Dance has been a major part of Hadasah’s life since she was 5.  Hadasah began taking ballet classes during grade school, when her parents moved from Miami to New York City. At the age of 8 she won a dance contest in Atlantic City that was hosted by American Band Stand (Dick Clark) and hoped to be a professional dancer She then rounded her studies with Gymnastic classes, which helped strengthen and tone her body.  When Hadasah was a teenager, she had a friend who’s Sister was a belly dancer and she knew then that someday she would have to learn.  Life became difficult for the family with her parents divorcing and Hadasah had to give up her dreams of being a professional dancer.  Years later, while attending Miami Dade Community College she studied medicine and Business as her majors and realized she could study dance as a minor, keeping dance in her life.

In 2000, while raising her own family, she started her studies in Tai Chi and Martial Arts.  While her children were in Scouting they became part of a Native American dance team and Hadasah was asked to instruct the girls and sing on the drum.  vIn 2001 while attending a holistic conference in Broward, she took a belly dance seminar and knew this was her moment in time to begin classes.  Life had come full circle.

In 2002, she began training seriously in Middle Eastern (Belly) and Turkish Folk dances under her Mentor Raina and became part of the troupe – “The Navel Academy”.   Over the past year she has expanded her dance repertoire to include Tribal Fusion, which has been influenced from her studying Tai Chi and Martial Arts.

Oriental dance instructors/dancers she has had the honor to study with include: Raina Millman (FL) Aszmara (NY), Myriam Eli (FL), Kahreen & Kira (FL), Shoshanna (CA), Zhaleh Fereshteh (FL), Daniela (FL), Alina – Shrishambhala (FL), Salomeh Azar (FL), Rachel Brice (CA), Zoe (CA), Frederique (CA), Suhaila Salimpour (CA) and many others.

She believes dance is not only entertaining, but is therapeutic, spiritually uplifting and helps to keep the soul young.   Her desire is to educate and bring love, peace  through dance.