Be A Queen
Move Like A Goddess
Dance Like A Diva

Experience the Jihan Jamal Method of Egyptian Folk, Baladi & Bellydance

Photo credits Sacha Hidalgo, Miami, FL 2009, Courtesy of Yallah Magazine

  WED, FEB 10, 2010 from 7 to 9PM - Jihan's Open House Brithday Bash at West Miami -Scroll down to NEWS & EVENTS for details & get your Email Pass! Jihan is February Goddess of the month! Go to: http://thegoddesstribune.webs.com/goddessofthemonth.htm - Thanks Leticia!

 



Photo credits Sacha Hidalgo ©2009, Miami, FL
 Courtesy of Yallah Magazine

Jihan Jamal-Baraka
ADORA World Dance Productions
P. O. Box 831894, Miami, FL 33283-1894
Telephone: 305-342-5458 | Fax: 305-266-1910
E-mail:
JihanJamal@aol.com

My biography and Mission Statement

Review by PAT TAYLOR, Austin, Texas

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News & Events 2010


WEDNESDAY, FEB 10, 2010, 7:00-9PM
Jihan celebrates her birthday, and you get to party!
Special
B.O.D.Y. RAKS EXTREME OPEN HOUSE BIRTHDAY BASH - FREE CLASS, FREE CD with NEW TUITION, LOT'S OF DANCING & FUN!  Promotional class session at West Miami Middle School! Sharif Dance wear sales! Coin Sash sale! Veil Sale! SURPRISES and BIRTHDAY CAKE! R.S.V.P. at JihanJamal@aol.com to get your email class pass! Already part of this great class? You get a pass for one of my other classes, this semester, either Tuesday or Thursday !

THURSDAY, FEB 18, 2010, 7PM - STUDENT'S SHOW CASE AT WEST MIAMI MIDDLE COMMUNITY SCHOOL'S AUDITORIUM. FOR DETAILS REGARDING PERFORMANCE, PLEASE SEE JIHAN DURING CLASS SESSION. ANNOUNCEMENTS WILL BE ANNOUNCED DURING JANUARY'S CLASSES.

MAY 8, 2010, 7PM - Jihan and The Jihan Jamal Egyptian Dance Theatre will perform at Joharah's Spring Hafla. For information, please visit:
www.joharah.com

JULY 22 - 25,  2010 - Garland, TX
- Little Egypt presents "AHLAN CAIRO NIGHTS & QUEEN OF RAKS SHARQI" Annual Gala Event, featuring various artists and  JIHAN in a two-part  "EXTREME BALADI" workshop of  MILAYA LIFF & SHAMADAN. For more information please visit: www.littleegypt.com or call Dee Dee Asad at (214) 707-6289

SEP 3 - 6, 2010 - Miami, FL - Jihan returns as guest teacher & performer at Nathalie's Miami Bellydance Convention! Visit: www.miamibellydanceconvention.net

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EXCEPTIONAL NEW DANCE DEVELOPMENT CLASSES SERIES:

B.O.D.Y. RAKS EXTREME 2010
 (BELLYRINA ORIENTAL DANCE & YOGA)
by
Jihan Jamal

 TUESDAYS, 7:30 TO 9PM -  B.O.D.Y. RAKS BASIC
Classes -  Bellydance I BEGINNER LEVEL BELLYDANCE & DANCE DEVELOPMENT

WEDNESDAYS, 7:30 TO 9PM - B.O.D.Y. RAKS EXTREME
Classes -  Bellydance II MIXED LEVEL BELLYDANCE & FITNESS
THURSDAYS, 7:30 TO 9PM -
 
Must have teacher's approval to join this class. Must play finger cymbals! Thank you.
B.O.D.Y. RAKS SUPREME!  Classes - Bellydance III, ADVANCED TO PERFORMANCE LEVELS 

SEE "WEEKLY CLASSES" FOR CLASS DETAILS & REQUIREMENTS.

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Featuring specialty Items From Egypt, Arabian Gulf regions, Czech Republic, India and Thailand!

Arabic Classical, Pop and Bellydance Music CD's

MADE TO ORDER "Veiled by Basboussa Designs" One of a kind and Custom Made Veils, Scarves with Basboussa's personal touch and logo, in fine polyester chiffon, crystal chiffon, hand died silk and silk chiffon.
 

