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 ...

More decades ago than she will admit, Nancy Bartlett went to a community college and signed up for the only exercise class available — belly dancing. Now performing under the stage named Isis, the ...

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 ...

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 ...

CHITRESH DAS FINDS east everywhere. It's, of course, in the rising sun, as it is in his ancestral and spiritual birthplace in Calcutta. But he feels east present as well in his West Coast home of San ...

This Thursday, the Mid-Eastern Dance Exchange (MEDE) is hosting its seventh annual Orientalia festival, a yearly event that draws hundreds of people to see belly-dance performances and participate in ...

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.