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Monica Raqs: San Francisco Baladi Dance

Monica Raqs: San Francisco Baladi Dance
26 Seventh Street 5th Floor (c/o Lines Dance Center), San Francisco, CA 94112
Monica Raqs: San Francisco Baladi Dance
Tenderloin
26 Seventh Street 5th Floor (c/o Lines Dance Center)
Btwn Market & Stevenson St
San Francisco, California 94112

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Description

Monica Berini is a San Francisco, California based performer and
instructor who has been studying Egyptian dance and music since her
teens, with training in San Francisco, New York and Cairo. Monica has an
extensive performance history that includes improvisational solo work and award-winning choreographed troupe and company experience. Her soulful, musical, baladi solo dance style is rooted in 1960s through 1990s Cairo raqs sharqi, 20th-century Arab-, Turkish-, and Armenian-American diasporic belly dance, Egyptian raqs baladi, and Firqa Reda technique, with a strong foundation of folkloric roots (both staged and OTP: Of The People!), and a healthy curiosity about and love of dance and music.

Monica likes, performs, and teaches Egyptian, pan-Arab, and Old-School style “belly dance”. Music, cultural context, ongoing learning and respect for the roots are at the forefront of her artistic pursuits. This style provides Monica and her students with ‘farha’—never ending joy, which is at the  eart of the style.

She is a faculty member at Alonzo King’s Lines Dance Center in San Francisco where she teaches weekly group classes and which has been her studio home base since 2003.

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