This is pretty awesome

I'm a Belly Dancer and have been Dancing for around a year now. I'm hoping that with my weight loss I'll be able to you know...actually dance in front of people XD

BTW I'm Candace

Hi, I'm Erin.

I love belly dancing. It's so much fun. I'm happy when exercise doesn't feel like exercise.

Greetings! I hearty belly dancing as well. I have been doing it, fitness style, for about a year. I started going to to a dance studio about 3 months ago where I am learning tribal belly dance and will be performing in May. VERY excited!

Im a belly dancer hence why i have joined this group

Im Li

I do Cabaret Egyptian, Turkish and improv Bollywood belly dancing i have done quite a few performances and done workshops with various professionals such as Katie Holland and Shona Hagan (she organises Miss Belly Dance 2011)

hope you don't mind me joining x

Hi, I'm Cheryl. I have been bellydancing for 7 years. I take classes in American Tribal Style. I have performed several times for student recitals, charity shows, etc.. The thing that I like the most about the bellydance community is that no one cares what size you are... they just want to see you dance.

Hello everyone. My name is Sally. I belly danced off an on for 20 years. But the situation here has changed in the last 5 years. I had 3 hip surgeries in less than 2 years..then this past summer, dislocated my artificial hip 2x and belly dancing is out of the question for me now. (aside from the fact that my teacher no longer teaches :frown: ) I enjoyed it very much. We danced all over--even in Puerto Rico for the mayor. We performed once on a cruise ship. Very fun. But now....with the hip restrictions, I can no longer..do the moves. :grumble:

I have many bras and belts that I can no longer use. Is it way out of line to ask if anyone is interested in buying any of them?

Hope all is well with everyone and your shimmies are awesome. Move it or lose it!

Thanks all~
Sally

I started bellydancing back in 1999. I started off learning Egyptian cabaret and Turkish, then in 2004 I joined a class where the teacher taught Tribal Fusion and ATS... I was HOOKED! I dance only Tribal fusion now and have been performing it since 2009. I love it so much and can't think of every quitting! In fact, I am looking at places to rent so I can start teaching classes later this year. It just depends on how much for rent you know? I love making up choreography and performing at Haflas, I have also had the pleasure of doing workshops with some of the best like Mira Betz, and Rachel Brice. They were both so great and totally kicked our butts during the workshops, it was great!

Greetings, everyone!

If anybody had told me 20 years ago (by the way, I'm 53) that I would be learning belly dance let alone typing my experience into a computer and joining an online group (whatever that might have been) I would have thought they were nuts!!!

Okay, here's the info on me: Most of my adult life I have been at some stage of fat. The past ten years or so I have taken my health very seriously and anymore I exercise regularly, eat reasonably (most of the time) and am no longer fat by BMI defitition, but the past couple of years have allowed my weight to gradually creep up so I have about 15 or so pounds to re-lose. I found MFP in late December when I was looking for a calorie/weight logging app for my phone.

I found a DVD (done byVeena and Neena Bishada) at our library last summer on belly dance, and I was hooked. It was FUN. I don't know exactly what their style would be considered, so if somebody can tell me I would appreciate it. Anyway, I did it for a while, then got away from it for a few months, and started again a couple of weeks ago. No, I do not yet dance in front of anybody!:blushing:

Thanks!

Candu

Would love to hear from others in the group, especially those whose experience or style may have similar roots.
Would love to see this group grow and become more active, too, and I'll be glad to do my part on that!:flowerforyou:

Hello,
My name is Cindy I have been dancing for about 3 years now. I want to become a pro one day but I want to lose the weight before I ever perform in front of anyone. I love to do Turkish and egyptian cabaret and starting egyptian baladi. I dance everyday let it be 10 mins to 2 hours. I love it.

Hi everyone, so glad I searched to see if there were any belly dance groups! I'm Adrienne, I have been dancing for close to 2 years now, have taken 5, 10 to 12 week sessions of dance class in a more folk-ish style, very earthy. Here's the thing about me though, I have no rhythm, none! But I absolutely love to belly dance. I can do every isolation movement that my instructor teaches, it's when she gets us to do choreographed routines where I need to be doing more then one thing at a time that I see I have no rhythm. lol I keep at it though because of my love for it, and I feel that one day it might just click and I will be able to easily do more then one thing at a time. I recently moved and have not yet found a new class to take so I dance at home on my own. Just picked up a belly dance workout video which has been great since I still need the "leading" of an instructor to get anything out of it.

Hello! I'm Michaela, been bellydancing for over 8 years now, I'm learning, performing and teaching Tribal, both in its ATS/ITS variation and Tribal Fusion.
Looking for a bellydance group was the first thing I did after registering here

Hello, My name is Rachel (aka Raya) I have been a bellydancer for almost 9 years now, performing for the last 6, soloing for the last 5.5. I am a member of Raks Fi Shams dance troupe out of Florida.
I was looking through the groups and was delighted to see a bellydance group so I thought I would shimmy on in and join the fun!

Hello everyone! I'm Izanami, and I've been dancing for four years. Most of my training is in American Cabaret (with Egyptian Breeze of Yellow Springs, Ohio), but I belong to a fusion troupe as well (Troupe Roja of Dayton, Ohio), so I'm gaining lots of experience with fusion and theatrical numbers. I've taken a few tribal fusion workshops and would love to explore that as well.

I honestly don't know where I'd be without belly dance. Life before dance seems so dull, though I did have a lot more free time! I love using dance as creative expression, but also as part of an exercise regimen. Dance on, everyone, and please feel free to add me! :flowerforyou:

hello, i am into bellydance tribal style .. have zoe's a to zoe, wish i had more time for it. well wish i had more time with the tv that has the dvd player LOL son always has it. i had one of rachels on my compuer but dont have that computer anymore.

take classes once a week with a fantastic teacher though