The members of Tufts Middle Eastern Dance, a campus group dedicated to performing various folkloric and regional dance styles from the Middle East are performing their first fall show this evening.

During the World Stage concert at Perkins Center for the Arts in Moorestown, Meesha Tayoun, right, dancer for Joseph Tayoun and his Mid-East Ensemble, performs belly dancing to the audience on Tuesday ...

MOORHEAD - Belly dancing often conjures up images of a scantily clad woman seductively shaking her hips for bunch of men. But the true performance art, known as Middle Eastern dance, is very pro-woman ...

Since 1989, Cassandra Shore has been creating theatrical versions of Middle Eastern dance for the concert stage, almost always with a live orchestra consisting of male musicians. This weekend, however ...

KALAMAZOO -- Belly dancing gets a bad rap. "People think of it as burlesque or worse,'' said Na'imah, a belly dancer from Grand Rapids who goes by her stage name. ``My mom is frightened of it.'' But ...

Inspired by her nomadic ancestry and the snake dances of the ancient lands of the Middle East award-winning dancer and choreographer, Nejla Yatkin is bringing an interactive, solo dance theater ...

In the decade-plus since Miami Dade College started it’s Middle East Dance Program, the curriculum — and it’s accompanying, annual Belly Dance Show — has become the biggest and best place in the state ...

The first thing you think when you walk into the new Kairo Kafe at 909 Franklin on a Saturday night is, "Wow. Well, this is different." If the iron figurine of an ancient Egyptian playing the harp on ...

A husband who wouldn't take her dancing led Judy D. Fox to find the Middle East at the YMCA. The La Crosse woman enrolled in a Middle Eastern dance class. For 30 years, it's kept her hips moving. "I ...

As part of First Night, Diana Shahein will help to ring in the New Year with three one-half hour interactive Egyptian and Middle Eastern dance performances at 7, 8 and 9 p.m. at the Children’s Library ...