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Time's Up!
Regret is an almost useless feeling and there is too much of it going around. Too many artists regretting things they didn't do. Too many judges that are taken way too seriously. In an effort...
The Hip Circle -
September 2, 2006
The Tablas Have Turned
The songs stemmed from direct influences of Turkish folk music, Indian classical music or Middle Eastern music. The joy of doing it this way is that we’ve brought them back to those influences...
X-Press Online -
August 30, 2006
The story of the Spanish Jews
The Sephardic Connection will bring together the traditions of the Sephardic Jews (Sephardim) with Spanish, Moroccan and Turkish dance and music in an effort to depict their lives prior...
Upstage -
August 30, 2006
Belly bonding
Five women get together once a week at a dance studio in town. Each has her own family. Each has her own career. Each has her own life. Once their naked feet hit the dance floor and the music...
Durango Herald -
August 27, 2006
Goddessence
I receive a lot of fan mail about Goddessence. Many people ask me about the origin of this song and the accompanying video. Others understand it but want to hear my own words, and still others...
The Hip Circle -
August 27, 2006
Layali Tarab IV
DaVid is an internationally recognized dancer in several Middle Eastern and East Indian dance forms and is one of the leading performers in his fields of endeavor...
Baharat! -
August 22, 2006
Crossing the Bridge talks Turkey, musically speaking
Then we move to more recognizably local Gypsy influences, master strummers of the oud and saz, the trance dance beats used by whirling dervishes, mesmerizing woodwind...
Pasadena Star News -
August 21, 2006
The art of the belly dance
Candy Hefner's curiosity got the best of her one day. Hefner was teaching fitness classes at the YMCA. One of her other hobbies included dancing. When she read a story about belly dancing...
Hickory Daily Record -
August 21, 2006
The Mystical Art of Belly Dancing
It's an ancient art of seduction, an inevitable enticement identified with the fluid movement of the hands like serpents or ribbons flying in the air, swaying hips, undulating torso...
News Today -
August 18, 2006
The rise of Yara
Ever since she was a toddler (at age three to be exact), Yara (born Carla in Lebanon in 1983) would practice the few songs that her mother used to play for her. This rising singing sensation...
Egypt Today -
August 16, 2006
