Voted “Best Dance Class” in DC multiple times, Sahara Dance, Washington DC’s Center for Middle Eastern Dance is a boutique, courriculum-based dance studio dedicated to celebrating the joy and beauty of belly dance and it’s deep cultural origins. Founded in 2004, Sahara Dance offers hybrid (in person + livestreamed) and virtual-only weekly belly dance classes. Sahara Dance nurtures a welcoming and supportive community for belly dancers and elevates belly dance as a performance art by producing annual theater productions highlighting Egyptian Raqs Sharqi and traditional folkloric styles as well as experimental / fusion belly dance. The Tenleytown studio is home to renowned faculty members (including several professional dancers who perform across the DMV and abroad), several student companies performing at various levels, and hundreds of belly dance students of all ages from 16 to 70+. Belly dance is fun exercise for all bodies and all ages, and which celebrates femininity, community, joy and friendship. Try it and make friends for life!