Redwood City-based Red Desert Dance Company’s repertoire includes traditional belly dancing forms such as sword, poi, veil and Tunisian. But this troupe also adds relevance by incorporating rock and ...

If you're thinking that belly dancing is too hoochie-coochie, you're not thinking about the kind of belly dancing Carolyn Weinand teaches. Weinand's belly dancing is based on Egyptian-style belly ...

Middle Eastern pop music is thumping at Sahara Hookah Lounge, a cavernous BYOB club in Sharonville. Dancers in bejeweled bra tops and voluminous sheer skirts writhe and wriggle, expertly manipulating ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Even at 100-years-old, Dorothy Hannisian's hips don't lie. She started belly dancing at 65-years-old and has been shaking and ...

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 ...

Google the term “belly dance” and the first images the search engine offers are of white women in flowing, diaphanous skirts, playing at brownness. How did this become acceptable? The term “belly ...