Nabila

Berlin, Germany

Nabila is a warm-heared teacher with sense of humor. She is a mix of Orient and Ocidental (Jordan/Germany roots). She uses the chance to live and enjoy all the good parts from her Oriental and Germany backgrounds. From the age of 6 she received a classical ballet education and 1988 she started to dance as a professional Oriental dancer for all societys ,mainly like for Turkish, Arabic, Persians. To learn the Oriental dance more seriously she traveled regularly to Cairo since 1989 to spend more than 6 month per year in Cairo. She took lessons from all the great stars and teacher, went to watch the fantastic shows and learned all about the Egyptian dance and folklore.

She got very inspired from fantastic master teachers like Nadia Hamdi (Cairo), Feyrouz (USA), Sahra Saeeda (USA/Egypt), Momo Kadous (Egypt/Germany) and of course Dina and Randa Kamel from Cairo. Nabila started to dance from the very beginning with live-music so she became a real specialist for dancing with live music. That's why she starts to offer her own created and developed live music dance education RAKSlife beginning in January 2012. Over the years she developed her own unique dance-style for what she is known for in classical and modern egyptian Raks Sharki style. But her special love belongs to the typical Egyptian Balady. From here unique way to dance Balady she got the title "Queen of Balady".

For many years she has traveled all around the world to teach and dance and to share her rich dance experiance and knowledge with her students. Professional Coaching & Mentoring is a special way for her to help young and talented dancer to find and develop their own dance style - to be unique! Since 2000 she organize the international Festival BAZAR ORIENTAL together with her friend and dancer Sabina Zaida. From 2005- 2009 they have also published together as a team the first international print Magazine - Belly Dance BELLY DIVAS.

Web site: www.nabila-sabha.de/

Articles on Gilded Serpent by or about Nabila

2-28-11 The Cairo by Night Festival, November 4-7, 2010, Stockholm Sweden by Nabila
From the first moment that I arrived in Stockholm until I left, I felt warmly welcomed, relaxed, and it felt so fantastic to be with Zeina and Mohamed Abu Shibeka, that I spend my most memorable time there!