For I am the bellydancer!

This is essence of all women that is expressed in Serena’s dancing in Greece. Listen and you will know all the things a women can do with her body:

“I am a woman wrapped in chiffon and jewels, thin silks and girdle of gold, I strech my arms to embrace and encompass the universe, I can arch my back in pride, contract my spine in humility, sway my head in grief, ripple my arms like a snake, toss my head in defiance, pose regaly like the sphinx, wring my symbols with authority, bow down in reverance, leap with unbridle joy, bend back in contorsion, control the quiver in my hips, tell a thousand stories with my eyes, skip with childwide glee, the smile of experience on my lips, glide in innocence, endure with age , spin like a dirvish, ondulate in sensuality, excite, promise, create, change, tease, mock, unveil my passion, entireling seduce the world as I move my body for I am the bellydancer. And now come dance with me…”

This is an hommage to Serena who was dancer and choreographer and made belly dancing popular in the United States. She died in 2007 at the age of 73 and yet she was still giving classes every week at the Serena Studio on 939 Eighth Avenue, at 55th Street. I took her classes a few times in 2006 and let me tell you that she had more grace and muscles tone in her little finger than I had in my entire body!

And if you want to see more creme de la creme of belly dancing.