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 ...

When Jamila Salimpour created the Bal Anat belly dance company to perform at the 1968 Northern California Renaissance Pleasure Faire in San Rafael, she was already a foundational figure in a style ...

For Ansuya Rathor, there was no questioning whether belly dancing would be a part of her life. Her mother, Jenaeni Rathor, was a blonde, blue-eyed belly dancer in the 1960s and '70s — an anomaly that ...

Dozens of families trekked from one tiny stage to the next on Saturday, July 12, eager to see each one of the Ten Tiny Dances in downtown Beaverton. The diverse lineup included break dancing, Mexican ...

Gulliver's hamburger : defamiliarization and the ordinary in the 1960s Avant Garde / Sally Banes -- Anna Halprin and the 1960s : acting in the gap between the personal, the public, and the political / ...

VietNamNet Bridge – Belly dance, a Middle Eastern dance, has recently become popular in Vietnam. It not only helps women lose weight through different movements but also makes them feel more ...