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Oriental Dance - Belly Dance - Mideastern Dance - Raks al-Sharqi

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featuring KATHRYN FERGUSON and SUSAN WILSON

Instruction	Performance	Music	Ordering	Kathryn Ferguson Profile

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Instruction: Mideastern Dance: an Introduction to Belly Dance - K. Ferguson
Performance: Dances from the Casbah - K. Ferguson/Xanadu Dancers
Music: Darbuka Rhythms for Oriental Dance Practice - audio cassettes with S. Wilson
Personal Profile: performer/instructor Kathryn Ferguson
Travel: Egyptian Adventures - explore Egypt by video.
Travel: A Zambian Safari - includes cultural dancing.
Ordering: prices, instructions, shipping, links to other web sites.

ORIENTAL DANCE, also called belly dance, Raks al-Sharqi, or Mideastern dance, developed in the ancient Mideast or Mediterranean region and has survived through the centuries. Intricate and sensual, it is fascinating to behold, pleasurable to perform, and a good source of exercise. Migrating Mediterranean peoples have carried various forms of the dance with their cultures to many parts of the world.

Popularly associated with the romance of harem life and cabaret performers, variations of the dance have gained thousands of non-Mediterranean devotees in Western and Eastern cultures. Oriental dance as a performance art has become sufficiently wide-spread to support specialized teaching studios, newspapers, magazines, costume suppliers, dance workshops and international conventions. Interestingly, devotees of the dance also include members of medieval cultural organizations, and science fiction groups who have found links between the dance and their special interests.

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