Welcome to Become a BellyDancer School

Discover the Sacred Secrets of BellyDance.

Philosophy, Therapeutic techniques, how to dance traditionally with the different props and Pharaohnic rythuals.

Amora & Alia Shams are specialist in the Ancient & Traditional Old School of BellyDance.

Providing the International UNESCO BellyDance Level Certifications since 2011

Prof. Amora Shams is a Master Teacher, who has been teaching BellyDance since 1993 in a very exceptional and intensive way, she developed a teaching methodology which makes her students, no matter their starting level, to achieve the difficult moves in the first 15 teaching hours of the formation course taught face to face as a private student, that's why she is the only one who can create BellyDancers performer, teachers & choreographers in just 20 days!

Our School teachers only teach female students

Amora's YouTube Tutorials

Some Testimonials by Course students

"I enjoyed the Amora Shams course which I took in Egypt. It was a fantastic all-round experience which not only included dance classes but also trips to costume shops, the sights of Cairo and Giza, tannora shows and classes, having your business cards designed and visits to see belly dancers performances.
The intensive month has something to offer to all dancers no matter their level. I will defiantly want to study with Amora in the future. She has a vast knowledge of the art which she doesn't hold back on sharing with you."

Video or Voice Testimonials by students of the BBDC & BGBDC

Testimonials by Amora Shams students before starting to teach the BBDC

"Amora was my first teacher, in London 3 years ago (2004). She inspired me to take up belly dancing and now I am part of a troupe that regularly performs throughout the south of England. She has a good understanding of the origins of belly dancing and having a career in ballet has really helped her perfect her moves."
"You gain deeper knowledge of your power and you can use it to beat the stress in every day life. Amora lessons are better then a massage."
"Amora teaches us in a very professional way, from a beginning she teaches correctly the movement and not a showing off like other teachers I have been with. Is not only enjoyable, but you learn a lot because of her lay-out, and she teaches traditional Belly Dancing, Egyptian Dance."
"I like the good humor in her lessons, we learn a lot. Personally I feel very great about energy and the precision of explaining how chakras work."
"Amora lessons are rich in information, she describes the movements and explains why we do this movement, she covers lots of History. I feel more confident, more energy, happier and relaxed."
"Anybody can shake their thing, but few teachers share the secrets. Learning to control your movements by using your inner energy gives you a fantastic magical new way to dance exotic and not erotic. That is what makes Amora classes worth the effort."
"Amora is a great teacher and she is aware of her potential as a dancer, it is impossible to describe what you feel in her classes until you receive them, then you are aware of how lucky you have been of meeting her"
"Thanks for giving me hooked on belly dancing, surely would not have continued if not for you! She mixes her amazing technique with the knowledge of the Origen of Dance making you to catch its essence. Attention girls, she knows perfectly when you have been training at home or just being lazy! Amora has been my first teacher and thanks to her I keep practicing in Barcelona, because, even if I recognize that I am a slowly student,, she always had a helping word to make you keep going ... Thank you Amora for catching me into Belly Dancing, by sure I won't have continuous if I won't have met you!"

Study a BellyDance Course to become an elegant BellyDancer, Teacher, Choreographer and open your own BellyDance School

Amora Shams doesn't share publicly the secrets of BellyDance because she only teaches female students.
The secrets can only be shared to certain type of students, so she decided to only share them with the BBDC students.
That's why her successful BBDC students become so professional after the course, as far as we know, four BBDC students won on 5 International BellyDance competitions, few months after studying this program

BBDC students after ending successfully the course, won on BellyDance Competitions

BBDC 2011 student Zara Abdelrahman won first prize as best BellyDancer of the United Kingdom on 2012

BBDC 2012 students Carmella, Yasmin & Sera from Malta, won on different BellyDance Competitions after the Course

BBDC 2012 student Carmella after the course became a teacher in a yearly Egyptian BellyDance Festival in Cairo, Egypt

Free Marketing for successful course students

Dineska - video clip and photo session

This is the Amora Shams private course student Dineska, after ending the Show Test getting honoured by the Association of Marrocains without Borders with a Certificate, as achieved Professional Level in BellyDance, created this video clip for her to start a successful BellyDance career.

