Raheesha, teaches weekly Middle Eastern Dance classes in Somerset, England however, her dance career has taken her further afield. It was while living in Morocco in 1988 that she fell in love with the dance, and soon after moving to the United States her dance career took off.

Highlights include dancing at the newly-opened Aladdin Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas and at the Atlantis Casino in Reno Nevada, winning first prize in the UK Eastern Promise dance competition in February 2002 and studying with Farida Fahmy and Mahmoud Reda in Cairo.

The American-born dancer has proved not only to be an entertaining dancer but popular instructor as her classes at the 2002 Glastonbury Dance Festival completely sold out within days of going on line. She has also taught at the Middle Eastern Dance Festival in Leicester hosted by Maria d’Silva and Yasmin Asar's South Coast Med Fest in Wimborne and taught at Majma 2007 festival.

Raheesha has performed at festivals such as Rakassha in Oakland California, the Desert Dance Festival in Phoenix, Arizona, Majma and International Dance Festivals in Glastonbury as well as the Desert Flowers show in Salisbury and the Chance to Dance and Middle Eastern Dance Showcase at Pontadarwe, Wales and guest dancer at MADN's spring platform 2005. She has also danced on stage with the Nile Band, the American band Light Rain and with Celloman, who played the last three years at the world famous Glastonbury and WOMAD Festivals

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