June 2006 SnakeByte from the Gilded Serpent!
New Articles on www.gildedserpent.com -Web Magazine for Mid East Performing Arts

• 6-12-06 Belly Dancer of the Year 2006 Photos by Susie Poulelis
  Danville, Ca, Sunday May 28, 2006 BD of the Year - Finals, more photos coming!
• 6-9-06 Weird Rituals and Beyond: Exploring Current Controversies in Middle Eastern Dance by Barbara Grant
  If you are like me, (I know that many are not) you first responded viscerally and negatively to both situations. Then, as the shock wore off, perhaps you tried to make sense of it all.
• 6-6-06 The Bellydance Scene in Taiwan Toss Hair Dance by Eugenia
  The women were much more skillful than I expected: just 3 years ago, nobody in Taiwan really knew anything about Bellydance.
• 6-5-06 Rhythm and Reason Series, Article 12 Moved by the Music by Mary Ellen Donald
  I did all this because those sudden shifts in rhythm and tempo and the abrupt breaks in the music that were unfamiliar to me could have made me look like a fool...
• 6-2-06 Tribal Fest 2006, May 19 in Sebastopol photos by Susie Poulelis
  Performances from Saturday late afternoon including: BlackSheep, Sashi, InFusion...
• 6-1-06 I Love Lucy: Confessions of a Dancer by Yosifah Rose
  Lucy does not believe that one can properly perform Oriental dance with a set choreography.
• 5-30-06 Fresh Old Sounds by Charmaine Ortega Getz
  Seeking fresh sounds in belly dance music? Consider a trip back to the 1950s up to the groovy ‘70s when a new style of music was bringing the East to the West.
• 5-29-06 Traveling to Tizi Ouzou by Linda Grondahl
  When I was in high school, I was fascinated by some of the names I read about when studying world geography.
• 5-29-06 P.U.R.E. Dance by Dhyanis
  A collective of dancers and drummers plan to take music and dance out into the streets this summer on July 15 in cities across the nation and globe.
• 5-27-06 Bellydance in Iceland by Sabah
  Recently, I was able to witness first hand how truly global the world of bellydance has become. Dances of the Middle East and North Africa are no longer a mystery and unknown “exotic” style of dance.
• 5-26-06 Sashi - Kabob by Lynette, Warning, possibly disturbing graphics!
  The punctures appear to go under the skin into the subcutaneous fat layer and not through muscle tissue.
• 5-23-06 The Photos of Saroya Ahlaam, March 2006, Rakkasah Festival, Richmond, Ca
  ...she was a replacement at Rakkasah for a no-show and did a great job! I was so impressed with the crystals on her costume. You could see them sparkle from the back of the auditorium.
• 5-21-06 The Photos of Susie Poulelis, March 2006, Rakkasah Festival, Richmond, Ca
  Shoppers were treated to an improvised drum solo by Shoshanna in the foyer

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