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Pt. 1 -
Ana's Biography
Pt. 2 - Ana's Training/Accomplishments
PT. 1
Ana was born in Sinaloa, Mexico, under
the “moon” sign of Cancer, in the middle of July.
Her loving father used to carry her in his arms when she was a baby, walk
her outside in the warm evening and sing to her under the tropical moon. Her
first word was “Luna” which means moon in English. Ever since then, Ana has
been in love with the moon.
Ana comes from a musical family. Her father taught himself to play the guitar when he was a
boy, so the love of music runs in the family.
Her mother used to dance the “mambo” and entertained her aunts,
cousins and uncles by dancing on tabletops.
Her mother still dances at various functions with Ana’s Mirage.
Ana has been dancing &
performing since she can remember. She
and her sister used to dance to rock & roll music at family gatherings,
delighting the adults. The girls
were naturals at performing. At one time all three sisters, Ana, Blanca &
Monica were belly dancing. Blanca
dances with Ana’s Mirage group.
Ana started tap dance lessons as
a little girl. This year 2004, she attended her tap dance teacher's 97th
birthday party---Miss Bea of National City. Her dancing was then followed
by Cheerleading in High School, Mexican Folklorico dance, Jazz dance and finally
Ana settled into Belly Dancing. Her
other dance talents include swing dance, salsa dance, and Mexican “cumbia” dancing.
Her greatest love and accomplishment in
dance has been Raks Sharki “Belly Dance”.
She can thank her sister for “daring” her to take belly-dance
lessons. She had her introduction to belly dancing from a wonderful lady by the
name of Francie who taught in a recreation center in National City.
Francie told Ana and Blanca that they were “naturals”.
From there, Ana took dance lessons with “Kishma” Rose Fedak of Spring
Valley, master of the double-sword and intricate veil dance.
Kishma helped Ana develop further and give her the “edge” she needed.
Soon thereafter,
(six months later) Ana was hired to dance at the Seven Veils Restaurant
in Mission Valley. (I can only
wonder how I looked!) From there
came Call-a-Gram bellygrams, and LiveWires bellygrams. Next, she danced at Athens Market Restaurant downtown San Diego,
followed by El Griego Restaurant in Tijuana’s Plaza Rio, Crete Isle Café in
Oceanside, Sinbad’s in El Cajon, and was a guest dancer at
Troy’s Greek , Georgia’s and the legendary Hajji Baba’s
Restaurant,
She
has also danced in Ensenada Mexico at San Nicolas Hotel for the Newport/Ensenada
Regatta, and was a dancer at “El Griego” Restaurant in Tijuana Mexico, and performed
at Tijuana’s Channel 12 Juan Luis Curiel Show. (does this qualify as “international”
dancer?),
Ana
has taught belly-dance for the Spring Valley Community Center over 10 years.
Currently she performs in the Southern California and Northern-Baja California
areas. Ana is fluent in two languages,
Spanish and English.
She is director of Ana’s Mirage Dancers
and formed the group about 8 years ago.
Ana’s “Mirage” Dancers have performed and delighted the audiences at
the famous San Diego Street Scene
Festival, Mardi Gras "Fat Tuesday" downtown, the Del Mar Fair, Santa
Sophia Festival, Multiple Sclerosis Society
Walk Fundraiser, St. Jude’s
Festival, Holy Spirit Festival, and Blessed Sacrament Festival, and many convalescent
homes and elementary schools in the San Diego County area.
She has performed for the La Mesa-Spring Valley School District’s Extended
Services Program and annual retirement party for the district.
Ana enjoys her dancing as much as her
audience enjoys her dancing. As she
dances, she mesmerizes her audience. Her
audience drifts out into an oasis in the desert, where one can see the moonlight
and camels at rest, while the exotic melodies caress the senses and a belly
dancer undulates and shimmies in perfect unison to the music.
Highly organized, between entertaining at parties and restaurants, riding the Harley, and enjoying her family, she juggles her dance career and job of teaching dance.
Ana
is Secretary and Events Coordinator of the SAMEDA organization, is member of SAMEDTA and MECDA - Middle
Eastern Dance Associations
Ana has been on the Judge's Panel at various Belly Dance Competitions:
Mexico City "Cuarto Concurso Belly Dance Mexico 2008
http://mariashazadi.com
, Tijuana
Belly Racks
http://bellyracks.com
, and San Diego Arabesque Competition http://arabesquebdc.com
Ana -- Official Belly Dancer of Street Scene San Diego 7 Years
PT. 2
DaVid of Scandinavia - I am proud to have introduced the talented DaVid to Mexico! They love him there! He has already been to Mexico City and Mexicali, and Tijuana several times. He is much in demand! I had the assistance of Maryam in this project, and am forever grateful to her.
The 1st Workshop I hosted, April 28, 2007 --- DaVid of Scandinavia, in Mexico!!!!!
Tito US Tour - Brought to you by The Flying Carpet TV & Ana! Workshop by none-other-than TITO Seif of Egypt! And Belly Dance Competition! I've hosted Tito twice in 2008, February & August! He was totally AWESOME!
My 2nd Workshops I hosted, Feb. 9, 2008 -- Tito Seif of Egypt!!!!! - And, again Aug. 2008!!!!
Dancing in Leila of Cairo's Show, March 8 '08, hosted by IMCADH in Tijuana. It was a beautiful show, well organized and well attended! Congratulations IMCADH!
This is the 2nd year I am a Judge in this fabulous belly dance competition, the 1st of its kind in Baja California, Mexico. This year I am Head Judge. The gracious organizer, Desiree did a wonderful job organizing this event. She had contestants sign up from as far away as Venezuela! Next in May 2009! http://www.bellyracks.com
Nov. 1 & 2 - Ana in Mexicali Mexico - teaching Workshop 6 & 7 - Ana dances!!! in Gala show, along with DaVid and more fantastic dancers!!!
Danceme Director's Comment:
Hi Ana & David its been 2 weeks since the workshop. I have now
received all the feedback of your students
all positive they are all delighted with the classes, loved the choreographies,
loved the performances and are still very excited to have participated that
weekend they havent stop talking about it, as I have always told the girls about
you Ana ¨She's all about real bellydancing¨and about you David I told them I
guarantee 100%
he's a really good teacher-performer and communicator of this art form¨ Im
very honored that you accepted my invitation to come to this
difficult-to-perform-in town and that you opened up your soul to your
workshop students, and I thank you for oppening up your hearts to my friends my
family and me. You'll always be in a special place in my heart, and your
friendship is something very special for me--I will always treasure.
Martha Duran, Director Danceme Academy, Mexicali, Mexico
