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An award-winning professional bellydancer,Sandra has been performing in restaurants and night clubs in the San Francisco bay area for over a decade. She is a popular dancer at Arabic, Turkish, and Persian venues and is currentlythe house dancer at 3 popular night clubs on the San Francisco Peninsula. Middle Eastern audiences enjoy her natural understanding of Arabic music, her playful personality, and her authentic and relaxed 'raks-sharki' dance style.

Sandra began her study of Bellydance with Nanna Candelaria while a student at UC Berkeley and continued studying and performing with Nanna through her graduate work at Stanford. Sandra's understanding of Arabic belly dance is enriched by studying ethnic dance forms from many cultures, including Flamenco and Classical Indian dance. Sandra spent 4 months in Mexico studying Flamenco in 1998, and has spent 6 years pursuing the study of classical Indian Baratha Natyam, most recently with Shreelata Suresh's Vishwa Shanti school of Indian dance. Sandra studied classical Persian dance with Lorna Zilba and performed with her LifeDance Theater company and is currently studying Classical Persian and Central Asian dance with Ballet Afsaneh. To keep things groovy, Sandra keeps up her jazz/funk/hip-hop skills with Lisa Navarro along with traditional ballet technique with Eric Bourman at Western Ballet Academy.

Sandra has performed through out North and South America, India and Asia and also travels regularly to Istanbul to perform in local night clubs and weddings. Sandra is also a respected dance instructor, with workshops in Mexico City, Santiago, Tokyo, Kuala Lumpur, Singapore and Rome scheduled for 2008. Her experience with multiple dance forms along with years spent working in authentic Arabic nightclubs helps her give students a professional polish with traditional style.

Sandra is well known in the international Middle Eastern Dance community, appearing on the covers of 10 bellydance Cds. She is a popular model for Arabic-themed print advertisements, and is featured in the upcoming series of Bellydance performance DVDs produced by Peko Records/Hollywood Music Center. Sandra has been profiled in Slovakian and Russian magazines and newspapers, along with numerous appearances in local media, TV commercials, and advertisements.

Sandra holds a B.S. in geology and an M.S. in mineral exploration but currently works full time as a professional bellydancer. When she is not dancing, Sandra enjoys camping and backpacking with her Swiss Mountain Dog, Enzo.