Shalimar 

As often happens in Real Life, Shalimar Imzadi had a 15 year break between leaving her last belly dance class in Houston in 1982 and stepping into Isis' Beginner Belly Dance class in Bedford, Texas in 1997.  "It felt like coming home," she says, "like I hadn't left at all."

A strong sense of rhythm and musical phrasing lend power to Shalimar's zill work, and she has zilled with friends at "pick up drum jams" around the metroplex. Over the years, she has performed at various local festivals and fairs as well as at private parties for friends' birthdays. As a member of Isis' Performing Company, she recently performed with sword for the first time at the "Yaa Halla, Y'all!" seminar in Grapevine, Texas.  

Shalimar has a fondness for inspirational quotes, mostly from song lyrics, and bad puns that get her pun-ished and sent to the pun-itentiary. And sued for pun-ative damages.

"So don't sit upon the shoreline and say you're satisfied/Choose to chance the rapids, and dare to dance the tides." Garth Brooks - "The River"