What Should You Wear to Class? Beginners often ask us what they should wear to class. In our information booklet we say that they should wear comfortable exercise clothes. Some rock up Jessica Perelson on blog, learn 10 September 2016 0 comments
Beginner Choreographies: A Few Tips I've been teaching beginners since 2009. One thing that has always been a struggle is the varying abilities of the individuals and catering for each one. Jessica Perelson on learn, choreograph 07 September 2016 0 comments
Practice Anytime, Anywhere I'm a mother of twins, a wife, co-owner of Zahra's Oriental Dance Studio and I write one blog post a day for this site. I also Jessica Perelson on blog, learn 01 September 2016 0 comments
Learning to Improvise Improvising doesn't come easy to everyone, but it is a skill that can be learnt. I'm lucky in that I feel music emotionally and physically, so Jessica Perelson on article, learn, improvise 26 August 2016 0 comments
Characters in Belly Dance In ballet we have 3 types of dance: classical (in which there is no "storyline", it is more about technique), demi-character (which has a storyline) and Jessica Perelson on blog, article, learn 21 August 2016 0 comments
Helping Our Students To Learn Belly dance does not discriminate. Your size, shape, ethnicity, religion, gender and sexuality doesn't matter. What also doesn't matter is your ability learn in certain ways. Jessica Perelson on blog, learn 18 August 2016 0 comments
Pulling Faces I was horrified a few years back when I got a show CD of photos and there wasn't a single photo of me on it. I'm Jessica Perelson on blog, article, learn 16 August 2016 0 comments
Hair Dancing Well, my post on children belly dancing as been met with mixed reviews. On one of the threads on Facebook, a commenter mentioned the use of Jessica Perelson on learn, video, Morocco, Khaleegy 13 August 2016 0 comments
Belly Dance and Body Image 2 I love this article. For me it is very similar to my journey, except I was the overweight lady walking into class thinking I was going Jessica Perelson on article, learn 09 August 2016 0 comments