Bellydance Classes with Areena at MOVE in Santa Fe offers ongoing belly dance instruction that treats the form as both an expressive art and an embodied practice. Areena guides students through foundational technique including isolations, layers, steps, and combinations, with an emphasis on rhythmic, sinuous movement and growing musicality. Classes are set to classical and contemporary Middle Eastern and world music and are designed to be welcoming to a wide range of bodies while remaining attentive to belly dance’s cultural origins, history, and stylistic breadth. Drawing on dance study that began in 1999, Areena’s teaching blends technique, playfulness, imagination, and respect for the tradition.