Samia Gamal (سامية جمال)

Hello Dancers,

This post is for my Beginning students, but I hope anyone reading will enjoy this performance. We started dancing to the song Zeina, which was composed by the Egyptian composer Mohammed Abdel Wahab, Monday night. I wanted to show you a clip of the Egyptian belly dance legend Samia Gamal (سامية جمال) dancing to this song in a classic clip from Egyptian cinema.

Samia Gamal performs to the music 'Zeina' composed by Mohamed Abdel Wahab in a scene from the 1956 Egyptian film 'Zanouba' (زنوبة).

I think you can get a feel for what we were talking about in class about not relying so much on counting.

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You can still register and join us in Virtual Belly Dance Class this Fall!

I’m still working hard on a very special project that I am really excited to share with everyone very soon.

Have a great week!

Alisa

Classes Start Tonight!

Hello Dancers!

We had a very successful first class of virtual Beginning Belly Dance on Monday night. I’m continually amazed at how much my students are able to learn in the virtual format and how much fun we have dancing together in the only way we can right now. I wish so much that we could all be together in person but we will have a great Fall Term online.

Intermediate/Advanced Belly Dance class starts up tonight. There is sill time to register for either class via the South San Francisco Parks and Rec online system. Click the Virtual Classes tab once you are there you can choose your class. You can always contact me with questions.

I am working on some really neat blog content for future weeks, including a project that is very dear to my heart that I cannot wait to share with everyone. Please consider following me on Instagram @alisabellydance or signing up for my newsletter (or both!) to stay in touch.

In the meantime, I’ve got one more performance video to share from my vast archive :). This is from the Fabulous Fall Festival and like so much else, I will really miss it this year!

Belly Dancer Alisa Greer performs at BABDAMA's Fabulous Fall Festival in 2015.

Have a great week, everyone!

Registration Is Open!

Dear Dancers,

I just want to remind everyone that registration is now open for all for Fall 2020 Virtual Belly Dance Classes through the South San Francisco Parks and Rec.

You can register directly online through the SSF Parks and Rec website. Once there, click on the Virtual Classes tab and then you can select the belly dance class of your choice. I’m so happy we are able to offer both the Beginning and the Intermediate/Advanced class this term.

Classes start next week!

Please share this information if you have any friends or family who might be interested in trying belly dance.

I’ll close today with another one of the many performances that I have been slowly posting online during this period of enforced down time. This was another live music performance (my favorite kind!) from the Bay Area Belly Belly Dancing Festival. Here I am performing with local band Tahneen. If you are reading this on email, you actually have to click through to see the performance. Please also consider subscribing to my YouTube Channel.

That’s all for this week. I am really looking forward to seeing everyone back in class next week.

Fall 2020 Virtual Classes

Hello Dancers,

Well, we’re still sheltering in place here in California, so let’s keep belly dancing from our homes.

My Fall teaching schedule is up now on my Classes page. Registration for the classes through the SSF Parks and Rec starts on 9/4 for SSF Residents and 9/8 for everyone else. And the one bright side of virtual classes is that you can take them from anywhere, so please feel free to join us.

You can register for the Parks and Rec classes directly on their website. I hope to see you in class.

In addition to teaching, have also been using this shelter in place time to go through years of performance footage. I have always lacked the confidence to share my dancing on social media and so I neglected this part of being a dancer. It’s been nice to go through them all now and I will start sharing some here. I am working on my YouTube channel and I hope you will consider subscribing.

Here is one of the performances I posted there. It’s a lovely American Cabaret style performance from 2014 featuring live music by local belly dance favorites Meridian Band. I hope you enjoy it.

Thank you all for reading and I will look forward to seeing you in class.

August Virtual Belly Dance Classes

Hello Dancers,

Virtual belly dance classes continue in August. You can join us anytime during the month. I’m offering Beginning, Intermediate and Mixed-Level Mornings this month, and a couple of the classes are free thanks to special funding from Kaiser Permanente. You do not have to be able to come to every class, just join us when you can. Complete details are on my Classes page.

This photo shows my teaching backdrop. The sparkly curtain puts me in a good mood every time I see it :). It’s the little things right?

Happy Dancing!!