Amber Proctor, local belly dancer, performs Thursday at the Jazzhaus. Princess Farhana, a.k.a Pleasant Gehman, on the poster for filmmaker Steve Balderson's movie Underbelly. First of all, belly ...

Today I go to a belly dancing restaurant and become a belly dancer! LOL! This was a great first time experience and we had a ...

What do psychedelics, puppetry and belly dancing have in common? They all come together at the 15th Annual Big Bad-Ass Belly Dance Show. My Silly Um … which premiers at 8 p.m. on Friday, Feb. 28 and ...

Google the term “belly dance” and the first images the search engine offers are of white women in flowing, diaphanous skirts, playing at brownness. How did this become acceptable? The term “belly ...

This article was written under duress. I try to avoid free classes for two reasons: 1. I doubt a thing's worth it if I don't have to pay for it (that's right, the American dream). 2. The teacher doesn ...

Heather Abrams has been belly dancing on Friday nights at Canton’s Desert Inn since she was 9. Now she’s 31. “My boss Mark Shaheen (the restaurant’s owner) jokingly says I have the longest-running gig ...