HELENA VLAHOS

818-618-9746 or helenavlahosdance@gmail.com
www.HelenaVlahos.com

Helena Vlahos is a legendary belly dancer who is well known for her “Nine Quarter and Dollar Bill Act.” She is in the Guinness Book of World Records for Unique Abdominal Dexterity.
 
Helena started her dance career in Los Angeles, California in the mid 1960's. She moved to Texas in 1971, where she was asked to perform at various Greek nightclubs. While there, she ran and operated two belly dance schools.
 
Helena moved back to Los Angeles in 1978 and was invited to perform her unique act on television shows such as “AM Los Angeles,” “That's Incredible,” “Spectacular World of Guinness Records” and many more.
 
In 1990 Helena moved to Phoenix, Arizona, where she taught classes at numerous colleges, dance studios and resorts. She also found time to perform at the Bacchanal Greek Restaurant.
 
She is on the Executive Panel of Judges for Tonya & Atlantis' Belly Dancer of the Universe Competition every February in Long Beach, California.
 
Helena has mentored dancers who have gone on to win titles in competitions including the BDUC.
 
Helena has graced the covers of two magazines: “Studio,” A Quarterly Journal of Folk & International Music & Dance, in January 2006, and “Belly Dance,” A Raqs Sharqi Magazine in the summer 2008 Issue. She is also a featured dancer in a new DVD “American Belly Dance Legends” produced by Amaya.
 
Helena’s finger cymbals can be heard on Damon the Gypsy’s original (1969) and re-mastered (2009) album “Song of a Gypsy” and in his new re-mixed album “Gypsy Eyes.” Damon has a new DVD “Dance Little Gypsy” in which Helena has a featured part.