Valentina Mahira, dancer- teacher-choreographer, for many years dedicates herself passionately to oriental dance in order to disseminate  its purely artistic and cultural aspects through performances and teaching.
Valentina begins the study of oriental dance in '96, pushed from the passion that her mother already cultivated for this art thanks to her travels around Middle East and North Africa. From that moment onwards Valentina begins to come into contact with Arab culture and particularly with Egypt, thanks to the ballet master and choreographer Saad Ismail, belonging to Ali El Gendi School of Alexandria of Egypt. She remains emotionally involved and fascinated by grace, harmony and elegance of the oriental dance movements and by the powerful charm - to be explored – of the ways to express  sensitivity by Egyptians.
At the same time she carries out  a personal research on the different forms of movement and dance in watching videos and films starred by the best Egyptian dancers. Then she leaves for Paris to deepen her  studies, where she remains particularly impressed by the classes of the teacher Djamila Henni-Chebra whose lessons focus on the Egyptian classical dance technique insisting on care, cleaning and expressiveness of movement.
Since 2000 she starts her regular travels to Cairo to get more in touch with the Egyptian culture, the cradle of oriental dance.
She watches the performances of the greatest dancers from whom she learns the art of being on stage and remains totally enraptured by the dramatic and romantic melodies of the orchestras that accompany the best Egyptians singers.
She takes Egyptian folklore lessons from Mahmoud Reda and his students.
The teachers who - most of all - have left their determinant trace on her artistic and professional growth are Raqia Hassan and the famous dancers Dina and Randa Kamal, thanks to whom she has "discovered" the Modern Egyptian Style.
Valentina also attends classical dance courses held in Rome by the famous dancer Denis Ganio at the Maison de la danse.

Since 2001 she works as a soloist Oriental dancer with I Tamburi del Vesuvio (The Drums of Vesuvius), a group that was launched in 1994 by the will of Nando Citarella to express  the ethnic and cultural contaminations that the Italian society was starting to live through: “the Vesuvius is the large drum that stresses the time of old songs and new contaminations; this fertile land has welcomed the rhythmic beat of all those people that from other places, crossing the great sea, went down here”. With this group Valentina dances in the most important musical exhibitions and festivals and multi-ethnic events in Italy and Europe.
She cares and interprets  oriental choreographies for several theatrical events  in Italy. Besides, she has danced in various television programs on the major national channels.
Having been invited by the Egyptian Tourist Organization she has had the honor to dance as a soloist in the Grand Gala for the Egypt Air’ 75th anniversary  in the presence of H.E. the ambassador of Egypt and other diplomats at the Grand Hotel Villa Tuscolana, in Frascati (May '07 ), so also in Egypt on the occasion of the International Event Taba Promotion at Taba Height Sofitel Hotel, in Taba (Sept. '07), and again in Milan at the Marriott hotel on the occasion of the BIT where she has performed with her group of dancers in the show Soirée Orientale that she has directed and choreographed for H.E. the Minister of Culture and Tourism of Egypt and his entourage (Feb. '08).

Currently Valentina teaches in the most important dance schools in Rome, the Maison de la danse and IALS, gives training courses and master classes throughout Italy and is a guest teacher and dancer at the festival Nouvelle Scène Européenne in Paris.

She teaches the technique of oriental modern and folk dance: her course’ goal is to develop a dance technically strong and accurate, directing her attention particularly to posture, movements in general and isolation and displacement movements, in order to achieve a result in which blends fluidity, elegance and high artistic expression.