May 6, 2018
Class Tip #2 … Where Is Your Weight? Remembering sequences of steps and combinations is one of the most challenging aspects of dance for many students. Mastering individual steps and movements is one thing, but stringing a series of them together, particularly...
Apr 29, 2018
That Middle Eastern Dance is not just one style of dance? The style we call Belly Dance is only a small part of a very diverse set of unique styles found throughout the Near and Middle East, North African, and Mediterranean regions, an area measuring roughly 2000...
Apr 15, 2018
Middle Eastern Dance is an easy dance to fall in love with; after all, it’s fun to watch, fun to do, can be done by pretty much anybody, has an interesting and rich history, is both a traditional and developing art form, offers fantastic music … I could go on...
Apr 7, 2018
The short answer is “Because I have to.” The longer answer is “Because the music and the dance go together, and I cannot separate the dance from the music.” Of course it is physically possible to do the actual steps of Middle Eastern dance to any kind of...
Apr 2, 2018
One of the very-big-deal facets of Middle Eastern Dance is the music. The way I was taught, pretty much everything a dancer does, whether he or she is dancing socially or in a staged show depends on the music. And along the way, I’ve found that the dance most of us...
