SABAH BENZIADI

   Sabah  was born in Algeria and as a child  studied with her mother and
grandmother who were both dancers. She gave her first performance at the age of 10 in "National Theatre of Alger”
The early part of her career which in Algeria. She arrived in Europe in 1989, first in Germany and later in Italy where

   she lived from 1991 and was the first person to introduce belly dancing in Sicily. Sabah has been able, through her

   innovative interpretations and the grace of her performances, to demonstrate widely her ability and has developed a

   repertoire of work comprised of various types of dances that are unified under the term "Oriental / Eastern Dance.

Some of the various types of authentic Eastern Dance performed by Sabah are:

•  Dance of Algeria "Detta Rasksat al Aasma" ( a dance of the more refined
  cultures of North Africa)

• Dance of the Seven Veils

• The Staff Dance

• Dance of the Candelabra.

• Dance of "Ouwled Nail"

• The Saharan Dance, (or The "Tuareg Dance")

• The Traditional dance of "North Africa"

As a Artist  Sabah has enjoyed success all over the world not because of the

sensation created by her dancers and her choreography but more by the grace of the dancers’

movements which suggest an atmosphere of magic and a celebration of life.

She has participated in numerous international festivals and cultural

demonstrations, has won the "Award for Merit" at the "Festival of Babylon"

in Iraq and has participated in various international television programmes

She has also  danced in many other  countries,  including Spain, France, Germany, Switzerland and Austria

and many Arabic land , with the Dance companys of Fuhais and Al Husson (Jordan), Shams, Fircat Adel,

Adnan Muhammad Mounir Hayzya (Egypt), Najma, Jawala, Takouba and Hagar (Tuareg), Hayzya and

many other artists from Algeria,  Ramjalah (Dubai),  Mouna Amari The shapes of the sand Musics di:Matteo Pittino

and Giovanni Sollimaand Fathi Al Karwi (Tunisia) and Nikos Toualitos (Greece).

She has also collaborated in productions in Italy and abroad with the Italian   singer "Franco Battiato" and

the Algerian singer "Cheb Khaled" e Mahmoud Said. She’s author of the opera "A Thousand and A Veil" which was performed

in Arabic, Italian and French at the Greek Theatre of   Taorminaduring "Tao Art 2004"

  The dancer  SABAH   BENZIADI is one of the few dancers and choreographers to take the presentation

  of Eastern  and Belly dance form  outside the conventional tourist  circuit and cabaret shows. 

  Through her performances and teaching she has respectfully represented the canons and traditions of

  the ancient dances of the Arabic world.At the end of the Stage course you will be presented with 

  a certificate from the Academy of Eastern Dances.