Even in my wildest dreams I never thought that I'd shake my curves in public. Before that night, I’d only ever seen belly dancing in movies. In my wildest dreams I never thought I’d sign up to a class ...

International belly dancer and Tahitian instructor Sanjana Muthreja has been practising the dance form for the past eleven years. Sanjana, who is also an avid traveller as well as a fitness enthusiast ...

It's sexy, it's fun and best of all - it's a great way to get fit. Belly dancing is for those women who are looking for something that's exotic and classy, but they just can’t stomach another gym ...

While society readily erases curvy women from the landscape, this plus-size Russian dancer is bringing her curves into the public sphere. The one who calls herself "big mom," a stage name that ...

For Ansuya Rathor, there was no questioning whether belly dancing would be a part of her life. Her mother, Jenaeni Rathor, was a blonde, blue-eyed belly dancer in the 1960s and '70s — an anomaly that ...

A few shimmies and hip drops can empower even the timidest woman to come — or dance — out of her shell. The trick to belly dancing is "all in the torso," said Garnett Kepler, longtime artistic ...

Google the term “belly dance” and the first images the search engine offers are of white women in flowing, diaphanous skirts, playing at brownness. How did this become acceptable? The term “belly ...

Up and down the country, more and more people are taking up belly dancing as a way of keeping fit. In North Yorkshire, there are classes all over the county where you can shimmy into shape! When ...