Welcome to Become a BellyDancer School

Discover the Sacred Secrets of BellyDance!
Philosophy, Therapeutic techniques, how to dance traditionally with the different props and Pharaohnic rythuals.
Amora & Alia Shams are specialist in the Ancient & Traditional Old School of BellyDance.
Providing the International UNESCO BellyDance Level Certifications since 2011
Prof. Amora Shams is a Master Teacher, who has been teaching BellyDance since 1993 in a very exceptional and intensive way, she developed a teaching methodology which makes her students, no matter their starting level, to achieve the difficult moves in the first 15 teaching hours of the formation course taught face to face as a private student, that's why she is the only one who can create BellyDancers performer, teachers & choreographers in just 20 days!
Our School teachers only teach female students

Online is taught by Live Video Calls like these ones:

Testimonials & Feedbacks by Class Students

Classes to learn BellyDance for fun, fitness and improve your techniques

Testimonials & Feedbacks by Course Students

Video & Voice Testimonials by students of the Formation Courses:

Amora Shams doesn't share publicly the secrets of BellyDance because she only teaches female students.
The secrets can only be shared to certain type of students, so she decided to only share them with the BBDC students.
That's why her successful BBDC students become so professional after the course, as far as we know, four BBDC students won on 5 International BellyDance competitions, few months after studying this program

Study a BellyDance Course to become an elegant BellyDancer, Teacher, Choreographer and open your own BellyDance School

BBDC students after ending successfully the Course

won on BellyDance Competitions

BBDC 2011 student Zara Abdelrahman won first prize as best BellyDancer of the United Kingdom on 2012

BBDC 2012 students Carmella, Yasmin & Sera from Malta, won on different BellyDance Competitions after the Course

three women in costumes posing for a photo
three women in costumes posing for a photo

BBDC 2012 student Carmella after the course became a teacher in a yearly Egyptian BellyDance Festival in Cairo, Egypt

Free Marketing for successful course students

Dineska - video clip and photo session

This is the Amora Shams private course student Dineska, after ending the Show Test getting honoured by the Association of Marrocains without Borders with a Certificate, as achieved Professional Level in BellyDance, created this video clip for her to start a successful BellyDance career.

Business cards

These are 3 business cards that Amora Shams designed for free for her BBDC students of the 2011 edition, Samia, Zara and Azin. These cards were printed in Cairo and they took them back to their countries and all of them started their BellyDance career since then.

When Amora feels inspired by a good student who respects her, and got a successful result from the audience of their Show Test, dancing how should be, how she taught the student to dance, and she sees a strong potential in the future dancer, she feels she must help her with a push to start her dance career as soon as possible, so this is why Amora can take some of her time and creativity to produce free of charge some photos, videos and designs for her successful course students.

Amora Shams a part of a BellyDancer, dance teacher, choreographer, and a member of the International Dance Council, she is also an Qualified Interior Architect, a Graphic Designer, a Qualified Tourist Animator, and an artist in different fields, painter, drawer, sculpture, crafts, organic agriculture, etc.. So Amora designs and produces video clips, flyers and business cards for her course students. In Cairo has her printing office. Here are some examples:

What do you need to know about the course

The courses taught on this school are like University, paying the fee and assisting to all the classes is not enough, is also needed from the student to do daily homework, pick up notes during the lectures, and the teacher needs to daily correct all what the student does, to follow up a proper and gradually development of the student.

Also to pass the exams of the course, student need to have it clear in their mind, otherwise they will not pass the exams, so the daily homework helps you as the student to developuch quicker than if you just had to come twice per week during many years.

Additional equipment

Students need to have a laptop, an external hard disc of min. 500 GB and a smart phone.

For the homework’s you will need pen or pencil colours, white printer paper, and a note book.

The student needs to get their own props, veil, cymbals, wings or cape, cane, candelabra and sword.

If coming to study in Egypt, then Amora will take you to the costume designers, depending on your budget will take you to one or the other one, and  take you to the BellyDancing shops, so you will choose your favourite colours and models with the lowest fee you can get, because Amora Shams is known in the Khan el Khalili area for not getting the commissions that all other BellyDance teachers charge, so the prices she gets for her students are the cheapest in Egypt.

The Show Test

The final exam of the course is the show test, where students are required to perform in a private party for an Egyptian family with the teachers of the workshops held in Cairo in the last week of the course during the professional level program, them are the ones who evaluate if the student achieved the professional level, or not. Is not Amora Shams who decides if the student achieved the performing professional level, is the experts in bellydance, the Egyptian teachers.

When the course is taught somewhere else, in another country, then the show test is done publicly in an Arabian restaurant or event, like the case of Jaycee Gossett which she had to perform in a Lebanese restaurant in Marbella, Spain, or the case of Dineska that she had to perform in a public event in the House of Morocco in Fuengirola, Spain. Both students got a public recognition by the owners and the other BellyDancers as great performance and very professional, they couldn’t believe that these two students just started 20 days ago the course to become a bellydancer starting from any level in bellydance.

