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All Photos this page by Andre Elbing
Gamila made her debut as a choreographer at New York’s
prestigious Ethical Culture Society June 1992 with a
fantastic lineup of guest artists as well as a splendid
array of her own choreographies performed by her dance
company. She continued to build her repertoire and
produce independent shows.
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By 1994 her work caught the interest of Dr. Mohamed
El Saadany, then Vice President of the Egyptian American
Folkloric Society. Since then Gamila El Masri has been
Manhattan’s best kept secret.
Unless you were one of the twenty some odd dancers who
had been in her dance company between 1994 and 1998,
you wouldn’t be familiar with her work.
Once she began working with the Egyptian American
Cultural Association’s Folkloric Group all of her works
were presented among the Egyptian American cultural
community at closed events.
As principal choreographer she was called upon to design
the dances required to represent specific areas of Egyptian
culture along the Nile from Nubia to Alexandria.
She has done this to great acclaim.
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Notable Theater Engagements Included:
Resorts Casino Hotel
Superstar Theater
Atlantic City, NJ 1997
Nadia Hamdi Concert
Morocco & the Casbah Dance Experience
New York City 1997
Egyptian Independence Festival
Egyptian American Folkloric Group
New Jersey 1996
Queens Theater In The Park
Egyptian American Folkloric Group
New York 1996
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Queens Theater In The Park
Egyptian American Folkloric Group
New York 1995
Movement Afoot Performance Space
with Ramzi El Edlibi
New York City 1995
Ethical Culture Society
New York City 1992
Early in 2000 Gamila sustained an injury which plagued her until she had to succumb to inactivity while the injury healed. She began teaching again in April of 2002 and formed her current dance company, NileSide a few years later.
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