The Gilded Serpent presents...

Maya

of Italy

Maya Gaorry is a dancer and a teacher of Middle Eastern dance at an international level. She has a degree in psychology and has been devoting herself to the study and practice of Oriental dance for many years. She is of Italo-Brazilian origin and lives in Trieste, Italy, where she experienced working with belly dance in the field of mental health at the ‘Centro Donna di Salute Mentale’ (1999). She is the president of Racks al Shark, an association for the promotion of Middle Eastern dance, she runs her own school and is art-director for the Shams Middle Eastern Dance Company. She was guest dancer during the Belly Dance Superstars's show in Milan. She has attended the Cairo Oriental Dance Festival (Egypt) and Amani Oriental Festival (Lebanon). She has been running workshops in many Italian cities, as well as in Slovenia, Croatia, Brazil, USA and Portugal. She taught at the Rimini Fitness Festival, 1° Italian Oriental dance Festival and II Oriental Dance Festival - Portugal. She has worked with the Dance University of Friuli Venezia-Giulia in Spilimbergo and now she is a master teacher for professional couses. In 2003 she obtained the Oriental Dances Award at the 21st International Palmanova Trophy. Maya has performed in a number of countries, including Egypt, Lebanon, Austria (Bauchtanzfestival), USA, Portugal, and Greece. Here, in collaboration with Progetti International, she shot her first teaching video, which is one of the most popular in Italy in this genre.

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