"Mercedes Nieto is dancing and deepening her knowledge of the oriental dance for 12 years. At the same time she was studying flamenco, afro dance and jazz ballet. Up to these days she still involves herself in improving and developing her classical ballet and contemporary dance knowledge. Merging these with the traditional and contemporary Egyptian dance forms Mercedes created her own style, which is dynamic and floating, delicate and sensual, mysterious, still sincere and natural. She won several prices on different professional belly dance competitions in Hungary: People's Choice Award, 1^st place in professional solo cathegory, 1^st place group category with Art of Orient group, two times 1st place with her troup: the Nymph Oriental Dance Company, 3 times the best choreographer prize. She won audience prize of the MEDINA competition in USA; she won prizes as solo dancer, and her troop gained the 1^st place in group dance category in Egypt (Cairo, Nile Group Festivals and previously at Ahlan Wa Sahlan Festivals as well). Mercedes is choreographing dance-theatrical performances, is a leading teacher and star guest of several festivals all over in Hungary and Europe. She has her own dance school for the past 8 years.

She is the founder and artistic director of the international Cairo Oriental Dance Festival in Budapest.

Already during her fist visit to Cairo she was invited for dance interviews, after she appeared in Semiramis Intercontinental Hotel,  on the Nile Pharaoh Cruising Restaurant, and later on the cruising restaurant Nile Maxim.

Meantime her name is becoming more and more known: she was teaching and dancing in Germany, Austria, Spain, Transylvania, Poland, Slovenia, Cuba, USA, Latvia, Serbia, Slovenia, Ukraine, Estonia, Greece and also in Sweden within the frames of the Stockholm Bellydance Festival, where she was teaching among the greatest master teachers from Cairo.

The choreographies for her students are professionally real amusement and challenge, as Mercedes does not keep anything for herself, she loves to give and she is guided by whole transmission independent on whether it is about her own modern ideas or traditional styles. Technically her requirements are quite high, the emphasis are on presenting the variegation of the belly dance through the personal message of the dancer. As there is no dance without real emotions – especially no oriental dance..."