Faten

Faten was born in Egypt and studied music at The Conservatory of Fine Arts there. After leaving the conservatory, she went to England and received a diploma as a concert pianist. As a master of Middle Eastern dance, she has toured the world both as a teacher and performer for years and because of her travels, she is fluent in Arabic, English, Spanish and Italian languages. Thirty-five years ago Faten came to the United States to reside and then made a visit to Spain. While in Seville and Madrid she studied the art of Flamenco dance and mastered it. The Children's Museum of Indianapolis is one of her former employers, and she was their artist in residence for 15 years. Faten currently sub-contracts herself out to Young Audiences of Indiana and has been doing so since 1990. Now, she also teaches and performs both Middle Eastern dance and Flamenco at Garfield Park Fine Arts Center in Indianapolis, Indiana.

Mahmoud Reda, Bobby Ferah, and Yousry Sharif are some of the other masters of Middle Eastern dance that Faten has worked with over the years. In 2002 she taught for Yousry Sharif in New York.

Workshop

Faten will be teaching a drum solo and showing other dancers how to apply it to their own movements that they already know in order to create their own dance.
Faten will have music from the class available.