Bellyrina, Basboussa & Dance Diva  Tops & Tee Shirts
 FOR SALE, FEBRUARY 1OTH, ON JIHAN'S BIRTHDAY!

MARCH  2010 - CHULETTE FASHIONS IN MIAMI!
Introducing fashion designer
Lee Phutrakul.

 In 2007, Chulette was created to redefine casual sophistication for the woman who appreciates simplicity but with an eye to detail. For more information and to access the online shop, please go to www.chulette.com

EVENT DATE MARCH  28,  2010
Location: TBA

   


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For all gift-giving occasions.
 Beautifully packaged for gift giving. Certificates are customized for classes or gift items from:


Please inquire at 305-342-5458

Basboussa (Jihan), sporting her new line of Fashionable Hegab (Scarf) wraps


Complimentary Dance, Music, Arts & Yoga
Electronic Newsletter ~ Weekly

Sunday Morning Over Coffee - January 10, 2010

click below to read
Request via email or click here to view


 

 


Visionary Steps
For the Month of Love
Happy Valentine's Day to All

I dedicate these quotes to all who
have touched, changed or bruised my life.
You are or have been important to me,
 and shall always be part of my experience, consciousness, wisdom, compassion, and nourishment for my creativity.

Love, like energy, has no beginning and no end - It merely transcends ... changes us ... moves our souls ...

Love is the most important dance!
Do your dance, and do it well!
~ Jihan Jamal-Baraka

"Ever has it been that love knows its own depth until the hour of separation"
                             ~ Gibran Khalil Gibran

"All you need is love"
~John Lennon

"Him that I love, I wish to be free -
Even from me!"
~Anne Morrow Lindberg

"To love means to open ourselves to the negative, as well as the positive -
To grief, sorrow, and disappointment, as well as to joy, fulfillment and an intensity of consciousness we did not know was possible before"
~ Rollo May

"The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit out own image.
Otherwise, we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them"

~ Thomas Merton


"Being deeply loved by someone,
gives you strength.
Loving someone deeply, gives you courage."

                    ~ Lao - Tzu



 

"Love is never lost. If not reciprocated,
it will flow back and soften
 and purify the heart"

~ Washington Irvin


 

"Risks must be taken, because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing"
                  ~ Leo Buscaglia (Dr.Love, Himself!)
 

 


 

 


 

 

 

Classes and Workshops


Egyptian Master Class Series 2010

With International Dance Master and Instructor
 

Jihan Jamal-Baraka

Classic Elegance in the Fine Art of Oriental DanceTM
Dancer/ Teacher / Choreographer
Egyptian Folk, Baladi, Oriental & Interpretive Dance

 

A Member of the Florida Dance Association Since 1994


Founder and Director of Three

Dance companies:

The Jamal Dancers (1992)
Banat Msereyia (1994)

Bellyrina Student Dance Theatre (2004)
(AT WEST MIAMI MIDDLE SCHOOL)
and presently, since 1997:
The
Jihan Jamal Egyptian Dance Theatre
 

Founder & Owner:
ADORA World Dance Productions

 

Titles and Awards:
2000 Best Instructor of The Year~Zaghareet Magazine

by popular vote

First Miamian crowned winner to receive the title
of the Magana Baptiste
"Miss America of the Bellydance"
1987 - San Francisco, CA

 

Producer of dance series highlights:



"Then & Now"
A Hundred Years of  Bellydance
In the United States of America (1993)
A Showcase of 29 Performers


"The Dancer & The Drummer" (1994)
in Collaboration with the late percussionist
extraordinaire, Mr. Fathi Bilalgia
(Tunisia)
In present collaboration with
Mr. Fadel Nemmer (since 2004)


"Dances of the Awalem" (1997 - 2002)


"Khul-Khal" (Anklet) (1998)
Starring Cassandra & featuring Jamila Al Wahid
 

B.O.D.A. (2005)
(Bellyrina Oriental Dance Academy)

 

"The Dancer & The U'dist" (2008)
In Collaboration with Moroccan born
Music Ethnologist & Composer
Mr. Mostafa Mekki

