Divine Fantasy Entertainment Belly Dancer from Bakersfield, CA

Nilay (pronounced Knee-lie) is Turkish born and raised belly dancer who has studied the art of belly dance for several years with many highly accredited dancers in US and Turkey. She moved to US for further studies in 2001 and started to develop her belly dance technique. Today she is performs all throughout California and competing in the United States and internationally. Upon developing her style, she has been performing, teaching, choreographing, producing workshops and short videos. Her style is a lively, joyous and energetic mixture of excitement from modern Turkish oriental belly dance. She has extensive prop usage of, but not limited of tambourine, fans, fan veils, veils, isis wings, cane and sword. Her dance has been expressed to contain fierce, feisty, and fiery quality which makes it unique in the sensuous world of belly dance. Currently Nilay is working on competitive belly dance choreographies, show production and youtube channel recordings. She has been performing and teaching Belly Dance for over 10 years holding multiple awards including Belly Dancer USA 2018, Belly Dancer of the Universe Hall of Champions, 2017 Belly Dancer of The World Folkloric Champion.