Jusoor · Bridges

The dance is the doorway.
The culture is the journey.

Jusoor is a six-month Arab cultural immersion created and personally led by Roxxanne Shelaby. Step beyond the studio and experience the music, places, stories, food and community that give the dance its meaning.

Dance lives through music and memory, through food and celebration, through the people and places that keep culture alive.

Technique can teach you how a movement is made. Cultural experience helps you understand where it comes from, how it is felt and why it matters.

Jusoor—Arabic for “bridges”—brings these worlds together. Over six months, Roxxanne guides participants into real Arab cultural spaces where learning becomes lived, personal and connected.

Each month is designed as a chapter in one continuous journey—not a disconnected outing.

The six-month core program runs from September through February, with an August welcome and a March final show completing the journey.

Events

Detailed schedule will be sent upon registration. This is a working itinerary. Dates, venues and activities may shift. Registered participants receive exact locations and updates directly.

Jusoor is for adult dancers and curious movers who want a more informed, respectful and connected relationship with Arab dance and culture.

Some prior exposure to Arab or Middle Eastern dance is helpful, but formal training is not required. What matters is genuine curiosity and a willingness to engage.

Roxxanne is an Arab dance performer, educator, producer and documentarian of Lebanese and Brazilian heritage. She grew up surrounded by live Arab music, Oriental dance, folkloric dance and social dance at her family’s Fez and Cascades nightclubs in Southern California.

Her work has always connected movement with cultural history and lived community. As an internationally experienced teacher and performer, a longtime producer of Middle Eastern dance events, and the producer-director of the award-winning The Fez Documentary, Roxxanne brings personal history and decades of experience to every Jusoor encounter.

She is not simply taking you to a place. She is helping you understand what you are seeing, hearing and feeling once you arrive.

Jusoor is a complete six-event cultural journey from September through March. You reserve the full program—choose to pay in one payment or spread it across six monthly installments.

What’s included

• All six cultural experiences (September–March)
• Preparation meeting before each trip (online)
• Post-trip discussion after each experience (online)
• Monthly dance class—online and in-person options
• Roxxanne’s personal preparation and guidance
• Preset food orders at each venue
• Non-alcoholic beverages in the preset order
• Venue admission or event tickets when required

Not included

• Alcoholic beverages
• Hookah orders
• Individually purchased merchandise
• Transportation and parking
• Applicable taxes and gratuities

Transportation is not provided. Exact meeting addresses are shared with registered participants. Accessibility varies by venue; contact Roxxanne before purchasing if you require venue-specific accessibility information. Dietary needs will be collected after registration. Tickets and payments are nonrefundable once processed. Registrations may be transferred to another eligible adult aged 18 or older by notifying Roxxanne before the relevant event.

Spend six months moving beyond the classroom and closer to the people, places and traditions that give Arab dance its life.

Join Roxxanne for a guided journey through music, food, gathering, storytelling and community.

Secure booking through Ticket Tailor. Payments are processed through Stripe.

Questions before purchasing?
roxxanneraqs@gmail.com