Amora Shams a dancer of the Old School of BellyDance
Biography
We could divide Amora Shams career in different stages:
1st – Daughter & asistant of Alia Shams since 1982-1993, meanwhile she gets formed in the hard discipline of Classical Ballet career in the Professional Conservatory of Dance in Spain, studying 10 years in full-time basis, 5 hours per day Monday to Friday.
2nd – First dancing years between Spain, England, France & Morocco 1993-99
3rd – Career between London & Barcelona 2000-2005
4th – More than 3.3 Million visits on her YouTube Videos from 2007
5th – Dancing and teaching in Egypt since end of 2007
6th – Creating the BBDC in 2008 and focusing into create professional BellyDancers in record time in Egypt
7th – in 2011 the CID which is UNESCO World Dance Certifcations department, recognizes Amora Shams as Professor in BellyDance and her BBDC becomes Worldwide recognised with the extra course known as BQBDTC “Become Qualified BellyDance Teacher Course” to get qualified as a BellyDance Teacher.
Amora Shams is a bellydance instructor who has been performing Bellydance since 1993 publicly, and privately at her home since the early 80’s, as her mom Alia Shams (Sahar Samara) was one of the pioneer Spanish BellyDancers of Spain, Amora grew up between the first Arabian Musicians, Arabian Singers, and other Spanish BellyDancers of Spain.
Amora Shams grew up since childhood loving, respecting and defending the Arab world, life style, culture, people, tradition, music and of course, the different dances of Middle East, due that her mom (Alia Shams) will play the VHS videos she brought from her trips to Egypt (as Alia also performed in Cairo – Egypt known on those times as Sahar Samara), and also because her mom installed at home the Arabian Satellites since late 1980’s, so Amora grew up watching the Egyptian BellyDancers that will appear on the movies sporadically at the Egyptian International Channel that in that moment had a golden eagle logo, a part of enjoying Folkloric dances from the Arabian Golf, Syria, Lebanon and Turkey, growing into the Dervish Style of Arabian Dance, the Dance of the Soul style.
Amora’s mom is her Master BellyDance Teacher, and this is the reason why Amora become so good dancer, because everywhere she perfomed, specially public from any Arabian countries they said to her several times that “she was the best”, because her style is very pure Traditional Egyptian Style, as if she grew up in Egypt. In actual fact, many of her Arabian public during her dance career, came to talk to her to congratulate her after watching her performance thinking that she was Arabian, and surprcied found out that she was Spanish.
Some Places she performed
Egyptian Restaurant Jan el Jalili
September 1993 until June 1994 · Seville, Spain
Egyptian Restaurant Los Faraones
1994 to 1995 · Arcos de la Frontera, Spain
La Jaima de Los Caños De Meca
Augusts 1995, 96 & 97 · Barbate, Spain
Arabian Nightclub Barracuda
September 1996 · Marbella, Spain
Arabian Sijilmassa Restaurant
July until September 1997 · Casablanca, Morocco
Sheraton 5* Hotels & Resorts
August 1997 · Casablanca, Morocco
Al Andalus Royal Alcázar of Seville
as Specialist in Al Andalus Dance
From March till July 1998 · Seville, Spain
Egyptian Omar Kayan Cafe
July 1998 · London, United Kingdom
Arabian Nightclub Fantasia
July 1998 · London, United Kingdom
Lebanese Restaurant Elisèes Liban I
From August until September 1998 · Paris, France
Lebanese Restaurant Fakhr el Dine
From August until September 1998 · Paris, France
Lebanese Restaurant Baalbeck Washington
From August until September 1998 · Paris, France
Moroccan Restaurant Riad Salam
From July until September 1999 · Marbella, Spain
Egyptian Restaurant Abohamed
September 2000 until June 2001· London, United Kingdom
Greek Restaurant Elysee
September 2001 until June 2002 · London, United Kingdom
Moroccan Restaurant Safir
September 2001 until June 2002 · London, United Kingdom
Iraqi Restaurant Baghdad
September 2001 until June 2002 · London, United Kingdom
Jordanian Restaurant Assafir
September 2002 until June 2003 · Barcelona, Spain
Syrian Restaurant Al Diwan
September 2002 until June 2003 · Barcelona, Spain
Greek Apollonia Restaurant
September 2003 until June 2004 · London, United Kingdom
Algerian Restaurant Al-Casbah
September 2003 until June 2004 · London, United Kingdom
Greek Restaurant Alexander the Great
September 2003 until June 2004 · London, United Kingdom
Turkish Restaurant Efes I & Efes II
September 2003 until June 2004 · London, United Kingdom
Turkish Restaurant Mazic
September 2004 until June 2005 · London, United Kingdom
Arabian Restaurant Omar Khayan
& Dharababa Cultural Center
August 2003 until August 2004 · Almuñécar, Spain
Arabian Historical Castle of Almuñécar
August 2007 · Almuñécar, Spain
Egyptian Restaurant Felfela
راقص فنون شعبية dancer Egyptian folklor · December 2007 to January 2008 · Giza, Egypt
Sheraton Sharm 5* Hotel, Resort, Villas & Spa
September 2008 · Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt
Egyptian Sheko Show Company
October 2008 until June 2009 · Giza, Egypt
International Disco Habana
April until June 2010 · Marbella, Spain
Arabian Disco Marrakech
November 2010 until January 2011 · Castelldefels, Spain
Arabian Disco El Leil
November 2010 until January 2011 · Barcelona, Spain
Arabian Disco Haram
December 2010 until January 2011 · Barcelona, Spain
Disco Buddha Marbella
In 2012 · Marbella, Spain
Events for Royal Saudi Arabia Family
In 2013 · Marbella, Spain
Also performed in Company & Town events, Birthdays & Weddings
in Egypt, UK & Spain
Some Places she Taught
Arabian Dance School of Alia Shams
Assistant of BellyDance Teacher Alia Shams · 1993 to 1995 · Seville, Spain.
First own BellyDance classes as a teacher · 1995 to 2000 · Seville, Spain
Escuela de Danza Nuria
BellyDance Instructor · 2002 to 2003 · Barcelona, Spain
Arsenal Femenino Barcelona
First BellyDance Teacher at this 5* Female Gym with 50 students per class · 2002 to 2003 · Barcelona, Spain
Kundalini Yoga
BellyDance Instructor · 2002 to 2003 · Barcelona, Spain
Club Masala Bollywood Dance
BellyDance Instructor · 2002 to 2003 · Barcelona, Spain
Expressions Studios
BellyDance Instructor · 2003 to 2005 · London, United Kingdom
O2 Center Finchly Road
BellyDance Instructor · 2003 to 2005 · London, United Kingdom
Gimnasio Atenas
BellyDance Instructor · July to September 2003 · Marbella, Spain
Gimnasio Spejos
BellyDance Instructor · July to September 2003 · Marbella, Spain
Mayte Gym
BellyDance Instructor · 2005 to 2006 · Almuñécar, Spain
Dharababa Cultural Center
BellyDance Instructor · August 2006 to August 2007 · Almuñécar, Spain
Buddha Marbella Centro
BellyDance Instructor · In 2012 · Marbella, Spain
Become Belly Dancer School
Founder, main teacher and Director · 2008 to present · Nazlet El Simmân, Giza, Egypt
Teaching the BBDC since 2008 mainly in Egypt, USA and Spain.
Equity Member of the International Certification Program
Since 2011 Amora Shams provides with International Certification Levels in BellyDance.