Both photos by Stuart Barrett

With a captivating smile and shimmis that seem like a minor earthquake - few dancers improvise and entertain an audience like Khaled does. He has quickly made himself a name both as a mesmerizing dancer and a respected sought-after teacher all over the world.

Khaled has performed and taught all over the world, he is a very patient and warm teacher, his Edinburgh workshops often sell out.  He runs trips to Cairo with dancers each year for costume buying/tuition and touristing.  He also runs the Egyptian Moonlight Tour & Show which is in Littlehampton this year with Workshops and a show with Asmahan and Lubna Eman, in previous years Aida Noor has come.

He likes the style of the old Belly Dancers Naima Akif, Tahia Carioca, Samia Gamal and all new style dancers.

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Edinburgh Belly Dance Divas weekend of workshops in November 2007 was a great success with a number of the workshops selling out.  Here are some of the participants comments & photographs of the weekend.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Comments on Khaled weekend workshop (Edinburgh)

“I thought the whole weekend was fantastic.  I liked the chance to do some thing different ie Meleya & Khaleegy.

I think Khaled is brilliant.  

 

I was inspired. Please bring him back.

Once again, thanks for organising these events.”

“Once again you manage to pick teachers who are not only amazing performers, but great teachers also—Khaled was great !”

 

 

Khaled teaches an Egyptian Dance inspired warm up

Khaled Edinburgh

November 2007—Review

Edinburgh Belly Dance Workshops, High Quality, Small Classes, World Class Teachers.

review of Khaleds last trip to Edinburgh

For me, it was the Melaya class that was the most memorable class this trip.  I had never liked this style of dance due to how you’ve got to keep the Meleya tucked under your armpit, and as someone who carried all their tension in the shoulders anyway, this is quite painful for me.  So I was overjoyed to see that Khaled had a different method for keeping the Meleya on, which involved folding it over and holding it near the forearm.  Much more relaxed.  It seems that this dance was made for someone like Khaled, as his ‘cheeky’ personality was allowed to flow out, and we all had a lot of fun in this class while swishing our veils around.  Half of us were using veils, and half had meleyas.  The students with the Meleyas were kind enough to suggest a swap over, so that us veil users could get a sample of what it was like to swing a Meleya around.  It was heavier and made me realise I’d like to buy one for next time.

 

But now that I’m thinking about it, the drum solo dance that Khaled did was also very good.  He has a way of presenting crisp movements that look really impressive, and then breaking them down so that they are really easy to do.

 

One student wrote to me after the Oriental Choreography class that this was her favourite class out of all the BellyDanceDivas workshop classes she has ever done.  High praise indeed.  I think for me it’s the natural style that Khaled has which is the key.  We’re dancing, spinning then moving on the foot that is free at the time.  If people get confused with the footwork, he often breaks it down saying “which foot is free?”.

 

Khaled did a demonstration for us when it looked like we were flagging, so he is dancing the whole time, including during the demo, and he never seems to tire !  It was a joy to see the whole dance put together—plus since there was no hafla it was the only chance people got to see Khaled in action. 

Review by Caroline of Bellydance Divas

Further review of Khaleds last trip to Edinburgh