My goal is to teach beautiful and exciting dances while promoting cultural understanding, health and community.

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Belly Dance Classes

Welcome to Dance with Kirsten, classes designed to immerse students into the joyful world of belly dance. The classes are ongoing and offered in four week sessions covering all the basics of belly dance, props, musicality and developing your own unique dance style. 

Traditional Dances of the Near East and Mediterranean 

Experience the joy of folk dance. Every week we learn new line and circle dances and review and build upon dances already learned. Students will also learn musicality and how to count and dance to various rhythms such as 9/8, 7/8 and 7/16. Not only will you learn new many new things, but you will also have a really fun workout. This class will be offered through Yavapai College Community Ed in Fall of 2025.

Performance and Coaching

Get personalized attention and guidance with personal dance training and consulting. Improve your technique, create choreography and achieve your dance goals with one-on-one sessions.

 

Frequently Asked Questions

What should I wear to the classes?

Wear comfortable clothing that allows freedom of movement. Bare feet or soft dance slippers are recommended for belly dance. For folk dance, wear split sole dance sneakers or similar. 

Do you offer performance opportunities?

The best place to perform is surrounded by the company of friends in a fun and relaxing atmosphere. I organize haflas (dance parties) every two months as a no stress way to practice dancing in front of an audience. 

The Arizona belly dance community hosts many different dance events and festivals throughout the state. 

Contact me

Get in touch with me and start your dance journey today!

Location

Dance with Kirsten
Prescott, Arizona, United States

Kirsten has a BA in Middle Eastern Studies and is is a Certified Dance Body Mind instructor. She has been dancing and performing many styles of SWANA (Southwest Asian and North African) Dance for over twenty five years.  She served as co-director of Anatolia Folk Dance group in Los Angeles. Most recently she lived and worked in Turkey for five years where she dedicated herself to studying Turkish folk dance, language and music.  She has endless passion for sharing her love of dance and culture.