Sagit was born to a Moroccan family in which belly dancing and Arabic music were always a big part of life. Her on-stage experience began early, at the age of 5, assisting her father in magic shows. By the age of 8 she started performing her own magic solos.
Several years later, at the age of 12 she was mesmerized by an Indian dancer who combined magic with her Indian dance style. Sagit loved the idea of combining magic with dance and started learning Belly dance professionally. Soon after, Sagit began to stray from magic and developed an intense interest in belly dance and preformed in Israel, Germany and the US.
During her mid 20's after having her first child and changing her priorities in favor of spending quality time with her family, Sagit opted out the performance aspect of the business and began focusing her professional career on teaching others this wonderful form of dance.
For the past 10 years Sagit has been teaching belly dance to 100’s of women in the Los Angeles area and is known for making complex dance routines easy and fun to follow. She thoroughly enjoys passing on this beautiful and empowering art form to other women and continues to evolve and improve her teaching methods.
Sagit is also available to teach a class at private events for women. So if you have a bridal shower, baby shower, or just want to gather all your female friends for an exiting and enjoyable evening please call: 818-943-4499 or email
 BELLY DANCE CLASSES WITH SAGIT in STUDIO CITY, WOODLAND HILLS, ENCINO, and SHERMAN OAKS, CALIFORNIA, Beginners, Improvers, Intermediate levels.
PRE – BEGINNERS CLASSES (INTRODUCTORY)
This class is intended to first time students only. In this 30 minutes class, students will learn the proper posture. They will also be able to learn a few of the basic moves such as figure 8 and hip drop-kick, with greater details.
BEGINNERS CLASS:
G-R-E-A-T WORKOUT!!
This class does not require previous experience in dance, coordination or rhythm. We’ll get you dancing in the first class!
You will learn step by step the basic moves of belly dance commonly seen in belly dancing: hip circles, hip & shoulder shimmies, hip drop – kick, figure-8’s, snake arms & undulation. All moves are broken down in to easy to follow steps and are repeated in each class.
IMPROVERS CLASS:
Students who know the basic steps will learn how to enhance each move & develop speed and expression. In the end of each class we will dance to a routine combining the movements you’ve learned. This class is combined with the beginners class.
INTERMEDIATE CLASS:
Once you have mastered the basic moves you will learn full dance routines with advanced move variation, step combinations and veil work.
CLASS BENEFITS:
The benefits of belly dance are both mental and physical.
• It helps to improve sense of well being, better body image and self esteem.
• It consists of natural movements that work with the body and not against it.
• It will tone your body with movements that focus on your abs, hips and harms and give you flexibility and grace.
• It is a full body workout that slims your body into a beautiful shape.
• It helps de-stress and awaken energy through your entire body.
• This ancient dance will put you in touch with your sensual feminine nature with gracefully movements and mesmerizing music.
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BELLY DANCING IS THE ULTIMATE IN FEMININE FITNESS!
Brief history of Middle Eastern dance.
Many of my new students are surprised to learn that the art of oriental dance was never about sexuality. The following is an excerpt from a 1968 lecture by Jamila Salimpur given at a California university.
"When anyone hears that a belly dancer is going to perform in most cases, the first thing that comes to mind is all the clichés about sexuality and sensuality for the benefit of male provocation. The dancer was originally anything but that. First, let us trace briefly the origin of the term- Belly Dance. Until fairly recently, this dance was referred to by middle Easterners simply as the Oriental dance. When the French saw the dance they called it the Danse Du Ventre- which translated means, dance of the abdomen and much latter the American G.I. was to see the dance and translate the French expression into "The Belly Dance". The history of this dance goes back to the early cult of the Mother Goddess- about 4,000 B.C. in Mesopotomia and was known as the BIRTH MAGIC RITUAL. Men were excluded from the ritual since it dealt with childbirth and the movements in the ritual imitated the involuntary spasms preceding the birth of a child. In the worship of the Mother Goddess there was the hope of a normal pregnancy and a quick and easy delivery. Archaeologists have found many Venus and Mother Goddess figurines squatting in the position of childbirth and some are in the process of parturition. The ritual was preformed in empathy at the bedside of women in labor. The Mother Goddess had many names and her role changed in different places but originally she was the patroness of women and regeneration. The Temples maintained dancers as a special class. Egypt imported solo dancers from countries famed for the dance even for religious services and way from its home ground the birth magic ritual was to lose its religious and devotional significance and become and artistic dance pantomime. In its theatrical form, the ritual changes and the dancer uses her entire body. Basic movements develop and the dancer improvises within the form. Improvisation and acrobatics depend on the ability of the individual and it goes without saying that there are good and mediocre exponents of any art form. And so the birth magic ritual is exponents of any art form. And so the birth magic ritual is exported through the Phonetian Trade routes of Etruria. The dancing girls of Cadiz, a colony of Phonecia were famous for their performances up to a tine of the early Roman Emperors."
