Baubles and Bellydance Weekend
(2010 dates and prices to be confirmed)
at the
Mayfair Hotel
with Jackie Oruc and Anne Kingston
Welcome to the 5th Jersey Bellydance weekend with the Modern Hotels Group.
** DATES AND PRICES TO BE CONFIRMED **
Flights can be booked from most UK airports or call us on 01534 759529 and we will quote you a price
Non-dancers also welcome
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Your Teachers
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Anne Kingston Jackie Oruc
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Anne Kingston
Anne teaches and performs Middle Eastern dance throughout the UK. A qualified JWAAD (Josephine Wise Academy of Arabic Dance) teacher, her style is relaxed and fun. She prefers modern Egyptian style and travels to Egypt regularly to study the latest techniques and research various aspects of the dance. Although her main destination is Cairo, in 2003 she discovered a love for deserts while trekking across the Sinai to raise money for Scope and in April 2005 she visited Egypt’s Sea of Sand, the western desert and oases, learning the dances of the Bedouin.
Previously trained in tap and jazz dance and with an interest in many other dance forms Anne has studied middle eastern dance over 12 years with many international dance teachers including Raqia Hassan, Farida Fahmy, Yasmina, Mahmoud Reda, Nadia Hamdi, Aida Noor, Leila Haddad,Sara Farouk Ahmed, Lubnor, Amel Tafsout, Pauline Sayhi, Khaled, Mohammed Khazafy, Suraya Hilal, Medea Mahdavi, Wendy Buonaventura, Josephine Wise and Jackie Jamal.
Anne performs regularly as a soloist and also as a member of the Tarab Dance Company. The Company produce an annual Middle Eastern dance show which they tour throughout the north of England and Scotland including performances at the Edinburgh Fringe.
As a teacher of Middle Eastern dance, Anne is a regular at the Northern residential at Ford Castle, she also teaches three residential weekends annually at Burton Manor College in Cheshire with fellow tutor, Shirley Lewis. Other teaching events include day and weekend workshops at Alston Hall College, Lancashire, workshops at Fantasia, London (UK’s biggest Middle Eastern dance event) and the increasingly popular Jewel of Yorkshire (JOY) festival and numerous workshops throughout the UK.
As well as teaching six classes a week, presenting workshops and giving talks on Middle Eastern dance Anne also researches, edits and writes for the Northern Arabic Dance Association (NADA) magazine and is the Press Officer for NADA and the Tarab Dance Company.
Memorable moments for Anne so far have been meeting and dancing with Fifi Abdou and Sohair Zaki, seeing Amr Diab in concert in Cairo and London, performing at the Royal Albert Hall with Cheb Khaled, being invited to dance at an Egyptian wedding in Cairo, performing with the Tarab Dance Company and dancing under the stars with the Bedouins in the Sinai desert.
Anne can be contacted at annekingston@ntlworld.com or on 01772 783048 (mobile 07843 079574) or by visiting her web site at www.annekingston.com
Jackie Oruc
Jackie has studied with nationally and internationally respected dancers over the last six year including Lubna Emam, Khaled Mamoud, Sara Farouk Ahmed, Anne Kingston, Kay Taylor, Tracey Gibbs, Heather Burby, Tine Valois, Maria De Silva, Bayda Asbridge Sharon Kihara, Ali Whitworth and Amelia Barlow. Tracy Gibbs, Vashti
Jackie teaches four classes a week in Lincolnshire, Yorkshire, and Nottinghamshire, she also teaches workshops for women’s groups and schools.
Comments from Students
’Jackie is a brilliant teacher she explains in clear detail, gives us lots of praise all while keeping us toeing the line.’(Margaret, Retford class)
Jackie makes the lessons fun but she works us hard and is an excellent teacher. (Michelle Williams)
Jackie has travelled to Cairo to study the dance with Sara Farouk Ahmed and also performed in Istanbul. ’Highlights for me include performing 7 shows in Turkey including an engagement party for 600 Turkish people and dancing on stage with ’Lucy’ in Cairo’.
Jackie is very keen on promoting the dance in Yorkshire and once danced without stopping for seven hours to raise money for Children in Need which was shown on television.
As a Co Founder of ’The Isle Dance Company she regularly performs in Hotels and festivals.
This special weekend break has a limited number of places so please book early to avoid disappointment.
Call our reservations department on 01534 759529