James Brown feared her sword, Robert De Niro gave her his number and Sean Connery was inspired to dance with her. Tamalyn Dallal feels equally at home performing for celebrities as well as for school children or community events. She has danced for Madonna, the Jacksons, members of the Saudi Arabian royal families, King Abdullah of Jordan (when he was a prince) and more recently, before Francisco Flores, president of El Salvador. Ms. Dallal has also choreographed and taught for Miami's "Inner City Children's Touring Dance Co.", and the "Dance Out" program for deaf students. She was part of the original "Belly Dance Superstars" and is featured on the CD and DVD with that name from Ark 21 records (Miles Copeland).

Impassioned with Middle Eastern dance, music, and culture from an early age, Tamalyn Dallal sees belly dance as the ultimate feminine expression, embracing every woman's unique beauty. To her, this dance is ever growing and changing with the world around it, assimilating influences from every culture it touches.

Tamalyn Dallal has bellydanced since 1976 and taught the art of Middle Eastern dance in many parts of the world, including Egypt, Cyprus, Thailand, Singapore, Malaysia, Japan, Hong Kong, Switzerland, Italy, Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Venezuela, Chile, Bolivia, Curacao, Aruba, Haiti, the Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, the Bahamas, Honduras, El Salvador, Belize, and throughout the United States. She has a wealth of experience traveling in North Africa, the Middle East, India and Eastern Europe to further explore the Belly dance and related dance forms.

Ms. Dallal founded the non profit arts organization, "Mid Eastern Dance Exchange" of Miami Beach in 1990, where she spent fourteen years training dancers and producing a myriad of events ranging from theatre shows to outdoor festivals. Many of the top names in Oriental dance in Miami and surrounding areas studied with Tamalyn Dallal and performed in her productions.  These include: Amar Gamal (Mass.), Yasmine (New York), Aasal (New York), Bozenka (Miami), Shahar, Aireen, Hanan, Feiruz, Virginia, Samay, Maja and many more local south Florida dancers. She has been one of the prime driving forces behind making Miami one the nations hottest spots for belly dance.

Winning the double crowns "Ms. America " and "Miss World" of the Belly Dance, 1995 at the San Francisco festival of Oriental Dance, Tamalyn went on to receive the Giza award for the video of "Infinito", and "Best troupe" award by the International Academy of Middle Eastern Dance (IAMED), and was recently nominated in the category of "Best Cabaret Dancer" for the IAMED awards.

Wishing to break out of the "Belly Dance bubble," one of Tamalyn Dallal's missions is to present the dance as art to an ever wider audience, so she produced a series of full scale theatrical productions: " Supplemented Silence" (2003), "Infinito" (Gusman Center for the Performing Arts, Miami), "Sawah" (Dade County Auditorium, Miami), and "Emerald Dreams", (Colony Theatre, Miami Beach), most of which are available on video. In November, 2003, she presented her dance company in "Dance for Life", with notable ballet and modern groups such as "Maximum", "Miami Contemporary Dance", and more, at the Gusman Center For the Performing Arts.  She also produces the yearly "Orientalia: festival of Middle Eastern Dance on Lincoln Road (Miami Beach), which is sponsored by and has received proclamations from the city of Miami Beach and Miami Dade County. She toured four cities with the Florida Philharmonic Symphony, performing to Samson and Delilah's "Dance Bachannale", and produced a ten week series of educational programs entitled "Belly Dance" for public television. She appears regularly on television programs in both Spanish and English, and has been featured numerous times in the Miami Herald, New Times, and in magazines such as Lincoln Road, Ocean Drive, and Florida International Magazine. Recently, she has started producing multimedia productions in conjunction with the Miami Beach Cinemateque where she produces a film, accompanied with dance and lectures. This began with "Amazing Egypt", and continues with the "40 Days and 1001 Nights" series, documenting her travels the dances she learns, and showcases traditional costumes as well as Ms. Dallal's costume designs. The first, "Indonesia" had its debut on November 27, 2005.

Tamalyn Dallal wrote a book entitled "They Told Me I Couldn't" about her adventures as a traveling belly dancer in Colombia, and provided several excerpts from her experiences dancing for the rich and famous for the book "Belly Laughs", both by Talion Publishing. She has written two feature length screenplays, and produced two instructional videos on Belly dance technique.

Ms. Dallal's latest book, "Belly Dancing for Fitness", is an informative and valuable tool for teaching and learning bellydance, as well as a resource for all dancers. It gives step by step instructions with over 200 photos by Denise Marino, plus history, culture, and a resource guide. Available at: The Mid Eastern Dance Exchange, Borders Bookstores, on Amazon.com, or directly from Ms. Dallal. This book is available in the US, Canada, Singapore, England, Australia, and has now been translated to Russian, Czech, and Spanish. Belly Dancing for Fitness is currently being translated into Spanish.

Ms. Dallal has dedicated the past two years to "40 Days and 1001 Nights", a multifold project in which she traveled to five Islamic countries and lived in each one for forty days. In this project are: a book (second edition release, January, 2008), musical documentery film, music cd and dance concert DVD, all available at www.40daysand1001nights.com.