As belly dancing gains popularity internationally, young Egyptian performers are working to restore its reputation at home, pushing back against decades of stigma to reclaim the dance as part of their ...

You have talked about studying the cultural roots of belly dance/Middle Eastern Dance. Why is that important to you? How do you honor that culture and history without crossing the line into ...

In Syracuse, belly dancers emulate styles from American cabaret (the flamboyant, fast and playful belly dancers who dance to Arabic pop with techno beats) to classical Egyptian (the ballet-eque ...

A belly-dancing class in Seattle creates an intimate space where beginning dancers are comfortable dancing a few feet away from experienced performers.

In it, Randa Jarrar complains that belly dancing is the object of a "century-old tradition of appropriation," and argues that white belly dancers—even those who've seriously studied the form for ...

When Rita Bates told her father she had joined Read My Hips, a belly dance troupe, he said she might as well be stripping. “It’s kind of creepy what people think when you say belly dancing ...

The president of the Teszia Belly dance Troupe at Cornell, Stephanie Rakhmonova ’26, noted in her interview that the group is in the process of changing its name to something with actual Arabic ...

The Arab-American Heritage Festival will return for its 10th year on Sunday, July 20, from 12 noon to 6 p.m. at Pavilion 2 at ...

In the heart of Cairo, a new generation of Egyptian women is shimmying to rewrite the story of belly dance, an art form once celebrated in the country’s cinematic golden age but now shrouded in ...

Belly dance is an art form, and like any other art form, its rich cultural origins give it merit. Belly dance done well is dancing that conveys the dancer's emotions.

As belly dancing gains popularity internationally, young Egyptian performers are working to restore its reputation at home, ...