Our Team

Our Team:

The instructors at Zahra's School provide exception professional service. These are the members of the School who make Zahra's School exceptional!

Zahra:

Zahra is an acclaimed belly dancer. Her students regard her as an amazing and inspiring instructor. Zahra supports belly dance because of its diversity and creativity. She encourages students to be open and creative so that they too can experience the many forms of belly dance. Zahra believes that when the dancer becomes more focused she becomes more physically, emotionally and spiritually independent. Her focus is always on health, creativity, motivation and fun!

Zahra has always been a firm supporter of the Durham community . She organizes an annual makeup drive where donations of new and unused makeup are delivered to less fortunate women living in a women’s shelter located in Ajax. Last year, the drive raised over 18 boxes of new and unused makeup! Zahra supported the Neo-Natal unit and Emergency department at the Ajax/Pickering Hospital by donating over $5,000 and purchasing equipment for the hospital. Her contributions to the Humane Society of Ajax were essential in repairing the emotional and physical scars due to a fire at the centre where many animals were housed. In 2008, the Town of Ajax recognized Zahra as an exceptional volunteer by honouring her with the Volunteer Recognition Award. Her emotional speech at the Award Ceremonies reinforced that she is not only a proud member of Ajax, but that she has a great deal of respect and passion to contribute to the well being of the community. Zahra's School has consistently been chosen by you, the community for the Reader's Choice Awards of Durham, and we thank you for that!

The Instructors:

Cazzi has been an instructor at Zahra's School since it first opened in 2001. Cazzi currently teaches the Dancersize class and makes the class enjoyable and fun! Cazzi is an inspiration to all her students.

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Sapphira is an instructor at Zahra's School.

Sapphira currently teaches at an external venue while she is on maternity leave.

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“Belly Dancing has inspired me to do great things as well as inspire those around me to try something new and exciting. I love teaching because it allows me to give back what I have learned and share with other people. This allows them to grow as individuals and improve their confidence, health, flexibility, strength and coordination. Currently I am teaching dancercise, which is a class that consist of; a warm up, to help loosen up your muscles and get your heart pumping, instruction of several moves and steps, that are then put together to create a combination put to music. It is a relaxed environment and it is meant to be enjoyed, it’s not intimidating. The goal is to have fun while dancing with fellow members of your community.”

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Sarafina is an instructor at Zahra's School. Sarafina will be teaching the Beginner 1 class this semester.

Kakut is an instructor at Zahra's School. She is currently teaching the Youth and Tribal class.

Nile - Belly dancing is a natural talent of Nile’s as she is from the Middle East. In the last two years she has been trained and taught under the guidance and skills of Zahra. Nile is now an instructor at our school. She has done many performances at our school recitals and outside. She even did a benefit to help Haiti. Nile loves to dance and belly dancing is an art she loves to flaunt!

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Sahra has loved the dance since early childhood. She puts a strong emphasis on proper stretch and strength training to support your belly dance moves with technique as well as with style. The East Meets West class is an all levels belly dance class with a hiphop & modern dance twist, which is performed at the recital to a modern pop/dance song that you may hear on the radio. Sahra loves watching her students progress from just "doing" the moves to performing them with style and a big smile because they are having fun! When you have fun dancing the audience has fun watching.

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Calista is an instructor at Zahra's School. This semester, Calista will be teaching the Beginner 1 class. She also teaches external classes and participates in many events and fundraising activities.

Welcome

Summer Specials

Now that the warm weather is here, we have some of the coolest classes for you and your friends. Get any one of these classes for the July semester and add a second class for 50% off. Choose from these varieties of classes - The East Meets West class, Bollywood, Latin Fusion,Tribal Fusion, Youth or Bellydance and Burlesque classes.