Calorie burn depends on age, personal metabolism, and weight as well as how long and how energetically one moves. I would not even hazard a guess as to calorie burn in a dance class. Belly dance class does not usually consist of sustained aerobic activity like running. I can just see my students coming unglued because I spent time working on smooth transitions and graceful hands instead of a full hour of running shimmies with simultaneous snake arms and head slides to get in the maximum amount of calorie burn.
