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  • Belly Dance and The Feminine Image  By : LeylaNajma
    Belly dance for many women can symbolize different aspects of their lives. How we live life is performed on stage whether we are aware of it or not. This article talks about the illusions we live with and how we take away these illusions and become the mariarchs of our dance.
  • Belly Dancing Under the Cedars of Lebanon - What a Dream  By : Alissa Haddad
    Belly dancing is not a striptease act but a beautiful cultural dance in the Middle East. You have to give credit to the women - they can do the belly roll in graceful motions without huffing and puffing. What do you know? It's the hardest part to learn before you can dream of belly dancing under the cedars of Lebanon.
  • Belly Dancing for the Midlife Soul Part 2  By : Sandra Schrift
    Isadora Duncan, the mother of modern dance, says, “The dancer of the future will be one whose body and soul have grown so harmoniously together that the natural language of that soul will have become the movement of the body. The dancer will not belong to a nation, but to all humanity.”
  • Belly Dancing for the Midlife Soul  By : Sandra Schrift
    I have been a student and performer of the Middle Eastern belly dance for 12 years. I began this dance form at age 52 when a friend of mine told me she was taking an Adult Education class in Middle Eastern belly dancing. Here was an opportunity right in my own community. I was going to live out my adult fantasy - to be a belly dancer! And so I joined the class and have been a student ever since. I am now 64 and have no signs of slowing down.

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