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A dancer and choreographer born in Spain, Nesma began her relationship with Oriental dance in 1991. Two years later, after continuing her artistic studies in Paris, she travelled to Cairo with the idea of furthering her knowledge from the very cradle of Oriental music and dance, where she set up residence and began to work as a dancer with her own orchestra. From early on she decided to focus on Arab culture, attending music classes with Mahmoud Hamouda and studying the Egyptian dialect, without ever forgetting her dance studies that she continued with masters of such stature as Rakia Hassan, Ibrahim Akeef and later Farida Fahmy. |
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For five consecutive years she performed daily in the prestigious halls of the Marriott Hotel, the Meridian, the Sheraton in Cairo, the Sheraton in Gezira, the Semiramis Hotel, the Safir Hotel, Sunset Hall, Tivoli Hall, Cave du Roi Hall, and El Ballon Theatre where she shared billing with the legendary singer Karim Mahmoud. |
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Running alongside her artistic career as a soloist, she ceaselessly studied Egyptian folklore and Andalusi dance, which gave her the opportunity to come in contact with that master of masters, Mahmoud Reda, father and pioneer of the Oriental dance stage. Not long after she was hired by Mahmoud Reda himself for his own company in which she danced and has collaborated as a member to this day. In these years she performed on the Egyptian national television channel and in front of varying backdrops, such as the pyramids at Giza. |
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In 1998 she was hired by the Egyptian Ministry of Culture as a dancer for the National Folkloric Reda Ballet, the only non-Egyptian member that has formed a part of this company since its foundation in 1959. Here she participated in numerous performances, for example the ballet Alb Fie Robabekia, which ran for three months in the National Dance Theatre El Ballon. |
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That same year Nesma received the First International Oriental Dance Award in New Jersey, USA.
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At that time she took on new professional work, that of musical production. The artistic line of her projects has always been focussed on Oriental dance with songs performed by an array of the best musicians in Egypt. |
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In 1999, Nesma founded the Al Andalus Centre of Oriental Dance and the Al-Andalus Dance Company. As director and choreographer she has taken part in performances on numerous occasions (Dreams of Al-Andalus, A life for Dancing, Memories of the Nile, From the Nile to the Guadalquivir) in Egypt (Cairo Opera ouse, Alexandria Opera House, The Cidatel of Saladino in Cairo), in various Spanish theatres such as the Gran Vía Theatre, New Apollo Theatre, the García Lorca Theatre, the Royal Coliseum of Charles III, Infanta Isabel, Rigoberta Menchu and series of staged performances in the Alcázar Theatre. |
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Internationally, Nesma has danced and taught courses in countries such as Holland (1993), Oman (1993), Dubai (1993), Egypt (1996-2008), Finland (1999), Germany (1999, 2004), the United States (1998, 2005), France (2001, 2004, 2005), Belgium (2002), Morocco (1993), Sweden (2005), and Italy (2004), Alexandria (2008, 2007). |
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