Classes all begin with a warm up designed to loosen and strengthen the muscles and achieve proper posture and muscular control. It consists of mild stretches and more importantly the execution of the basic movement vocabulary. Each movement sequence is explained in terms of the muscles involved, weight placement and execution to achieve mastery.
What we call Belly Dance in the West is in fact one of the many social folk dances native to North Africa and the Middle East, however, it is universally acknowledged that Egypt is the birth place of this dance. Tarik teaches both the social dance form (Raks Baladi) as well as the theatricalized professional version (Raks Sharqi) which translates to "Oriental Dance" in English.
Tarik demonstrates the characteristics of both styles in addition to explaining the historical and cultural contexts of the dance