Below the show test of Dineshga or more know as Dineska the Diamond of Sri Lanka.

Written and practical homeworks

Amora Shams created this intensive 20 days course in Cairo, Egypt on year 2008 after teaching BellyDance since 1993 developing the teaching techniques that she learned from her mother and mentor Alia Shams, and developing them to a point that any woman no matter their dance starting level, in few days could achieve movements that in any other BellyDance school will take more than 3 years to achieve.

Amora Shams teaches the intensive one month program, focus in the techniques and the tricks of the trade to become an competitive performer, teacher and choreographer, from any dance starting level, included absolute beginners. All it matters is if you do your written and practical daily homeworks, and concentrate 100% into her teachings and corrections.

Alia Shams teaches her own formation course, which was the original course that she created and started to teach on year 1994, which is taught in a 3 months program, but focus in the energetic philosophical therapeutical ancient and spiritual style.

Studying with them means formating all your ideas of what's BellyDance, and reconstructing your soul, mind and body into a true dancer and as a morality woman.

Professional BellyDance Certification Program

Certification Levels recognised in more than 150 countries world-wide.

Get the highest Official UNESCO BellyDance level certificate in 28-days intensive face to face program or by online 4 months program.

When completing the Course, successfully passing all exams, students get a Level Certificate like this one below, and if they passes successfully the Show Test, then also the registration in the UNESCO Dance Department as Teachers in BellyDance

For those who want to get the Certification of the UNESCO, is a must to study the Course from Level 1, but for those who just study the course to know more about BellyDance or for other reason and don't want the certificate then can book any single module or level of the course.

Study the Internationally Certified Formation Course

BBDC

BECOME A BELLYDANCER COURSE

This belly dance course is not a normal course, you do not only learn techniques with combinations or some choreography, it is a course aimed at students of all levels in belly dance, it was exclusively designed to create professional dancers of belly dance intensively teaching them from the most basic to the most complicated, step by step, with exclusive teaching techniques for each private student, who studies it with the teacher of teachers worldwide, Prof. Amora Shams.
The BBDC "Become a Bellydancer Course" program is made up of 4 levels, where students have to study with a notebook in hand, taking notes during class and with daily duties to present to the teacher to be Also corrected daily by her, and if there are errors, do them again but correctly by the student. When you study in person in 20 intensive days, each level is made up of 5 lessons of 3 hours each, and at the end of each level, the student is examined with a written and practical exam. The BBDC is a unique and unrepeatable course. Take the opportunity to study from a unique teacher in her traditional and captivating style. She is probably one of the few in the world to share the secrets of the oriental dance, commonly called "belly dance".
Our teacher Amora Shams while living in Cairo, Egypt, after 15 years giving the Belly Dance since 1993, created an Oriental Dance training course in 2008 offering level certificates since 2008, and since 2011 it offers international certification from the UNESCO Department of Dance, which is the only official certification of the recognized oriental dance internationally. Official certification of the belly dance or oriental dance. International Level certificates in BellyDance.
Intensive training course of 20 days (28 days with revisions, exams and one day off per week). Course open to private students starting from any level. The same online course is taught in 4 months studying as a private student 4 hours a week through live video calls.
Book on this website online to save money, or
Book by bank transfer now with the 50% and the remaining 50% to be paid to start the Course face to face

The BBDC

PROGRAM

BBDC Level 1. Module 1

Origins of BellyDance, Pharaohnic Dance, Therapeutic basics, History development, learn to recognize what is the authentic BellyDance, styles, from Golden BellyDancers Era to nowadays, and learn about Amora Shams & Alia Shams investigations on how BellyDance influenced in other Cultures & Dances.

BBDC Level 1. Module 2

Learn to do and teach correctly the most basic movements of your body independent of each other. Isolations of the hips, the Belly, the chest, the arms & the head. The basement of all therapeutic BellyDance movements. Also you will learn to do and teach the shimmies & hittings of all parts of the body

BBDC Level 1. Module 3

Learn to do and teach correctly the Undulations of your body, independent of each other. Undulations of the hips, the Belly, the chest, the arms & the head. The correct therapeutic & traditional BellyDance movements.
These movements were lost in history and our school has rescued them from the past through Alia Shams archeological investigations.

