Born and raised in Los Angeles, Jennelah started performing at the age of 10. Her early artistic career focused on acting & musical theatre, emphasizing the use of the body as an expressive tool for performance. During a girl’s night out, she watched her first bellydancer at a local Middle Eastern restaurant. She was entranced.

In 2003, Jennelah began to study the art of bellydancing in earnest. In classes from Morocco to Washington, DC to Los Angeles, incredible dancers have introduced her to both Middle Eastern and Western styles.

Jennelah then was asked to join the prestigious Silk Road Dance Company in Washington DC, where she studied and performed a wide variety of dances from China to the Middle East.

Some of the dance styles she worked with included Uzbek and Tajiki folk dances, Turkish, Persian classical and folk, and a little Bollywood just for fun! See www.silkroaddance.com.

Having returned to Los Angeles, Jennelah studied extensively with great dancers and Middle Eastern musicians. Inspired to move to the next level of her art, she made it her mission to work and study with the masters of her artform. Along the way, she became enthralled by Arabic music.

Today, Jennelah is focusing on Egyptian cabaret style, and incorporating her folk knowledge and modern experience to create her own flowing, sensuous style. From her studies in Morocco, she brings North African technique and melds it with that of classic dancers from Tahiya Carioca to Samia Gamal and the amazing, incomparable Nadia Gamal. She can be found giving solo performances at showcases and private parties in Los Angeles and teaching classes with an emphasis on embracing the feminine and the beauty of real women and real bodies.

Jennelah’s current goals are to gain a greater repertoire for professional performing and finding an artistic home with a dance company or troupe.

“I think of my body as an instrument in an orchestra,” she says. “I want to use the art of dance to enhance the music and the audience’s experience of it.”