Try flexing one glute muscle at a time. That's right, each individual butt muscle: Left. Right. Left. Right. Now pick it up: left, right, left, right. And faster still, left-right-left-right ...

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 ...

Frank Farinaro gets his audience’s attention from the minute he dances his way onto the stage. The first thing to catch your eye may be his costuming: “harem”-style pants in muted but ...

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 ...

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 ...

Here are eight cultural dances that you can learn at home through online tutorials or mobile dance apps. ... When Egyptian women gathered to socialize in the 18th century, they would belly dance.

Jenaeni raised Ansuya with the openness of the gypsy culture. ... In 2002, the mother-daughter dancers decided to bring their belly dance lifestyle to Naples.

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 Las Vegas resident has been coming to Cultural Fusion Belly Dance Center, 3111 S. Valley View Blvd., for more than a year.

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 ...

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