Winter Holiday Showcase 2025!

On Monday night we had our annual Adult Holiday Showcase at Better Together Dance Theatre. This is always a special night where our adult dancers perform for each other and cheer each other on! The fun, festive and supportive event is the perfect way to celebrate a great year of dance.

Alisa Greer and the Better Together Belly Dancers at our annual Holiday Showcase in Belmont!

We will have class this Thursday, 12/18 and then we will be on break until January 5th. As always you can check out my classes page. We already have several fun events planned for 2026 so come join us!

Belly Dance Class Update!

My Intermediate class in Belmont chose to focus on zills this term and they have made such fantastic progress. They sound amazing. Here is a sneak peak of a routine they will be performing next week in our annual Better Together Adult Holiday Dance Showcase:

Classes are now enrolling for January 2026! Check out my Classes page and come dance with us!

Dina (دينا)

Hello friends,

Tonight in class we are going to start working on a different kind of song. We’ve been working mainly with classic pieces over the last few months, and tonight we’ll move onto a Shaabi style song.

I had planned to have an explanation for you all about Shaabi music but, like everyone else, I have been overwhelmed by current events. I will get one together for next week.

In the meantime, I thought we could at least enjoy some Dina (دينا). Dina is the most important and influential Egyptian belly dancer of the modern era. Below are two clips of her dancing to the same song because it’s fun to see how she dances in the movie clip compared to how she dances to it at a party with a live audience.

Also - I LOVE her silver dress!

امينة بشويش عليا تسجيل محمد الرفاعى

Dina at a wedding party in Cairo. الراقصة دينا Amina- Da 3eno Meny 's choreography. دينا Bellydance in Cairo, Danse Orientale

I hope you enjoyed those.

My belly dance classes continue online through the South San Francisco Parks and Rec through the end of June. I am not sure what is happening after that but I will keep everyone posted as soon as I know.

In the meantime, it is not too late to join us for this online session. The South San Francisco Parks and Rec Department have made these classes available to the public for free, but you do need to preregister at their online catalog so they can send you a secure invitation to join. Enter code SP1-471 in the box under ‘Filter’ and our class will come up - it’s called ‘Virtual-Belly Dancing’.

You can always contact me with any questions!

Summer 2019 Belly Dance Classes in South San Francisco

Hello Dancers!

Registration is open for my Summer Belly Dance Classes in South San Francisco!

Click here to register online! It’s simple to register using the South San Francisco Parks and Rec online system. If you type “belly” in the “Filter” box at the left-hand side of the page both classes come up. Register today and you’ll be ready to dance your way through the summer :)

Summer Belly Dance Classes

Hello Dancers!

Just a quick update this week to let everyone know that the Summer Session of belly dance classes at the South San Francisco Parks and Rec starts next Wednesday, June 20th.

Beginning Bellydance is from 7 - 8 and Intermediate is from 8 - 9.  Classes go through Wednesday, July 25th and there is no class July 4th.  You can register online through the SSF Parks and Rec in plenty of time to join us for a fun summer session.  Let me know if you have any questions.

And then for something completely different :).  I got to perform at Al Masri last Sunday with Nazir Latouf and the Al Masri Passion Band and my lovely friend Joumana took a video so I thought I would share it here.  The musicians are Musa Sababa on keyboard, Nazir Latouf on the oud, Reda Darwish on tabla and Linda Grondahl on backup percussion.  The music is incredibly beautiful - we are so lucky to have these musicians in the Bay Area and I encourage everyone who loves belly dance and Arabic music to come out and enjoy one of these nights!

Al Masri Passion Band and Alisa Greer

I hope you all enjoy the music and I wish you a great week!