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• 1-17-10 Serena Wilson (1933-2007) A Student of Ruth St. Denis, Part 1: Childhood by Barbara Sellers-Young PhD
  Serene Blake was born in the Bronx on Aug. 8, 1933 into a Vaudeville family of performers called Blake & Blake. Her mother sang and her father played the banjo. Her childhood and adolescent years intersected with the Vaudeville stage, on which she often appeared with her parents in the 1930s.
• 1-15-10 Sweet Memories of Vietnam, Not THAT Vietnam by Samra
  Soon I was to find out that I had nothing to worry. Hanoi is a vibrant cultural city and Belly Dance is the new rage. It is respected as the true art form that it is, and dance students are hungry to learn more and more.
• 1-12-10 New Resource page- How to Feed the Snake,
  guidelines for various formats of content for posting on GS
• 1-11-10 Carl's Camera Captures Jillina's Bellydance Evolution, photos by Carl, introduction by Ma*Shuqa
  Jillina Carlano’s Bellydance Evolution marked the beginning of an era in which bellydance moves beyond dance Oriental imported from Egypt and performed in clubs.
• 1-4-2010 Sticky Situations: Ask Yasmina #11- Inappropriate Audience Members, Competitive Teachers, Fickle Students by Yasmina Ramzy
  Trying to please and appease those who already disrespect you leads to a miserable dead end. My advice is to say "NO" and give the inappropriately behaved person a good wack across the face.
• 1-2-10 The Original Mish Mish, The Golden Age of Tinseltown, Interview by Kamala
  I was working one evening at Khyams and still doing my old style of dance. I came out for my entrance covered with a veil and right at the beginning of my show, she came up on stage and started peeling my veil off me and threw it on the floor. She shook her finger at me and said in broken English "Lah, this isn’t Egyptian!" I was so embarrassed and humiliated I could barely finish. Talk about being intimidated!
• 12-29-09 Are Reviews Relevant Anymore? Facing Our Wealth of Bellydance DVDs by Kyria
  I sometimes wonder how dancers are supposed to choose in the face of this overwhelming amount of information.

Reviews

• 1-16-10 The Muwashahat with Mohamed Shahin and Karim Nagi Workshop review by Thalia
  The Muwashahat genre is inspired by tenth century court poetry of Arab-Andalusia, developed when Arab intellectual and artistic culture flourished in Spain. The rhythms are complex.
• 1-15-10 More Fans, More Veils… DVD Review by Tracey Farmer
  She includes a lot more ground information by using combinations, aptly named tables and turns, and the introduction to a lengthier fan veil that is 3 meters long instead of the standard 1.5 meters.
• 1-13-10 Galit Mersand Teaches the Shisha Dance DVD review by Martha Duran
  This is a unique dvd for the performer who wants to widen her horizons.
• 1-8-2010 Jillina Advances Dance Theatre, A Review of Jillina’s Bellydance Evolution, by Kristina, photos by Carl Sermon
  Bellydance Evolution is a full-length theatrical event directed by dancer and choreographer Jillina, ushering belly dance into the world of dance theater. The production is a melding of narrative with a wide variety of traditional and cutting-edge Middle Eastern dance and music. I saw the dress rehearsal of Bellydance Evolution when it debuted in Glendale, California in August, 2009.

Videos

• Samira Tamir teaches Finger Snap video on the CK
• Sehar Niraja at BDUC video interview on the CK

Community Kaleidoscope
PHOTOS: Bahaia's prego belly, Holiday grettings from Andre' Elbing, Davina, and Sahar, Gig photo from Khalilah and Amira, Aziza's DVD release party, List of Winners from Breakthrough Fusion contest, Alnisa and Terry at Papa's Taverna, Maria Celado passes away

New Letters
re: Naked Bellydance, SnakeBytes, John B, Interview with Mish Mish

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