Yurie is a professional bellydancer, an experienced Middle Eastern dance instructor and choreographer based in Christchurch, New Zealand.  She is the founder and director of El Yasmine Bellydance School.

Yurie started studying Middle Eastern dance with Gendi (Founder of The School of Contemporary Belly Dance) in Christchurch in 1998.  

She started her teaching career at The School of Contemporary Bellydance as a Saidi teacher in 2002.  In 2005, Yuire helped to incoorporate the school as NPO, then served as a Manager of the school until August 2006.  She had served for the school as a senior Oreintal & Middel Eastern folkloric teacher till September 2009, the left the school to establish her own Middle Eastern dance school "El Yasmine Bellydance School".

Yurie spacialises in Oriental dance(Egyptian style) and Middle Eastern folkloric dance. She teaches and performs various folkloric dance styles; Saidi, Ghawazee, Nubian, Alexandrian, Hagallah, Khaleegy, Algerian Rai, and Tunisian, as well as classical and modern Oriental dance.

In 2010, she travelled and taught a successfull workshop in Japan and also performed in Kobe and Tokyo.

She continues her study by attending International / master teachers workshops in NZ and overseas. She studied with Cassandra Shore, Shareen El Safy, Hadia, Denise Enan, Amel Tafsout, Amera (Sydney), Caroline of Cairo, Karen Gehrman(Fat Chance Belly Dance), Mohamed Kazafy, Randa Kamel, and Egyptian top star Dina.                                     

Yurie is a trained and qualified adult education tutor who holds NZ National Certificate in Adult Education and Training.

As well as teaching bellydance, she works as a professional belly dancer  performing regularly for parties and events. Her perfromance style is graceful, elegant, and friendly with lots of fun interaction with audience.

Yuire perfroming Saidi cane dance for Culture Galore.