Studio Sahra Saeeda / Sahra C Kent

03/19/2025

Are you interested in sponsoring the 20-hour weekends of "Journey through Egypt" JtE-1 and JtE-2?
♦️ They are fun, informative workshops with classroom, dance, costumes of the regions of Egypt, video, worksheets and maps!
Ready to learn in depth Egyptian folkloric dance? Or understand why different teachers teach many different ways to dance the different regions? Or just want to nerd out?

♦️ For sponsors to book JtE-1 and JtE-2 should contact me and I will send you information.
🌴 Yesterday I was working on setting dates with sponsors who had already contacted me.
🌴 Today I start talking with potential future sponsors.
♦️Message me here at my Facebook profile address - or - by email.
Then I can send you the contract information by email.
[email protected]

04/07/2024

I made this page in 2021 as it looked like I would only be teaching online. I am thankful that I am starting to travel and teach live in person. Currently I am updating this site to highlight upcoming sponsored classes, JtE intensives, and Study/Tours in Egypt.

04/07/2024

"Sahra Kent (a.k.a Sahra Saeeda) studied Dance Ethnology at UCLA, during which time she spent 6 years in Egypt researching and writing her master’s thesis on the zeffah...
Over 20 years later, her yearly research continues, and you’ve found the place where she shares it. From accounts of her time in Egypt to ethnological discussions of the dance zones of the country and the different “tables” of dance to be found there..."

You’ve learned the dance (or at least you’re starting too), but what about the history? The culture? The people? Shouldn’t we know just as much about those things as the […]

04/07/2024

🔺 JtE in 13 countries & 19 States "Journey through Egypt"!

📔 88 "JtE-1" (20 hour classroom) in 12 countries: USA, Germany, Canada, Austria, Switzerland, Italy, Japan, Czech Republic, Jakarta, Australia, New Zealand, Taiwan (listed in chronological order).
And in 19 States: California, Iowa, Pennsylvania, Washington DC, Louisiana, Florida, Texas, Alaska, Missouri, Arizona, No. Carolina, Colorado, Washington, Illinois, Ohio, Oregon, Oklahoma, Massachusetts, New York (in chronological order).
📒 60 "JtE-2" (20 hour classroom) Classroom since 2009.
🔹 18 "JtE-3" Study/Tours in Cairo, Egypt.
🔹 18 "JtE-4" Study/Tours in Upper Egypt.
🔹 2 "JtE-5" Study/Tours in Suez Canal, Egypt.

❓ Have you experienced "JtE"?
"Journey through Egypt" classrooms and Egyptian Tours by Sahra C Kent / Sahra Saeeda

07/08/2023

Starting tomorrow 1-3pm PST!
“Raqs Sharqi” (“BellyDance”) Online.
https://fb.me/e/godNYBFMN
We start July 8 with the roots of Raqs Sharqi dance as it was done by Awalem in Cairo as they performed in their sponsor’s homes, for weddings and festivities! Then in the newly developed “Sala” (small theaters) dancers worked with dancers outside their own groups and were influenced, developing the fusion that became “Raqs Sharqi” (Arabic for “Dance of the East”.�
Event page: https://fb.me/e/godNYBFMN
Not prepared to Zoom tomorrow? No problem, each recording is viewable for a week!
We will also have 45-minute Drill class on this subject.
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