Join Us for Monthly Belly Dance Classes in St. Louis!
Fourth Sunday Flow is a belly dance class in St. Louis (and sometimes online**) taught by a different dancer each month.
These afternoon workshops are for any dancer who wants to:
✨Hang out with dance friends
✨Drill skills
✨Build community
✨Learn new techniques
✨Explore different dance styles
✨Try out new instructors
✨Leave the house on a weekend (you know you should)
✨Have some fun! (also very good for you!)
Training in different genres is the best way to add texture to your dance and help you develop your unique style.
**Check individual class listings to see what levels the class is aimed at and whether there’s an online option available.
We can’t wait to see you there!
Fourth Sunday Flow:
Monthly Belly Dance Classes in St. Louis
Date: Fourth Sunday of every month
(click to add to your Google calendar)
Time: 1-3 pm
Price: $45
Location: Dance Coop ~ 356 North Boyle Ave, St. Louis, Second Floor
Some classes will also have an online option.
Upcoming Dates & Instructors
October 26 - Ami Amoré - Of Goddesses & Monsters
November 23 - Daewen - Runic Dance
December 28 - Bonnie Belle - Datura Style: Gooey Steps
January 25 - Pixie - Dance the Depths: An Exploration of Fusion Movement
Are you a local dancer or instructor who’d like to offer a workshop in this series? Apply here!
Brought to you by a coalition of St. Louis regional bellydancers:
Lauren Zehara of Dance Hipnotique
Salwa of Aalim Belly Dance St. Louis
Ami Amoré of Lunar Fusion & the Stygian Collective
Daewen of the Stygian Collective
Register for Fourth Sunday Flow
October 26th:
Of Goddesses & Monsters with Ami Amoré
Explore Mythical Movement
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This beyond basics workshop takes the dancer on a journey to explore archetypes of famous monsters and deities from varying cultures. A brief story of each figure will be introduced then a dance combination will be taught that embodies each mythical, mystical legend. So whether you’d like to portray some fierceness and wrath of Medusa, the steadiness and focus of Artemis, or just create a badass choreography using some of the combos taught, here this is the workshop for you.
Here’s what you’ll learn:
🔥New movement pathways
🔥4-5 combinations
🔥Background stories of deities and entities
Levels: Some belly dance knowledge required.
Online Option: None - In Person Only
About Your Instructor
Ami Amoré is a St. Louis area fusion dancer who has been dancing since 1999, performing since 2002, teaching since 2006, and producing shows since 2009. Besides being a soloist, Ami is the founder and director of Lunar Fusion in St. Louis and a proud member of The Stygian Collective since 2020.
Ami continues to teach classes and workshops in the St. Louis area and has taught at festivals around the nation, including 3rd Coast in Texas, Waking Persephone in Rhode Island and Seattle, and at Fusion Evolution (Tribal Revolution) in Chicago. Her classes and workshops are filled with sass, humor, and encouragement for the dancer to use critical thinking skills and put their own creative stamp on their dance.
When she is not dancing, she loves making jewelry, hiking, and hanging out in cemeteries.
November 23rd:
Elemental Runic Dance
Movement Meets Magic through Runic Dance
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✨ Unlock the magic. Embody the runes. Dance the elements.
In this mystical movement workshop, ancient symbols and raw elemental power collide. Featuring Daewen's Runic Dance Program inspired by the Elder Futhark runes, you'll learn how to channel the essence of each element through powerful runic shapes, gestures, and grounded movement techniques.
Here’s what you’ll learn:
🔥4 Runic Combinations based on 4 runes and the matching element
🔥Associations and powers of these runes
🔥A section of choreography using these combos
Levels: Some belly dance knowledge required.
Online Option: Available
About Your Instructor
Daewen is the founder of the Stygian Collective and the pioneer of Metal Fusion dance—a dark, powerful blend of heavy music and fusion belly dance. Drawing inspiration from heavy music, strong emotions, strength, mythology, horror, fantasy, magic, and her mentors, she’s carved a niche in the fusion world as both a performer and instructor. Since 2020, Daewen has built a thriving international dance community, producing online festivals, leading workshops, and offering a comprehensive Stygian Certification Program for dancers of all levels. With a background in psychology, coaching, and rune divination, she combines technical expertise, emotional depth, magickal flair, and a passion for personal growth to support dancers both on and off the stage. Known as “Mama Stygian,” Daewen balances her dark, powerful performances with warmth, humor, and a deep commitment to community.
December 28th:
Datura Style Gooey Steps
Dive into Rachel Brice Techniques
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Datura Style is a dance style and technique approach developed by Rachel Brice that is heavily influenced by FatChanceBellyDance, along with other styles of dance. In this workshop, Bonnie will guide you through a series of timed steps and arrhythmic moves from Datura Style vocabulary that focus on big, slow, gooey movements that can be incorporated into choreography or group improvisation. Each move will be broken down and drilled, and then strung together into an improvisational flow drill.
This workshop is ideal for upper beginner/intermediate level dancers who want to go beyond the basics and learn some unusual stylizations.
Here’s what you’ll learn:
🔥Datura Style Vocabulary, including the Twisting Mardi, Weird Water Snake, Jewel Scale, Cab Maya, Sidewinder, Side undulation, Queen of the Damned, and more!
🔥Combine these movements into an improv drill
Levels: This workshop is ideal for upper beginner/intermediate level dancers who want to go beyond the basics and learn some unusual stylizations.
Online Option: None - In Person Only
About Your Instructor
Bonnie Belle is a fusion belly dance performer, instructor and choreographer from the Greater St. Louis area, and has been performing in small local events and online spaces since 2014. She is best known for her supreme shimmies, magnetic mermaid-like hipwork, seductive swordwork, and her sweet, sultry, and sassy demeanor.
She is a graduate of Rachel Brice's 8 Elements and a certified Datura Style teacher, the first in her home state of Missouri. She is also a graduate of April Rose's Dance Cohesion and a certified Level 2 Technician in Belladonna's Bohemian Blade program.
Not wanting to pigeonhole herself into just one style, she instead draws from her experiences in such styles as Datura Style, FCBD style, Raqs Sharqi, and Old School AmCab to create a style and presence that's all her own. She brings a sense of grace and regality to her performances that is sure to lure you in like a siren with her song.
Her teaching style has been described as direct and detail-oriented, but still warm, and encouraging. She invites people of all walks of life to delve into this art form and have fun in the process.
January 25th:
Dance from the Depths
An Exploration of Fusion Movement
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Break out of your comfort zone by diving deep into musical interpretation and emotion. This class will take you to the brink and back by accessing your full range of feelings. We will experiment by listening intently to music, asking what the music wants our bodies to do, translating those emotions into movement, and getting out of the box with challenging improv exercises. This class can be adapted to all levels of dance but may be more suited to intermediate and experienced dancers that want to explore new territory.
Here’s what you’ll learn:
🔥How to hear music deeply and translate it into movement,
🔥How to incorporate more unique fusion movements into your dance
🔥How to use strong emotions to expand and enhance your gestures, phrases, pauses and poses, and
🔥How take more risks in performance
Levels: Adventurous beginners, intermediate and advanced dancers
What to Bring: A favorite song!
Online Option: None - In Person Only
About Your Instructor
Pixie is a veteran St. Louis dancer who has been performing on stages and in venues since 2009. She is known for her creativity, power, and precision, as well as her unique fusion belly dance style.
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