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Sophia
Won International Belly Dance Champion
for Singapore (in Korea
2012) |
Sophia
with
Celebrity
American percussionist Amit Gilboa |
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Sophia
Master Performance @ Golden Sands International
Belly Dance Festival 2013 |
Sophia
Master Performance in Malaysia |
A world class belly dance performer
and master, Sophia Meng is a trained Chinese folk
dancer since young with a strong dance background.
She was in the dance performance team since primary
3 and was promoted to be the choreographer and
team leader since her middle school. Her team
has won countless awards in school and also in
the city. She graduated with a dance diploma in
Tianjin University of Sport in China. She obtained
both dance instructor certificate and yoga instructor
certificate, and worked as a dance instructor
and yoga instructor in China during college.
She has been performing in Middle
Eastern dance (belly dance) since 2005 after training
in China. Later in Singapore she also learned
from local teachers as well as workshops with
Dina and other Egyptian masters.
She is currently the Art Director
and core instructor of Desert Roses Belly Dance
where she both leads the performance troupe as
well as trains students. She had taught belly
dance at the National University of Singapore
and new classes were added to due to the popular
demand from students. She has also been
invited every year to give one day belly dance
workshop in Australian International School since
2010 and received appreciation email from the
school.
In June 2010, she was invited
to perform overseas in Abu Dhabi for summer in
Abu Dhabi festival for 1 month to showcase Chinese
Dance together with Malay and Indian dancers to
represent the beauty and harmony of Singapore
culture and was interviewed and reported in local
newspaper.
She has been the residential
professional belly dance performers in three authentic
Middle Eastern restaurants respectively from 2009,
where the most famous belly dancers in Singapore
perform throughout the week.
From 2009 to the present, Sophia
has performed in many NAC-AEP programmes in local
schools and countless other company function performances
outside of schools, highlights include F1 Singapore
2009.
In 2010, Sophia joined Mediacorp
channel 5’s talent show One Moment of Glory (OMG)
with other two instructors from Desert Roses Belly
Dance Singapore. Desert Roses maintained in the
program for 11 episodes and won the top 6 in the
talents competition. Sophia and friends were invited
to perform for the biggest countdown party of
2010 by channel 5 and also performed with many
TV celebrities in President’s Charity Show 2010.
She was awarded first runner
up and group championship, in Asia Global belly
dance competition 2012 at Singapore Street Festival.
In 2012, she represented Singapore
and won the first international belly dance champion
in Nagwa Fouad Competition in Seoul,
Korea. She was interviewed on mediacorp TV Channel
Newsasia and Channel 8 (Good Morning Singapore)
for the grand awards she brought back for Singapore.
She is young and talented, yet
very experienced and inspiring belly dance instructor.
She is extremely good at stage performance, has
wowed audience with her graceful movements, superb
techniques, extreme flexibility and exceptional
passion and freedom in her dance moves. Countless
appreciation messages were received through words,
sms and emails. Her love for dance and students
keeps inspiring her students to explore more in
belly dance with her.
Learn Belly Dance from the best
instructor team in Singapore, please go to Desert
Roses studio class
schedule page and check out
more.
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Sophia Won International
Belly Dance Champion
for Singapore (in Korea
2012) |
Desert Roses Star
(Art Director) Sophia
on Mediacorp
TV Channel Newsasia/ Channel 8 (Good Morning Singapore)
 
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