MARIA ISABEL ANGEL

Academy Director

Graduated in Dance from the University of Antioquia, she began her training in Oriental Dance with Luz Marina Muñoz in Medellín, who ignited in her the respect and love for Oriental Dance.

Throughout her more than 20 year career she has trained in countries such as the USA, Turkey, Dubai, Morocco and Argentina.

And since 2007 she has made 1 or 2 annual trips to Egypt where she has been trained in festivals such as Ahlan wa Sahlan, Nile Group, Cairo Khan and Raqs of Course; besides taking advantage of these trips to take private lessons with top Egyptian teachers.

In December 2010 (on her fourth trip to Egypt with a 3 month stay) Maria Isabel got certified as a teacher in the "Winter Intensive Course" organized by Raqia Hassan in the city of Cairo.

In 2014 she also got certified as a teacher at the Tamalyn Dallal Master Training in New York. Since 2000 she began her career teaching Oriental dance and later opened her Academy, which specializes in Oriental dance and other folk dances from the Middle East.

Her passionate, judicious, intense, updated, demanding and content teaching methodology is her personal seal and this has led thousands of students not only from Colombia but from other countries to seek her out as a reference and teacher.

She also presides over the organization of the "Festival Árabe Medellín", the most important Arab dance and culture event in the country.

Finally, thanks to her continuous work, Maria Isabel is invited to give workshops and perform shows all over Colombia and abroad, and her academy is now one of the most prestigious in the country.