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I was interested in purchasing a copy of Nelly Mazloum's Oriental Dance Techniques, but after a little looking online, the cheapest copy I found was $72. Anyone know anything about the book? At that price, it would take more than casual interest to make me spring for it. I have always found...

I was looking up a reference to Morroe Berger's groundbreaking article today and found that he died last night, apparently of a heart attack. I realize most readers probably have no idea who he was, but he wrote the first article that really treated "belly dance" as a serious dance...

In doing some historical research, I have come across an article (1893) which alludes to the "6 tassels" which are on the skirts of the Egyptian dancers at the Chicago World's Fair. The author places great importance on the idea that there are six of them. But is she right? Are there always...

Anybody still do Sultan acts out there? The thing with giving the guy a turban, dancing seductively, etc.? Maybe in belly grams? I am interested in what reactions you observe in the "victim" and the audience. Do they get off on it? Are they embarrassed? Do they take it as an oppotunity...

This may be old news to many here, but after trying to get a copy of Lawrence Morgan's Flute of Sand for many years in the USA, I found that it was reissued in 2001 by Cinnabar in Bristol, UK. I got it from their web site for less than 10 euros. It doesn't have the original photos...

I want to leap right in and say that I hope that this thread does not become a forum primarily for the discussion of the oppression of the Rroma and the questioning of the legitimacy of "gypsy" dancing -- although these are significant issues and you can't discuss this topic without a few such...

I was wondering this about tipping practices --- With respect to "teasing" the tipper by whisking the hip away and so on -- is this a mainly American thing? Does it occur in the Arab world, or is it a part of the Arab thought-world with respect to tipping? My impression is that it isn't, but...

When I started belly dancing, teaching and performing, in the mid 1970's, I was irritated by some of the preconceptions I heard about belly dancing. A few of them were that this was the dance of the sultan's harem, and that belly dancers did "the dance of the seven veils" (wink wink nudge...

The answers to this might seem obvious, but I'm interested to hear what people say. Do you take tips or go out for tips (have a place in your performance where you encourage patrons to tip you)? If so, why? If not, why not? I guess what I'm interested in is, do you have reasons other than...

I am working on a project on feminism and belly dance (a followup for my article nearly 10 years ago) and one aspect of it focuses on money. Financial gain. Control of expenditures. What we do for money, how important it is in our experience of the dance, either as students (with things like...

Hello all. I am at work on a book on the ancient histories of belly dance, and I am interested in what questions dancers have that they would like to see answered. So -- what do you want to know? I know where the evidence takes me, but I also want to be sure that I give dancers something that...