I'll show you mine if you show me yours!!

Don't have anything posted, but I do have a pic.

Go to http://www.chelydra.com/. Scroll down to the "Dancing Turtles Folk Art" section I'm the one in the blue on the first pic.(our teacher's stage name, Chelydra, means snapping turtle in Greek!!!)

If you wait a minute the Dancing Turtles pics scroll through four performances. I've danced three of those in public, but I'm not in the other pics because they were taken before I really started showing myself in public.

As you can see from the costumes, this is a different type of "belly dance" than most people expect. It is more the traditional folk dances from Persia, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Tunisia, Morroco, Turkey, Lebanon and Israel/Palestine regions. Some of them are many hundreds of years old.

This is great excercise - you will work muscles you didn't know you had on your belly, butt, legs, arms and hips. Anyone can do it - it is easy once you break down the moves, but challenging when you add them together. It's great girly time. And those of you who are more modest about showing your bellies in public (like me!) this dance style is still very s3xy and seductive without being quite so out there. That's what I LOVE about flamenco...very s3xy and seductive with full or mostly full coverage! Middle Eastern moves are also very adaptable, in small doses, to the disco floor!

The costumes have a lot more coverage than the dances performed in the caberets. But many of the moves are still the same. I highly recommend it to all. It will release the inner goddess that is inside trying to get out and will exponentially increase your self confidence!!! The moves makes it clear that all women are beautiful, no matter what their body shape. Look up the teachers in your area. You'll love it!

OK. Commercial's over. Back to business. (Can't help it...it changed my life and I LOVE it!)

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SZ