JANE WASS

Jane has been enjoying traditional and classical Egyptian dance for 15 years. She teaches and performs extensively across the North of England and the Midlands and also now in west Cork, Ireland. She has also been spending some time teaching in Scandinavia.

Dance has always been a love of hers. She has studied Egyptian dance with a wide cross-section of teachers, both Arabic and European. Influences from her experience in salsa and flamenco give her a unique style.

Having completed a teacher-training course run by the Raqs Sharqi Society in London, she considers teaching the dance to be a vital element of her work. She aims to spread knowledge of this little-understood and often maligned dance form in a effort to expand enjoyment of it as an art-form and also ensure its survival.

Her classes and workshops are increasingly popular because of her mix of patient but thorough technical teaching, combined with an inspirational passion and a desire to see her students not only learn - but enjoy - their journey in the dance.

Her research and travels continually deepen her understanding of the background and cultural aspects of the dance.