Internationally renowned belly dance superstar Ansuya is one of the most accomplished performers, choreographers and instructors in the belly dancing world. Her style blends aspects of belly dance ...

Forget striptease, the skin they showed and anything else having to do with girls performing for men. These were serious minded women dancing for women. What an eye opener. The event was “The Totally ...

When Simone Morgan instructed her students to “undulate,” they all moved to the right using a swimming motion with their arms while their torsos shimmied and their bare feet slipped silently across ...

When I turned 17, I wanted just one thing for my birthday: belly-dancing classes. The dance's beauty, grace and creative costumes, along with its strong connection to Arabic music, made it a natural ...

Eight girls clad in long, black skirts or baggy, colorful bloomers gyrated their bellies and hips in unison to the rhythmic music playing in the background. They did not fit the typical picture of ...

Expect more than finger-snapping, hip-shaking and two-piece costumes that look like rejects from the set of “I Dream of Jeannie” at today’s Tribal Fusion Belly Dance performance at the Fowler Museum. ...

Amber Proctor, local belly dancer, performs Thursday at the Jazzhaus. Princess Farhana, a.k.a Pleasant Gehman, on the poster for filmmaker Steve Balderson's movie Underbelly. First of all, belly ...

EGYPTIAN MUSIC BOOMS through the amplifier at 6:15 p.m. as instructor Leslie Rosen leads her belly-dance class through what she calls a shimmy warmup. She gives gentle instructions every few seconds ...

Long before Chubby Checker was doing the twist, belly dancers were doing the Egyptian twist, a Middle Eastern dance move that engages the entire body — knees to fingertips — as though each muscle is ...

1 Gibney Company Names Lucinda Childs Resident Choreographer in Five-Year Artistic Partnership As a dance that was created by women of color, is amenable to a wide diversity of bodies, and is often ...

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