I will start teaching teaching bellydance basics this Thursday at the Humphrey Calder Community Center. The center is located at 414 N. Thompson St., beside the fire station. This is a six week session. Classes is from 7:45-8:45. $35 per session.

Here are the notes from the May 15th workshop. If anyone has any questions, let me know.

Combination 1
-2 hip bumps travelling to the right. Arms are in an L shape framing the working hip.
Step behind with the left foot bringing your arms together (one on top of the other) in the front.
-3 step turn to the left starting with the left foot
-end the turn by stepping with the left foot and contracting the pelvis
-pose on the ball of the left foot and begin the combination again with... read more

And I want to nominate her for Zaghareet's Best Kept Secret award. Thats right, I'm on a mission to get my best buddy Dana Beaufait nominated. I really think she deserves this award. She's accomplished so much at the age of 21. She's teaching 3 tribal classes in the Hampton Roads area, she's an incredibly innovative dancer, and she's produced a great instructional dvd featuring a prop she created herself! Now if thats not deserving of some kind of recognition, I don't know what is!

So if ... read more

Ok, here goes...I've been teaching private lessons on the down low for a couple of months now. It took a lot of prodding to get me to start teaching in the first place, and until recently I haven't been totally comfortable with people knowing I teach. Well, I think I'm over that now, so here is my official announcment:

I'm teaching private lessons! Lessons are created to best enhance your individual dance style. Basically, you tell me what you want to work on, and I create an individual pr... read more