Lisa LuminaMar 7, 20212 minLevel One: Figure 8 Unit, Class 3Articles There is a concept in Arabic music called Tarab, which loosely means "the ecstasy of listening" and is a sort of trance like...
Lisa LuminaMar 7, 20212 minLevel One: Figure 8 Unit, Class 4Articles There are many ways raqs sharki can be healing: it brings us back emotionally in touch with our bodies, balances physical muscle...
Lisa LuminaMar 6, 20212 minLevel One: Infinities Unit, Class 1Articles Old fantasies had people in the West thinking that raqs sharki (the Arabic name for bellydance) was a dance of seduction, but...
Lisa LuminaMar 6, 20212 minLevel One: Infinities Unit, Class 2Articles I want you all to find your own voice. Shems articulates well how all this movement vocabulary fits into learning how to dance...
Lisa LuminaMar 6, 20212 minLevel One: Infinities Unit, Class 3Articles I wanted to take a second to talk about some of the ways bellydance can be both physically (TW: gun violence) and...
Lisa LuminaMar 6, 20212 minLevel One: Infinities Unit, Class 4Articles Borderns drawn by colonizers have contributed a lot to the diaspora from countries in the Levant and beyond. In this week's...
Lisa LuminaMar 5, 20211 minFinding Music to Practice to: a Guide for BeginnersThis post has been remade as a regular site page: https://www.centralbellydanceschool.com/bellydancemusicforbeginners
Lisa LuminaMar 5, 20212 minLevel One: Undulations Unit, Class 1Articles The proper names for bellydance are raqs sharki, in Arabic, and dans oryantal, in Turkish. Besides the music and torso focused...
Lisa LuminaMar 5, 20212 minLevel One:Undulations Unit, Class 2Articles Raqs sharki has, for as long as we know, existed under patriarchy. And if you REALLY want to dive into an academic discussion of...