Tamalyn Dallal
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Tamalyn Dallal is an American dancer, writer and film maker living in New Orleans, Louisiana. She began studying bellydance in 1976, turning professional six years later. In 1980, she was a VISTA volunteer in Imokalee, Florida, working with migrant farm workers and later working in Cuban refugee camps when 125,000 refugees arrived by boat to the shores of Florida. She was sent to Eglin Air force Base in Ft. Walton Beach, FL., and Ft. Chafee, Arkansas. then moved to Miami Beach to work with refugee resettlement through Hebrew Immigration Assistance Service. From 1984-1986 she danced her way around South America: Colombia, Venezuela, Brazil, Chile and Argentina. She has returned to South America several times since to teach workshops and perform. In 1990, Ms. Dallal traveled to Egypt for the first time. She returned home inspired to start a bellydance school. From 1990 to 2005 she operated the non profit Arts organization "Mid Eastern Dance Exchange" in Miami Beach. She created a children's program at the Mid Eastern Dance Exchange, which offered free and low cost classes to children. They learned bellydance, acting, and jazz, tap and ballet. Amar Garcia, who was Ms. Dallal's 13 year old neighbor became an integral part of the studio and helped teach the children, as well as being one of the top teachers and dancers in the company. One of the students was fostered by Ms. Dallal for two years after the court appointed her custody. Through this organization, she was one of many dance instructors, performed in commercial shows, produced numerous theatrical shows and produced a yearly dance festival called "Orientalia." "Orientalia" was funded by grants from the City of Miami Beach and Miami Dade County. In 2003, she was awarded the key to the city by the Mayor of Miami Beach at the Orientalia Festival. The Orientalia Festival included local dancers as well as international stars: Amir Thaleb (Argentina), Saida (Argentina), Bellyqueen (New York City), Queen Harish Kumar (India) Dondi Dahlin (San Diego, CA), Noora Aphrodite (New York City), Amel Tafsout (Algeria), Pasha Umer (Xinjiang, China), Louchia (Los Angeles, USA), Karim Nagi (USA), Helene Eriksen (USA), Ahmet Luleci (Turkey/USA), Mohammed Shahin (Egypt). Additionally, Ms. Dallal hosted international dance masters as workshop teachers in the studio: Dunya McPherson (New Mexico), Ramzi El Edlibi (Lebanon/New York City), Gazal (Iran/Germany), Raqia Hassan (Egypt), Amani (Lebanon), The National Folkloric Company of Surinam, Mariano Parra (New York), Nandu (India.) The Mid Eastern Dance Exchange was known for cultural diversity in student body, company members and teaching staff as well as featuring dance teachers, performers and musicians of Middle Eastern heritage. The first of four books written by Tamalyn Dallal is "They Told Me I Couldn't." about her dancing and travels in Colombia, South America (1998). In 2004, she authored the book "Bellydancing for Fitness" for Ulysses Press. In 2002, Tamalyn Dallal was recommended by Amar Garcia to join the Dance project "Bellydance Superstars" (BDSS), produced by Miles Copeland, of which Ms. Garcia was one of the first dancers selected. Tamalyn was in the first Bellydance Superstars DVD, which swept the world. With her new found notoriety, she was invited to teach workshops across the globe; South Africa, Italy, Spain, Switzerland, Poland, the Czech Republic, Hong Kong, Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, the Philippines, The Peoples Republic of China, Australia, Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Panama, Mexico, Canada and across the US. In 2005, she left Miami Beach to live in the outskirts of Seattle, alternating between spending time with her aging parents and traveling to five Muslim countries to write a book entitled "40 Days and 1001 Nights." In the introduction of the book she writes that she took a leap of faith with this self funded project, for which she didn't yet have the funds for, because she believed that Americans had been duped into going to war in Iraq because they weren't familiar with Muslim people and the diverse cultures they hailed from. At that time, she explains, politicians easily blamed 9-11 on more than just the perpetrators, dehumanizing Muslims in general and using terrorism as an excuse to invade. She spent 40 days in: Indonesia (Primarily Banda Aceh, 10 months after the tsunami that killed 250,000 people), Egypt's Siwa Oasis, Zanzibar, Jordan and the Xinjiang Autonomous Region of China. She wrote about her experiences living among the people in each place for her self published book. She brought a video camera on her travels and made her first film to go with the book. While in Zanzibar, Ms. Dallal greatly admired the music of the 101 year old Ikhwani Safaa Musical Club (the oldest orchestra in Africa.) She produced two CD's of their music. She returned to Zanzibar time and time again, getting involved with a variety of projects. Because of a close friendship with an addict and his family, Ms. Dallal became involved in encouraging his recovery and through dance, she was able to help raise funds and encourage "Drug Free Zanzibar," the nascent program of sober houses to help with Zanzibar heroin addiction epidemic. Ms. Dallal brought instruments from Egypt for the Ikhwani Safaa Musical Club and "Tausi," Zanzibar first women's orchestra, who she established a close relationship with and volunteered to teach dance classes for. In 2011, Tamalyn Dallal organized an event featuring 19 bellydancers who came to Zanzibar to take dance workshops and performed in the Orientalia Festival in the Old Fort, as a fundraiser for Drug Free Zanzibar. It featured both orchestras: Ikhwani Safaa Musical Club and the Tausi Women's Tarab Orchestra. Tamalyn Dallal's second documentary film, "Zanzibar Dance, Trance and Devotion." In collaboration with "Kariako," the state folkloric dance company, she filmed and produced this anthology of 26 Zanzibari dances, which were categorized as celebratory dance, trance practices and Maulidi devotional practices. This film is a part of the permanent collection at the Jerome Robbins Dance Library in New York City. In 2012, Ms. Dallal began traveling to Ethiopia to film a second documentary, "Ethiopia Dances for Joy" which is also part of the collection at the Jerome Robbins Dance Library. From 2003 to 2019, Ms. Dallal spent every autumn in Asia, including an annual month long dance intensive in Shanghai, China for ten years which was accompanied by a theatrical dance production under the auspices of the Axis Dance school. The most recent book penned by Ms. Dallal came out in 2019. "The Bellydancing Kitties of Constantinople" is a cartoon, children's book, illustrated by Japanese dancer and artist Ayako Date.
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