About Us
Zaia Hadiyyah and Dance Orientale are professional dancers that are passionate and captivating performers who will engage you into their world and leave a lasting impression on your audiences.  Their dedication and respect for the art of Oriental dance is experienced in their engaging stage presence and captivating  personalities.  Alluring and mysterious, they will entice your audience to sway their hips and move their bodies!

Meet Zaia

A native South African, Zaia is now living in the USA.  Zaia Hadiyyah promotes education in Middle Eastern dance, culture, music, and costuming. Zaia’s focus is on the enhancement of the physical, emotional, and social well-being of women in the community. She does this through oriental dance classes, seminars, tours and performance attendance and participation. Zaia has been dancing since she was 3 years old; has experienced most dancing principles and has been involved in the art of Oriental Dance for 15 plus years. She has done intense training in the Middle East, South Africa and the USA with acclaimed and respected teachers. In South Africa; Zaia was the owner of a large dance studio, a professional performer and choreographer. She ran workshops regularly; directed a professional performance troupe and has participated in International Belly Dance Festivals in Europe, Egypt and South Africa.  She teaches Folkloric and Cabaret style dance from the Middle East and North Africa as well as African dance.

In 2008 Zaia established a studio in Omaha NE and in 2009 she formed the Daughters of Nefertiti Troupe and serves as the Artistic Director for the troupe.  She is currently living in Atlanta GA with her family and has opened a new studio in the Roswell area. Here she will again form a troupe and with her daughter also teach African Dance.

Available to her students is the opportunity to enroll and study the Belly Dancing Association of South Africa’s (BDASA) 7 grade exam syllabus to measure their own progress and development.

 Zaia has a passion for working on joint ventures with sponsors who organize functions related to community service and makes herself available to teach in these communities.

She is available for workshops and Intensive master classes.  

                   
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                                   Meet Hamila

Hamila ( Liezel) – Formerly trained as a prima ballerina with the Russian Cechetti  technique in ballet, had a long standing career in classical dancing for 33 years.  She competed,  performed and danced in Ballet, Tap, Jazz, Flamenco, and Contemporary Dancing in both South Africa and the USA.  Liezel has also taught high potential  dancers in core strength and technique skills, served as a master teacher for various studios and trained competitive Gymnasts in core ballet technique for Premier Gymnastics.  Apart from dancing with companies and performing for various dance studios, she recently changed her dance career from classical to Middle Eastern dancing and now studies under Zaia in Dance Orientale and performs for the Daughters of Nefertitti.  She is now directing the SEEDS school for girls where she combines her practice as an Industrial Psychologist and Dancer. 

She has been tutored by and danced with the esteemed Myra Krien, Princess Fahrana, Sabine, Cecilia, John Compton, Jim Boz, Benu and others.  She also performed at various Festivals, Benefit events and served as a master teacher for Belly Dance Workshops.

Liezel does not just dance!  She is an Industrial Psychologist by profession and also raises 3 amazing children Trey, Mila and Zaia J

Liezel is passionate about dance and mental wellness and will always incorporate both her strengths into whatever she does.

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   Meet Kim

Kimberly Brooks (aka Amunet) -  Kim has her own tax practice and is a Certified Public Accountant.  She has practiced accounting and taxes for the last 25 years in multiple states and still maintains clients from many of these states. She has aided many small entrepreneurs in their dream of business ownership.   Kim has been dancing with the Middle Eastern dance troupe " The Daughters of Nefertiti" for two years. Kim came late to the adventure of belly dancing and wonders how she ever lived without it in her life.  Belly dancing offers Kim the perfect counterbalance to her life in the business world.  Kim does not come from a dancing back ground but proves that the freeing spirit of the dance and the beautiful costumes show the other side of the "woman in the blue business suit".  Kim's love of the dance, her fellow sisters in dance and her teacher,  Zaia Hadiyyah,  convinced Kim to become an assistant teacher and introduce other women to this wonderful experience.  Kim currently teaches a beginners belly dance class in Omaha Nebraska under the guidance of her teacher Zaia.  

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   Meet Loren