Are you looking for belly dance summer classes? Here in Panama City, you have multiple options.

Academia de Danzas Arabes Ruh has a class focus on dance technique, artistic expression, esthetic, and femininity. Any Chen will be teaching this class. Registration fee is $5 and monthly payment is $30. For more information you can call Miss Chen at: 6792-7874, or email her at anyccf@yahoo.com.

Leyla Salam is also offering summer classes. Beginner classes start on February 20 and Intermediate classes on January 19. Starting April 1, Leyla Salam will be teaching a new class: Stage Performance, especially for those belly dancers who want to improve their performance on stage. Special elements workshops will be hold. On February 6 is an outdoor class with cane and swords and on February 27 is a zills class. Auditions for their annual show are on March 13. For more information you can call: 6683-1497 or 6491-6579

Bellydance & Yoga in Casco Viejo are ongoing now. Every Monday and Wednesday at FRITARTE, Av. Central San Felipe, is belly dance classes with Claudia Castillo. They are from 6:30pm to 7:45pm. You can pay $5 per class or $35 for 8 classes per month. You can email Miss Castillo at: ccastillo_pty@yahoo.com.

Toning your body has never been as fun as with belly dance classes. Enroll now and enjoy bellydance summer classes in Panama!

Congratulations to all the dancers!

The belly dance show Apocalipsis was a great success! Leyla Salam interpretation of the end of time through belly dance was very innovative and interesting. They captured the audience from the opening to the last dance. Aryadh, Malak Farrah, Dana, and Afet of the Desert took the leading roles as the four horsemen. They represented sickness, violence, war, and hope, a reflection of the times we are living.

Something very shocking was the sketch of violence. Roseta Bordane and Randy Dominquez interpretation of violence against women was spine chilling. And everyone felt her pain.

There was a belly dance school that came all the way from San Jose, Costa Rica, to be part of this event. The group Noura gave the tribal belly dance touch of the night. And they were representing darkness. They incorporated sword dancing and Isis wings to their dances.

Also, the school Alondra danced in Apocalipsis as souls in hell. The dancers were so flawless and they looked to be reaching out from the fire.

The Leyla Salam troupe was amazing interpreting the different emotions need it to give Apocalipsis the mysticism it had. For some of the girls, it was their first time in belly dance and dancing in front of an audience.

Next year, a new belly dance show will be put on scene with a complete different concept from Apocalipsis. I think the name says it all: Aqua! Auditions will be in March 2010.

“And there appeared a great wonder in heaven; a woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars: And being with child she cried, travailing in birth, and pained to be delivered. And there appeared another wonder in heaven; and behold a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and seven crowns on his heads. And his tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven, and cast them to the earth”
Proyección Leyla Salam presents “Apocalipsis”, a show full of mysticism which will take you to the beginning of the final times on earth.

This show will count with the participation of Leyla Salam’s dance team, Arabic Dance Studio Alondra and from Costa Rica the group Noura. With more than 15 dancers and actors on scene you will be taking a sneak peek into evil.

What will our future holds for us? Is the Apocalipsis our end?

Date: October 17, 2009
Place: Ascanio Arosemena Theater (diagonal to the Administration Building next to Balboa’s fire station)
Time: 7:00 pm
COST: $10.00 Pre-sale – $12.00 day of the event
For more information: www.leylasalam.com