 The
Gilded Serpent presents
Bert Balladine
Bert has been in show business
all of his life. He studied ballet and modern dance in Berlin and Paris
and Spanish dance in Madrid and Barcelona. He has performed and/or taught
in Europe, Africa, Asia, the Americas and Australia and New Zealand.
His introduction to Middle Eastern Dance was in Lebanon, then in Egypt,
where he was in contact with the late Samia Gamal and
Tahia Carioca, and he has worked with Nagwa
Fouad, Sohair Saki and other notable stars.
Before he began working in Middle Eastern Dance he was a recognized
personality in other dance venues, from opera to nightclub to musicals,
where he worked with Germany's most famous musical star, Marika
Roekk, and French star Josephine Baker. Now
he is best known for having made a contribution here and abroad in the
Oriental Dance field. His partnering of some of the most popular dance
stars is one of his many accomplishments.
Bert, semi-retired, resides
in the San Francisco Bay area on a ranch where he can indulge his passion
for horses and the country life.
Articles
on Gilded Serpent about and by Bert Balladine
8-15-07 Amina's
North Beach Memories Chapter 6: Bert, by Amina Goodyear
On my first Monday
at the Casa Madrid, Bert came to support the place and me. Well, what
he saw was equivalent to a San Francisco earthquake.
2-28-05
A Question of Style by Bert Balladine
Since
most of us have chosen Oriental Dance for the pleasure of doing it,
being a zealot about purity and ethnicity will just hamper getting the
fullest enjoyment out of the dance. 3-3-04
Bert and Amaya Workshop
Photos by Ed Lampo and Report by Monica
“He
makes you feel special and sexy!”, one participant was overheard
to exclaim.
1-17-03
Weight Loss The Bert Balladine
Way by Gladys Harrison aka Al Qahira
That was not the
first time I had nearly starved to death “on the road with Bert”.
9-5-02 Interview-
Soraya of Oklahoma City by Lynette
Bert and I look good and work well together! We were complementary
heights. We read each other while dancing with a mutual instinct.
We each knew what the other was going to do. Bert would give me
a brief over-view of the choreographic outline and then we would
just do it. And it always worked!
11-4-01 Tribute
to Dalilah!
Dalilah
began dancing in the 1950s...passed on September 18, 2001
3-20-01
Doing it my way by
Bert Balladine
For
me, dance is not cerebral, but highly emotional.
5-19-00 Dance
Emotion, Part 2 by
Najia Marlyz
The audience is not going
to care, or even notice, that a dancer did a high-stepping Fandango
Walking Step with an over-lay of a Soheir Zaki Head Tilt and a really
fine ......
11-24-99 Dance
Emotion, Part 1
"The place of dance is
within the heart."
2-25-00
Bert Balladine-
at long last Bert
begins his North Beach Memories!
10-99
Conversations with Bert,
The Belly Dancing Boom of San Francisco in the 1960's by Lora Schoen
One room was full of coats on the floor and there were people underneath
all of them! There were orchids floating in the bathtub and candles
everywhere.
2-1999
Conversation
with Bert Balladine by Krista Gettle & Lora Schoen
Words of history and wisdom from our dear mentor!
More
"offsite" Material
Available on Bert Balladine
Books
- The
Secrets of Belly Dancing by Roman Balladine & Sula
Celestial Arts Publishing, Millbrae, CA, 94030 1972, 96 pages
Film
- Gameel
Gamal- recently re released as "Classic
Stars of Belly Dance"
- "Some of my Best Friends are Bottomless Dancers" ?
- Once
More with Feeling, available
through Amaya
Magazine
Articles
- Habibi
Magazine Vol 8, No 5, publisher- Robert C. Zalot ~1984,
interview by Najia
- Habibi
Magazine, Vol 16, No1, publisher- Shareen El Safy ~1997,
interview by Ma*Shuqa
- Arabesque Issue?
- Caravan
Magazine, Bert was a regular columnist from years 1984?-
200?.
- Mirage, spring 1982
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