BBDC Level 1. Module 4

Learn to do and teach correctly the Undulations in the Space. Space Undulations of the hips, the chest & the head. The correct therapeutic & traditional BellyDance techniques.
These movements were lost in history and our school has rescued them from the past through Alia Shams archeological investigations

BBDC Level 1. Module 5

Learn to do and teach correctly the Traditional Traveling Steps. Essential movements all BellyDancers should know for travelling though the space with rythm.
Some of these movements BellyDancers stopped using them from the 1990's, our School teacher Amora Shams recovered them with the help of her mother Alia Shams specially from Golden Era Egyptian Films and also from 1970's to 1990's Belly Dancers investigations

BBDC Level 2. Module 6

Learn to recognize the sounds of the different Arabian Musical Instruments for BellyDancers. Learn to dance by improvisation to any Taxim & Mawal.
Impress your friends by improvising to any type of music. In this module you will not only learn how to improvise traditionally to Arabian Taxims, but also to any type of melody.

BBDC Level 2. Module 7

Learn to dance by improvisation to any Balady . For all BellyDancers is a must know how to do it traditionally, respectful and classy style.
Impress your friends by improvising to any type of music. In this module you will not only learn how to improvise traditionally to Arabian Baladys, but also to any type of music.

BBDC Level 2. Module 8

Learn to dance by improvisation to any Solo Tabla (darbuka percussions).
Impress your friends by improvising to any type of percussions. In this module you will not only learn how to improvise traditionally to Arabian percussions, but also to any type of percussions.

BBDC Level 2. Module 9

Learn to use, put into the music and dance by improvisation with the Cymbals (Zills) .
Discover the secrets of this prop, it's symbolism, it's origins and what to consider when using n stage and off stage.
Impress your friends by improvising to any type of music with the Cymbals. In this module you will not only learn how to improvise traditionally to Arabian music with the Zills, but also to any type of music.

BBDC Level 2. Module 10

Learn to use, put into the music and dance traditionally by improvisation with the Veils.
Plus learn to dance the Sufi Spiritual BellyDance Style.
Discover the secrets of this prop, it's symbolism, it's origins and what to consider when using n stage and off stage.
Impress your friends by improvising to any type of music with the Cymbals. In this module you will not only learn how to improvise traditionally to Arabian music with the Zills, but also to any type of music

BBDC Level 3. Module 11

Learn to recognize the different sections of the instrumental traditional music for BellyDancers, and what to do in each section.
Music Composition and some basic Solfeo reading partitures.

BBDC Level 3. Module 12

Learn the biography and to recognize the famous Arabian Singers and the famous songs for a BellyDancer and learn to analyze with an objective eye the traditional exceptional BellyDancers.
Learn specific movements which are characteristics from other great dancers

BBDC Level 3. Module 13

Learn to present yourself into the stage, recognizing the exact moment where you should traditionally come into the stage, how to use, and how to dance by improvisation to the music with the cape.
Discover the secrets of this prop, it's symbolism, it's origins and what to consider when using n stage and off stage.

BBDC Level 3. Module 14

Learn to present yourself into the stage, recognizing the exact moment where you should traditionally come into the stage, how to use, and how to dance by improvisation to the music with the isis wings.
Discover the secrets of this prop, it's symbolism, it's origins and what to consider when using n stage and off stage.

BBDC Level 3. Module 15

Learn to use, to move accordingly and traditionally to the music, how to improvise and how to play with the public to any Saidi Folkloric Egyptian Cane Dance.
Discover the secrets of this prop, it's symbolism, it's origins and what to consider when using on the stage and off the stage.

BBDC Professional Level. Module 16

Learn the tricks of the trade to get bravo's from your public, and how to win in BellyDance competitions.

BBDC Professional Level. Module 17

Learn to recognize Saudi music and what to do in each part, new movements and it's variations. Discover the origins of this Folkloric dance, and how has developed into nowadays. Learn how to dance to Saudi Arabian families.

BBDC Professional Level. Module 18

Learn to use and what to consider, how to move accordingly and traditionally to the music, how to improvise and how to dance with the public with the Ancestral Turkish Rythualistic Dance of the Sword.
Discover the secrets of this prop, it's symbolism, it's origins and what to consider when using on the stage and off the stage.

BBDC Professional Level. Module 19

Learn to use and what to consider, how to move accordingly and traditionally to the music, how to improvise and how to dance with the public with the Ancestral Egyptian Rythualistic Dance of the Candelabra (Shamadan) with fire 🔥🔥 🔥 over your head.🔥🔥 🔥
Discover the secrets of this prop, it's symbolism, it's origins and what to consider when using on the stage and off the stage.

BBDC Professional Level. Module 20

Learn to do make up, sewing, marketing, traveling, how to find a job as a BellyDancer, and how to create your own BellyDance School

Amora Shams is available to teach face to face the course in Almuñécar Spain in September 2025. From October 2025 until December 2025 in an Arabian Country, from February 2026 in the Jungle, not sure yet where exactly depends on www.ARVIDA.org projects, as she is volunteering for the director of ARVIDA which is her mother and master teacher in BellyDance, Alia Shams, helping her to develop artistic & nature protection projects.

Choose your best option available:

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