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Belynda Azhaar is a professional Performing Artist (actress, dancer, musician, singer) and Instructor/Choreographer with more than 20 years experience in TV, stage, and screen productions. She combines her acting, music, and dance skills to create powerful performances; from soulful, to playful, to exciting! A rising star of Raqs Sharqi (a.k.a. belly dance, Middle Eastern dance, Oriental dance), Belynda Azhaar is quickly gaining popularity worldwide; she has taught workshops and performed in Australia, China, Egypt, Hong Kong, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Philippines, Taiwan, Turkey, and Vietnam, and will be touring Indonesia, Italy, and Malta in early 2012.
Music & Dance Instructor
Specialising in adult education, Belynda Azhaar brings more than 10 years teaching and corporate training experience to the classroom. She is a motivational, fun, caring, and supportive teacher known for:
her professional, methodical, well-organised yet flexible teaching style;
providing the individual attention and feedback needed for students to improve;
her careful explanation and detailed break-down of dance movement;
generously sharing her performance, musical, and cultural knowledge.
Event Organiser, Producer & Promoter
To raise awareness and appreciation of Middle Eastern & World music and dance, Belynda Azhaar organises haflas in Seoul, South Korea.
She also produces charity events such as the Aid Gaza Benefit Night and World Belly Dance Day fundraisers.
As a community service to fellow dance artists and students, Belynda promotes bellydance classes, workshops, festivals, competitions and shows happening in Asia through the Bellydance Events in Asia group on Facebook.
Researcher (Ethnomusicologist & Dance Ethnologist)
Dr. Belynda Azhaar is currently researching the history, culture, music, and dance of Al-Andalus, Central Asia, and the Silk Road.
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