Business cards

These are 3 business cards that Amora Shams designed for free for her BBDC students of the 2011 edition, Samia, Zara and Azin. These cards were printed in Cairo and they took them back to their countries and all of them started their BellyDance career since then.

When Amora feels inspired by a good student who respects her, and got a successful result from the audience of their Show Test, dancing how should be, how she taught the student to dance, and she sees a strong potential in the future dancer, she feels she must help her with a push to start her dance career as soon as possible, so this is why Amora can take some of her time and creativity to produce free of charge some photos, videos and designs for her successful course students.

Amora Shams a part of a BellyDancer, dance teacher, choreographer, and a member of the International Dance Council, she is also an Qualified Interior Architect, a Graphic Designer, a Qualified Tourist Animator, and an artist in different fields, painter, drawer, sculpture, crafts, organic agriculture, etc.. So Amora designs and produces video clips, flyers and business cards for her course students. In Cairo has her printing office. Here are some examples:

What do you need to know about the course

The courses taught on this school are like University, paying the fee and assisting to all the classes is not enough, is also needed from the student to do daily homework, pick up notes during the lectures, and the teacher needs to daily correct all what the student does, to follow up a proper and gradually development of the student.

Also to pass the exams of the course, student need to have it clear in their mind, otherwise they will not pass the exams, so the daily homework helps you as the student to developuch quicker than if you just had to come twice per week during many years.

Additional equipment

Students need to have a laptop, an external hard disc of min. 500 GB and a smart phone.

For the homework’s you will need pen or pencil colours, white printer paper, and a note book.

The student needs to get their own props, veil, cymbals, wings or cape, cane, candelabra and sword.

If coming to study in Egypt, then Amora will take you to the costume designers, depending on your budget will take you to one or the other one, and  take you to the BellyDancing shops, so you will choose your favourite colours and models with the lowest fee you can get, because Amora Shams is known in the Khan el Khalili area for not getting the commissions that all other BellyDance teachers charge, so the prices she gets for her students are the cheapest in Egypt.

The Show Test

The final exam of the course is the show test, where students are required to perform in a private party for an Egyptian family with the teachers of the workshops held in Cairo in the last week of the course during the professional level program, them are the ones who evaluate if the student achieved the professional level, or not. Is not Amora Shams who decides if the student achieved the performing professional level, is the experts in bellydance, the Egyptian teachers.

When the course is taught somewhere else, in another country, then the show test is done publicly in an Arabian restaurant or event, like the case of Jaycee Gossett which she had to perform in a Lebanese restaurant in Marbella, Spain, or the case of Dineska that she had to perform in a public event in the House of Morocco in Fuengirola, Spain. Both students got a public recognition by the owners and the other BellyDancers as great performance and very professional, they couldn’t believe that these two students just started 20 days ago the course to become a bellydancer starting from any level in bellydance.

Below the show test of Dineshga or more know as Dineska the Diamond of Sri Lanka.

Intro to the course
Written and practical homeworks

Amora Shams created this intensive 20 days course in Cairo, Egypt on year 2008 after teaching BellyDance since 1993 developing the teaching techniques that she learned from her mother and mentor Alia Shams, and developing them to a point that any woman no matter their dance starting level, in few days could achieve movements that in any other BellyDance school will take more than 3 years to achieve.

Amora Shams teaches the intensive one month program, focus in the techniques and the tricks of the trade to become an competitive performer, teacher and choreographer, from any dance starting level, included absolute beginners. All it matters is if you do your written and practical daily homeworks, and concentrate 100% into her teachings and corrections.

Alia Shams teaches her own formation course, which was the original course that she created and started to teach on year 1994, which is taught in a 3 months program, but focus in the energetic philosophical therapeutical ancient and spiritual style.

Studying with them means formating all your ideas of what's BellyDance, and reconstructing your soul, mind and body into a true dancer and as a morality woman.

