MOORHEAD - Belly dancing often conjures up images of a scantily clad woman seductively shaking her hips for bunch of men. But the true performance art, known as Middle Eastern dance, is very pro-woman ...

The members of Tufts Middle Eastern Dance, a campus group dedicated to performing various folkloric and regional dance styles from the Middle East are performing their first fall show this evening.

The Covey Center for the Arts' Tapestry of Dance show celebrates Middle Eastern movement and musicality that has been passed down from generation to generation. The performance will be held Nov. 7 at ...

During the World Stage concert at Perkins Center for the Arts in Moorestown, Meesha Tayoun, right, dancer for Joseph Tayoun and his Mid-East Ensemble, performs belly dancing to the audience on Tuesday ...

New on my dance radar: Al-Bahira Middle Eastern Dance Theater, a Twin Cities-based troupe of women who perform Raqs as-sharqi (belly dance), folk dances of the Middle East, Greece, Turkey and North ...

Since 1989, Cassandra Shore has been creating theatrical versions of Middle Eastern dance for the concert stage, almost always with a live orchestra consisting of male musicians. This weekend, however ...

Salome. Mata Hari. Cleopatra. Medusa — femme fatales all. Even Medusa? With snakes for hair? "You expand that story a little and she was a beautiful priestess," said Lisa Skinner, who has brought the ...

KALAMAZOO -- Belly dancing gets a bad rap. "People think of it as burlesque or worse,'' said Na'imah, a belly dancer from Grand Rapids who goes by her stage name. ``My mom is frightened of it.'' But ...

HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - The Middle Eastern Dance Artists of Hawaii (MEDAH) invites the public to celebrate World Belly Dance Day at a Benefit Hafla, an Arabic term for party or gathering, today, ...