Director - JosIE Palermo
Director Josie Palermo has decades of local and international experience in middle eastern dance and is proud to work with the best dancers and musicians in Melbourne. Josie has conducted classes and various short term workshops in Arabic dance in Melbourne and Regional Victoria for many years. Her credits include television appearances; All Together Now (Endolmole Shine for 7 Network), Sale of the Century (GTV 9), Red Light in Full Flight (SBS), Denise Show (7 network) and Ocean Girl (Jonathon Shift Productions), Jimmy Christo music video, and major festivals and events including the Melbourne Food and Wine Festival, Moomba, Melbourne Fringe and Melbourne Arts Festival and the Lebanese Festival.
Josie has conducted courses for people at all levels of Middle Eastern Dance, Seventh Veil, Hawthorn and Strut Studio, Richmond. Josie also conducts speciality workshops for advanced students featuring sword and veil work, and folkloric dance.
All our dancers are internationally trained and have worked in 100s of shows wowing audiences and providing the ultimate in family entertainment. We also collaborate with talented world music band Jadida and the best drummers and only dabke group in Melbourne, The Lebanese Dancers for Peace with Audi Younes Platinum events and Productions.
As part of its mission to create high quality and culturally authentic middle eastern performance experiences for a range of audiences and clients, Melbourne Bellydance is also proud to offer classes and workshops through our school, StrutStudio
Josie has conducted courses for people at all levels of Middle Eastern Dance, Seventh Veil, Hawthorn and Strut Studio, Richmond. Josie also conducts speciality workshops for advanced students featuring sword and veil work, and folkloric dance.
All our dancers are internationally trained and have worked in 100s of shows wowing audiences and providing the ultimate in family entertainment. We also collaborate with talented world music band Jadida and the best drummers and only dabke group in Melbourne, The Lebanese Dancers for Peace with Audi Younes Platinum events and Productions.
As part of its mission to create high quality and culturally authentic middle eastern performance experiences for a range of audiences and clients, Melbourne Bellydance is also proud to offer classes and workshops through our school, StrutStudio
Josies Philosophy on Middle Eastern Dance
Middle Eastern dance is an art form that evokes the cultural context within which it was developed. It is fundamentally linked to the emotional expectations of the audience that views it - the dancer becomes a vessel for the expression of emotions that are often suppressed, inaccessible and transient. For a dancer like myself, who is Australian born of Italian immigrants, to learn the dance is to learn the culture, and to interpret that through my own ethnicity as best as I can.
What emerges is an authentic style respectful of the thousands of years of tradition that has gone before me. I embellish the movements to embrace a western theatrical style, which leans towards Danse Orientale. The music I use ranges from traditional Arabic songs to the new pop music sweeping the Arabic world today.
What emerges is an authentic style respectful of the thousands of years of tradition that has gone before me. I embellish the movements to embrace a western theatrical style, which leans towards Danse Orientale. The music I use ranges from traditional Arabic songs to the new pop music sweeping the Arabic world today.
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We have hand picked the best Belly dancers in Melbourne. Our dancers are culturally authentic, with many years of training in Egypt, Lebanon and Turkey behind them. We are able to perform culturally specific dance styles with the appropriate types of costuming for community events.
Our dancers have been featured on Australian TV, British TV, they have competed in international Belly dance titles and know how to wow your audience.
We work with the best drummers and dancers in Melbourne. If you are looking to hire belly dancers and drummers for your event, then we can create the perfect package for you. Hire a professional Belly dancer for your party today!