 

"EXTREME BALADI"
WORKSHOP SERIES 2009, 2010

 

B.O.D.Y.   2009!
(Bellyrina Oriental Dance and Yoga)

 

B.O.D.Y. RAKS EXTREME 2010!
(Bellyrina Oriental Dance and Yoga)

 


Weekly Classes


B.O.D.Y. (Bellyrina Oriental Dance & Yoga
by Jihan at West Miami Middle School
7525 Coral Way - Miami, FL
Telephone 305-251-8383 
(Call MON - FRI after 2PM - Ask for Mrs. Fernandez)

TUESDAYS, 7:30 TO 9PM
BASIC 
B.O.D.Y. RAKS BASICS.   by Jihan  (BELLYRINA ORIENTAL DANCE & YOGA) Bellydance I (Beginner's Level, but all levels are welcomed!) Basic Bellydance, Baladi & Folk technique, body conditioning, basic choreography; beginner's finger cymbals and veil work.

Veils and finger cymbals needed  - Purchase in class.
Receive 5% discount with paid tuition!

WEDNESDAYS, 7:30 TO 9PM
B.O.D.Y. RAKS EXTREME    by Jihan  (BELLYRINA ORIENTAL DANCE & YOGA) open to All Levels - FOCUSES ON dance and Yoga for grace and fitness. Dancer's warm up; Bellydance technique; Yoga warm down and dancer's floor barre. (Please wear proper attire for floor stretches).

THURSDAYS, 7:30 TO 9PM 
DANCE 
B.O.D.Y. RAKS SUPREME    by Jihan  (BELLYRINA ORIENTAL DANCE & YOGA)
Advanced to Performance Levels ONLY
Must have teacher's approval to join this class. Must play finger cymbals! Thank you.
Advanced technique, choreography and training (for performance and competition). Be prepared to work your body well, and build stamina and strength, like a true dancer!


What is B.O.D.Y. ?

 

Photo credits Sacha Hidalgo © 2009
Courtesy Yallah Magazine
 

 B.O.D.Y.  (Bellyrina Oriental Dance & Yoga
is Jihan's newly enhanced method of teaching dance as both an art form and fitness program for all students, from beginner's to performance and competition levels.

Jihan blends the benefits of Yoga Asanas, isometric exercises, floor barre and classical dancer's stretches, in her "warm-up and warm-down" segments, at the  beginning end of each dance class.

"While developing my personal fitness program for ultimate levels of fitness, stamina and performance refinement and discipline, I have been working on enhancing the Jamal Method of teaching Arabic dance arts, while always emphasizing classical corporal dance discipline and technique, as well as creative movement and development -Empowering myself through Yoga and dance movement, thus conditioning spirit, mind and body collaboration and correlation, in dealing with everyday life experiences. I want to share with you the positive results of the YES I CAN attitude in life. I want to share my journey with you, my student.

November 2009 HIGHLIGHTED my 30th year anniversary as an Oriental dance artist, and I am going through a renewal of my own, and I'm so excited, I can't keep it to myself!


"The Yoga Mat" is a featured column on Jihan's weekly electronic newsletter, "Sunday Morning Over Coffee".
 You may request to be added to her e-list via email to:
jihanjamal@aol.com

 

 


 

Photo Gallery: Jihan,  Cairo, Egypt and Prague, Czech Republic

 

 

The Jihan Jamal Egyptian Dance Theatre in "Raks Ibrahim". October 8, 2005
Photo by:
Denise Marino - Copyright 2005

 

 

Jihan teaching men's theatrical Dabke class at the Santa Fe Summer Dance Institute, Gainesville, FL

 

More Visionary Steps:

"Everything is Possible"
                             ~ Jihan Jamal-Baraka

"Many a wrong step has been made
by standing still"

                             ~ Fortune Cookie Wisdom

"The indispensable first step to getting what you want in life is this:
Decide what you want"

            ~Ben Stein

Four things support the world:
The learning of the wise,
The justice of the great,
The prayers of the good,
and
The valor of the brave"...
"The most excellent struggle is that for the conquest of self"
~ The Prophet Muhammad (PBUH)

 

 

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