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Amira Hamzar, winner of the 2007 Michigan Renaissance Festival’s Middle Eastern Dance Competition, is a dance instructor and performer whose home base is Beledi Global Dance & Boutique in Traverse City Michigan (www.BelediGlobalDanceCenter.com). She and her troupe the Dancers of the Rising Phoenix have performed throughout Michigan, including opening for Axiom of Choice and are currently expanding to outside their home state.

Amira teaches and performs dance forms other than Cabaret and Tribal Bellydance including Polynesian, Masala Bhangra and African as well as Bellydance fusions like Pop Raks and Rak-a-Billy. Not only is she the director of the Dancers of the Rising Phoenix, she is also the main Facilitator of the Traverse City Chapter of PURE, the Public Urban Ritual Experiment. PURE is a different kind of dance troupe that focuses on raising money and awareness for charity while educating the public as to what the ancient art of Bellydance truly is and was co-founded in New York City by Darshan (www.DarshanDances.com) and Kaeshi Chai of Bellyqueen (www.Bellyqueen.com) and the Bellydance Superstars (www.BellydanceSuperstars.com).

Amira has been fortunate to have learned from many of the Bellydance Superstars as well as other instructors from both the states and around the globe. Her goal is to pass on all that she has learned and bless others as she has been blessed through dance. Bellydance can be healing on many levels including physical, emotional and spiritual and Amira wishes to give the gift of this magickal transformation to all who seek it. Bellydance has brought many blessings to Amira including the opportunity to perform in the Bellyqueen show when they came to Traverse City in 2007.

As all instructors are consummate students, Amira is currently expanding her dance and music repertoire and is learning Clogging and how to play the Riq (tambourine).