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| - Amira Belly Dance Company, often referred to as AMIRA, is a fusion belly dance company located at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island. As a performing arts group, Amira incorporates music from both Middle Eastern, Spanish, South Asian and South American dance traditions. Amira is a relatively new dance team but already has participated in many fusion dance performances and shows around the Northeast. II. Shows and Performances
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| - Amira Belly Dance Company, often referred to as AMIRA, is a fusion belly dance company located at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island. As a performing arts group, Amira incorporates music from both Middle Eastern, Spanish, South Asian and South American dance traditions. Amira is a relatively new dance team but already has participated in many fusion dance performances and shows around the Northeast. The company's mission is to educate, inspire, and entertain the most diverse audience possible about Middle Eastern dance, music, and culture, and to teach an appreciation of traditional dances while expanding into new frontiers.mission is to educate, inspire, and entertain the most diverse audience possible about Middle Eastern dance, music, and culture, and to teach an appreciation of traditional dances while expanding into new frontiers. I. History Amira Belly Dance Company was founded in 2005 by Anna Chacon and Afshan Ajmiri at Brown University. Both students had choreographed extensively for the University's annual cultural shows, and introduced belly dancing into the community as an evolving, creative art. The team's name was originally "Amira," a word meaning princess or leader in the Arabic language, and members of the team are often referred to as Amiras. After its auditions in 2005, the team included twelve members. Despite being a rather unique name for a dance team, "Amira" was chosen because it emphasized the team's focus on bringing female dancers together to break the stereotype of belly dance as a sexist art form. Amira strives to elevate the artistic form of belly dancing and prove that it demands technique, expertise and professionalism. Throughout the 2005-2006 school year, Amira Belly Dance Company expanded its presence on the Brown campus with shows and performances. The year was also marked by training from various professional belly dancers from Warwick, Rhode Island. The team also performed at the annual Mezcla cultural show, the fall dance concert, and the South Asian cultural show at Brown University. By the spring of 2008, Amira expanded over 20 members by inducting ten new girls into its family, including Kai Kassam, the first male to join. Throughout the 2006-2007 school year, Amira continued to perform at various shows at Brown University and around New England. On May 1, 2008, Amira hosted its first-ever dance show, titled Raqs al-Layl, meaningDance of the Night in Arabic. The show, which attracted a sold-out audience to Salomon Hall on the Main Green, was a huge success and promises to become an annual event for Amira.[1] II. Shows and Performances
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