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"Belly Dance" Resources

• Asim's List of Middle Eastern Dance Links
• Mideastern Dance Reference Pages
• Shira's nuggets of info on Middle Eastern dance, zills, names, lyrics, links, etc... An excellent bunch of information -- Check it out!
• OrientalDancer.net -- the belly dance hub!
  
• Northeastern Bellydance Community Page -- come on in if you're in the area!
  
• Turbans, Tassels, and Tattoos -- Invaluable information from Australia -- pattern for choli that really works!
  
• Costuming From the Hip - A good book, and an invaluable resource
• North Carolina Belly Dance -- this site is great and has seminar listings for NC and region as well as an awesome photo gallery
• Tribal Dance WebRing -- a listing of many tribal websites, all linked together
• "BHUZ.COM" -- an up-coming site with bunches of info on Middle Eastern music, dancers, and events
• Aziza and her med-dance gallery
• The Seattle Source for Middle Eastern Dance -- all dancing, all Seattle, all the time!
• Course Junction -- dance courses, classes, and seminars of all kinds including bellydance
• Pittsburgh Bellydancers -- listing of local dancers, teachers, musicians, and events
  

Percussion Resources

Rhythm FAQ -- Traditional Dumbek/Dance rhythms

• Mary Mark's : Learning Middle Eastern Percussion -- Mary's extensive list of instructional resources for learning about and learning to play ME percussion instruments
• Rhythm Web -- vast array of stuff on world percussion. If you're a world drummer who doesn't know about this site, just pretend you did!
• Mary Ellen Donald -- along with the late Mimi Spencer, one of the creators of the "Gems of the Middle East" series of music and instructional materials.
• The Tombak Network -- Info on Iranian/Persian rhythms and the particular history of the Tombak and Tombak players.
• Ancient Future: World Music Online . All sorts of info/links/stuff on traditional world music and dance -- MP3 and MIDI of world drum grooves.

Dancers and Troupes

• Safa -- homepage for Safa of Khafif
• Rachel Brice -- Fabulous dancer (and her troupe) from California
• Blue Lotus Tribe - Audrey! (a Ghawazee alumn now in the Chicago area)
• Fat Chance Belly Dance - the founding ATS troupe in San Francisco
• Artemis Mourat -- Artie is the best!  The best performer and teacher of Turkish Rom dancing I know
  
• Ultra Gypsy -- based out of San Francisco as well -- a fine group, and a beautiful webpage
• Gypsy Caravan  -- Portland, Oregon
• Silk Road Dance Company - an extremely talented troupe, founded by Laurel Victoria Grey
• Eva Cernik -- We could watch Eva for hours...
  
• Anahid Sofian -- an excellent dancer from New York City.  try out her classes if you're in the area!
• Uzbek Dance Camp and Laurel Victoria Gray -- great website, very talented folks, and a wonderful dancing opportunity
• Rockabelly Dance -- our buddy Kamillah is a fabulous dancer out on the West Coast!
  
• Samira Shuruk -- beautiful dancer and pilates instructor from DC
  
• Baraka Mundi - also from Asheville, NC -- excellent dancers, good friends, and a lot of fun.  Their webpage is beautiful.
• Awalim - a friend of ours who can be found in Atlanta and occasionally various other places.
• Raks Christina -- great dancer and beautiful person in Chicago
  
• Zafira -- our old friends, also based out of Pittsburgh, PA
• Hipnosis -- Tribal bellies in Philadelphia, our buds and some great dancers besides
  
• The ever-popular Rakadu Gypsy girls (and company!)
• Read My Hips - this Chicago-based troupe is a load of fun!
• Jal-A-Drum - these friends of ours are usually to be found in the Washington, DC area
• n.o.madic tribal -- kickass girls from New Orleans -- I wish I was just like them...
• Dandasha -- fabulous troupe based in Chattanooga, TN -- some beautiful innovative stuff
• Ghawazi Caravan -- Tribal dancing in the Blue Mountains outside Sydney, Australia -- these guys are very talented and have a very FCBD feel
  
• Gypsy Red Tribe -- Birmingham, Alabama, and a nicer set of talented dancers you couldn't hope to meet
  
