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OUR WINNER OF THE NEW MILLENIUM!

SULTANA
THE QUEEN OF THE NILE 2000!

WINNER

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SULTANA AMIR

Sultana Amir began her dance career when she was a child. At the age of seven, her left ankle was operated on due to a birth defect. She was in a hip cast for almost a year and in a knee cast for another six months. When the doctor took the cast off, her left leg was so small and weak the doctors felt she could benefit from strength training. Her parents enrolled her in ballet classes at the age of eight and tap dancing classes at the age of nine. By the age of ten she was dancing on toes. Due to the illness and death of her mother at an early age. Sultana could not longer attend dance classes. She would often dance and choreograph her own dancing with the newest music on the radio at that time, such as the Monkeys and Beatles. When she became a mother, she would dance with her babies and pets, and never lost her love of dance. Once her children became older, she ventured off and learned the art of Middle Eastern and Egyptian bellydance. The dances she learned encompassed the grace and beauty of ballet, the rhythm and beat of tap and the sultry movements that usually only a woman can understand.

To her amazement, once she learned the movements, the dance captured the meditative qualities of yoga and meditation. She was in heaven. In the beginning she practiced and practiced until she had the moves down so she wouldn’t have to think consciously about them. Once learned she could move through the air feeling the music instead of just hearing it.

Middle Eastern dance has done more for any life than just exercise my body. It is the one dance in which you can be any age, any size and any ethnicity. It has helped me to develop a sense of self, higher self-esteem and confidence. It helped me to love my body which carried the many scars of childbirth (two cesareans, stretch marks, etc.). It helped me to realize that most women have bellys and that bellys are very beautiful. We need to realize that in most of the world it is common to believe that women with tummies are beautiful women and that a flat tummy is a symbol of a little girl. In most countries (not America) it is accepted that women have hips and can move like women, that it’s beautiful and sensual to be healthy and not look like a twig. This is what Middle Eastern dancing has taught me over the years. I feel our younger ladies today could learn the art of self-acceptance from Middle Eastern dance too. The glorified twiggy lock should be buried in the past and replaced with the healthier, fuller rounded feminine body.

Being a part of the Queen of the Nile dance contest was a dream come true. I practiced for months on my own choreography and music. I purchased an Egyptian dance costume at Rakkasah in Richmond, California. I worked hard and it paid off.

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Queen of the Nile #1 Sultana Makes a Beautiful Queen of the Nile, Photo #2 Our Queen, Photo #3
The New Queen of the Nile 2000! Photo #4 Sultana Won the Title, Queen of the Nile 2000! Photo #5 Queen of the Nile 2000 Danced hard for the Title! Photo #6

Thank You Everyone! You all helped to make the Festival a Huge Success! Love and Peace, Jodette

Jodette

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