Join us and enjoy the spirit of the dance and the special people in our program. 

The academy offers four different levels of belly dancing classes: Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced, and Performance. Emphasis is on learning and executing dance steps with accuracy, flexibility, grace, and poise. Movement and rhythms guide the dance that is shared among women throughout time and across continents.

Our classes offer every student an opportunity to perform during our Harem Nights and other special events. We are available for private and group sessions! Please contact us for special group rated-10 student minimum.

Classes are held at Dana's Dance Academy,

Beginner Classes
The beginner classes are structured to allow students to develop at their own pace. You will learn to develop a sound foundation for belly dancing. We’ll explore the different music and rhythms (i.e., Egyptian, Arabic, Turkish, etc.) that make this dance so beautiful. You will build a stronger physical body with flexibility and endurance, learn the dance history and feminine artistic expressions, and discover the joy of movement. You will need to master the steps outlined in the beginner classes before moving on to the intermediate classes. Classes are taught by Neenah, Aliki, and Jasmyn.

Intermediate Classes
In this class, you will expand your repertoire on dance steps, rhythms, and dance and music vocabulary. You will learn graceful transitions between moves and fun combinations to build choreography. You will learn the framework for building choreography by enhancing your skills in layering movements, level changes, directional changes, and emphasizing and de-emphasizing movement to match the music. Classes are taught by Zaira and Aliki.

Intermediate Zill Drill Classes
This unique zill drill class will help you become proficient in playing various zill patterns (i.e., beledi, kashlimar, chiftetelli, bolero, and other variations of the 4/4, 9/8, 6/8, and 2/4 patterns). You will need to master this class before moving into the Intermediate and Advance Group on Monday Nights. This class technique has been moved to the Intermediate class on Saturday with Zaira.

Advanced Classes
Get exposed to sophisticated steps and skilled layering techniques. Students in this class must have the fundamental ability to play zills while dancing. Strength building and mastery of transitions in footwork and body isolations is emphasized here. We explore the explosive dynamic percussive isolations required for drum solos! This can be an aggressive workout. Advanced work with props such as veil, candle, and sword technique are taught. Advanced classes are taught by Zaira.

Performance Class
This class is for students that have demonstrated their dance step skills in the Advanced Group. By invitation only, members of this group will master advanced choreography, performance skills, props, costuming, and the world of entertainment protocol and professionalism. Classes are taught by Neenah on Tuesdays.