About Anuka

Anuka is a professional belly dancer who enjoys sharing her love of bellydance everywhere from festivals to theatres to Middle Eastern restaurants and nightclubs. She is a regular performer at Jerusalem Restaurant and frequently appears on the Toronto scene at other venues. Anuka has choreographed for theatre productions, music videos, and concerts. She is the choreographer for the newly formed North Star Bellydance troupe (2023). She previously ran her own troupe Mirage for over a decade. Her peers have nicknamed her the “Queen of the Veil” for her skills with veils of various fabrics, double veils, fan veils, and silk wings.

Notable appearances include Women in Song, Glitter (Mahasti, Hamilton), Mosaic:Divination (Invoketress Dance Company, Guelph), the International Bellydance Conference of Canada, Ad Astra, Fan Expo, Steam on Queen, and her own productions (Moonlight Mirage in 2014, Twilight Mirage in 2011, Midnight Mirage in 2010, and Winter Mirage in 2009). She has also appeared on Canada National TV, W Network, and HGTV.

Anuka was a core faculty member at Hannan’s Bellydance Studio (2007 to 2009) and Dragonfly Bellydance Studio (2010 - 2019), teaching multiple weekly classes and specialty workshops. Currently she teaches occasional sessions or workshops as a guest instructor in the GTA.

Drawn to express the rich and variable music of the Middle East, she studied intensively with Hannan Sultan and Mayada, and has also taken classes and workshops with Yasmina Ramzy, Roula Said, and other Toronto teachers. International dance artists she has studied with include Aziza, Sharzad, Iana Komaryntska, Oscar Flores, Sadie, Zara, Bozenka, Aida Nour, Randa Kamel, Tito, Jillina, Ansuya, Hadia (Level 1 teacher training), Sahra Saeeda, Nath Keo, Rachel Brice, and Sharon Kihara. Anuka furthers her dance education every year by taking workshops and classes with master instructors for raks sharki, folklore, and fusion dance styles.