Dawn Wang is the founder of DSOD.

Dawn was trained as a dancer and musician since she was 9 years old. With long history of consistent learning and engagement with Chinese traditional music, Chinese traditional dance, ballet, jazz, contemporary, Latin dance and fitness course including aerobics, yoga, Pilates, Dawn has gained solid foundation as a dancer and systematic & well-rounded knowledge as an artist and teacher. Oriental belly dance came into Dawn's life since 2009 while Dawn was a student in a Dance College in China, and from then on Dawn has highly devoted herself to purse her profession as a Bellydancer.

Dawn firstly started with a Chinese bellydancer Annabelle Lin at Qingbo College of Dance and Fitness for three years and has gained her certificate as a professional oriental bellydance teacher in 2011. Dawn's teaching of Oriental bellydance started from 2012. During the 2012 and 2016, Dawn has studied with very famous Chinese and international bellydancers including Chinese dancers such as Xiuqing Sheng, Feifei, Summer Xia as well as international bellydancers including Diva Darina, Alex Delors, Jinhee Kim, Kristina Rozum, Elena Pirogova, Aida Bogamalova, Alla Vatc, Suraiya Ibrahim, Alla Kushnir, Angella Kim and so on.

In January 2019 Dawn has successfully passed AFOD Level 4 exam in Beijing China with Angella Kim, and has been certified with full qualification for level 4 instructor as a master teacher for professional Oriental dance teacher training program by World Master Angella Kim.

Dawn has founded her own Dance studio since 2014 in China where she teaches Ballet, yoga, pilates and Bellydance. She has trained professional belly dance teachers in multiple Academies in Wuhan, China since 2015. Her students love her dance, her personality and her way of teaching. Her students in China had performances with her in various events and competitions in China since 2013. Dawn's passion for Bellydance can be seen from various of shows in China, USA, Hong Kong, Ireland, UK, Spain, Germany and as well on stage where she has gained so many honors as a great dancer. In November 2015, Dawn gained championship for Hong Kong 8th International Bellydance competition; In March 2016, Dawn was the winner of all 4 categories at Chinese National Bellydance competition of Hubei, here are her awards for such competition: 2nd Honor for classical style; 2nd honor for Baladi; 2nd honor for pop song; 2nd awards for Egyptian Folk style; In June 2016, Dawn gained championship for category of pop song and 2nd honor for category of Shabby in Top Star Bellydance competition in China. Dawn is a very experienced performer, her emotional expression as a dancer has gained great fame in China. Since 2016 Dawn moved to Ireland and started her teaching at Suadela Bellydance Group. In November, 2018 Dawn's students won championship on Miss Bellydance Competition in Ireland. In January 2020, Dawn and Samira, as a DS group, travelled to Egypt for a month to gain and live in the first hand experience of the country and culture where bellydance is rooted through history.

With her academical background as a linguistic interpreter, musician, writer, language teacher and lecturer of philosophy, Dawn is very good at systematically thinking and teaching. She emphasizes the clarity of music structure, digs deep into the knowledge of muscle, breath, gravity for breaking down each technique and grasp the essence of each movement. Her rich knowledge base and fluency of adopting knowledge in different disciplines of dance enpowes her tremendous wisdom and builds an uniqueness in her teaching of Oriental dance. For example, her teaching on choreography emerges from her knowledge in music, physical movement, performance space, emotional thinking and even philosophy. She tries her best way of dance teaching to be most possibly scientific, precise but also explicit, sentimental & intuitive. She saves no efforts in passing her knowledge through teaching to students to inspire them as professional, smart, and sensible dancers and/or dance teachers. Dawn's aim of dance teaching is to share health, happiness and positive energies with her students. This is interpreted by Dawn as: learning for joy, elegance, health and friendship.

Dawn believes performances can always bring fun and builds confidence into dancers, which is a combination of wealth can never be gained otherwise. The bond built by group dance as a collective wealth marks the very friendship in every members' memory. Dawn therefore has founded DS Oriental Troupe since 2014 and this Troupe expanded to Ireland in 2016 since Dawn moved to Ireland. DS stands for "dancing sister". Its members cross different nationalities and the friendship between them witnesses the spirit of DS perfectly.

