Book Elizabeth For Workshops In Your City:

Elizabeth is honored to travel & work with event producers in our belly dance industry to bring high quality & professional specialty workshops for dancers of all levels. Options include, but are not limited to: single workshops, two plus workshops, or a workshop and show package (public shows, haflas etc). Elizabeth is also happy to connect with students in your local area for private lessons. Let’s connect & discuss your upcoming specialty workshop, guest teacher, intensive weekend or belly dance festival offerings. Email: dancebyelizabeth@gmail.com to get started!

Elizabeth’s Workshop Topics:

-Improvisation Strategies (can also be taught in two parts with Choreography Creation workshop as well)

-Dare To Drum Solo

-Transform Your Shimmies

-Take Flight: Veil & Wings

-Extend & Flow: Arms and Hands

-Yalla Bina: A Cairo Style Party (Lead Follow dance workshop to Cairo’s top hits)

Book A Special Event Workshop:

Are you interested in booking a special belly dance workshop for your bachelorette, birthday, girl’s night, staff bonding, wellness fair, college group, or another special event? Elizabeth loves working with clients to design fun & engaging workshops that will get guests of all levels moving & smiling.

Email dancebyelizabeth@gmail.com to inquire today!

Book Private Lessons:

Elizabeth offers private lessons & coaching for a range of topics within Raqs Sharqi (belly dance) including: technique, musicality, improvisation, choreography, expression & stage presence, upper body/hands, drum solo, show design, competition prep, exploring a professional belly dance career and so much more!

Email dancebyelizabeth@gmail.com to set up a consultation today!

Elizabeth’s Teaching & Training Experience

Elizabeth has been teaching the art of Raq Sharqi (belly dance) for eleven years.  She began co-teaching and choreographing for the UMass Amherst Belly Dance Club in 2015. She has taught ongoing group classes of multiple levels in Dartmouth, Fall River, Swansea, and Westport, MA as well as throughout MA, RI, CT, & NH for specialty events & workshops. She also works with dancers for private lessons spanning topics like technique, improvisation, musicality, competition prep, and choreography while also providing insight & assistance to dancers interested in performing professionally.

Elizabeth is currently coached by internationally acclaimed belly dancer Amanda Rose based in Barcelona https://www.amandarosedance.com She has also been coached by Chudney of Florida and belly dance superstar founding member, Amar Garcia of MA. She is incredibly grateful to them for their help in her development as a dancer and continues to take classes with them whenever possible. Elizabeth also completed training & performed in Jillina’s BDexperience in 2023 for “The Wizard of Oz,” show in Boston as a member of the ensemble/understudy lead for the Tinman.

Elizabeth is very dedicated to continuing dance study. She traveled to Cairo, Egypt in April 2026 where she studied with professional Egyptian instructors Radwa Khalil, Ahmed Refaat, & Sharihan. She is certified in parts 1 & 2 of Sahra Saeeda’s Journey Through Egypt (JtE) for which she completed forty hours of Egyptian folkloric dance and cultural study in Seattle, Washington. Elizabeth is dedicated to training with instructors of MENAHT (Middle Eastern, North-African, Hellenic, & Turkish) origin. She has trained with: Radwa Khalil (Egypt), Ahmed Refaat (Egypt), Sharihan (Egypt), Dina Talaat (Egypt), Tito Seif (Egypt), Mohamed Ghareb (Egypt), Tommy King (Egypt), Zara (Egypt), Karim Nagi (Egypt), Lebanese Simon (Lebanon),  Didem (Turkey), Samir Hussain (Egypt), Jacques AlAsmar (Lebanon), Khadijah (KSA), Azad Kaan (Turkey), Issam Houshan (Syria), Pierre Khoury (Syria) and Alia Thabit (USA). She has also studied with a number of instructors from Italy, Brazil, Poland, Russia, Mexico, Argentina, Japan, the Netherlands and the U.S.

Cultural knowledge is very important to Elizabeth. As such, her classes do not merely focus on movement, but also on cultural knowledge about the regions from which Raqs Sharqi comes from. She continues to attend a number of lectures annually by MENAHT and non-MENAHT origin dancers alike to ensure that she stays up-to-date on important cultural context. She also holds a certificate in Egyptian Art & Archaeology from Harvard University.