Mohamed Shahin

Performer, Instructor, Choreographer

Mohamed Shahin is an inspirational instructor, world-renowned performer, and challenging choreographer of Egyptian Oriental Dance (Raqs Sharqi) and Middle Eastern Folkloric Dance.

A native of Cairo Egypt and originally trained as a mechanical engineer, Shahin discovered his passion for Egyptian Dance at the young age of fifteen. Shahin developed a complex methodology of instruction that has made him a Master teacher beloved to his students worldwide, today. Shahin currently lives in New York City but has been touring internationally full-time since 2004. At Shahin’s workshops, students fall in love with his friendly personality and the level of perfectionism and fine attention to detail that sets him apart as an instructor of Middle Eastern dances. He is a master teacher/ choreographer of Classical, Traditional, and Modern Raqs Sharqi; Shaabi, Cairo Street Dancing, Saidi, Arab-Andalusian Muwshahat and Khaleeji, His explanations of technical breakdowns of the body isolations, movements, and combinations that make up his elaborate and challenging choreographies, Shahin’s talent and expertise have taken him around the world to teach workshops, perform and judge international dance competitions in major dance festivals in many countries throughout North America, South America, Europe, Australia, Asia, and Africa including the international Egyptian belly dance festival - Ahlan Wa Sahlan Festival, as well as one of the founder, director and instructor of RAQS, OF COURSE Egyptian dance festival since 2012 and for the first time Shahin’s organizing NYCairo Raks festival in New York City. Shahin speaks Arabic, English & Russian which adds to his great array of skills and enables him to instruct students in these 3 languages. Shahin produced “Dance Like An Egyptian” instructional DVD series, they are a great asset for those whom study Egyptian dance but are unable to attend Shahin’s workshops. Shahin has 6 DVD’s on the market current, as well as his new music CD “AHLAM”.

E-mail: info@mohamedshahin.net

Web site:www.mohamedshahin.net

Articles on Gilded Serpent by or about Mohamed

1-16-10 The Muwashahat with Mohamed Shahin and Karim Nagi Workshop review by Thalia
The Muwashahat genre is inspired by tenth century court poetry of Arab-Andalusia, developed when Arab intellectual and artistic culture flourished in Spain. The rhythms are complex.
3-16-12 The Stars Converge in Barcelona, El Festival Internacional de Danza Oriental 2012, Photos and Text by Gabriel Monserrat
Munique Neith is Brazilian of Arabic descent. She is the prestigious and well traveled organizer of the International Oriental Dance Festival in Barcelona. More than 1500 people take part every year in the 2 gala shows, the competitions, and in different workshops with the best international master teachers.
5-30-07 Photos of Gala Show for Raqia, photos by Carl Sermon, prep and layout by Michelle Joyce
On Saturday night there was a show at the Veteran's Hall. The Show was: Big on technique; sometimes a little too studied. The soloists were selected mostly for being Raqia's students.
5-24-07 Elegance and Power, A Weekend Workshop with Raqia Hassan, Gala Performance Show, Review and Report by Rebecca Firestone
April 21 and 22, 2007, Odd Fellows Hall, Redwood City, CA. Her personal style was an oddly elusive mixture of street attitude and elegance, both "fierce and friendly" as one person said.