I experience my body as a living archive of hybrid identities: Ecuadorian, Uruguayan, European — deeply connected to the artistic worlds of the SWANA-region. These influences do not coexist passively. They negotiate, collide, and resonate in my movement.

From those crossings emerges a poetic movement language where contrasting traditions speak to one another — gestures that are at once ancient and contemporary, familiar and strange. A vocabulary that belongs everywhere and nowhere at the same time.

My artistic work moves between two poles: the scholarly curiosity about ritual, embodied knowledge and socio-cultural context — and the musical intuition that in Raqs Sharki is not accompaniment, but origin. It shapes the themes, the sequences, the technique.

My way to dancing 

I have been dancing since I was six years old. My foundational training is classical ballet — but it was oriental dance that became my artistic home. Since 2000 I have deepened this practice through ethnographic certifications such as Journey Through Egypt (Sahra Kent), stylistic training as well as the foundations of the Reda Technique with Amir Thaleb (ADS) and Yousef Constantino, and through my work with Nesma Al-Andalus — where I did not simply learn the oriental-Andalusian style, but have come to embody and expand it as my own vocabulary.

Alongside that: two degrees at the University of Bern — DAS Tanzkultur (2011) and CAS Dance/Performance Studies (2018). Not as a complement to artistic practice, but as part of the same question: what does the body know? How does it become a source?

In 2014 I received the Halima Award — the most prestigious recognition for oriental dance in the German-speaking world. Invitations followed to the Assembly Festival in Moscow (2017, 2019) and the Cairo Khan Festival in Cairo (2015 to 2017). In March 2026 I marked 25 years as a professional dancer with Rihla — an intimate concert at BeJazz Club Bern. Rihla — the Arabic word for a journey with purpose — was both title and metaphor: apprentice, researcher, performer, teacher, seeker.

Teaching approach

I have been teaching ballet and raqs sharki for over 20 years — in Zürich, Bern and as a guest instructor across Europe, Egypt and South America. I observe first: I identify the greatest potential in each person and work from there. I do not transmit a style — I accompany a voice.

I work across classical, modern and experimental techniques of oriental dance, and hold a certification in PBT (Progressive Ballet Technique). This allows me to challenge dancers at every level — whether they are just beginning, searching for their own style, or already performing on stage.