About Souzana
Her Belly Dancer Story!
Souzana Van Horn is a multi-award winning belly dancer. Her love of belly dancing shines through in both her instructional classes and live performances.
Whether Souzana is performing a choreographed piece, or an improvisational work, her passion shows, and her dancing is always elegant, regal, and emotive.
Souzana’s strong work ethic and pursuit for excellence combined with her accepting spirit, inspires her students not only to work hard so that they may grow as dancers and performers, but also to remember to love and enjoy themselves along the way.
Souzana began her belly dance training in the late 1990s at Kismet in Salt Lake City, Utah under the direction of Yasamina.
Since then she has studied with many world renowned instructors including Aunt Rocky, Hadia, Saqra, Sahra Saeeda, Eva Cernik, Bozenka, Karim Nagi and more.
Souzana specializes in Classic American Oriental style belly dance, Egyptian Raks Sharki, and folk dances from the Middle East and North Africa.
Curiosity and a strong sense of adventure led her to study many other dance forms including: Latin, West African, Polynesian, Jazz, Contemporary, Hip Hop, Tap, and Ballet.
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About Souzana
Her Belly Dancing Story!
Souzana!
While living in Alaska, Souzana taught dance classes and performed for almost 13 years.
In 2001, Souzana helped form Tundra Caravan Middle Eastern Dance Troupe, whose mission offered a broader understanding of Middle Eastern Dance to the community through outreach and education, while fostering an environment for students to expand and appreciate their experience as emerging dancers.
Souzana led the troupe as co-artistic director and president from 2005 to 2013 and helped facilitate workshops with master instructors, gala shows, and a yearly recital to showcase students throughout the community, including Tundra Caravan’s own student troupe.
In 2006, Souzana founded her own belly dance school in which she offered beginning through advanced classes for children, teens, and adults.
Belly!
As adjunct faculty, Souzana taught a class for University of Alaska Fairbanks and was hired annually from 2005 to 2015 as a guest artist for the esteemed Fairbanks Summer Arts Festival.
This gave her the unique opportunity to work, collaborate, and perform with artists of many genres from Fairbanks and around the world.
In 2013, Souzana relocated to Eugene, Oregon from Fairbanks, Alaska.
Souzana continued her work with outreach and education by serving on the Middle Eastern Dance Guild of Eugene (MEDGE) board of directors as Consultant and President from 2014 to 2016.
MEDGE is a non-profit organization whose purpose is to provide a venue to foster performance, education, and enjoyment of Middle Eastern Dance and music in Eugene, Oregon.
Dance!
From 2013 to 2019, Souzana taught belly dance classes at Celebration Belly Dance and Yoga Studio and Denbaya Drum and Dance in Eugene, Oregon.
In July of 2019, Souzana relocated to Tigard, Oregon and started performing at local restaurants and theaters in the Portland, Oregon area.
Starting in July of 2020, Souzana offered belly dance classes and private belly dance lessons in Tigard, Oregon at Diva Den Studio.
In July of 2022, Souzana moved back to Eugene, Oregon and in March of 2024, Souzana is offering belly dance classes and private belly dance lessons in Eugene, Oregon at Platform360 Dance Studio.