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Stella Grey
Stella
is one of New
York's most
skilled, versatile and respected teachers of Belly Dance. She has
successfully blended traditional dance steps from the
Middle East with the exciting style of contemporary cabaret Belly
Dance to create a dance form which is accessible to students,
dancers and audiences alike.
Drawing upon her studies here and in the
Middle East Stella has arrived at a unique teaching
methodology in which structured movement analysis is combined with
awareness of energy flows within the body. She sees the belly dance
as a vehicle for women's personal growth, and accordingly supports
her students as they strive for mastery. It is Stella's
goal give her students a way to express their individuality and
increase their self confidence at the same time as they are having
fun.
Stella Grey
has been teaching belly dance in
New York City
for the last thirteen years. In addition to her own classes she has
taught for Learning Annex, Discovery Center and the New York Open
Center. She was co-founder and artistic director or the Caring
Caravan, a troupe of belly dancing volunteers who have been honored
by the City of
New York
for their work in hospitals and nursing homes. She was also
co-founder and co-producer of the Festival of the East©,
the East Coast's first annual international Belly Dance convention
held in Hempstead, New York.
Stella
has made frequent appearances on local and national television. For
over ten years Stella was the Producer/Director and
host of Belly Dancing at the Café Figaro in Greenwich Village.
Recently Stella has been featured in Fit
(Jan./Feb. '99) and Dance Teacher Now (Nov/Dec. '98) Self
(August '99) the New York Times (7/27/99) and the New York
Daily News (11/1/99), First for Women (12/99), "Lifetime
Live" (10/17/00) and Oxygen Network (3/01).
Prior
to becoming a full-time dancer/teacher Stella served
as one of the first woman floor brokers on the New York Mercantile
Exchange, Lecturer in Sociology at Queens College, C.U.N.Y.,
Research Associate in Criminal Justice at John Jay College, C.U.N.Y.,
and managing editor of Criminal Justice Ethics, a scholarly
journal.
Stella
is now the publisher of
Habibi
Magazine.
Email
Stella at
stellajuststella@mac.com
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