Professional BellyDance Certification Program

Certification Levels recognised in more than 150 countries world-wide.

Get the highest Official UNESCO BellyDance level certificate in 28-days intensive face to face program or by online 4 months program.

When completing the Course, successfully passing all exams, students get a Level Certificate like this one below, and if they passes successfully the Show Test, then also the registration in the UNESCO Dance Department as Teachers in BellyDance

For those who want to get the Certification of the UNESCO, is a must to study the Course from Level 1, but for those who just study the course to know more about BellyDance or for other reason and don't want the certificate then can book any single module or level of the course.

Study the Course face to face in one month or less

Study the BBDC

Become a BellyDancer Course

Private One to One face to face BBDC

Book the 20 days Private Course for August 2025

Study the BGBDC

Become a Golden BellyDancer Course

Private One to One face to face BGBDC

Book the 28 days Private Course for August 2025

Study Online

Study the BBDC by Modules

Easy & relaxing methodology by 10 hours per Module divided in:

3 teaching hours

3 hours for revisions

3 hours for Choreography

Plus 1 hour for evaluation.

Private One to One Online Course

To be taught in no more than 1 month per Module

When booking, choose the number of Modules you want to book for, from this program:

BBDC Level 1. Module 3

Learn to do and teach correctly the Undulations of your body, independent of each other. Undulations of the hips, the Belly, the chest, the arms & the head. The correct therapeutic & traditional BellyDance movements.
These movements were lost in history and our school has rescued them from the past through Alia Shams archeological investigations.

BBDC Level 1. Module 4

Learn to do and teach correctly the Undulations in the Space. Space Undulations of the hips, the chest & the head. The correct therapeutic & traditional BellyDance techniques. These movements were lost in history and our school has rescued them from the past through Alia Shams archeological investigations.

BBDC Level 1. Module 5

Learn to do and teach correctly the Traditional Traveling Steps. Essential movements all BellyDancers should know for travelling though the space with rythm. Some of these movements BellyDancers stopped using them from the 1990's, our School teacher Amora Shams recovered them with the help of her mother Alia Shams specially from Golden Era Egyptian Films and also from 1970's to 1990's Belly Dancers.

BBDC Level 2. Module 6

Learn to recognize the sounds of the different Arabian Musical Instruments for BellyDancers. Learn to dance by improvisation to any Taxim & Mawal.
Impress your friends by improvising to any type of music. In this module you will not only learn how to improvise traditionally to Arabian Taxims, but also to any type of melody.

BBDC Level 2. Module 10

Learn to use, put into the music and dance traditionally by improvisation with the Veils.
Plus learn to dance the Sufi Spiritual BellyDance Style.
Discover the secrets of this prop, it's symbolism, it's origins and what to consider when using n stage and off stage.
Impress your friends by improvising to any type of music with the Cymbals. In this module you will not only learn how to improvise traditionally to Arabian music with the Zills, but also to any type of music.

BBDC Level 2. Module 8

Learn to dance by improvisation to any Solo Tabla (darbuka percussions).
Impress your friends by improvising to any type of percussions. In this module you will not only learn how to improvise traditionally to Arabian percussions, but also to any type of percussions.

BBDC Level 2. Module 9

Learn to use, put into the music and dance by improvisation with the Cymbals (Zills) .
Discover the secrets of this prop, it's symbolism, it's origins and what to consider when using n stage and off stage.
Impress your friends by improvising to any type of music with the Cymbals. In this module you will not only learn how to improvise traditionally to Arabian music with the Zills, but also to any type of music.

Five modules per BBDC Level.

BBDC Level 1. Module 2

Learn to do and teach correctly the most basic movements of your body independent of each other. Isolations of the hips, the Belly, the chest, the arms & the head. The basement of all therapeutic BellyDance movements. Also you will learn to do and teach the shimmies & hittings of all parts of the body

BBDC Level 1. Module 1

Origins of BellyDance, Pharaohnic Dance, Therapeutic basics, History development, learn to recognize what is the authentic BellyDance, styles, from Golden BellyDancers Era to nowadays, and learn about Amora Shams & Alia Shams investigations on how BellyDance influenced in other Cultures & Dances.

