Company Description

Shahrahzad is a graduate of the Dance Perfomance Program at Grant MacEwan University and has worked as dancer and choreographer for professional dance companies such as the Brian Webb Dance Company, Mile Zero Dance and Alberta Dance Theatre. Her extensive training / teaching includes ballet, jazz, modern, tap, Highland dance and musical theatre. In 2009 she choreographed Suessical for the Western Canada Theatre Company and in 2015 she choreographed for Dancing Like the Stars.

In 1995, Shahrahzad discovered the beauty of Middle Eastern dance and it soon became her driving passion.

She has studied with some of the most renowned teachers in the Egyptian style and has travelled the world seeking to expand her knowledge Shahrahzad completed the Cairo Seminar for Teachers & Professional Dancers in Egypt in 2007 with Master Mahmoud Reda.

She has performed widely, including Dallas TX, Las Vegas and New York City.

She is presently engaged in online coaching with Ranya Renee of New York.
In 2004, she began a student troupe Banat Tariq (Daughters of Tariq) first place winners in '07 the Ahlan Cairo Event in Dallas, Texas.