In-person & Live Online
Tuesdays, 5:30 – 6:30 pm HST
Saturdays, 9:30 – 10:30 am HST
Price: $27 or membership
Learn with acclaimed bellydance instructor, Murat Demirtas, in person at our Honolulu studio, or live online from wherever you are tuning in. Learn all the fundamental motions for Turkish belly dance, starting with the hip roll and upper body movements. Murat introduces you to all the basic categories of Turkish belly dance, such as the 5 types of shimmy.
Murat presents the class in a slow, easy-to-approach manner that will still give you a great workout! You can take this class as introduction to prepare you for the faster, more challenging Turkish Belly Dance for Fitness and Belly Dance for Performance classes.
This class is also excellent cross training for many dance and other movement formats. You find muscles you never knew you had! You increase core strength, while greatly improving your body control and ability to operate different parts of your body independently.
Class Schedule
Andrea De Gruchy
Andrea de Gruchy is one of those amazing people who has founded her own exercise technique! She launched BeliRaq Dance Fitness in 2011 to combine her two passions: working out and dancing – and to share this passion with others.
Andre loves to see her students’ faces light up as they feel the rhythms and experience themselves energetically come alive to the movements of BeliRaq. She created BeliRaq for her movers’ ongoing wellness journey.
Specializing in Egyptian cabaret and belly dance, with a background jazz, latin dance, ballroom, hip hop, African, lyrical, modern, and musical dance performance, Andrea’s wide dance experience inspires the dynamic movements that fill her classes.
Andrea has been a fitness instructor in 2011 and a personal trainer in 2019. Her enthusiasm and joy fill the room. Her classes are open to all experience levels, and made to inspire, uplift, and get people moving towards increased physical fitness with a smile!
Get the Still & Moving App
This post is also available in: 日本語 (Japanese)