Welcome to Beth Amine Belly Dance! Explore my weekly live classes on Zoom and instructional videos to help you create a deep mind-body connection while you gain flexibility, tone and have fun! Video One is the basics for those who may just be new to movement. Video two is how to put the same movements together on a lively group setting.
Belly Dance
Belly Dance is the oldest recorded form of dance, seen in the tomb paintings in ancient Egypt. Its origins are much earlier still, in the ancient feminine dance from the early cultures of what is now the Middle East. Its circular movements reflects the cycles of nature and human experience, and the movement of the spheres.
Belly Dance was brought to the United States at the turn of the century at the World’s Fair, creating quite a stir in Victorian America. Styles evolved worldwide combining influences of Hollywood movies and ethnic movements. American Belly Dancers have been creating a new form for decades, using tribal, nightclub and modern dance movements to create a unique hybrid style. What still remains is the dance’s ability to release spirit, connect the mind to the body, and provide a form for both fun and deep expression.
Beth Amine
Beth first saw belly dancing as a child growing up in multi-cultural Los Angeles. She was exposed then to a wide variety of music, including that of the Middle East. She began studying belly dancing in Santa Barbara and started performing almost immediately at Baudelaire’s and Borsodi’s, the classic dance and music Clubs of the Seventies. She has continued performing and teaching nationally ever since. Her credits include ten years at the Plaka Restaurant in Santa Barbara, The P’Tit Cabaret, Moon Angel,Chef Karim’s, Zaytoon’s as well as many parties, weddings, benefits, and events. Beth believes that Belly Dancing is both an ancient and contemporary remarkable form of self-expression and group fun.
Belly Dance Class
I offer a $10 Belly Dance class every Thursday at 4:00 PST
Click the link below to join via Zoom.