Dawn’s current oriental dance courses include themes as follow:

- Oriental dancer for beginner level

- Oriental dance for intermediate level

- Oriental dance for Advanced level

- Dancers' Conditioning Intensive Program (Strength & Flexibility)

- Fitness and Bellydance

- Arabic music theory, culture and choreography

- Theater showcase workshop series

- Professional Bellydance Teacher Program

- Professional Development Program

- Private Lesson

Courses above are designed into specific program and are conducted both on site and online.

Samira Delatier is a Chilean/British bellydancer based in Chile. Samira sensed a call towards the art of bellydance since around the age of 6, however it wasn’t until she was 16 (in 2008) that circumstances would have her take her first class. From then on she continued to explore this art form, and in 2012 began studying with the acclaimed chilean bellydancer Marwa, who is her teacher until this day, along with other national and international master teachers. In 2016 Samira travelled to Ireland to complete an MA degree in Creative Process obtaining her degree from the National University of Ireland. This is where she met Dawn Wang and together as DS Dancing Sisters they performed in theaters, festivals and venues in various cities around Ireland.

After graduating Samira returned to her country of birth where she continued to deepen her knowledge in Oriental dance, and complementary disciplines, opened her own bellydance school, and took part in various projects, collectives and companies, including Blue Rose Interdisciplinary Project (a mixture between poetry, live music and dance), Del Bosque Collective, Salimpour Valparaiso Collective, Samsara Company; as well as continued to perform as a soloist in different events.

In 2018 Samira certified level 1 in the Jamila Format, from the 70 year old Salimpour School. In 2019 she completed a minor degree in Classical and Contemporary Arabic and Islamic Arts and Aesthetics, in the Arabic Studies Center from the University of Chile, where for her final research she wrote as to the relationship between tarab and bellydance. At the begging of this 2020 Samira travelled to Egypt to have an immersive first hand experience of the country and culture where bellydance has its roots. Samira was a month exploring this land moving from Cairo, to Alexandria, to Luxor, to Aswan to Sham el Sheik, and used this time to investigate the many different faces of this art form.

After returning from Egypt (and going right into lock down) Samira took the virtual expansion as a chance to learn with different international teachers, collaborate with teachers abroad to bring new experiences for her students, and to take a theory-based bellydance teachers program called “Conscious Pedagogy” imparted by Marwa. Also, this year Samira began a degree on a form of dance therapy called Danza Matriztca, created by the fellow chilean dancer Barbara Pia Soto; and received public funding to develop her dance play which she is currently directing.

Samira believes that bellydance, and indeed any art form, is a way to connect with self and spirit through movement, and thus to take and express our place and our truth in the world. Dance is a short cut towards joy and well being, a way to transform pain, and an opportunity to fill the world with grace and beauty.

Teachers Samira has studied with in workshops and festivals: Marwa (Chile), Anne Marie Lolas (Chile), Bassem Ramadan (Egypt-Ecuador), Mahamed Ghareb (Egypt), Lorna of Cairo (UK-Egypt), Ruby Lady (New Zeland), Tatiana Avila (Mexico-UAE), Anusch Alawerdian (UAE), Victoria Teel (USA), Suhaila Salimpour (USA), Sabriye Tekbilek (USA-Egypt), Khaled Mahmoud (Egypt), Khader Ahmed (Egypt), Bruna Nassif (Brazil), Luciano Bertoluzzi (Argentina), Paola Jara (Chile), Amel Tafsout (Argelia), Mohamed el Sayed (Egypt), Victoria Ivanova (Rusia), Morena Cardoso (Brazil), Bárbara Pia Soto (Chile), Marcela Godoy (Chile), Brenda (Argentina-Egypt) Marianella (Argentina-Lebanon), Ahlem (Argentina), Charlotte Desorgher (UK)

Samira Delatier is a honoured guest teacher at DSOD, and she runs the DSOD partner school in Chile - Samira danza del vientre.