Anthea Kawakib Poole combines an innate sense musicality with technical perfection, and then stirs in a love of improvisation and folk dancing. Out of that, she offers students a unique opportunity to study Egyptian-style belly dance, Folkloric belly dance, and her own unique group improvisational style of dance - Tribal Odyssey Belly Dance. Kawakib offers numerous free short instructional clips, as well as teaching guides and instructional videos, but her live classes arent to be missed!

Anthea is such a great teacher. Many of my friends have taken classes with her for years and learned a lot and enjoyed them greatly. I finally started classes at the beginning of this year and Ive been having a lot of fun learning a simple choreography. She starts off with warmups and stretches and shes very patient and very good at explaining each move and how it all fits together. Definitely recommend her if youre looking for a bellydance class!