Jasmin’s teaching style is based on 20 years of experience and is heralded as excellent. She has earned many awards of recognition by her peers, including “Instructor of the Year” by Zaghareet Magazine.  Dance Teacher Magazine states “Jasmin Jahal takes the ancient art of Middle Eastern dance out of the restaurants and into the concert halls”. Worldwide, Jasmin conducts popular dance seminars at which students attend from near and far. She often appears on television in Europe and the U.S. Throughout the Midwest, she is often called upon to choreograph for various dance companies and museum exhibits, such as the Field Museum’s “Cleopatra” exhibit.

Jasmin lectures and performs in universities, cultural centers and arts festivals. Her home base is Chicago, where she directs the Windy City’s center for oriental dance, the Jasmin Jahal School of Dance. Under Jasmin’s guidance and instruction, this school has produced many talented professional oriental dancers and was honored by Chicago Magazine as a “Best of Chicago”.  Jasmin also produces award-winning instructional and performance videotapes and DVDs for educational and entertainment purposes. In her spare time, she researches and writes articles about her art form, and directs the Jasmin Jahal Dance Company.

Instructional themes include:

• Classical oriental dance
• Egyptian baladi
• Interpretive oriental fusion
• The mysterious veil
• Super shimmies & hip articulation
• Better Bellies
• Isis Wings
• Understanding Arabic rhythms
• Stick dance / El Assaya
• Ghawazee
• Melaya,
• Taxim - music and instrumental
  interpretation
• Finger cymbals / Sagat
• Pharoanic
• Ballet for belly dancers
• Floorwork - exotic, not erotic
• Candelabra / El Shamedan
• How to choreograph for yourself
  and your troupe
• Isolation, stretching &
  strengthening exercises
• Spins & turns
• Choreography for all levels,
  solo and group
• How to perform improvisational dance.

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