Frédérique, one of the pioneers of tribal fusion, is an avant-garde belly dancer with a unique and creative style. An artist at heart, she maintains creative control of her improvised performances, from advertising and costuming to even mixing her own music. Her latest project is Silent Sirens Theatre, a traveling one-hour long show based on [...]

    When I met Sandy D’Alì this past July in Italy, I thought I was about to interview a teenager from the ’80; she was wearing Michael Jackson memorabilia: a t-shirt, a pendant and a bracelet, skinny jeans and had her blond hair tied in a nod. Not the image I had of one of the [...]

Belly Motions® opened its doors in 2005 in Miami, Florida introducing belly dancing for fitness in one successful combination of art and movements. Ever since, Belly Motions® has grown and is today a well-known and appreciated local school. Its creator, main dancer and business owner, Portia Lange, welcomes us in her studio with a warm [...]

Miami is a vibrant city home to some of the most famous American belly dancers. Combining their Latin flavors with Arabic moves, Miami belly dancers are unique and have developed their own belly dancing styles. One of our Miami jewels is Sultana, a Puerto Rican performer, teacher and choreographer. She started her belly dance career [...]

Marguerite Kusuhara

BIOGRAPHY Louchia hails from Moldova, west of the Black Sea and south of Russia. At age six, she began ballet and gymnastics studies, then danced with the children’s Dance Company of Moldova “Sperantca” for eight years. At 16, she entered the dance college of the National Folk Ballet of Moldova, “Jok,” training in Classical Ballet, [...]

It is refreshing in today’s world of idealized, sculpted females to watch Regine and Babylon Mood belly dancers; a thrill to watch exquisite dancing and staging rendered by mortal, human women who express perfection through their art. Regine’s Bio Regine Costello began performing Flamenco, Mexican Folklorico and Aztec dances at age eight and teaching them [...]

1) Tell us about yourself.  How did you get into belly dancing? What does belly dancing mean to you and what does it do for you? My name is Suspira, and I’ve been in the Orlando area since about 1995.  I’ve always loved dance, and  started studying aet age 5, and teaching at age 15.  [...]

“Very few people can pronounce it, so people call me Tina, Enheduanna, or introduce me as “Ehhoooda.” When researching dance history, seeking ancient ritual clues, I came across a woman author revered and studied like Shakespeare in ancient Sumer– Enheduanna, a positive woman model, unlike so many women’s names in literature. Funniest gig? First restaurant [...]

This topic is very close to my heart; being ill myself, it really affects my dancing. I was already very ill when I started taking up classes, but I thought it would be good for my health to do some light exercise. Not that belly dance can be called light exercise! But I did not [...]