| Helene
(Norway) |
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Helene of Norway is one of the
leading bellydancers and oriental choreographers in Norway. She
is also one of the dancers that make the group Divas of Bellydance,
a professional dance troupe that perform for the norwegian elite
and tour the contry shocasing arabic, turkish and other oriental
dance traditions in a glamourous way. Helene started as an
oriental dancer in 1998 performing at all the regular hotspots
for bellydance in Oslo, Norway. After teaching in for seven years
she opened the doors to Studio Orient, the largest oriental dance
studio in Norway, in 2004. She organizes the Oslo Oriental
Dance Festival aswell as the only bellydance competition
in Norway, Dancer of the Year. |
| She is currently one of
the most media covered dancers in Norway and has made appearances
on the first season of the Norwegian So You Think You Can Dance,
Charmschool (Sjarmørskolen) and Identity (Hvem er Hvem) on
Tv Norge, aswell as the Norwegian "Dancing with the stars"
(Skal Vi Danse) on TV2. She has previously worked as a dancer in
Turkey and has 20 years experience as a danceinstructor and 18 years
experience in oriental dance. Helene works with several other dancers
and musicians and is the first bellydancer in Norway to have two
oriental music albums dedicated to her dance, "Helenes raks
sharki" and "Helenes raks sharki vol 3" by Mustapha
Dahir Orchestra. She has also made the first instructional dvd with
Norwegian speach, "Magedans med Helene". Helene has performed
and given workshops worldwide in countries such as Norway, Sweden,
Germany, Singapore, USA, UK, Turkey |
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