How to Belly Dance with Irina Akulenko | Belly Dancing

Watch more Belly Dancing 101 videos: Learn about Irina Akulenko, one of Howcast’s belly dancing experts, in this video. My name is Irina Akulenko and I’m a professional belly dancer, choreographer, and teacher in New York City. I got into belly dancing purely by accident. I was a dancer my whole life, but I just saw a belly dancing performance once and I saw I thought it was really magical and beautiful so I started taking classes