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Moon said:

I didn't know there is also a male Egytian Dina! Very cool he dances great!

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A'isha Azar said:

Dear Moon,
I am wondering where the dancer is from....she is dancing to a nice Egyptian piece of music, but she dances to the music as if she is not Egyptian...???
Does anyone know her background?
Regards,
A'isha

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Orit encountered belly dancing at 26 years of age completely by chance.

At the time she had no background or connection to Arab culture, but she immediately found in it all that she loved: emotion, imagination, creativity, and lots of drama.

Orit connects both to the melodic, soft, and romantic side of Arabic music, especially the classic compositions of major Egyptian singers, as well as to the wilder heart-beat of the drums. She studied belly dancing at “Sahara City” in Tel Aviv, and concurrently conducted her own research on the different forms of the dance through Arabic movies and instructional videos. Later, she began to travel to Cairo to take belly-dancing lessons, as well as to acquire a respectable understanding of Arabic culture. She took lessons with her favorite contemporary dancer, Randa Kamel, with Hisham Salah, the trainer of the Mahmud Reda troupe, and with Diana Mahiou, with whom she became friends.

Within a short period of time, after partaking in a number of big, joint shows, she brought her own personal creation to the stage in a performance called “Nur al Amar.” This performance, at the Suzan Dalal Center in Tel Aviv, was a gesture to those spectacular Arabic movies from the 1950s that Orit would watch, featuring the participation of an orchestra from Nazareth and an accompanying troupe of dancers. She worked with the finest Arabic musicians from Israel and traveled with her show nation-wide. She gained experience on stage at many events and festivals in Israel and she represented Israel at a major cultural seminar in Russia and has performed to Jewish audiences around the world.

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