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  • Amera Eid is an Australian belly dancer and owner of an Australian belly dance school, Amera's Palace. Amera is of Egyptian and European background and was introduced to belly dancing at the age of twelve. She began her professional training with Rozeta Ahalyea in Sydney in 1983 and worked the Sydney restaurant and Arabic nightclub circuit. Eid opened Amera's Palace belly dance boutique in 1987, which included one of the first belly dance schools in Sydney. She also hosts the annual Bellydancers Ball which has been running since 1998.
  • Fanny Elssler (23 June 1810 - 27 November 1884), was an Austrian dancer. Ballerinas such as Marie Taglioni and Fanny Elssler pioneered new techniques such as pointe work that rocketed the ballerina into prominence as the ideal stage figure, professional librettists began crafting the stories in ballets, and teachers like Carlo Blasis codified ballet technique in the basic form that is still used today. The ballet slipper was invented to support pointe work.
  • Norberto Esbrez (born November 22, 1966) is an Argentinian tango dancer, choreographer, and teacher. Innovative dancer and teacher of tango nuevo. He is known as El Pulpo or octopus for his fluid and intricate leg moves. Esbrez created and named several tango movements including: ocho loco, sentada girada, elevador, or el elástico. He explored the concept of trap sacadas (sacadas con agarre) and enganches into innovative variations. His style is so notorious that when the dancer starts combining several leg moves that look like Pulpo's it is being called pulpeadas. Developed the concept of suspension as a tool to generate the control and fluidity that is part of his dance.
  • Eserzâde is a Turkish belly dancer who was born in Stuttgart (Germany) and spent his childhood in Turkey, where he was taught Ballet since the age of 6. He lived in Berlin since the age of 13. There he started to devote his life to dancing at 16 years of age. This dancer gets great fulfillment from inspiring the audience with his artistry and bringing together people from different cultures. He worked for Turkish television from the mid-to-late 1990s, where he had over 500 gigs at national and private channels such as A-TV, Inter-Star, Show-TV, HBB, TRT (Public TV-institution), Channel 6 and 7, TRT-INT, Kent-TV, eTV. Several documentations followed: Portraits, different shows and television gigs in Europe: England, France, Greece, Netherlands, Portugal, Russia, Switzerland, Spain, Austria and Cyprus. In America: Brazil and the USA, the Middle East: Israel, Morocco, Egypt, United Arab Emirates as well as in Asia: India, China, Japan and Pakistan. At the same time he took part in festivals and private events in Germany. He performed concerts along with Nena, Udo Lindenberg, Nina Hagen, The Weather Girls, Eartha Kitt, Donna Summer, Tarkan, Muazzez Abaci, Bülent Ersoy, Meltem Cumbul, Zuhal Olcay, Fancy, Roland Kaiser, Thomas Hermanns, Gayle Tufts and also with the most popular dancer of the Orient: Nesrin Topkapi. Eserzâde lived in Morocco from 2002–2003, where he appeared as a solo-dancer in the royal palace of Rabat and at crown receptions as well as a choreographer and instructor for the royal ensemble. He also had numerous gigs in TV shows on Moroccan television where he performed as a dancer for local singers.

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