Habibi Bellydance
Fun style belly dancing for Everybody
This site is set up about belly dancing and my new class held at , Classes will be held at The Padarn Hotel, Llanberis every Thursday evening 7pm till 8.30pm. Everyone Welcome!
I also hope to form a performance group to perform at local community events raising money for charity and raising awareness of this wonderful dance.
About Our Group
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I'm Marianne and I’ve been learning belly Dance since 2001. I’ve been to a variety of Dance Classes and workshops over the years in the North West and North Wales. I have also been to quite a few belly dance events and workshops too over the years too.
My dance style is a mixture as I’ve touched on lots of different varieties of the dance. I am passionate about this dance form and love that it is very accepting to all ages, shapes and sizes and most levels of fitness. It keeps all your joints moving and tones up the body whilst being aerobic and fun too at the same time! whilst being gentle. As I have lived with inflammatory arthritis since I was a child, I find this dance form helps me keep my mobility and keeps me moving. I enjoy interpreting the wonderful music and It always makes me smile.
I also love dressing up and all the glittery costumes you can wear with belly dancing. There are not many exercises where you can jingle and shake glittery shimmy belts!
When i moved to North Devon, 2013, I couldn't find a belly dance class where i lived and that's why decided to start one for my local community and to spread the word of belly dance. I did this until I moved back to North Wales in August 2017 and although there is a good belly dance community here, I missed teaching and the joy of having your own group so that is why i started new open level classes in January 2018 in Llanberis, North Wales. I don’t teach classes currently apart teach the odd workshop because of work commitments at the moment but I am looking into starting a new classes in Penmaenmawr where I am now based some time in 2025
I also perform with a belly dance group called Shimmilicious at local events and festivals.
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Friday 7pm - 8.30pm every other week TBA
Open Level Belly Dance Classes Based on many styles and including non belly dance influences.
Belly Dance in Penmaenmawr
Classes and performances
At present there are no classes running but I’m looking for a venue to start a class every other Friday evening in Penmaenmawr, North Wales. This is TBA and so watch this space. If you are looking for local classes, I have recommendations so contact me.
We start the class warming up using belly dance movements and then we learn some basic techniques, signature moves. We then move on to learning and performing choreography's using a variety of props such as skirt, veil and stick which some of us perform at functions, charity events. lastly we have cool down before finishing until the next time.
As well as looking to running fortnightly dance classes, I am available for performing and teaching workshops and I am available for charity and good cause events/festivals to come and perform at your event. So if you are looking for some colourful, high energy and good vibe entertainment, to really make your event special. Please contact me to discuss!
