Festival · Pančevo, Serbia
Raqs&Relax
Active / recurring
International Oriental dance boot camp combining master workshops with a four-star hotel setting, spa and relaxation, professional stage programming and community-focused learning. The 2025 concept introduced Show&Learn in place of a traditional competition format.
26–28 September 2025 · organized by Aleksandra Tešanović, Milica Leštarić & Nikolina Čelebić; event entity: MILICA LEŠTARIĆ PR CIVALSKA
Edition 2025 · 2nd edition
Teachers & performers
São Paulo · Brazil
Esmeralda Colabone
Esmeralda Colabone is a Brazilian dancer whose professional Oriental career began in the Arab world. In 2002, at nineteen, she joined the Lebanese entertainment company La Maison de L'Artiste and began working professionally in the Middle East. She spent…
Belgrade · Serbia
Jelena Leila
Leila is one of the most internationally recognised dancers and instructors representing Serbia. She has been involved in oriental dance for more than two decades and also has experience in ballet, ballroom dancing, and Serbian folklore. She has performed and…
Full line-up as published
Esmeralda Colabone; Aleksandra Kala / Tešanović; Jelena Leila
Programme
Highlights
- Fri: Esmeralda 'Tabla Quotes', Aleksandra 'ChoreoLab', Show&Learn, dinner. Sat: Esmeralda 'Oriental Classics – Farid El Attrache', Jelena 'Oriental Puzzle', Saturday Oriental Show. Sun: Esmeralda 'Expression in Arabic Dance', Jelena 'Oriental Technique', Esmeralda 'Lebanese Pop', dinner and 20:00 Closing Party. Official price page lists 15 hours of workshops.
Verification: Official schedule has one obvious date typo on a Saturday show card; the programme is retained without propagating the incorrect date.
Archive
Previous editions
2024 · 27–29 September 2024
1st edition
Anna Zhalovaga (verified); complete faculty list not safely recovered
Weekend boot-camp format at Hotel Tamiš in Pančevo with Oriental dance workshops, stage/show programming and relaxation/spa elements.
Verification and sources
First-edition dates and venue verified on the official site; only faculty explicitly recoverable from the archived speaker page is listed.
Research record
Verification: High
Public official archive verifies the first edition in 2024 and a detailed 2025 edition programme.
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