Belly Dance - Beginners 60 min.

Dareen Hasan is a Syrian independent journalist, film director, and artist. She was a talented belly dancer from the age of five but could not perform as an artist later on because of the stigma against belly dance. She worked as an Orient dance teacher for seven years while studying journalism at Damascus university. She moved to the Netherlands after the war in Syria where she worked as a journalist in RNW. In 2014 she established her NGO (Nasawyia) to support women who suffered from war crimes. Nasawyia creates a large body awareness movement through belly dance, films and articles. Dareen's work became viral and made many interviews on DW Germany, BBC Arabia and DE Volkskrant and De correspondent Netherlands. Dareen now works as a belly dance fitness instructor in SportCity gyms in Haarlem and continues her positive body movement online and on the dance floor.