A-Z Instructor Profile - Mardi 'Samira' Lockhart
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Name | Mardi Samira Lockhart |
| Location | Cairns, North Queensland, Australia | |
| Birthday | 11th April | |
| Contact | Email:
beachesbellydance@hotmail.com
Website: www.beachesbellydance.com.au Phone: 07 4057 2330 |
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| Dance Classes & Information |
Monday to Saturday at Synergy Studios, 48 Johanna St Trinity Park Beginners to Advanced Performance classes. | |
| Mardi's
Biography Mardi Samira is a professional bellydancer, choreographer and teacher who started her bellydance career in 1990. She has studied with some of the great masters of Belly Dance, attending dance workshops with Ibrahim Farrah, Mo Geddawi, Aisha Ali, Aida Nor, Ashraf Mahdy, Tereska, and Keti Sharif. Mardi also has qualifications in Gymnastic Coaching and Judging. Her interest in solo dance, and dances of the East, however, led her to study Dance Orientale, in its many forms including costuming with a degree from QIT in costume design. Still belly dancing at the same restaurant she began at 15 years ago, Mardi's speciality is Greek Restaurant dancing. She has danced in many countries, and has travelled extensively, including Egypt, where she studied with Keti Sharif. Presently Mardi has her own Bellydance School, Beaches Belly Dance, in Cairns, Australia, and has been teaching for 10 years. Mardi has also developed the Professional Wavedancers and Bellilishus Dance Troupes. In her school she uses the A-Z method extensively. Mardi also manages Synergy Studios at which her school resides, where she also conducts other exercise classes for women, including Yoga, Mediation & Pilates. Each year she convenes the Egypt and Beyond Festival, with dancers from all over North Queensland attending. As part of her on going commitment to the dance she also conducts Rhythm and Dance workshops with Parisian rhythms master Nasser Selimi, and she also organises personal Bellydance tours to Egypt and Paris each year. |
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