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Baheyya El-Ghazal
Bellydancer

Direct from Cairo
Learn Egyptian-Style Oriental Dance with a Pro

Baheyya El-Ghazal is a professional Bellydancer with years of experience in the U.S., Europe and the Middle East. She has recently returned to the U.S. from a year in Cairo, Egypt, where she worked as a dancer in the city's top five-star venues. Baheyya is currently offering weekly classes at Dance Arts Academy in Los Angeles, and available for private lessons and performances.

Musical interpretation and cultural meaning are at the heart of authentic Egyptian Oriental dance, and form the basis of Baheyya’s artistic development. Her performances are rich with the precision, play, and soulful expression characteristic of Oriental dance — marked by a mutual inspiration between performer and audience.  Schooled in true Egyptian dance, her choreography and incendiary improvisational style still reflect the Andalucian roots and global crossings that have shaped her as a performer, embellishing classical structures with spontaneity and polyrhythmic reverberations. 

After an extensive career as a professional flamenco dancer that spanned nearly 8 years – and took her to Spain, New York, Los Angeles, throughout the US on a thirty-city tour and into tablaos, theatres and music videos – Baheyya began to gravitate more toward the understated strength and elegant corporeal aesthetics of Oriental dance.

She joined Adam Basma’s Arabic Dance Company in Los Angeles, where she stayed for two years, collaborating with a number of talented artists and gaining experience in theatre productions, private parties, countless weddings and other celebrations in the Arab community.

After graduating, Baheyya returned to Cairo, where she lived and worked as a dancer and journalist for a year. Working with top agents in the Cairo circuit, she danced at various venues including 5-star hotels, weddings and private parties. She was a featured dancer in Raqia Hassan’s 2007 instructional/performance video, filmed at the Mena House Oberoi Hotel.

Having turned down lucrative dance contracts in the U.A.E. for the peculiar lure of Los Angeles, Baheyya is now looking forward to creative solo endeavors and collaborations with talented artists in the area — and beyond.

Private and semi-private lessons available. Contact her at
beigedance@gmail.com or (323) 532-6751