BBDC Level 2. Module 7

Learn to dance by improvisation to any Balady . For all BellyDancers is a must know how to do it traditionally, respectful and classy style.
Impress your friends by improvising to any type of music. In this module you will not only learn how to improvise traditionally to Arabian Baladys, but also to any type of music.

BBDC Level 3. Module 11

Learn to recognize the different sections of the instrumental traditional music for BellyDancers, and what to do in each section.

BBDC Level 3. Module 13

Learn to present yourself into the stage, recognizing the exact moment where you should traditionally come into the stage, how to use, and how to dance by improvisation to the music with the cape.
Discover the secrets of this prop, it's symbolism, it's origins and what to consider when using n stage and off stage.

BBDC Level 3. Module 12

Learn the biography and to recognize the famous Arabian Singers and the famous songs for a BellyDancer and learn to analyze with an objective eye the traditional exceptional BellyDancers.

BBDC Level 3. Module 14

Learn to present yourself into the stage, recognizing the exact moment where you should traditionally come into the stage, how to use, and how to dance by improvisation to the music with the isis wings.
Discover the secrets of this prop, it's symbolism, it's origins and what to consider when using n stage and off stage.

BBDC Level 3. Module 15

Learn to use, to move accordingly and traditionally to the music, how to improvise and how to play with the public to any Saidi Folkloric Egyptian Cane Dance.
Discover the secrets of this prop, it's symbolism, it's origins and what to consider when using on the stage and off the stage.

BBDC Professional Level. Module 16

Learn the tricks of the trade to get bravo's from your public, and how to win in BellyDance competitions.

BBDC Professional Level. Module 20

Learn to do make up, sewing, marketing, traveling, how to find a job as a BellyDancer, and how to create your own BellyDance School.

BBDC Professional Level. Module 17

Learn to recognize Saudi music and what to do in each part, new movements and it's variations. Discover the origins of this Folkloric dance, and how has developed into nowadays. Learn how to dance to Saudi Arabian families.

BBDC Professional Level. Module 18

Learn to use and what to consider, how to move accordingly and traditionally to the music, how to improvise and how to dance with the public with the Ancestral Turkish Rythualistic Dance of the Sword.
Discover the secrets of this prop, it's symbolism, it's origins and what to consider when using on the stage and off the stage.

BBDC Professional Level. Module 19

Learn to use and what to consider, how to move accordingly and traditionally to the music, how to improvise and how to dance with the public with the Ancestral Egyptian Rythualistic Dance of the Candelabra (Shamadan) with fire 🔥🔥 🔥 over your head.🔥🔥 🔥
Discover the secrets of this prop, it's symbolism, it's origins and what to consider when using on the stage and off the stage.

Reduced Group Trimester Course

Study Online the BBDC on Sundays in a reduced group of 3 students

Book BBDC Professional Level:

Competitions, Candelabra & Sword

Book BBDC Level 1:

Therapeutic Techniques

Book BBDC Level 2:

Improvisation, Zills & Veil

Book BBDC Level 3:

Choreographies, Capes & Saidi

Private Online Course

Study Online the BBDC in 4 Months studying one level per month on your free timetable 3 times per week.

Book BBDC Professional Level:

Learn to win on BellyDance Competitions. Learn to dance with Candelabra & Sword

Book BBDC Level 1:

Learn all BellyDance Therapeutic Techniques from the most basic movements to the most difficult

Book BBDC Level 2:

Learn to improvise to any musical instrument. Learn to dance with Zills & Veil

Book BBDC Level 3:

Learn to create any Choreography Learn to dance with Capes & Cane

Study BellyDance for fun & health

Book Private BellyDance Online Lessons from the available Calendar

Book 10 private BellyDance Online lessons of 1h each

BellyDance Online Group Classes Mondays @ 7:30PM GMT+2

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