Middle East Belly Dance
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Middle Eastern Classes
with experience:

Middle Eastern Belly Dance Level 2:

Students have completed the beginner curriculum of three belly dances and are ready for more intensive work.

  • Get ready for intermediate classes and performances.
  • Technique and choreography.
  • Improvisation. Make up your own dances!
  • Monthly dance shows in the studio.
  • January concert at a theater.
  • Taught by Alima Hasna.

Tribal Belly Dance for Levels 2+:

Smoky, sultry, fusion:

  • Combines dance steps from many tribes around the world
  • Emphasis on unison, slow arms, snakey hips
  • Dance groups can improvise, cueing each other throughout the dance.
  • Costume pieces from Afghanistan to India!
  • Taught by Fatinah Hayat.

Middle Eastern Level 3:

Here, we kick it up a notch:

  • More intensive work on solo performances
  • More complex choreography with multiple turns, advanced hip and body isolations, intermediate veil work.
  • Vintage Orientale.
  • Sword, cane, finger cymbals
  • Taught by Safira Zeki.

Middle Eastern Level 4:

Faster-paced than level 3, with more use of artistry and improvisation.

  • Students should already be competent in turns, hip and body isolations, and memorization of choreography.
  • Summer trips to New York and Egypt for intensive study.
  • Opportunities for unique choreographies.
  • Choreography by visiting guest artists.
  • Taught by Safira Zeki.

Middle Eastern class in Reda Technique:

Technique and Choreography of Mahmoud Reda.

Nobody teaches technique like the grand master of Egyptian folk dance, Mahmoud Reda. We don't pretend to his perfection, but we do work hard to convey his graceful and elegant dance style. Reda's work with the Reda Troupe revolutionized Egyptian dance. Class is based on Safira's study in Egypt at the 3rd Cairo Seminar with Mahmoud Reda and Farida Fahmy, February 2007, and also on numerous workshops taken during his US tours. Taught by Safira Zeki.

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Fun time to explore Middle Eastern Dance.

This class operates by inspiration, so check the calendar. Recent classes offered a session of zar, an exorcism dance, Ivory Coast/Samba fusion, or coaching on how to dance solo. Taught by Alima Hasna and Safira Zeki.

  • Classes are ongoing.
  • Please contact us so Safira can help you decide which class is best for you.