Lifting my hips, with my gold tassels and beads following along, it was time to get shimmying!
Standing in front of a group of amazing women and the occasional man, this wasn’t just any old keep fit routine – this was belly dancing, something I had been teaching for over 50 exciting years.
From the moment I could walk it was clear that I was destined for a life of rhythm.
With my grandmother Elsie sending me to my first ballet class at just two years old, I completed my first performance a year later and soon went on to try a range of routines throughout my teens, into