Photo © Tatsuki Kobayashi

Shahrazad Dance Ensemble is one of Seattle's premier performing troupes. The troupe has appeared at dance shows throughout the Pacific Northwest, at the Western Washington Fair, the Northwest Folklife Festival, Arab Fest, the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry (OMSI), and Rustycon, Dreamcon, and Norwescon science fiction conventions.

Your event can be enlivened by a performance of lively folkloric dances from the Middle East, American belly dance, or innovative fusion dances.

Contact us about performing at your event by clicking the "Contact Shahrazad Ensemble" button to the left.

Photo © Tatsuki Kobayashi

Shahrazad Dance Ensemble performs folkloric Middle Eastern dances based on dance of the Levant, Egypt, North Africa, and the Persian Gulf. We also perform modern Egyptian and American Belly Dance. And we also perform imaginative and entertaining choreography to fusion music when we appear as our alternative dance troupe, The Wild Women of Wongo -- perfect for children's parties, holiday parties and science fiction conventions,

Shahrazad Ensemble's grace, skill and sheer joy in the dance never fails to charm an audience.

Our "Wongo" show is an exciting and innovative entertainment for a holiday party, corporate event or senior living center holiday show. We have appeared as the "Wongo" dancers at science fiction conventions, Halloween parties, and by special request at oriental dance shows. We wear costumes that are works of art, and perform dance inspired by ethnic fusion and alternative music.

Shahrazad Dance Ensemble of Seattle on YouTube®

Click here : highlights of Shahrazad Dance Ensemble in concert with The MB Orchestra live at Peace Arch Park International Music & Dance Festival, August 14, 2011.

Click here : highlights of Shahrazad Dance Ensemble at Ottoman Trading Company Music & Dance Festival on August 20, 2011.

Click here: highlights of Shahrazad Dance Ensemble at Cultural Crossroads Festival in Bellevue, Washington on Nov. 7, 2010.

Click here : highlights of Shahrazad Dance Ensemble at the Mediterranean Fantasy Festival in West Seattle on July 18, 2010.

Click here : Highlights of Shahrazad Dance Ensemble at the Leavenworth WA International Dance Festival, June 2010.

Click here : The Wild Women of Wongo Halloween 2009 slideshow.

View two dances from the 2007 Northwest Folklife Festival:

Click here Khalegy intro and North African Basket Dance
Click here Egyptian Folkloric "Bambi Saidi"