• Ghazalah al-Badriyya and Qamar Franji -- a fine lady, gorgeous embroiderer, and interesting site
• Suhaila Salimpour - the daughter of Jamila Salimpour, she's one of the foremost cabaret dancers in America.
• Morocco - the person -- not the country. A dancer from NYC with a strong sense of the traditional roots of Middle Eastern dance.
• Anthea/Kawakib/Atesh's Dance Page (Virginia) -- a little bit of everything -- dance, costuming, teaching, SCA, ...
• Kajira D's Belly Dance Page -- Sonoma County California.
• South Australian Belly Dance: Henna Nights School of Bellydance
  
• Hassan and Nagwa's Middle Eastern Dance Productions -- in NY, NY
• Tribe Badir from San Jose, CA -- More of our friends from the west. Also, check out the section on Bedouin tents (they should have pictures up soon).
• Zanbaka -- Pacific Northwest performer and instructor of world fusion, folkloric, orientale, and tribal style belly dance
• Shaia Tribe Wild Tribal -- Seattle-based student troupe
• inFusion Tribal Belly Dance -- tribal fusion troupe, also in Seattle -- fuses traditional and modern urban styles
• Asmhan -- A very friendly cool dancer in Switzerland -- trilingual webpage in German, French, and English
• Salome -- European-based, very comprehensive website, including online lessons and articles
  
• Soraya's Mid-East Dance and Music Productions
• Sonya's Souk -- Egyptian bellydance and costumer from Chicago
  

Musicians and Organizations

• Seido Salifoski -- Who doesn't love Seido?
  
• Turku - Eurasian Folk Group . A delightful ensemble that we have been happy to occasionally dance to and play with. Check out their excellent web page for samples, descriptions of instruments, and an art slide show.
• Folktours -- Run by Artemis and Tayyer -- great camp for Memorial Day weekend!
  
• Future of Tradition Center for the Folkloric Arts -- Asheville, NC -- a project that friends of ours have been working on for some time
• Zaghareet Magazine - a fine publication, mostly dedicated to cabaret style, but with a lotta tribal stuff too, and other interesting articles.  They host the "Best of Belly Dance" Golden Belly Awards.
• DiscoverBellyDance.com -- a fine online magazine, with a good sense of humour
• Fitness101 -- a blog with an interview by Safa
  
• Habibi Magazine - very nice-looking magazine, again, mostly focusing on cabaret style dance
• Eric Peterson -- drummer and teacher, Atlanta, GA
• Karim Nagi -- High quality crazy drummer from NYC
  
• Folkloric Productions -- Allen Street Dance Studio -- Buffalo, NY based organization to research, instruct, perform, and present dances of North Africa, the Middle East, and Brazil.
• Dancing Goddess Dance Trips -- trips and workshops all over the place!
• The Bellydancing Librarian - kind of self-explanatory
• The Cheescake Galleries -- bet you didn't know this was out there!  A plethora of cheesy dancer pictures, some...strangely exciting...

Supplies and Stuff

• Amera's Palace - Costuming, accessories...
• Kelly Hawes Bellydance Paintings -- beautiful artwork and she also dances in Washington DC
  
• Tribal Source -- based in NJ, famous for gorgeous handmade belts
  
• Cleopatra's Bazaar -- In Toronto, Canada -- goods, services, fun!
  
• India's Craft - Actually in India, but good stuff, and cheap, with shipping included -- cholis, jewelry, toran, bedsheets, bags, etc.
  
• Tribal to the Max - purveyors of jewelry and textiles, with good prices.  If you don't see what you want, ask, and they may be able to order it in.
• Artemis Imports - looking for almost everything?  They've got it.
• La Source Berbere -- beautiful, high-quality stuff, and some of the prices are very good (most are semi-expensive)
• Traditional Rhythms -- Troupe Friend who is a drum supplier (tell 'em we sent you!) -- frame drums, African stuff as well as dumbeks.
• Desert Roses -- custom made coin bras!  For those who don't feel like sewing the damn coins on themselves...
• Mandala Tribal -- Beautiful costumes and accessories
• Horus & Isis Co. - Egyptian manufacturer of various goods.
• Theora BellyDance Boutique - somewhat confusing website, but beautiful merchandise (silk!)
• MidEast Manufacturing -- "The Ethnic Musical Instruments Co." -- hand drums and ethnic instruments of all sorts.
• Heart Song Drums -- hand thrown ceramic dumbeks.
• Zanbaka's Designs Online Bazaar -- Cool and unusual stuff, including awesome headdresses I've never seen elsewhere
• Craft India -- also actually in India, but some nice Bollywood and cabaret-style outfits at good prices
  

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