Leyla Jouvana finally discovered her love for the Oriental Dance after Yugoslavian Folklore and Jazz Dance, 19 years ago. After several years studying middle eastern dance, she is now in charge of approximately 300 regular students from beginners up to master class. Nearly every weekend she is active as a guest dancer, choreographer and teacher at home and worldwide.

Her reputation as a solo dancer has reached a wide audience through numerous national & international performances, press reports, TV appearances and video productions. Together with her husband Roland (drummer) and her ensemble, she regularly travels to many cities all over the world.

According to diverse specialist journals and local press reports, she is one of the most successful and best dancer & choreographers in Europe. On several occasions she has represented the whole Oriental Dance scene from Germany at major dance festivals abroad. (e.g. New York, San Francisco, LA/Hollywood Orlando, Atlanta, Budapest, Prag, Brussels, Nizza, London, Leeds, Madrid, New Mexico, Mexico City, Seatle, Salzburg, Turkey, Paris, Cairo, Vienna, Italy, Denmark, Australia). In San Francisco / USA Leyla got the famous Giza Academy Award of 2002 as the best live dancer of the year. In July 2004 she won the "Halima-Award" in the category "best dancer", "one of the most famous dance studios in Europe”, " one of most famous european festivals of Oriental Dance” and "Shimmy Queen".

Her studio for Oriental Dance is one of the largest and most successful in Europe.

The annual "Internationales Orientalisches Tanzfestival" (International Oriental Dance Festival) in Duisburg / Clauberghalle on the first Sunday of Advent, was established by Leyla, and meanwhile has developed into the biggest Oriental Dance Show in Germany and Europe (audience record = 4,500).

Roland, Leyla Jouvana`s husband, is a professional drummer since 17 years.

He provides Leyla with artistic support in the form of live rhythm, and ranks as one of the best and most popular drummers on the oriental dance scene worldwide. Together with Leyla, he has taken part in numerous stage shows and has given workshops at home and abroad. 

He has not only mastered oriental percussion instruments (Darbukka, Duff etc.) perfectly, but has also expanded his knowledge by playing additional instruments, e.g. percussions, congas, framedrum, cymbals etc. On numerous occasions, Leyla, Roland and her ensemble have appeared together in the most important Oriental Dance Festivals.(Cairo, Paris, Vienna, Sicily, Denmark, Zurich, India,

USA, Mexico City, Maroc, Australia, Paris, Prag, Budapest etc.)

Roland developped the oriental foot-machine and he was the first oriental drummer worldwide, playing 3 percussion instruments simultaneously with both hands and feet.