Spotlight Dancer/Troupe
Viviane

Tragetory

Nobody said it would be easy... 

"Coming from a different country I knew that to make things easier in this country I would better stick with the thing I loved the most....Belly Dance. I feel really proud to have followed my passion, things are not always easy, but that only makes you want to accomplish more and more...."

Viviane is a passionate multi Award Winning Professional Dancer and accomplished Instructor that spend her time between Brazil and the US. She dedicates her life to pursue the Traditional Egyptian Belly Dance Style or “Raks Sharq”, while incorporating Fusion elements and without distancing herself from the Dance origins. 

A pioneer in College Station and Bryan, Texas, she moved from Brazil in the Fall of 2002 to accompany her husband on his graduate studies. Since then, Viviane started organizing the Fall & Spring Belly Dance Recitals & Shows and initiated the Belly Dance Program at the Texas A&M University.

With over 100 students every semester and a busy performance schedule, Viviane manages to organize one of the largest Belly Dance Recital & Shows in Texas. With an outstanding audience that averages 300 people, and over 50 dancers, her past 7 Recitals & Shows, are a must for any dancer enthusiast and a treat for the community. 

Viviane has extensive training from World renowned artists such as Mahmoud Reda, Raqia Hassan, Farida Fahmi, Dr. Mo Gedawi, Randa Kamel, Faten Salama, Aida Nour, Nagwa Fouad and Fifi Abdo. Brazilian Dancers Camelia, and Ana Aidar with whom she started her Belly Dance journey. Nourhan Sharif, Jillina,  Morocco, Karim Nagi, Hadia from Canada, Zahra Zuhair, Helena Vlahos, and Syrian Singer and Dancer Zein Al-Jundi, director of the Bint El Balad Ensemble, which Viviane was part upon arriving in the US. Her vast dance background includes Jazz, Latin Dances such as Salsa, Flamenco, Indian Classical Dance Bharatanatyam, Hula, Samba and Afro-Brazilian Dances.

Trip to Seoul Korea

I loved Seoul!
It was a fascinating experience!
I was invited by the Korean Belly Dance Association to be a judge of the 1st World Belly Dance Competition in Seoul. There I also taught a seminar to over 100 dancers and performed to a big audience complete with ambassadors, politicians, artists. With me there was Angelika Nemeth of California and Alexandros from Greece.

The gymnasium of the event was huge, the sound and light were state of the art, and the stage was a dream, with huge screens to watch whoever was on stage. Things that we don't see here in the US, where Belly Dance events do not have sponsors to support it. In that event there were dancers from all over Korea and also, China, Taiwan, Japan, US, Canada and many others. Most of the local dancers were young, as young as 3 years old!!! Cute little belly dancers with full costumes! Most were student of the organizer Ahn Yo Jin.

There were a lot of Cabaret, Egyptian but also lots of Tribal. All the styles had an incredible influence of the their culture, in the costumes, props and even movements. 
Dancers were well informed about Belly Dance Community in the US and everywhere else and were eager to show their dances. 

Recent Career Highlights

2007 
IBDC Competition Fusion Champion 
Workshop & Show in Porto Alegre, Brazil
Belly Dancer of the Universe Fusion Champion
Belly Dancer of the Universe Finalist - Egyptian Category
Belly Dancer of the universe Congeniality Award
Awarded Best Instructor from Texas A&M REC Center

2006 
International Academy of Middle East Dance Show in Los Angeles , CA.
Belly Dance o Rama DVD produced by IAMED
Instructor of the year Texas A&M University Rec Center
Workshop in Santa Catarina, Brazil

2005
Queen of Raks Sharqi Competition - 1st Runner up
Performance at the Houston International Festival

To contact Viviane:
email: bellydanceart@yahoo.com
website: http://www.vivibellydance.com/

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