Beginning with a gentle but thorough warm up to prepare the body to dance, the teaching sequence includes the 'shoulder shimmy', 'hip rotation', the '1,2,3 hop', and the 'hip pop'. In the final act, ...

If you want to feel good and sensual in your own skin, albeit slightly uncoordinated, you should try belly dancing. We (Angela and Alicia) went to a class for beginners and had a blast trying to learn ...

If you're looking for a fun, low impact workout that improves your posture and helps with toning, belly dancing may be for you. Salit, founder of the Sheba Belly Dance School in New York City, joins ...

Many belly dance moves, she mentions, reflect age-old female activities like cooking and childbirth. Teaching us to swivel our arms, she says: "Think about stirring a big pot." Way leads on to way, ...