Meet Portia Lange (Miss P) 💃✨

Founder of Belly Motions®, Inc.

Portia Lange is an internationally recognized Belly Dance star, award-winning performer, and passionate dance-fitness educator who has been shaking things up—literally and figuratively—for over two decades. She’s the founder of Belly Motions®, Inc., a dynamic company she launched in 2005 in Miami, Florida to share the joy, empowerment, and magic of belly dance with the world.

With roots in group fitness and a spark ignited during her very first belly dance class at 23, Portia combined her love of movement with her entrepreneurial spirit to create one of the most successful belly dance studios in the U.S. For 15 fabulous years, Belly Motions offered in-studio classes, theatrical productions, event entertainment, and even launched MIAMI RAKS FEST, a celebrated Middle Eastern dance festival.

After the 2020 pandemic turned the world upside down, Portia gracefully pivoted—taking Belly Motions online and restructuring her business to serve both local and global students while spending more quality time with her growing family. Today, she offers a wide range of classes including livestreams, on-demand tutorials, private lessons, and in-person group sessions at Jill Mallory Dance Studio in Miami.

🌍 Whether you’re brand new or ready to perform under the spotlight, Portia’s signature teaching method makes belly dancing fun, accessible, and transformational. Her method fuses authentic Middle Eastern dance with fitness principles and group exercise protocols, creating a safe, low-impact workout that helps every BODY move with confidence and joy.

She is also the creator of the Belly Motions Instructor Training Program, a one-of-a-kind online certification designed to teach others how to lead belly dance for fitness and fun.

Portia holds the First Place title in the Nile Group Oriental Belly Dance Competition (2008, Cairo ), was named one of Miami Herald’s Top 20Under40 Business Leaders, and has graced the cover of ELLE Oriental not once, but twice! Her performances and teachings have been featured on TLC, HGTV, Telemundo, Univision and beyond.

Above all, Portia is known for her warmth, charisma, and infectious energy. She’ll get your hips in motion and your heart smiling in no time!

💖 Fun Fact: She’s a proud wife to Arturo and mama to two adorable kiddos, Leo and Meliha—her best (and sassiest) dance partners yet.

Questions? Want to dance?
📩 info@bellymotions.com | 📱 305.663.1553
🌐 www.bellymotions.com

✨ It’s never too late to learn. Get that belly in motion! ✨