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Tracey is a well known professional teacher and performer of Arabic dance in the UK.
She is a qualified REPS Fitness instructor and has a keen interest in the physical and emotional benefits of the dance. Her study of dance related kinetics is consistent and practically applied.
She has been featured in National publications, radio and TV. In 2006 she won the UK National Belly Dance competition in London, competing against some of the UK's top international dance artists.
Since that time she has taught at major Arabic dance Festivals and teaches workshops and intensives around the UK. She is fully insured and qualified to teach exercise classes, holding the relevant safety certificates.
She teaches weekly classes and regular monthly workshops in Wiltshire. She is a teacher of teachers and is regularly invited to teach workshops around the UK.
She has been studying Arabic dances since 1994 when she initially started to learn Iranian dance styles, such as the very expressive and artistic make up dance and modern styles with fast footwork and expressive hand movements.
She took to Egyptian and North African dance styles intensively from 2004 to help re-build her body following post natal complications. The danced helped to re-build her body in a way that other exercise regimes did not. Since that time she has become a huge advocate of the benefits available to all women who take up the dance. She studies dance kinetics and is very keen on breaking the moves right down.
The benefits of this dance style become completely obvious when you discover that Tracey lost her left leg below the knee in a RTA in 2007 and has since returned to a high level of dance ability on a prosthesis and in doing so restored not just her mobility but her self-esteem. She regularly dances for and works with limb charities and associations.
Her own training continues at the highest possible level, regularly training in Egypt and with Master teachers visiting the UK. She often arranges workshops with these teachers to provide the dance community with a higher education resource.
She is a member of MADN (Mosaic Arabic Dance Network) NADA, (Northern Arabic Dance Association) and WADA (Wessex Arabic Dance Association) and takes a keen interest in what is going on in the larger community of Arab Dance (international).
She is a popular performer of Egyptian dance and has been featured heavily in the UK's top theatre companies, including The Arab Quarter (with world class musicians) and also the highly accalimed Arabian Dance Theatre. The Al Arabiya TV footage below shows Tracey dancing in the show "Unity in Diversity" (which was attended by the Saudi Ambassador among many other esteemed guests).