese Oriental dance. From the late 1980s she consciously developed a personal theatrical approach distinct from the dominant Egyptian model. Her productions combined Oriental movement, specially arranged…