ELSA Dance Asia & Performing Arts is recommended to readers by Malaysian Women's Weekly Magazine (July 2010 issue) as another alternative in daily fitness activity.

WW Fitness, page 138

Launched in 2000, The Malaysian Women´s Weekly is a broadly targeted, family-oriented glamour title covering fashion, health and beauty, "real-life" stories, cuisine, décor and Hollywood glamour. The Weekly is Malaysia´s fastest-growing women´s lifestyle magazine. It entertains, informs and is contemporary and relevant to today’s modern working woman.

The magazine that empowers an affluent generation of Malaysian women who have high expectations for their lives and which offers solutions and ways to make the modern working mother’s life easier and better.

We are now providing multi-lingual belly dance classes in English, Bahasa Malaysia, Cantonese, Mandarin and Japanese for your convenience. We welcome all interested Japanese communities to join us.

Eli, the instructor is the Malaysia first and only belly dance instructor who conduct classes in Japanese. Language To know more about our instructor [Click here]

To sign up for our Beginner Class, kindly contact us via email at contact@elsadance.asia or call us at 012.266.3859

ELSA Dance proudly present the Asia Bellytwins to perform belly dancing at the Tarbush Lebanese Restaurant located at Sunway Pyramid on March 17th, 2010. We hope you enjoy watching our beautiful belly dancing.

Please do not hesitate to contact us via email: contact@elsadance.asia or mobile: +6012 266 3859 or +6012 306 9723 for belly dance performance reservation.

Belly dancing is suitable for all ages and all races.

Choreography: Chicky Drum Solo, by ELi 

I find it very sensual, graceful, and feminine.  I personally love the movements that are initiated from our core and hips.  I like the flexible yet powerful movements in belly dancing.

Sufficient training, preparation and get ourselves connected to the public, as most of the time we perform to entertain.

I love contemporary belly dancing and theatrical belly dancing.

I like Ballet since I was 5 year-old. I learned Ballet from my little girl friend named WenLi when I was 5 until 12 year-old, My parent didn’t know that I have such interest in dancing and I didn’t tell them about it, so I didn’t get a chance to learn it properly through a Ballet Academy.  I have 3 years of Malay, Indian and Chinese Traditional Dance background when I was 13 to 16 year-old.  Then I have 2 years of contemporary dance background when I was 17 to 19 year-old.  

I saw belly dancing years later in my dear friend wedding performance, and I started to search for more information about belly dancing.  I finally took up belly dancing with a Turkish as part of my recreational activity in year 2002.  I have attended belly dance workshops with some of the Belly dance Superstars from the USA such as Jillina, Kaeshi, Sharon Kihara, Tamalyn Dallal, and Sandra as well.  I gradually turn belly dancing into my full time profession after 5 years of training and 2 years of part time coaching and performing.  I am currently a student of University of Malaya majoring in Master of Art (Performing Arts- Dance).

I love to watch Japanese performing Hip Hop, Breaking, Locking, House, and Street Jazz.  Probably Japanese belly dancers can try combining it with belly dancing.

My ideal belly dancer is Sharon Kihara. I like her because she is friendly in person, and her belly dancing skills are phenomenal.

I would like to see more Asian fall in love in belly dancing, so hopefully we as an individual will try to play our part to educate and inspire people around us.

Eli told me People who love belly dancing will find the sensuality and flexibility of a woman.

Interview & translation by Yuki Okamoto

Feb 1, 2010

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