Weathersfield Librarian Teaches Belly Dancing
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Weathersfield Librarian Teaches Belly Dancing January 29, 2010 7 PM Martin Memorial Hall, Ascutney VT Weathersfield librarian, Amity Aldridge taught a beginner Belly Dancing class for members of the Weathersfield Community on a very cold Friday night in January. Aldridge, 25, who grew up in Westminster Vermont, now living in Brattleboro has been studying Belly Dancing for 6 years. She studied dance in high school and attended Johnson State College and the University of Maine/Augusta with a degree in Library and Information Services. She was hired by the Town of Weathersfield as the librarian of the Weathersfield Proctor Library , located on Route 5 in Ascutney over a year ago and has since implemented many interesting programs for the library patrons. The class involved a brief explanation of Belly Dancing origins, the variety of styles and basic instructions on the various movements. The close to 30 attendees discovered that Belly Dancing originated as a form of folk dancing in the M