St. Louis? The class begins simply enough, with a head roll, first to the left, then to the right. Then, to warm up the shoulders, you roll those, too. Next, you move the arms, then the chest, then ...

It was clear, early on, that I had mastered the hip shimmy, the pivot-and-turn and the torso rotation. The Egyptian basic - pretty much a full-circle hip sway - came pretty easily, too, after some ...

"I have always wanted to learn to belly dance, and the YMCA seems like a nice relaxing place to take it," said Randi Rudolph, who has enrolled in the Beloit YMCA's newest course. The unique art of ...