Amara Al Amir

Amara has spent a lifetime across all aspects of Belly Dance. She focuses her work on workshops, events and classes that communicate this knowledge around the .world. How wonderful to learn about Belly Dance as a performance Art with a cultural heritage, as fun and for health, as a means to income and more.

Amara’s resources and calendars are carefully planned to provide a layering of skill, technique, information, history an absolute unlimited possibilities and experiences.

“I strive and only hope to provide an experience to women that will be remembers and are most proud of when they look back at their life. What this lifetime of work has accomplished for me personally in body, mind and soul is what I most want to share with others”

Amara is an Artistic Director, Choreographer, Concert Performer, Master Teacher, Designer, Workshop Teacher, Seminar Leader and Guest Lecturer of new and old world dances of the Middle East.

She has been awarded performances for the United Nations, The Tourism Authority for Egypt and Egypt Air, and The Egyptian American Professional Society.

She has been successfully producing educational dance workshops and dance programs for stage, fund-raisers, corporate functions, and cultural events for more than twenty years.

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Amara Al Amir is certainly one of the most glamorous and expressive dance artists in America today. Amara’s joyful dancing plus her full range of inventive steps, moods and styles emerges as one of the most magnetic and tantalizing dance experiences you will ever witness...Chauncey Howell, Channel 5 TV News

“Amara’s talent and creativity were clearly noticed. She did a great job choosing the music and choreography. I loved her graceful style and soft elegant movements. I felt I was watching one of the best dancers in Cairo”...Hamouda Ali, Violinist, Bandleader and was Music Arranger for Egyptian Club Ibis NYC, & Naqua Fouad Music Records.

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"Probably the most unique solo was that performed by AMARA in which she emulates poses from the 18th Dynasty Egyptian Sculpture. The movements - reminiscent of poses on Egyptian friezes brought to live the art of the old world dynasty...and it it seemed the ultimate in control and balance."...Jennie Schulman, Dance Editor, Dance Diary, Backstage Newspaper, NYC

"From the time I first met her twenty years ago, I have found Amara al-Amir to be one of the most intuitive dancers I have ever seen. There are so few dancers who can combine all the most important aspects of dance. Few have the ability to relate to the music, relate to the audience and relate to the feeling of the dance in such an intimate way. Her graceful movements captivate male and female alike, evoking admiration and joy. Few professionals reach the height of understanding of their craft in such a way as to draw the audience in so effortlessly. While I know personally how much effort and how many years she has trained and studied, the ease of her performances disguise that fact. What seemed like an unattainable goal...to dance like a top native Middle Eastern dancer has become a dazzling reality. Amara's success is an inspiration to all, no matter what our profession." Anne Webb (Owner/Booking Director "The Talent Express/NY") _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

"Please accept my appreciation for the truly outstanding dance performances you presented at the International Dance Festival at Firello H. LaGuardia Community College. My compliments to you for a job well done. a program, as the one you presented should be seen in all schools."...Dehlly Porrara, Coordinator of International Dance Festival. LaGuardia College

"We at Bloomingdale's would like to thank you and your talented danced company for joining to launch our spring promotion "Hooray for Hollywood". It was indeed a star-studded afternoon. The costumes were so beautiful and very much in keeping with the era of the extravaganza in film making."...Elaine Nicholas, Director/Public Relations, Bloomingdales, NY

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"Members of Amara's classes of Middle Eastern dance found the artform of dance a beneficial form of exercise. Attendance in her classes built quickly and remained consistently high. Exploration of movement origin in terms of authenticity and the historical natural development of movement were also included in the syllabus of this course. We highly recommend Amara as an instructor in this dance form."...Sylvia Berstein, Director, Selfhelp Community Services.

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Amara Al Amir

A Kaleidoscope Of Visions, A Spectrum of Colors