Keti Sharif lives in Egypt, in Cairo and el Gouna on the Red Sea - where she has resided permanently for the last decade. The Australian-born choreographer and author regularly traveled to Egypt since she first began producing music and instructional DVDs, as well as researching her book BELLYDANCE, by Allen and Unwin. Workshops with her first Egyptian dance teacher, Mahmoud Reda - who she later sponsored to Australia, inspired her research into Egyptian art, culture and history. Since 1998 Keti has hosted the annual WAMED Arts Festival and conducted cultural arts tours of Egypt.

Organising the Sphinx Festival program with aspects of Egyptology, Dance and Music, reflects a unification of science and art, which evolved quite naturally - synchronizing with Keti's own inter-linking systems of dance, choreography and fitness, based on sacred geometry, pattern, archetypes and psycho-acoustics (musical relationships).