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This is the home of belly dance. A living world of Middle Eastern dance where you can immerse yourself in its movement and colour, its costume and history. So much more than dance and entertainment... its a unique living culture.

Greetings, Salaam Aleikum, to the world of Middle Eastern dance. It's Arabic name is 'Raqs Sharqi' (pronounced ra_s Shar_i ) in Arabic because the sound of the 'q' in Arabic is 'Qaulf” - (a deep throated glotteral stopish sound), meaning dance of the Orient; or raqs baladi, which relates more to the folkloric styles, meaning 'dance of my country' or 'dance of my people'. In Turkish it is 'Rakkase'.

How to belly dance

Learning how to belly dance is to invite your self to engage with a world of joy, beauty, energy, fitness, positive self-image, myth, archetype and sensuality.

Although you can pick up a lot from watching an instructional DVD , I would say it is essential to find a teacher (who should be a Belly Dancer herself) if you really want to get involved and learn this dance.

The best way to learn how to belly dance would be to train under as many teachers as possible as well as watching DVD's or videos of as many dancers as possible. This is because although the movements and steps we all use are fundamentally the same, there are different styles to this dance and then again the movements within these styles will look different depending on the body type of the dancer.

To  learn to belly dance  is more than just knowing how to  shimmy(but that's fun and a wonderful belly dande ) so if you plan to join thebellydance superstars  be prepared to put in the time!

So to find how this dance works best with your body, and personality observe and practice as much as possible and you will find the style that you resonate with.

No matter how long you have bellydancing or have not been dancing there is always more to learn. I have been  for seven years now (March 2008 at time of writing) and still feel like I am only beginning because the 'vocabulary' for this dance is, as I perceive it now, infinite.

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