Independent artist & artistic director at the Maya Sapera Company
Teacher of Kathak dance at the Embassy of India (Brussels)
Co-founder of Nupur Zankar Belgium.
Maya's
teachers
For the encyclopedie lovers, here follows a list of names
Indian Dance
Main teachers: Jetty Roels (B - 20j), Shila Mehta (In - 12 j)
I did my arangetram (final exam Indian temple dance bharatanatyam) at the age of 16.
Internships and additional training with: PR Rajesh (In), Leela Samson (In), The Dhananjayans (In), Aditi Mangeldas (In), Vidha Lal (In), Shijith & Parvathi Nambiar (In), Gulabi Sapera (In), Sua Devi (In), Chrada Sheorata (Nl), Griekenland, Leela Sapera (In), Meena Sapera (In), Nishtha Agarwal (In), Compagnie Prana (Fr), Durga / Kamar tribe (In)
Observation and study trips in Rajasthan (India).
Classical Ballet, option contemporary
At De Poel in Gent
oriental dance
(North-africa & the Middle East)
I took lessons with Aziza Giza (Belgium), Al-Hadi Cheriffa (Algeria), Kheira Hadjeres (France), Amal Tafsout (USA), Della (France), Djamila (France), Moustafa & Khadija El Oueslati (Germany), Morocco (teachers?), Youssef Hattab (Tunisia), Ahmed Demirbag (Turkey), Hassan Ibrahim (Egypt), Ibrahim Abdelmaksoud (Egypt), Badia Lamniai (Switzerland), Katja Daniela (Switzerland), Nasrin Akhtar (Germany), Nawal Benabdallah (France)
Observation and study trips in Morocco, Tunisia, Egypt and Turkey
yoga
Niki Constantinidou, Pierre Taboureau, formation with François Raoult (Brussel/Frankrijk)
music
Violin, piano, lute en viola at the music school * Arabic violin and mandoline at Maqam in France * Charango en panpipe in Bolivia * Nai with Mohammad Marwane* Arabic lute with Sadig Gibril * Indian singing with Mahabub Khan