Riyadh
Festival circuit, 2023–2025.
A Lebanese wedding · 2026 bookings
Your zaffe, by hand.
Three decades of Lebanese dabke — booked at your zaffe, your sahra, your first dance. Now booking 2026 weddings.
December 2025 · Baabda Presidential Palace
A welcome for Pope Leo XIV.
At Lebanon’s Presidential Palace, Hayakel Baalbek opened the state reception with Arja and Bedouin dabke — the oldest forms in the tradition — for the Pope’s first visit to the country.
2024 · Seaside Arena, Beirut
On stage with Mayyas.
A featured collaboration with the America’s Got Talent–winning Mayyas company, pairing Lebanese folk dabke with contemporary choreography.
Riyadh · Dubai · Beirut
Representing Lebanon abroad.
Booked at festivals and state events across the region — carrying the Baalbek dabke tradition since 1994.
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Since 1994
Tradition, kept alive by hand.
Founded in 1994 by Abou Yahya Solh and Abou Ibrahim Solh, Hayakel Baalbek began with six dancers determined to keep dabke from disappearing. Three decades later we still teach the same five styles, on the same line, with the same stomp.
From state visits to your sahra — same line, same stomp.
A field guide
The five styles we teach.
At a wedding we usually open with Aarja and close with Shimaliya.
Baddawiya
Bedouin roots — desert rhythms, tribal phrasing.
Shimaliya
The Northern style — fast, sharp, full of leaps.
Aarja
Heavy steps and shoulder expression — the patriarch of dabke.
Kerradiya
Coastal — playful turns, lyrical timing.
Tayrawiya
The lightest of the five — almost airborne.
Train with us
Learn Dabke through our Academy.
Beginner-friendly classes — fundamentals to performance-grade choreography. Same standard our touring line trains to, taught by the dancers you'll see on stage.
On stage globally
Booked, abroad.
Beirut
Seaside Arena × Mayyas, 2024.
Your wedding
Zaffe and sahra — from Saida to Beirut.
In the press
"Pope Leo XIV was greeted with traditional dabke dances at Lebanon's presidential palace." — The National
NPR · AFP · Al-Monitor · The National