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Pages in category "Belly dancers" The following 13 pages are in this category, out of 13 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. Ahn Yoo-jin; Nadira Alieva;
"Belly dance" is a translation of the French term danse du ventre. The name first appeared in 1864 in a review of the Orientalist painting The Dance of the Almeh by Jean-Léon Gérôme. [13] [14] The first known use of the term "belly dance" in English is found in Charles James Wills, In the land of the lion and sun: or, Modern Persia (1883). [15]
In 1984, Dalilah retired to her home town of Madrid, Spain, where she found that belly dance had started to develop just after the rule of Franco. [1] In 2000 she came back into the limelight to teach master classes, choreograph films, coach professionals and perform in a show called “Arabesque”. She died suddenly in 2001. [4] [7]
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Serena Wilson (August 8, 1933 – June 17, 2007), often known just as "Serena", was a well-known dancer, choreographer, and teacher who helped popularize belly dance in the United States. Serena's work also helped legitimize the dance form and helped it to be perceived as more than burlesque or stripping .
Bellydance Superstars is a professional American bellydance troupe formed in 2002 by producer and manager Miles Copeland. [1] In its first six years of touring, it presented 700 shows in 22 countries.
[20] [21] She has written about her career experiences in Berlin [22] and Stockholm, including her contributions to the first Stockholm belly dance festival known as The Nile Group. [23] Her 2015 essay, The Difference Between Art and Entertainment, [24] is a component of the dance curriculum at Brigham Young University. [25]
Rachel Brice (born 15 June 1972) is an American professional belly dancer in Tribal Fusion style belly dance based in Portland, Oregon. She is the artistic director and choreographer for The Indigo Belly Dance Company and a frequent performer with the Bellydance Superstars. In June 2011 she opened her own dance studio in Portland, Oregon ...