One thing is certain: It's always a surprise seeing her dance! With her beautiful and innovative repertoire, Nanda Najla enchants and dazzles her audience with her creativity and versatility. Know here some of her "styles" in the current dance.
 
Classic Bellydance
The millenary Classic Egyptian Dance is one of the great passions of Nanda Najla. It has subtle hip moves, hip shimmies' domain, displacements adapted from the Classical Ballet, simplified movements of arms and hands, using of Arabesque, spinns, chasses and much more. It is a very exciting and expressive dance. The peak of a bellydancer.
Tribal Fusion
Totally hypnotic, bold and surprising, the Tribal Fusion, which style Nanda Najla is reference in and one of the pioneers in Brazil to perform it, is a modality of free and contemporary dance originaly from the United States in the late 90 as a part of the style ATS (American Tribal Style), which is based on the bellydance, allowing merging movements and costumes from various other types of dance. In particular, while Nanda Najla dance, it's possible to identify a little bit of all dance styles of dance that she developed, including a large influence of the break (hiphop).
Tango

The Tango that was born in the late nineteenth century in the suburbs of Buenos Aires, is an old and hidden dream of Nanda Najla, which now suddenly takes place with the support of Carlos Clarck, her great friend and partner. With all the femininity and elegance, Nanda can fatally emotion who watch her. It is a totally engaging and seductive dance that inspires and makes our hearts ache in love.

Bellytango

The Bellytango, a fusion of Classical bellydance and the argentine Tango, is one of the strength points of Nanda Najla, one of the pioneers in Brazil to perform it. As a very recent and contemporary style, historically there's nothing to say about it. Because of this, Nanda, through specific studies in Tango and with her strong experience in bellydance, she could develop her own concept and style, resulting in something simply unique.
There are few bellydancers who dared to be inspired by the beautiful argentine compositions . In Nanda's point of view, the melody rich in details, requires domain of musical reading and body dexterity. The elegance is a prerequisite for this style, and of course, the facial and body expression must be impeccable.
In short, the Tango is the dance of flesh, desire, intertwined bodies and bellydance is a female dance of seduction and fertility, which we can be sure is that the union of these dances can only result in something fascinating, engaging and dazzling.

Tribal Tango
A delicious fusion of the Tribal Fusion and Tango. A totally engaging, strong and striking combination. Nanda was the first dancer to develop this merger in Brazil and was invited this year to minister a workshop of this style,in the largest event of Tribal Fusion of the East Coast of the United States, The Spirit of the Tribes in Florida!
Zambra / Arabic Flamenco

The Zambra dance (from Arabic Samra), born of the new cultural manifestations from the coexistence among people from East and Europe after the Arab invasion in Spain, inherited this name because of the Mourisco's festival that was being performed in the Spanish peninsula, especially in the region of Andalusia. The Zambra or Arabic Flamenco came to be, the fusion of dance movements of eastern ancients and Gypsies. It's possible to see the clear influence of all this cultural patchwork,like beautiful skirts' work and gypsy dance's displacements, ripples, hip shimmies and the use of oriental dance's accessories; tap dance, palms, singing, castanets, fans, mantóns (shawls) from Flamenco dance. It is a totally vibrant and contagious dance.

 
Asian Fusion
The Chinese/Japonese dance has its own vocabulary and meaning, allowing a dancer fully express her thoughts and feelings with ease and grace while dancing. Delighted with this culture, Nanda, because of the no availability of information about the meaning of gestures and movements of this dance, developed without cultural links, a fusion inspired in many Asian dances which she studied through performance videos, including movements and postures of Kung-fu and bellydance. An unusual, striking and surprising merger!
 
Modern Dance (Fusion)

Before the Modern Dance, the Classical Dance (Ballet) was the highest artistic expression of body movement on the world's stages. The Modern Dance has emerged as a break in the rigorous standards of academic, researching new ways for art to human expression through body movement. It is based on the mobilize of the entire body to the expression, especially the torso, that all modern dancers, of all tendencies, consider the source and engine of the gesture. Nanda's inspirations are Isadora Duncan, the pioneer in Modern Dance and Martha Graham, both from the United States. In this style, Nanda demand freedom of movement through a merger of the basic movements of bellydance with the versatility of Modern Dance.

 
 
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