Jade Belly Dance Australia

Jade Belly Dance Australia Jade belly dance includes a dance school, blog & a performance troupe that has been performing in the Coffs Harbour and Bellingen areas since 2006.

Belly Dance Classes
Jade Belly dance holds classes in the Bellingen, Repton, Dorrigo and Coffs harbour (NSW, Australia) areas during school terms. Jade is also available for private dance classes by appointment. Jade specialises in almost all styles of Bellydance including tribal but has a particular love of polynesian fusion, zills (finger cymbals) and sword balancing. Belly Dance Performances
Jade Belly Dance performances keep audiences entertained, the dancers are constantly adding new dances, props and costumes to their repertoire. Audience participation is included where appropriate to engage people in the act. They are experienced performers in front of large (thousands!) and small audiences alike, tailoring each set to the needs of event organisers. Previous events include the Orara Valley Fair, SCU multicultural festival, Coffs Harbour museum Medieval day 2007/08, Toast Urunga, Mid North Coast Belly Dance Festival, Utopian Dream Dance Festival, WA Middle eastern Dance Festival and various private and corporate events such as work for Centro and Cetnaj. They can offer dancing with both recorded and live music (live music subject to musicians availablitity). Focusing on a fun, audience interactive style of performance, Jade Belly dance provides an appropriate act for adults and families alike including weddings, birthdays, hen’s nights, multi-cultural events, business openings, Christmas parties, etc.

Can belly dance help us feel better about our bodies? Research suggests it can. 💙Belly dance invites us to move with cur...
12/09/2026

Can belly dance help us feel better about our bodies? Research suggests it can. 💙

Belly dance invites us to move with curiosity rather than criticism. There is space for every shape, size, age and starting point—no “perfect body” required.

In class, I often see something beautiful happen:

• confidence grows
• people begin to appreciate what their bodies can do

It is not about changing your body. It is about building a kinder relationship with it, one shimmy at a time.

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Or check out my latest blog post on a research paper about the effects of dance on social physique anxiety and physical self-esteem. https://www.jadebellydance.com/post/can-belly-dancing-help-us-feel-better-about-our-bodies-what-2025-research-says

What is one thing your body helped you do today?

13/05/2026

First student to arrive at my class yesterday 😜
Pecan loves to look in the mirrors and greet my dancers as they arrive, before going back to guard his hens.🐓

Arabesque Belly dance is hosting this years World Belly Dance Day in Coffs. A great chance to have some fun. I hear ther...
04/05/2026

Arabesque Belly dance is hosting this years World Belly Dance Day in Coffs. A great chance to have some fun. I hear there may be some great belly dance goodies for sale too, so bring some extra cash! See you there 🙂💃

Belly dance has always been more than just a dance.For centuries, the freely moving female body has been judged, restric...
03/05/2026

Belly dance has always been more than just a dance.

For centuries, the freely moving female body has been judged, restricted, and misunderstood. And yet… women have kept dancing anyway.

What we often feel as self-consciousness today—softness, movement, taking up space—has deep roots in cultural expectations about how women’s bodies “should” behave.

Belly dance gently challenges that.

It invites us to move in the very places we’ve been taught to hold still. To reconnect, rather than correct. To experience our bodies from the inside, instead of constantly seeing them from the outside.

That’s where the real shift happens.

Not in changing the body…
but in changing the relationship we have with it.

Check out my latest blog post at jadebellydance.com/blog for the inspiration for these images. Which one speaks to you?







Towards my aim of reviewing scientific and published literature on belly dance, I am reviewing and highlighting relevanc...
02/05/2026

Towards my aim of reviewing scientific and published literature on belly dance, I am reviewing and highlighting relevance to modern dancers of a paper written by fellow Aussie, Virginia Keft-Kennedy and published online in the journal ‘Women’s Studies’ in 2010.
"Keft-Kennedy’s paper offers a fascinating reminder that belly dance has never been just “a dance”—it has always been a conversation about women’s bodies. In its earliest encounters with the West, belly dance was viewed through a deeply judgmental lens. Nineteenth-century audiences often described the moving female body as excessive, uncontrolled, even “grotesque,” particularly because of its focus on the abdomen and pelvis. According to Mikhail Bakhtin’s analysis as quoted in this piece, “the upper body is the classical body; it is predominantly secure and intellectual and maintains its integrity. The lower bodily stratum, on the other hand, is the site of the grotesque body, which has orifices, ge****ls, and protuberances”.
Read more at https://www.jadebellydance.com/post/belly-dancing-bodily-transformation-and-empowerment-in-a-historical-context-review-of-2010-paper

“Why am I still judging my body?”That spiral is exhausting—and we see how often it shows up when people come to class, e...
19/04/2026

“Why am I still judging my body?”
That spiral is exhausting—and we see how often it shows up when people come to class, even if they’ve “worked on it” for years.

A 2014 Australian study (Tiggemann, Coutts & Clark) compared belly dancers with non-dancers and found belly dancers had:
- more positive body image
- less body dissatisfaction
- lower self-objectification

The researchers call the mechanism “embodiment”—feeling your body from the inside, valuing what it can do, and spending less time in appearance-monitoring.

If you’ve been waiting for a sign that you don’t have to earn your right to feel good in your skin, this is it.
Join a class with us and give your body a new conversation.

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18/04/2026

That tight, whispering thought—“I don’t feel enough in my body”—shows up the moment we step into the mirror.

Then we teach you to feel it from the inside instead.

Research backs what many belly dancers already sense: in a 2014 study of 213 Australian women (112 belly dancers, 101 non-dancers), belly dance was linked with more positive body image, less body dissatisfaction, and lower self-objectification. The “why” matters too: belly dance supports embodiment (ownership and respect), so you spend less time monitoring how you look.

If you’ve been waiting for permission to start, this is it.

Join a belly dance class. New Term starting Tuesday 110am 21st April 2026 -Repton

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17/04/2026

Too old for belly dance? 🧐

Let's be real: I hear this ALL the time.

Here's the truth:
• I started at 23 as a new mum
• I've taught women in their 80s
• Your body knows how to move beautifully

Age doesn't limit grace. It adds wisdom to your movement.

What's holding YOU back from trying?

New class starts 10am Tuesday 21st April 2026

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15/02/2026

New Term, new time, come and join us! New students are welcome.

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Coffs Harbour, Dorrigo And Bellingen Areas
Bellingen, NSW
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