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“To dance is to be out of yourself. Larger, more beautiful, more powerful… This is power, it is glory on earth and it is yours for the taking”
Agnes De Mille
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danceBOOK+ : Video header 1 of dancebookplus - Capturing photos of giving back to society through dance in July 2019
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Spotlight on Studio Partner: Are You Willing To Sacrifice For Your Dreams? #2 : Zena Xing, Founder/Director of Merzly Oriental Dance Singapore (Part 10 of 10)
As for her other students, she is preparing them to progress their next level of skills always by providing them ample opportunities to showcase the fruits of their learning in recitals and invitational performances whenever possible.
I enjoyed chatting with Zena as she embodies the spirit of building others up which is aligned with the mission of danceBOOK+ .
I love it when she simply wants to share her love for this art form and to celebrate the bond and sisterhood created.
Importantly, I see how she exemplify through her journey of Merzly Oriental Dance that if we put our heart to learning something, we would be able to achieve our dream.
She started as a total beginner with no background in dance and look at her now. Now, this gives me hope 😝
Watch out for stories about other dancers too & I will be covering another series about Zena again one day
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Spotlight on Studio Partner: Are You Willing To Sacrifice For Your Dreams? #2 : Zena Xing, Founder/Director of Merzly Oriental Dance Singapore (Part 9 of 10)
Over the years, she gained some reputation in the industry and often invited as judge and performers in prestigious events : -
- 2014 - 2019 ASIA GLOBAL BELLYDANCE Galashow
- 2014 WATC Belly Dance Festival China Galashow
- 2014 Viet Nam Belly Dance Festival Galashow
- 2014 Top-Star Shenzhen China Galashow
- 2015 Belly Dance Asia Malaysia Galashow
- 2015 ORIENTAL PASSION" GREECE Galashow
- 2015 & 2016 Oriental Xpression, Kuala Lumpur Malaysia Galashow
- 2016 Raks El Hob Hongkong Galashow
- 2017 Ahlan Belly Dance Gestival Viet Nam Judge and Special Guest
- 2017 Internationale Bellydance Malaysia Judge and Special Guest
- 2018 Korea Oriental Seoul Judge and Galashow
- 2018 WAMED Festival Perth Teacher and Special Guest
- 2018 2nd Oriental Dance Festival in Viet Nam Judge and Special Guest
- 2019 Oriental night Malaysia Galashow
- 2019 Mabrouk international Oriental Dance Festival in Korea Judge and Galashow
- 2019 3rd Oriental Dance Festival in Viet Nam Judge and Special Guest
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We were dancing to Rowdy Baby, Maari 2 at Singapore Boat Quay on 13 July 2019, there was a spontaneous dancer dancing behind us. danceBOOK+ wish to ask him to join us in our next video on 20 July 2019 at Gardens By The Bay, between 3 - 4pm. Coonect with us
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Spotlight on Studio Partner: Are You Willing To Sacrifice For Your Dreams? #2 : Zena Xing, Founder/Director of Merzly Oriental Dance Singapore (Part 1 of 10)
All the odds are against choosing dance as a career.
As a dancer, you asked to be extremely adaptable to the choreography without ownership over any dance. And dancers are sometimes barely ever paid, constantly traumatized by bad working conditions and trained for years without any promise of returns.
Obviously we love to dance. It feels good. There are so many reasons to do it, and we're still doing it, still believing in it. So what's the drive to do something that's obviously not in your best interest and even taking it to the extreme, pursuing it as a career?
This series is dedicated to the attempt to comprehend why these dreamers can give up the conventional path of career to pursue dance.
...to be continued
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Posting about Bellywood, a fusion of Bollywood & Bellydance at Asia Global Bellydance in Singapore
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The one thing that can solve most of our problems is dancing. — James Brown
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“Dance is the hidden language of the soul.” Martha Graham
Bellywood, fusion of Bellydance & Bollywood @ Asia Global Bellydance, Singapore
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Spotlight on Studio Partner: Are You Willing To Sacrifice For Your Dreams? #2 : Zena Xing, Founder/Director of Merzly Oriental Dance Singapore (Part 8 of 10)
Zena provided professional and intensive training for her Members of the Merzly Dance Troupe and often brings her troupe to attend various local and overseas belly dance events, such as workshops and competitions.
Her hardwork resulted in her troupe coming in as first runner-up in the Asia Global Bellydance 2014 Competition (Professional category)
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Spotlight on Studio Partner: Are You Willing To Sacrifice For Your Dreams? #2 : Zena Xing, Founder/Director of Merzly Oriental Dance Singapore (Part 7 of 10)
As a matter of fact, she started this dance studio only because she wanted continual learning for her group of students who otherwise would be left stranded as she had left her position as an instructor in the previous school.
