Born in the family and nurtured there, it's a sharing experience of music and movement. As different as each woman whoever danced. It is sensual rather than sexual and as such deals as much with emotion as with the body. It isn't just for the young, thin and beautiful. It isn't even just for women anymore.
Men can and do dance.
For me, getting started was an impulse. Driving down Sprague Avenue, I saw a sign at the local dance studio offering an evening class in beginning bellydance. My daughters pointed it out and giggled at the idea of Mom doing something outrageous. I drove past that sign dozens of times before I worked up the nerve to turn in and ask for information. I signed up before I left the building, telling myself I could always change my mind later.