This international spanish born BellyDancer amazes the audiences with her deeply traditional Egyptian Belly Dance techniques including ancient moves such as the split, the arch and the Belly moves. Amora’s mother was the 1st Spanish BellyDancer in Spain and the 1st one who brought musicians from abroad, therefore Amora grew up surrounded by the firsts BellyDancers and arabian Musicians in Spain. While Amora was studing the career of Classical Ballet at the Professional Conservatory of Dance since 1989, in year 1993 Amora started to join her mother Sahar Samara (Alia Shams*) classes, who also brought back to Spain the forgotten Al-Andalus culture from Morocco and Egypt on the early 1980’s. 

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*  The mother of Amora Shams, had the Artistic name of Sahar Samara since 1982 until 1992, and in 1992 her egyptian public re-bautizied her into Alia Shams that in Arabic means "the sun in the high". Nowadays in Egypt, more than 25 years after, some egyptians still remember her while she was dancing in Egypt in years 1982-85.

Amora started to Belly Dance at the age of 8 years old, but didn't dance in public places until she was 17 years old. 

The first venue where Amora danced publicly was in the Egyptian restaurant Jan el Jalili, in Sevilla, Spain (1993).

Since then she has been mainly dancing in Egypt, Morocco, Paris, London & all around Spain. 

1993-1995 - Dance assistant of Alia Shams, at Studios Posición Cero and at a Flamenco dance studio in Nervión both in Seville, Spain. While dancing in Suarets all around Spain next to Alia Shams

1993-1994 - Jan el Jalili (Sevilla - Spain) & the Egyptian restuarant Los Faraones ("The Pharaoh", Arcos de la Frontera, Cadiz - Spain).

   

1994/95/96 - Jaima de Caños de Meca (Cádiz - Spain) with live music and Los Faraones Egyptian restaurant. In 1996 Amora started to use the arch as it is in the Antique 7,000 year old pharaoh drawings of Egyptian dancers described on the temples

 

From 1995 to 1999 - Dance teacher at the "Academy of Arabic Dance Alia Shams", Seville, Spain.

1997-1998 - Sijilmassa andalusí palace restaurant & the Sheraton Hotel (Casablanca – Morocco). With live music

From March to July 1998 a Culture production in the Reales Alcázares de Seville (Palace) as Teacher, Choreographer and Dancer, specialist in Al-Andalus dance (Sevilla – Spain).  European tour England, France, Switzerland, Germany dancing in parties and some restaurants as Omar Kayan in London. Elisèes Liban I, Baalbeck Washington and Fakhr el Dine restaurants (Paris- France). With live music

 1999-2000 - For her experience as Dancer, Teacher and Choreographer, Amora became Equity Member of the Professional Association of Dance (Madrid - Spain). Riad Salam Moroccan restaurant (Marbella - Málaga) Spain. With live music. Abohamed Egyptian restaurant (London - UK). With live music

2001-2002 - Greek restaurant Elysee, the Moroccan Safir, and some parties in other restaurants like the Egyptian Abohamed, the Greek Apollonia  & the Iraqi Baghdad. Mostly with live music. (London - UK). 

2002-2003 - Al-Diwan Syrian restaurant and Assafir Jordanian restaurant (Barcelona – Spain). Dance teacher at Kundalini Yoga, Masala Centre, Dance teacher and choreographer at School of Dance Nuria, master dance teacher at Arsenal 5* Gymnasium, Barcelona, Spain. Dance teacher at Atenas Gymnasium, master dance teacher at Spejos, 5* Gym  Puerto Banus, Marbella, Malaga, Spain.

2003-2004 - London restaurants: Greek restaurant Apollonia, Argelian Al-Casbah and Greek Alexander the Great. While teaching in different dance schools in London such us 02 Centre and Expressions Studios, Amora collaborated also with her students in Charity events for NGO organisations such as Marie Curie Cancer Care,..Dancing daily at Efes II, Turkish restaurant at Great Portland Street and the Turkish restaurant Mazic (London - UK).

August 2005 - Amora moves to Spain. Amora organizes the 1st Festival of Oriental Dance in Almuñécar, that took place on the 7th July 2006, all benefits went to Alzheimer Almuñécar Association. This Festival was reduced into about 1h show with Amora students, Alia Shams

Amora. 2005-2007 - Amora was dancing every weekend in the original Arabic Castle in Almuñécar as a Al-Andalus dancer for the Al-Andalus Government, Amora keeps teaching dance, organizing workshops bringing students from abroad and providing intensive private lessons to students who require this option.  Performing also in the Egyptian Restaurant “Cleopatra Palace” near Marbella - Spain. 

2008 - 2009 - Amora moves to Cairo, Egypt, where she gets in contact with the legends of Oriental Dance, Amora speciality. Amora continues teaching and dancing, but now from the birth of Belly Dancing, Egypt. She dances in Weddings and 5 * Hotels like Sheraton Hotel in Sharm el Sheikh, Egypt.  And also dances as folkloric egyptian dancer and oriental belly dancer with two international dance troups: "Derviches del Cairo" and with "Shiko Show Company".  Seen on two national egyptian television programs and two international   Festivals, Dahab Dance Festival & Sakia El Sawy Charity Festival. Nowadays students from all around the world comes to study and become professional bellydancers with Amora where ever she is, either Spain, Morocco or Egypt. 

2010-2011 Amora works internationally between Spain and Egypt teaching and dancing in different events including appearing in the National Public TV of Egypt, Channel 2 and other channels, making shows in egyptian Weddings and parties in 5*Hotels. She performs at the Arabian Discotheque in Barcelona Al Leil, and at Marraquesh Disco in Castelldefels, and at Haram Disco in Barcelona all of them with live musicians.
While she teaches women from all over the world including Egyptians to form them to become Professional BellyDancers in 1 month, in a Very Intensive Unique Belly Dance Course that she created called the "60hBDC".

At the end of 2011 the UNESCO finally after 20 years of teaching and dancing experience,
Amora Shams become entitled to provide
Professional BellyDance Teacher and Professional Belly Dance Performer Certificates
which are recognised in more than 150 countries around the world by all these goverments.

2012 - Nowadays Amora Shams it's based in Spain but keeps her link with Egypt and Egyptians for special events,
while she performs and teaches in Costa del Sol, Malaga. If you for any chance see one of these 3 posters,
means she will be dancing in that place!