The Dendera Dancers

  The Dendera Dancers were formed in July 2006. Our goal is to bring to the public the very best of  Oriental Dance and introduce beauty and elegance of this form of performance art.

Julie Mclendon

  Julie is the director of the Dendera Dancers and head instructor at the Women's Belly Dance Center. Beginning with tap dancing in grade school, she progressed to ballet, modern, and jazz dancing in her teen years under the tutelage of Marcia Hicks of the Chicago Ballet.

At a Greek restaurant in Chicago, the teen Julie was first introduced to Oriental Dance and immediately found the beautiful movements and wonderful body control fascinating. It was not until her move to Florida that she first found a teacher in this style of dance that guided her for almost ten years.

Though time and money were tight as a single mother, Julie danced, and after surviving breast cancer, she began to seek further inspiration and guidance by   attending workshops of some of the greatest names  of this art: Aegela (Atlanta), Mesmera (California), Kamal (California), Morocco (New York),  Ansuya (Miami), Jim Boz (California), Tamlyn Dahlal and many other.

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Women's Belly Dance Center

The WBC is a place where women can come to have fun in a relaxed atmosphere and learn something new while exercising their bodies and forming new friendships while in the company of other women.

                                                                                                      Jennifer