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DANCE STUDIO



When the studio was founded by Beata Zadou (now Cifuentes) it was the first of its kind in Berlin at this time. Many if not most of Berlin´s dancers/teachers have been trained here.

The dance room has 150 m2,
a beautiful swing parquet floor,
15 meter mirror wall and no pillars!
Tanzsaal Tanzakademie Cifuentes


In addition to the weekly classes we offer workshops with INTERNATIONAL TEACHERS.

In the past our guests were:

From Egypt
Mahmoud Reda, Madame Farida Fahmy, Madame Raqia Hassan, Aida Nour, Tito, Diana Tarkhan, Samasem, Madame Tahia Carioca, Lubna Eman, Mohamed Khazafy, Khaled Mahmoud, Mohammed Khalil, Momo Kadous, Hassan Afifi, Professor Hassan Khalil

From Argentina
Amir Thaleb

From Denmark
Anna Barner

From Germany
Magdy El-Leisy, Aladin El-Kholy, Zahra, Cihangir Gümüstürkmen, Manis, Rita Sherif, Badr El Ramah, Sahela, Reyhan, Leyla Nahrawess, Magdy Youns, Scheherezade

From France
Malika Bakbouk, Lolie Vernet, Leyla Haddad

From India
Sudarsana Kumar

From Persia
Soraya, Hossein Fayazpour

From the US
Rachel Brice, Kami Liddle, Jillina, Dondi, Virginia Mendez, Sahra Saeeda, Shareen el Safy, Bert Balladine, Angelika Nemeth, Amaya, Kathryn Fergusson, Zarefah, Afritah, Julia Rigler



We are proud to present the result of many years of research and training:

in 2008 the first group of CATT = Certified Academic Teacher's Training started!

37 ladies from 14 countries registered for the first semester !

--> Please find more information about the 2-year-programme at 'CATT'



In 2008 we celebrated our 5th anniversary of the SUMMER FESTIVAL. Every year in June we present our summer festival with many workshops, parties, a show gala, the popular Raks Sharqi Contest (categories are "semi-professional", "group" and "professional"), grand basar and more.

In 2008 we were proud hosts to about 250 participants from 18 nations! Beata & Horacio had the pleasure to introduce as jury the Tribal Queen Rachel Brice, Virginia Mendez, Khaled Mahmoud and last year´s winner Lolie Vernet!

Our esteemed judges in the past years were:

2004:
Mahmoud Reda, Madame Farida Fahmy, Samasem (Egypt)

2005:
Amir Thaleb (Argentina), Virginia Mendez (USA), Anna Barner (Denmark, winner 2004)

2006:
Tito (Egypt), Dondi (USA), Malika Bakbouk (France, winner 2005)

2007:
Rachel Brice (USA), Mohamed Khazafy (Egypt), Cihangir Gümüstürkmen (Germany/Turkey)

--> Summer Festival 2006

--> Summer Festival 2007

--> Summer Festival 2008

For 2009 (June 25-28) we have plans for an exciting -almost- all male pannel of judges and teachers!!!!

Confirmed names so far are:

Jim Boz (USA)
Khaled Mahmoud (Egypt)
Shafeek Ibrahim (Egypt)
Sudarsana Kumar (Kerala/India)
winner of 2008 Lucie Pascalis (France)
- and of course Beata & Horacio

More names to come!!!!!!!!!!!!!!