Lynette Harper

Dance Education

2008-9

Studied Banat Maazin Ghawazee style with Aisha Ali.

Studied bellydance with Tito, Aida Noor, Bozenka, Tamalyn Dallal.

Studied contemporary dance with Margie Gillis, Martin Inthamoussou.

Studied tribal bellydance with Kaeshi, Amy Sigil.

Studied Turkish Roman dance with Ferda Bayazit.

2006-7

Studied applied anatomy for bellydance with Hadia.
Studied bellydance with Aziza, Amir Thaleb, and Tamalyn Dallal.
Studied classical Egyptian dance with Sahra Saeeda and Randa Kamel.
Studied contemporary dance with Karen Jamieson.
Studied Moroccan and Roma dance forms with Morocco.
Studied Pilates with Margaret Merrett.

Studied Turkish Roman dance with Reyhan, Ferda Bayazit.

2006

Ph.D. Educational Studies, University of British Columbia.

1994-2004

Studied Arabic drum with Adel Awad.
Studied bellydance with John Compton, Farideh, Saqra, Suhaila Salimpour, and Amir Thaleb.
Studied contemporary (Western) dance with Holly Bright, Noam Gagnon, Margie Gillis, Judith Marcuse, and Kathryn Ricketts.
Studied Egyptian dance forms with Aida Noor, Beata and Horacio Cifuentes, Hadia, Raqia Hassan, Jalilah, Yousri Sharif and Badia Star.
Studied historical Andalusian and Persian dance forms with Scheherezade.
Studied North African dance with Salma Ferchichi.
Studied Turkish and Roman dance with Ferda Bayazit, Eva Cernik, and Reyhan.

1994

M.A. Adult Education, U.B.C.

1979-1990

Studied bellydance with Masha Archer, Elizabeth Carefoot, John Compton, Farideh, Ibrahim Farrah, Hadia, Kamellia Kim, and others.
Studied contemporary Western dance with Gisa Cole, Joe McLaughlin, and others.
Studied Egyptian dance forms with Aisha Ali, Ibrahim Farrah, Hadia, and others.
Studied Lebanese dance forms with Ibrahim Farrah and Rahma.
Studied North African dance forms with Hadia and Mardi Rollow.
Studied Arabic and Turkish music with Sirocco.

1975

B.A. First Class Anthropology, University of Victoria

1967 – 1973

Studied Western dance forms (jazz and modern) with Gisa Cole, Helen Goodwin, Grace MacDonald, Paula Ross, Anna Wyman, Jamie Zagoudakis and others.

1958- 1966

Mara McBirney School of Ballet, Vancouver, BC