Mar 24, 2018
Remember that you’re not just paying for the teacher. You are also paying for the environment, such as the space, the mirrors, the time dedicated to your dancing and nothing else, the presence of other dancers to observe and learn from, the music and/or accompanist,...
Mar 17, 2018
….that Middle Eastern Dance is not just a women’s dance? In its native cultures, men, women, children, grandma, your uncle, why pretty much everyone dances! Middle Eastern Dance is, at its root, in its original form, a social dance—an activity done for enjoyment...
Mar 11, 2018
In my lecture-demonstrations, I often begin with an entrance in what we in the Middle Eastern Dance scene call the “American Cabaret” style, or AmCab. It’s a natural and logical place for me to start, as I am, culturally, North American, and it is the style that many...
Mar 5, 2018
You’ve heard by now that dancing is one of the most ways to help prevent mental and physical decline, but perhaps you feel like you don’t know how. Are you intimidated by taking a dance class? (not just a belly dancing class, perhaps any dance class.) Are you afraid...