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Currently showing: Four videos. Accidental Altars. Dance Triptychs. 

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Dance Along Joy

Style: Egyptian Raqs Baladi


Monica's post-performance dance along with the fine folks attending Salon Hala, San Francisco, Summer 2024.


Show produced by Mama Ganuush

Video by Jeff Vengeance

Venue is Queer Arts Featured

Monica at the Brava

Style: Pan-Mediterranean / Experimental Folkloric 


Monica performs an Arab/southern Italian piece at the Brava Theater in  San Francisco. 


Fall 2024


 Sponsored by The Hala Collective

Dance to the sounds of the studio / Last days at Lines

Style: Freeform / Experimental folk


A moment to the sounds of the street as I cleaned out a cabinet at a studio I had taught at for over 20 years.



Back in the Day

Style: Egyptian raqs sharqi and raqs baladi


Well, not the DAY day, but another day. Live set with Sirocco in 2008. 


August 3, 2008, San Leandro, California


Dancer: Monica of San Francisco  Musicians: Armando Mafufo, Paul Ohanesian, Michael Gruber 

Producer: Tatseena

Accidental Altars

Some altars I make on purpose, some I see by accident.  

Accidental Altars

Accidental Altars series by  Monica Berini - moss, candle, broken glass
Accidental Altars series by  Monica Berini - frame drum, light switch
Accidental Altars series by  Monica Berini - leaf, candle, ceramic pot
Accidental Altars series by  Monica Berini - banana peel, jars
Accidental Altars series by  Monica Berini - cherubic statue, guitar, plants and grasses
Accidental Altars series by  Monica Berini  - Journals, hair clip

Dance Triptychs

Snippets from a dance life, in threes. 

Dance Triptychs

Triptych - a dancer and a nai player, a drummer and a singer, two dancers

Photos by Jeff K. at Salon Hala

Triptych of a dancer

Photos by Carl Sermon

Triptych of a dancer in a striped shirt
Triptych of a dancer from above
Triptych of a couple dancing

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Photo of Monica in Napoli by Heather S.

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