Patrisha
www.patrisha.nl
Personal drive for dancing: When I dance, I feel free. Free to be myself, free to show my vulnerability and my feminine power! 
Speciality: Expressing the feeling of the music from my heart.
Comedy; I love to act in my performance!
Favorite instrument: Accordeon and canoun; both sensitive en shimmylike instruments.
Number of years experience: Bellydancing since 1997, member of Baladi dancegroup since 2001. Teaching in Zaandam since 2006.

Anastasiya

www.anastasiya-dance.com
Personal drive for dancing: When I dance it's the same for me as if I speak about my life, my feelings: happiness or sadness, love or passion. Through the dance I express myself and in the dance I live my life...
Speciality: Bringing my passion, Russian femininity and sensuality into oriental dance.
Favorite instrument: It's just irresistable when you hear orchester with all arabic instruments. But if I have to choose, I will choose for accordeon
Dance experience: I have been dancing since childhood but was introduced to the world of oriental dance in 2001. The member of Baladi Dance Group from 2005. And since that time from being just a hobby it became the addiction of my life....

Sara
Website:  http://dancingstories.carbonmade.com/ 
Personal drive for dancing:  Dancing for me is about enjoying whether it is a moment, my audience, the music or myself. Dance allows me to travel through time, delve into dance cultures and explore different traditions. 
Speciality:  I like to be free from styles, to blend Greek songs with Egyptian dance steps, to combine Fado music with Turkish floor work or merge Indian melodies with modern dance.
Favorite instrument:  Accordeon
Dance experience:  My first bellydance class was in 2001. I joined the Baladi group in 2007.

Tato
Personal drive for dancing:  Dancing, for me, is the most natural way to celebrate life. It's my direct ticket to pure joy and my means of expression. I dance because I need to, because I love to, because I live to.
Speciality:  I looove baladi! It's those moments of playfulness and interaction that make me feel I'm giving my best to the audience.
Favorite instrument:  Being grown up with the sound of the accordeon, I love and I understand this instrument as if it was family.
Dance experience:  I joined the Baladi Dance Group in 2007.

Lies
Dance experience: Bellydancing since 2005, member of Baladi Group since 2008.
Personal drive for dancing:  I love the music it makes me feel like dancing. 

Jannie
Dance experience: Several years of salsadancing. Bellydancing since 2005, member of Baladi dancegroup since 2008
Personal drive for dancing:  It's my passion!
Favorite instrument: Accordeon and Darbuka

Anneminke
Dance experience: Bellydancing since september 2006, member of Baladi dancegroup since january 2009.
Personal drive for dancing:  Dancing plays an important role in my life. It's my passion.
Favorite instrument: Darbuka.

Yasmine
Personal drive for dancing: Dancing for me is a way to express emotions, whether this is passion, love, pain or happiness. It's a part of me, it's a part of my roots. 
Favourite instrument: Darbuka and Violin.
Dance experience: As a Little girl I did Jazz Ballet for many years. Although brought up with arabic music started with real oriental dance since 2004.

Izara
www.izara.nl
Personal drive for dancing:

 

 Dancing bellydance is a language to express my true self. When I am dancing
my body takes over and translates the music into movement. Sometimes when I
am dancing it is like I am starting to fly, the energy of the public is as
the wind under my wings.
Speciality: To improvise; slow dance and playing with audiance
Favorite instrument: The ney (if I have to choose)
Number of years experience: Bellydancing since 1999, member of Baladi dancegroup since 2005

Nuyuum
www.nuyuum.com
Personal drive for dancing:

 

 Belly dance is different from other dances because it engages not only the body, but also the emotions. When you belly dance, you let yourself melt with the beauty of the melody and the power of the Arabic rhythms. Your body, your mind and your heart are connected to the music through invisible threads, and you let them fly and forget about everything else. It is in this state when even the most hidden emotions emerge. That is what I call 'dancing from the inside.
Speciality:

 

 I like to dance on simple songs with strong melodies. This way I can take the time to live the music and express what makes me feel. Emotional expression and connection with the audience through my face, my eyes, and my arms is my favorite part of the dance. When I want to play and fly I love turning and whirling!
Favorite instruments: Nay, violin and acordion.
Dance experience: Bellydancing since 2003, member of Baladi group since 2004

Jihane
www.ji-dance.com
Personal drive for dancing: I love entertaining people by showing them an interpretation of music, using my body.
Speciality: Passion and spirit, mimic art 
Favorite instrument: Accordeon
Dance experience: Bellydancing and member of the group since 2005. Before that high level salsadancing for 5 years. I was teaching and a member of numerous showgroups. 

Brigitte

Personal drive for dancing: Dancing is a part of my life, it makes my life complete. I can't imagine how life would be without music and dancing. If I hear bellydance music, it's hard to sit still!
Speciality: I love to dance on songs which contain a varyity of instruments. I let the music lead my movements
Favorite instrument: Darbuka
Dance experience: I started bellydancing in 2003 and joined the Baladi dancegroup in march 2006
Angelique
Personal drive for dancing: Music makes me want to move. It's always been like that. It's a way to express myself
Speciality: My speciality is my appearance and strong but souple movements. Fast music with power, changed by slower influances
Favourite instrument: I don't have a favourite instrument. I like powerful faster music with darbuka and bass. Especially Turkish music  
Dance experience:
In 2003 it was really started after seeing a bellydance show in Egypt. Since then I'm addicted to bellydance. I joined the Baladi dancegroup in march 2006.

Ashra

Personal drive for dancing: Passion
Speciality: Egyptian traditional styles, Trancedance and exploring the Folkloric &  Bellydance styles from all over the Orient, from Morroccan to Balkan to Gypsy to Indian
Favourite instrument: Mizmar
Dance experience: Performs since 1995, started performing with Mahdy Emara at the same year and is doing so until today. Teacher and choreographer since 2001.