She could not bear leaving her students, such is her heart for the love of imparting and sharing her skills.
Hence, her mission for her school is to encourage growth among her students by offering a mutually supportive environment which emphasize collaboration and exploring for improving their technical and performance skills
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Spotlight on Studio Partner: Are You Willing To Sacrifice For Your Dreams? #2 : Zena Xing, Founder/Director of Merzly Oriental Dance Singapore (Part 6 of 10)
Zena believes in the pursuit of excellence in dance skills and strongly advocates continual learning and upgrading of oneself.
True to her belief, she is also always actively seeking opportunities to learn from master teachers herself.
Her positive attitude towards learning is seen in the way she runs her dance studio.
She wants to nurture all of her students' creativity as she believes that every of her student has the potential to realize his or her own vision as a dancer.
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Spotlight on Studio Partner: Are You Willing To Sacrifice For Your Dreams? #2 : Zena Xing, Founder/Director of Merzly Oriental Dance Singapore (Part 5 of 10)
As I talked more to her, I realized she is really what she meant, about sharing her passion for dance.
"I love to dance and wanted to share my love for this art form" said the bubbly Zena, who had won many awards in dance competitions held in Singapore and Malaysia such as the Asia Global Bellydance Professional Solo Championships in 2015, the Malaysia Oriental Expression Oriental Queen 1st Runner Up in 2015, the Belly Dance Asia Professional Solo 1st Runner up in 2014 and the Asia Global Bellydance Professional Troupe and Solo 1st Runner Up in 2014
Zena started the Merzly Dance Troupe in 2013 with its founding members— Mandy, and other fellow dance students who were attending the Nile Group Festival in China.
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Spotlight on Studio Partner: Are You Willing To Sacrifice For Your Dreams? #2 : Zena Xing, Founder/Director of Merzly Oriental Dance Singapore (Part 4 of 10)
" I fell in love with bellydance right away as dance is a good stress reliever. When I dance, I forgot myself and live in the moment only" and I nodded in agreement as this is exactly how I felt too when I danced.
She enjoyed her bellyfit classes in Desert Roses for about a year before she felt that she had to deepen her knowledge in bellydance.
She made the bold decision to go for a 6 months full-time intensive bellydance professional training programme with AFOD - Angella Format Oriental Dance (training programme), (北京安琪拉东方舞) in Beijing in which she practically spent all of her waking hours in the school moving from one level of training to the next.
She was introduced to Korean Shimmy Queen Angella Kim by her colleague who knew of her passion for bellydance.
She recalled pensively," That was a total torture.
I did not know how I got through all those intensive training and immerse pressure to master all the skills taught within a short period of time. Sometimes I would cry out of sheer pain and stress"
Her passion to master the craft of bellydance helped her endure the hardship and she completed the course and came back to Singapore to Desert Roses as a instructor to share her knowledge.
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Spotlight on Studio Partner: Are You Willing To Sacrifice For Your Dreams? #2 : Zena Xing, Founder/Director of Merzly Oriental Dance Singapore (Part 3 of 10)
She asked me instead," Why did you dance?"
A short pause ensued before she smiled and answered her own question, "When I first came to Singapore 10 years ago, I was looking for a healthy recreational activity to widen my social circle and get fit.
There was an option of a bellydance school, Desert Roses, in Singapore which provided dance instructions in Mandarin in which I chose immediately since I was still struggling with English."
I must intercept here, Zena can now converse confidently in English pretty well now, in fact, I had been sharing with her all about dancebOOK+'s story and mission in English only as I did not even know how to say " our dance community" in Mandarin correctly😝
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Spotlight on Studio Partner: Are You Willing To Sacrifice For Your Dreams? #2 : Zena Xing, Founder/Director of Merzly Oriental Dance Singapore (Part 2 of 10)
It's very beautiful and inspiring to hear why these dancers are so insistent on dancing, even when it's putting them in extremely precarious and economically desperate positions.
Was it something in their genes, or was it something to do with the way their brain is wired from too much dancing?
This series is a special space for shining the spotlight on our dreamers who are our everyday heroes, who took a great leap of faith to chase their dreams, who otherwise would not be known unless they are some super dancing stars.
With my curiosity piqued, I was looking forward to interview these dreamers, analyse, connect the dots and get some answers to as to why they could make such a huge leap of faith.
So I popped the first question to Zena Xing, a modern Egyptian-style dancer and founder of Merzly Oriental Dance Singapore: “So why do you choose dance?”
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