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Behind the scenes

Artistic Break aka. Working on other Projects

It has been quiet on this blog and I would like to tell you Why.

I made a brainstorming about my brand Leila Yuliyah. I had been thinking about changing my focus and wanted to start posting different content. Reflecting my brand or persona has however given me another idea: I don’t want Leila Yuliyah to become one of the many persons on the internet that give advice.

Mainly because Leila Yuliyah is an artist and not a teacher.

I want to leave it this way! I want to use this account to experiment, to rehearse and to perform. As a dancer, as a model or maybe in the future as a musician. But I don’t want to give advice about creativity, at least not from her point of view.

I am however working on a new project that will include advice on creativity and many other topics. But it will be in German. I am working heavily on it and have prepared most of the material already. If you are interested in it, drop me a line and I will make sure that you won’t miss the launch.

But I am also working on my bellydance blog Y2B. It is in German, too. At the moment I prepare the bellydance video advent calendar. On 24 days in December I will post bellydance videos. I have been doing this in the past years and it was always great fun. This time I try to engage the bellydance community by including a mini interview from the dancers. I have not come as far as I would have like to come but I think I will manage it until the end of this month.

After that I will launch the new project.

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Summer Vacation is over. Everyone’s got back to work. For me this means teaching belly dance three times a week. I was really excited to get myself moving again after six weeks of physical lazyness. And I was so happy to see my students again.

Also I have some ideas to expand my business: to make new choreographies, to think of new challenges for my students, to create a new group in Berlin, etc.

Besides that I want to grow even more when it comes to performances. I want to do more and better shows as a dancer and as a singer. I need to use existing material well and produce new stuff for marketing: texts, images, audios and videos.

Since I am doing this full time now, I hope that I can achieve bigger results than before and I hope that I will be able to pay my bills at the end of the month. But hey, no risk no fun!

Sweet Home

Back to Work

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Yesterday was the first time to me to participate in a jam session as a singer. I was a bit nervous beforehand, but it ended up being pretty much fun. So I think I might do this more often. 🙂

What do you think about jam sessions?
What place (in Berlin) is the best for jam sessions?

Jam Session @ Golden Lounge is on Mondays from 8pm

Photo: Matthias Hoff

On Stage

My First Jam-Session

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On Stage

My first concert

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Here are – as promised – some videos from my first little concert
on July 31, 2015 in lettrétage Berlin.

As you can see, I was very nervous and I was concentrating very hard not to forget the lyrics of the songs. 😀 Especially the lyrics of Ahwak are very difficult and it took me a whole month to learn them.

Although there is of course lots of stuff that I will have to improve in future concerts, I think it’s already quite nice. The audience was really excited, the looks on their faces were priceless. I enjoyed it so much and I hope, I will have a lot more concerts to come. 🙂