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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