COME BELLY DANCE WITH ME!

Feel the earth beneath your feet, joy in your heart, and graceful arms giving and receiving. I offer Beginner Belly Dance classes along with Silver Shimmies. Beginner Belly Dance classes will explore the body’s planes and efforts, a somatic approach helpful for maintaining bodily integrity in dance and life. We’ll build up core vocabulary for creating flowing and percussive moves, leading us into learning A-Z Belly Dance Original sequences. These organic sequences will serve, not as rigid combinations, but guidelines adaptable to different rhythms, styles, and flexi-combos.

Belly dance is joyful. Its music expresses love and longing. Come join the fun. No previous dance experience is required. Silver Shimmies is a joyous, low-impact belly dance format created by Keti Sharif. Our classes are designed for seniors, those with physical limitations, and for anyone seeking a Somatic approach. We do, safe, flowing sequences that incorporate popular belly dance moves to stimulate the lymph system and to build flexibility and strength.

Come join the fun. No dance experience is required.

I began choreographing animal dances at age 5 in my first dance class. I have studied Jazz, Afro-Haitian, Moroccan fusion, American Cabaret, Egyptian dance, and Dance Improvisation. I am certified by Keti Sherif to teach A-Z Belly Dance, a versatile approach easily adapted to many types of music and styles. A-Z-Belly Dance’s influences are drawn from Egyptian folklore, Classical Raqs Sharqi, and from Mahmoud Reda and Farida Fahmy. I particularly enjoy teaching Beginners and Keti’s “Silver Shimmies” for older women. I am also certified to teach Natural Rhythms, a consciousness dance practice.

My Teaching Beginners & Seniors

Teaching Combos A & B from Keti Sherif’s A-Z Original Course

Teaching “Nova Raqs “

With A- Z Combos A, B, C, D, & E

My Choreographies

Charmed Snake

Miserlou

Greco-Egyptian

lelit hob

Improv