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Belly good for men too
With that, let's welcome belly dancing classes for men! Unlike the sensual and seductive movements for women, belly dancing for men (also called "rags shargy") is about, well, machismo and...
New Straits Times -
June 23, 2006
Just Do It
An explosion of naked skin and twisted silk gyrates to the sounds of Greek, Spanish, Indian, African and Middle Eastern jazz, funk and rock, all with the hope of exciting your mind, body and soul...
Philadelphia City Paper -
June 22, 2006
Habibi Magazine resumes publication
Habibi Magazine, the United States' premier journal of middle eastern dance and music, resumes publication with its Fall, 2006 issue. Publisher Stella Grey and Editor-in-Chief Nina Costanza...
Habibi Magazine -
June 21, 2006
The outside world just stops when you walk into the studio
It wasn't until age 32 that Leah Robling found her calling. She had been a dancer for 14 years, but she stumbled upon her fate - a belly-dancing studio - in a remote Northern California town...
The Evansville Courier -
June 20, 2006
American has twist on belly dance
My freshman year of high school, I started taking belly dancing classes... By my junior year, (dancing) had helped me change into the person I wanted to be... I think it was because I was raised...
The Courier-Journal -
June 18, 2006
Dancers mass for navel maneuvers
The belly is an amazingly communicative body part. It can be a symbol of plenty or strife. Etched with a six-pack, it embodies strength. In women, it's an unrelenting icon of fertility...
Seattle Post-Intelligencer -
June 17, 2006
What To Do About Your Joints
In my studies of body movement and function, I spend a lot of time reading articles, studies, etc. I came across a particularly interesting one recently (1) that seems to support my current...
The Hip Circle -
June 17, 2006
Bus loads of bellies...
Students from around the UK will converge on the campus, in Coventry, for the UK's first inter-university Bellydance Festival next Tuesday night. "There will be live drumming, shisha, seductive...
Coventry.co.uk -
June 15, 2006
Giving it some belly at their first show
Stanley Halls in South Norwood was transformed from its Victorian splendour into a Middle Eastern night-club on Saturday when it hosted a belly dance show. With candlelight and incense setting the...
Croydon Guardian -
June 15, 2006
Beyond the bells and the shimmies
Dazzling costumes, camels, snake charmers, sword dancers and an Egyptian caravan are all to be expected at this weekend's belly dance performance at Paliku Theatre. But the students of the Amara...
Honolulu Star-Bulletin -
June 3, 2006
