Summer 2024 Belly Dance Wrap Up, Part One

It’s been an exciting summer of belly dance with classes and performances. In the next few posts I’ll share some of what we’ve been up to!

First off, a small group of my students from Better Together Dance Theatre and I performed at Carnival of Stars 2024! It was our first performance together as Troupe Alisa and their first time performing at a belly dance festival. We had great time preparing for and performing in this show. I’m so proud of their hard work. We put our entire set together with very little time and they did a stellar job!

Alisa and students performing at Carnival of Stars Belly Dance Festival 2024

The following day I had the honor of performing the in Carnival of Stars Gala Showcase to live music with Pangia.

Alisa performs with Pangia at the Carnival of Stars 2024 Gala Showcase.

I’ll share video from these shows and more of our summer adventures in the coming weeks.

Tonight is our last night of summer classes at Better Together Dance Theatre. Then we take a two week break and come back refreshed for our Fall season. My fall teaching schedule is available on my Classes page - come dance with us!

Carnival of Stars 2024

This year at Carnival of Stars I am debuting a student troupe on Saturday 7/13 at 5:06PM as well as dancing as a solo artist in the Gala Show on Sunday 7/14 to live music with Bay Area legends Pangia. Admission details on the Carnival of Stars website.

Carnival of Stars is always a fun weekend celebrating belly dance. Come join us!

Alisa Greer is dancing at Carnival of Stars 2024

Summer 2024 Belly Dance Classes

Summer 2024 Belly Dance Classes started this week! South San Francisco classes are full but we have room for drop-ins in Belmont. We meet Thursdays at 6:30PM - details on my Classes Page.

Golden Ticket

My students delighted audiences in two sold-out performances at the Carlmont Performing Arts Center this past weekend as part of the Better Together Dance Theatre annual show. They worked so hard to prepare and did a fantastic job - I loved watching them :)

Next month you will be able to see us at Carnival of Stars! I will have more information on showtimes coming soon. Summer class information is here, and I’ll have Autumn up as well shortly. Please contact me if you have any questions!

Class Hafla!

We had our first class hafla at Better Together Dance Theatre! We are fortunate at the studio we have several opportunities to perform as a group throughout the year. But we are always working on our art as soloists as well, and for several students this was a first experience planning and performing a solo. You can see by the lovely smiles that it was a fun night! I was so proud of everyone for taking this big step.

We were incredibly fortunate to have Bay Area legend Jordan perform for us to close the hafla. She wowed us with a gorgeous performance to Mashaal, giving us all such a beautiful display of elegance, charm and musicality to aspire to as we continue to work. You can see a little of her performance here.

And her is a photo of me introducing the show :)

It was a wonderful evening and we will do it again in September.

Right after our hafla we started rehearsing for our big studio show that happens June 1st and 2nd. I look forward to sharing more details about that soon!

Happy Dancing!