CHICO — A captivating world of music, color and movement filled the Chico Women’s Club last Friday night as hip-swaying, bare-bellied divas from all over the north state came together in devotion to ...

is a collective of women bound together by expression through dance. The directors of n.o.madic (formerly of Devyani) were trained in the American Tribal Style Bellydance format by Megha, and have ...

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Robin Smith, a tribal belly dance instructor, sees her dream become reality as she prepares to open a new studio in downtown Forest Grove. (Benjamin Brink/Staff Photographer) It never ceases to amaze ...

There was no shortage of small-town spectacles at a recent Friday night fair on Center Street in this mountain town: a trio on acoustic guitars belting out REO Speedwagon, a pull-up bar tended by a ...

Ten-year-old Ariana Ferguson is the youngest dancer who will perform in Duluth's all-fusion belly dance show Saturday, Jan. 26. She will be one of 17 group-, troupe-, and solo acts who will perform ...

It’s not about vanity and much less is it about sex, contrary to many people’s misconceptions. Instead, it’s all about having fun and gaining confidence in yourself, tribal belly dance leader Mares ...

When Rita Bates told her father she had joined Read My Hips, a belly dance troupe, he said she might as well be stripping. “It’s kind of creepy what people think when you say belly dancing,” says ...

Belly dancing helped Hannah Wayte overcome a body-image crisis. She tells Veronica Stivala that discipline really aids people to re-evaluate their idea of self-worth. In her late teens, as most of us ...

Though it's the Middle East that put belly dance on the world map, the origin of the form is shrouded in mystery. One of the legends suggests that its complex hip movements have their roots in the ...