Belly Dance Instructors & Classes

About Mee Mee
(Instructor for the Adult Belly Dance Class)

Although professionally she studied the language of the computer and graduated with a Master degree in Computer Sciences, music and dance has always been parts and parcels of her life. As she was growing up, she had danced to the Hawaiian Hula dance, the 60's A GoGo Dance, Malay and Chinese Cultural Dance, Sarawakian Dance, played the trumpet and mellophone in the school's Brass Band and was the head of the Art and Cultural Student Hostel Club in the university.

Her love story with belly dance started back in August 2005, when she attended her first class at the Zero Fitness Dance Studio. She simply just fell in love with the femininity of the dance, its gracefulness, its inner power and its elegance. She was under the tutelage of Ms Conny Lim from the Zero Fitness Dance Studio for a few years and then ventured out on her own.

In her effort to improving herself as a dancer and teacher, she continuously takes workshops from belly dance gurus within and outside of Malaysia. Up-to-date, she has taken workshops from professional belly dance masters like Prof. Hassan Khalil and Nuriyya from Egypt, Kaeshi Chai of the BellyQueen, Sharon Kihara of the Belly Dance Superstars, Jenna and Samra Lara from the United States, Hadia and Nath Keo from Canada, Nigma of El-Oasis from Spain, Karen Madrid from Mexico, Shanaz from France and her latest was Dina the Egyptian Belly Dance Diva in Singapore. It will be a never-ending learning and self-improvements journey in her pursuit to perfections in the dance.

Achievements

• April 2010 – invited as a guest judge by Let’s Dance Malaysia in the Absolute Stunning Ladies Dance competition event at the Hard Rock Hotel, Penang.
• Aug 2009 – Dance99 led by Mee Mee emerged as the Champion of the belly dance troupe competition in the Malaysian Open Dance Fest in Kuala Lumpur
• Aug 2009 – won the first runner up in the belly dance Intermediate Individual category of the Malaysian Open Dance Fest in Kuala Lumpur
• Mar 2009 – completed level 1 of Hadia’s Teacher Training Course, a 20 hour intensive training which includes Hadia’s famous body awareness, body anatomy, alignment and injury prevention classes and more. For details, please check out Hadia’s website at hadia.com.
• Aug, 2005 – 2008 – completed the belly dance program from Beginner to Advance at the Zero Fitness Dance Studio.

About Vivian
(Instructor for Kids Belly Dance Class)

Vivian has started dancing at the tender age of 6 years old. She has experienced the Chinese Cultural Dance, Modern Jazz and now Belly Dance. Ever since she started dancing, she has developed a love for the stage and she looks forward to every opportunity to perform and dance her heart out! She also adores children so much so, that it makes her a favourite among the kids in the belly kids class.

Her training in belly dance started back in 2005 when she took her first class with Ms Conny Lim at the Zero Fitness Dance Studio. From then on, there was no stopping her from pursuing her passion in the dance. She continues to study to improve her dance skills with other professional belly dance master like Kaeshi Chai of the Bellyqueen, Sharon Kihara of the Belly Dance Superstars, Sherlyn Koh of the Sirocco Secrets, Nath Keo from Canada and Shanaz from Paris. Belly dance to her is mysterious, graceful yet powerful!



Classes

Dance99 teaches a combination of Egyptian and American Cabaret style of Belly Dancing. Classes begin with a dynamic warm-up to warm up the whole body and lubricate the joints before working on the core muscles and techniques of the dance and end with a cool down to lower the heart rate and lengthen the muscles with some simple stretches to improve flexibility. Dance99 emphasizes on safety while dancing to ensure students enjoy the benefit of dancing, free from injuries.

Beginner - Students will be exposed to the great Middle Eastern music and learn all the fundamental movements of belly dance, its posture and alignment, isolation, shimmies, some basic turns and walks, and arms movements.

Intermediate – Intermediate students learn more intense layered shimmies, introduction to rhythms, more challenging combinations, and usage of props like veils and cane.

Advance – more challenging choreographies and props like finger cymbals and others. Students will be exposed to improvisational skills and other styles of belly dance. The advance class is an indefinite class where new materials will be introduced constantly from time to time.

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