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  This happens all too often at our local belly dance events. We peek around the stage curtain and find many empty seats or the seats are taken by the show’s own performers. Some say, “We don’t advertise enough” and that’s why few are coming. Others say, “people are tired of seeing the same dancers or so many amateur dancers.” While others will complain about shows being too expensive.  These are only a few among the many reasons why dancers choose…

Here’s how the story usually goes. A dancer comes to me to prepare for an upcoming performance, we have a couple lessons, the dancer does the performance, sends me the video all excited, I see no less than ten things that could improve the performance, but the dancer never asks for a video critique or a follow-up lesson. Let me tell you, this is not the best scenario if you truly want to grow your skill quickly because you might not realize the most important lessons happen after your show.  Don’t get me wrong, preparation is important…

Are you looking for great places to buy belly dance costumes? Look no further! I have compiled a list of the best belly dance costume vendors EVER from around the world. No “Turkish airport specials” here! Actually, we do have Turkish airport specials, but they are at the bottom of this list. Are you new to belly dance costuming and you are not sure where to start or what to get? Check out these resources too! Finding & Preparing Your First Belly…

Tool #1 Audacity: Getting Your Music Just Right Somewhere along your dancer’s journey, you will inevitably need to alter your music to suit your needs. Sometimes, you might feel a song is too long and you wish to remove less exciting or repetitive sections. Or you’ve signed up for a dance show and your time limit is shorter than the music you want to use and you need to cut it down. Or you are wanting to perform in a…

https://youtu.be/8vLidQqcKoo   Learning choreography is never easy, but there are some things you can do to make the process a little easier. Anna, the lead instructor at Ahlam Academy, in this two-part series shares tips and tricks to help you learn and remember choreography. Get the next 6 tips! Watch Part 2   Share “12 Strategies to Learn Choreography More Quickly Part 1” [products limit=”1″ columns=”1″ visibility=”featured” ][learn_press_featured_courses]

Learn six more strategies to help you master choreography more quickly. There are quite a few tricks that will make the process easier. Don’t struggle with your dances, learn what to expect and how to handle it with Anna, a professional belly dancer based in Houston Texas. Didn’t catch the first six strategies? Watch them here!  Share “12 Strategies to Learn Belly Dance Choreography More Quickly (Part 2)” [products limit=”1″ columns=”1″ visibility=”featured” ][learn_press_featured_courses]

The 3 Stages of Choreography Mastery Today, I’m going to be sharing with you the three stage of choreography mastery. I wanted to talk about this subject with you all, because I feel like students often just hop from learning choreography to choreography to choreography without really delving in deeper, going into all the stages that I feel it takes to master a choreography. So, the first stage is Recall. This is the stage where you are having to just…

Oriental dance aka “belly dance” or “Raqs Sharqi” in Arabic, is considered one of the oldest dance forms on Earth, but no one knows for sure where it came from. Over the last few decades, archaeological, societal, and cultural discoveries, regarding the Middle East, dance historians have more information resources concerning the dance’s origins more than ever before. Currently, there are two “historical” schools of thought about where the dance may have originated. The first proposes that the dance may…