Festival · Guimarães, Portugal
GO Dance – Guimarães Oriental Dance
Recurring / irregular
Portuguese Oriental dance festival in Guimarães combining workshops, competition and national/international gala programming.
24–26 January 2025 · organized by GO Dance / Guimarães Oriental Dance team
Edition 2025 · Verified edition
Teachers & performers
São Paulo · Brazil
Mahaila El Helwa
Mahaila El Helwa began studying Oriental dance in Brazil in 2000 and quickly entered professional training. In 2005 she achieved a major international milestone by winning at the Ahlan Wa Sahlan festival in Cairo. That success helped establish her as one of…
Budapest · Hungary
Mercedes Nieto
Mercedes Nieto began studying Oriental dance in Hungary in 1997 after earlier experience with jazz ballet and flamenco. Her artistic focus gradually became strongly connected with Egyptian Raqs Sharqi and Arabic music. She founded the Nymph Oriental Dance…
Full line-up as published
Mercedes Nieto; Mahaila El Helwa; additional faculty
Programme
Highlights
- Master workshops, competition and national/international gala programme in Guimarães.
Verification: Date and named teachers documented in artist CV/event archive.
Archive
Previous editions
2023 · 1–3 December 2023
Verified edition
International/regional faculty; full roster not safely recovered
Guimarães workshops and Oriental dance gala/festival programming.
Verification and sources
Dates documented in public artist/event agenda.
Research record
Verification: Medium–High
Event calendars document editions in 2023 and 2025; no dedicated festival website was recovered.
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