Title: Dolphin Scholarship Auction
Description: Dolphin Scholarship Auction for the Navy-7 pm. Downtown San Diego. Dancers will teach a 15 minute demo class with audience participatio, hopefully. Sohaila will be donating a month of classes. More info to come!
Start Time: 19:00
Date: 2010-06-12

Title: Ethnic Faire
Location: Balboa Park
Description: Come have fun at Balboa Park at the Ethnic Cottages. Dancing, food and fun all day long from 10 - 6 pm Sohaila and The Sohaila\’s Shining Stars will be performing a 20 minute show at 4:30 pm, come out and support our beautiful art form. See you then.
Start Time: 10:00
Date: 2010-05-30
End Time: 18:00

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Title: Sohaila’s 12th Annual Dance Extravaganza
Location: Crystal Ballroom, 414 N. Magnolia Ave, El Cajon, CA
Description: Sohaila’s 12th Annual Dance Extravaganza

The biggest Show of this kind in San Diego!  Egypt’s history covers some five thousand years, and encompasses the origin of civilization. The faciniatining
writings on tomb walls shows historical dances from many ages ago leaves you breathless. Let us transform you back in time where Pharoahs, Queens and Kings were captivated by dances throughout Egypt. Take a journey and watch Historic Pharonic, Bedouin, Ghawazee, Saidi, Nubian, as well as Classical Egyptian dances that will captivate and amaze you! Go back in time and feel yourself be transformed into Kings and Queens!…….begin the journey.
Saturday, May 15th 2010 - 7 pm
Crystal Ballroom, 414 N. Magnolia Ave, El Cajon, CA 92020
Start Time: 7:00
Date: 2010-05-15

Title: Sohaila Performing at Greek Village
Location: Greek Village Restaurant, 6030 Paseo del Norte, Carlsbad
Description: Sohaila Performing at Greek Village
When
Tue, January 19, 7pm – 10pm
Where
Greek Village Restaurant, 6030 Paseo del Norte, Carlsbad CA 92009
Description
A fundraiser for Taking Control of Your Diabetes. Tuesday, 7-10 pm Music by John Bilezijkian with dancers Jheri St James, Wendy and Sohaila. I
Start Time: 19:00
Date: 2010-01-19
End Time: 22:00

The 1st lounge night of the year!
Gellabya Party Flyer

Okay, now that you are starting to dance and gain exposure and experience dancing out in public, there are many things to consider.

Dancing in Restaurants: I am going to start with Kolbehs. We all know now that Kolbehs is a fun, friendly, family atmosphere where you can dance to gain practice and exposure and get the nervousness subsided a bit. This is a great venue for this. Please do not be mistaken, this is not a “normal” restaurant atmosphere, mostly all the people are friends of yours, other dance students/dancers…as well as american crowd. A great place to “show your stuff.”

Most americans don’t know any better in the way of tipping. I for one do not like tips. I think it degrades the dancer, on that note though there are exceptions to this “so called rule”. I have personally from the time i started dancing have been taking tips. I never knew any better, I didn’t have a teacher that explained things to me. I learned from years of dancing. I finally started seeing what was appropriate and what wasn’t. Believe me girls, you will have many experiences, good and bad, not just with tips but other issues as well. In fact for those who danced at the honor run, well there you go, a great example. Okay, I am getting off the ‘tips’ subject, believe me there are so many subjects that we can talk about its not even funny! Okay, anyway, when someone tips you, especially if they are American, they do not know any better, you can always explain to them, especially if they are friends of yours and start educating them about it. I, personally, when I do parties and if someone insists that they want to give me money (first of all they are usually holding up a one dollar bill…I think to myself..and you want to put it where, no way buddy!) I always have arm bands that I wear, again if they are animate about giving me money, I open up my arm band so they know that is the only place they can put it on me. It works. If they don’t like it they wont give it to you. REMEMBER, first and foremost you are dancing for the love of this art form not for tips. Another example is if they keep persisting, you can always turn your body away, that way they can put it in your back bra strap.

If you are in a friendly family environment of people that you know, and you feel that you want to take tips, its fun to “have fun” with your audience, if they are trying to put some money in your belt, go ahead and shimmy or push/pull back with a hip hit or drop. It’s only in fun! Again, you want to only do this when you feel its appropriate. The point I am trying to make is that only you can know which situation you are in and only you know what you would like to do.

Okay so that is the tip of the week!

Title: Sohaila’s Shining Stars Perforam at 12th Annual San Marcos Alive
Location: San Marcos Civic Center
Link out: Click here
Description: The event will feature handmade craft items, fine art, demonstrations, art shows, and more than 20 hand’s on art projects. Two stages of free entertainment will include live bands as well as performances by local community groups. The event is from 10-4pm with Sohaila’s Shining Stars performing at 3pm for 20minutes.
Start Time: 15:00
Date: 2009-10-04
End Time: 15:20

Title: Sohaila’s Shining Stars Perform at Kolbeh Restaurant
Location: Kolbeh Restaurant, 9514 Miramar Rd, San Diego, CA
Description: Sohaila’s Shining Stars will be dancing at Kolbeh Restaurant.

9514 Miramar Rd
San Diego, CA 92126-4533
(858) 578-6040

Start Time: 19:00
Date: 2009-09-27
End Time: 21:00

Well girls, I am slowly getting back to normal, my head practically exploded with information from Sahras’ intensive Journey Thru Egypt workshops 1 and 2. I am so glad that she has made her research public from the past 6 years plus. I sure wish I had the energy and time when I worked and lived in Egypt to have accomplished it! Thats okay, she has now put the research to good use!

The information from these past two weekends brought back so many memories of dancing in the middle east. The workshops prompted me to get out all my old videos and footage of all the places I danced in the middle east and start my own projects for my classes. I just wish I had more time in the day to get all these projects done. Thank goodness I have awesome students and friends that help me with so much already.
I very much appreciate all their hard work in helping me with all these projects. Andrea, without you I can not have such a wonderful website. Thanks to Yvonne and Suze with their continued pushing of the workbook and getting it perfected. This is truly going to be an amazing 2nd edition workbook.
This dance is something that I truly hold dear to my heart. I love this dance with a passion. I am always striving to bring more to the table and show more in class everyday. Even though I have studied, and dance this art form for many years, it will take a lifetime to be able to grasp the concepts of over 7,000 years of dance throughout the middle east. At least I can bring to you my experiences of 26 years.
Thank you for your continued support, and thank you for being in class.
Until next time!

Title: Sohaila’s Shining Stars perform at the Bedouin Bazaar
Location: Al Bahr Shrine Center, 5440 Kearny Mesa Road, San Diego
Link out: Click here
Description: Please contact Sohaila if you would like to dance! There is a 15 minute spot for us to dance.
Start Time: 16:00
Date: 2009-10-11
End Time: 17:00