Tried and tested: Tribal fusion belly dance

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Tribal Fusion B el l y D a nce Embracing her inner mermaid and braving a whole host of fears, Ella Walker tries out the hypnotic dance form at the Cambridge YMCA

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ill you have to get your belly out?” was the question I kept facing in the run up to my first ever attempt at belly dancing. That and people bandying around the words “video” and “YouTube sensation”. So, as I got to the fitness studio at the Cambridge YMCA, stripped off my socks and firmly kept my top on over my tummy, I was pretty terrified. A couple of avid Egyptian belly dancers taking the class also looked a bit worried and warned me that the warm up routine, which our youthful instructor, Demelza “Demi” Hillier was practising at the front, looked very different to your average spangly belted belly dancing … but it was too late to make my escape. Gathering us all up and attempting to set us at ease, Demelza had us introduce ourselves and asked if we’d ever tried tribal fusion belly dance (I’d never even heard of it),

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