by AmartiaBellydance | May 14, 2019 | Greek
In this week’s post, I wanted to address some stereotypes that I have heard about Greek Dance. Now these have come from audience members, those inquiring to hiring me, as well as other dancers. I’m going to go through the 5 most common and address them...
by AmartiaBellydance | May 8, 2019 | Greek
I’m sorry if the title seems misleading! I don’t think I could EVER encompass everything that you need to know about Greek dance but I can try to give you a beginner’s course. I’m hoping with this blog post to give you guys a crash course in a...
by AmartiaBellydance | May 1, 2019 | Greek
This particular topic is something that has been bothering me for quite some time. I am noticing that Greek style dance- bellydance or folkloric- isn’t recognized as it’s own form. It gets lumped along with Turkish style. Granted the Ottoman Empire did...
by AmartiaBellydance | Apr 24, 2019 | Greek
I was born in the USA but my family (and my heart) is from Greece. I had to go to Greek school so yes, my life has some My Big Fat Greek Wedding elements to it. Because of my time in Greek school, I am able to read and write Greek. Maybe not as well as I would like as...
by AmartiaBellydance | Apr 17, 2019 | Tools and Tips
As a follow up to my blog post about what happens when bellydance goes wrong, last week, I wanted to provide some additional help for those who might be thinking of hiring a dancer. I am going to include questions for everything so that no matter what type of dancer...
