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China's modern women let loose with oriental belly-dancing
TUMMIES undulating and hips twitching, Wen Kexin's belly-dancing students shimmy through a dance that seems to shake off decades of Chinese inhibition. "Open up! Like a flower," Wen calls...
The Brunei Times -
June 13, 2007
Jarrell
Jarrell's belief in the value of the naturally expressive movements of Middle Eastern dance fill her classes with a wide range of students, including non-dancers, pregnant mothers, body therapists...
Herald Citizen -
June 8, 2007
A 'tribe' of soul movers
As you might expect, it wasn't the job of her dreams, and those cookers, combined with the Texas heat, roasted her as much as the steak. So whenever she could, she would go watch the belly...
The Tribune -
June 6, 2007
Dance company
Adjacent to the cafe is the dance studio where women and children can both come and take dance lessons in a number of dance forms including American Tribal-style belly dance...
Daily Record -
June 6, 2007
Spring Caravan 2007
So, amenities set aside, we progress onward to the best part of any event. The classes and the performances. This event conspired to have both in abundance and excellent in quality...
The Hip Circle -
June 6, 2007
Natacha Atlas
Natacha Atlas was born in Belgium, the daughter of an Egyptian father and an English mother. Natacha grew up in the Moroccan suburbs of Brussels, becoming fluent in...
World Music Central -
June 4, 2007
Essentially Egyptian
Not far from the pyramids at one of Cairo's 5-star hotels, several hundred women of a dozen nationalities file into a conference hall to the strains of raucous music. The gathering they are...
IC Publications -
June 4, 2007
Top job for record belly dancer
SNP councillor Liz MacDonald and a group of 134 dancers earned their entry with a five-minute routine in the seaside town in 2005. Mrs MacDonald was named provost of Nairn, near Inverness...
BBC -
June 4, 2007
Kantara
Tunisian instruments played old-time Appalachian mountain music to a packed house at the nation's cultural center May 31 during Kantara's first U.S. concert tour. " A couple of old fiddle tunes...
USinfo -
June 1, 2007
Some enchanted evening
There are some people in this country who have been bitten by the bug of Turkey, and I am personally acquainted with a few chronic sufferers from the disease. Ronen Chen, the...
Haaretz.com -
June 1, 2007