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            <title>Bellydance: From Male Fantasy to Female Fantasy - article by Neon</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Any living, evolving art has core trajectories and a million tangents that interweave it with other related arts and cultural phenomena. It is true, for every big wave there is a reverse current that both feeds and resists it. Understanding that in art nothing can be categorized with precision, I would like to offer a few observations with an analytical twist, building on my earlier article on Tribal bellydance...<br /><small>Published using FREE <a href="http://www.hitrss.com/">HitRSS</a></small>]]></description>
            <pubDate>Thu, 11 May 2006 17:50:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title>ASK AUNT ROCKY | 8| Understanding the Nature of Oriental Dance</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[...From an interview with Morocco, instructor, choreographer and scholar of Middle Eastrn dance,  conducted by Dr. Barbara Sellers-Young, PhD at the request of the Oral History Archives of the Dance Collection of the Lincoln Center Library of/for the Performing Arts in New York City...<br /><small>Published using FREE <a href="http://www.hitrss.com/">HitRSS</a></small>]]></description>
            <pubDate>Wed, 05 Apr 2006 17:50:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title>Overcoming back pain - article by Melissa (NYC)</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[What causes back pain? Sometimes it's muscle spasms--if muscles are stretched out for too long a period, they'll cramp. Same thing if they're contracted or shortened. Moving the back in ways the muscles aren't able to support will do it, too...<br /><small>Published using FREE <a href="http://www.hitrss.com/">HitRSS</a></small>]]></description>
            <pubDate>Tue, 28 Mar 2006 16:40:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title>Gia Al Qamar's TALES FROM THE URBAN DESERT | 6: &quot;Five Days to Better Fitting Bedleh&quot;</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Turkish style belts…my sworn enemy. Why? I was made acutely aware that I had a bit too much to shimmy one particularly horrible evening when I dressed to dance and found that my beloved belly had now become an object of ridicule by this v-shaped bastard, as the belt taunted my abs with poochiness and unflattering overhang in precisely the area where tips would land, and eyes would see...
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            <pubDate>Wed, 22 Mar 2006 18:05:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title>Bellydance Photo Sessions in DC - by Sarah Skinner</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[NYC photographer Sarah Skinner shares her experiences of photographing bellydancers.<br /><small>Published using FREE <a href="http://www.hitrss.com/">HitRSS</a></small>]]></description>
            <pubDate>Mon, 20 Mar 2006 20:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title>REVIEW: FolkTours Mid-Eastern Music and Dance Camp by Alay'nya</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[As dancers and musicians, we meet our needs for community, for learning, and for creative expression in haflas, workshops, and other community events. These are wonderful; they help sustain. But they don't get us as fully back to our core human nature as we really need because what we really need is to get away...
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            <pubDate>Sat, 18 Mar 2006 04:20:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title>Your First Bellydance Costume - by Karima Nadira (NYC)</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[OK, so you're not quite ready to perform, but those glitzy costumes have been catching your eye?
Any of the following sound familiar? You've been to a few shows and seen some gorgeous costumes! 
Your friend/relative/work associate has suggested you dance for someone's upcoming birthday, but you don't have a thing to wear! You're dying to see what you look like in lots of glitter! You've come up with a little routine to a song you like and are actually thinking of performing it somehow, somewhere. And, really, if you practiced a bit more, you just *might* be ready to shake your hips for family, friends, or other dancers...<br /><small>Published using FREE <a href="http://www.hitrss.com/">HitRSS</a></small>]]></description>
            <pubDate>Mon, 13 Mar 2006 20:35:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title>Cabaret, Tribal/Tribal Fusion Bellydance in New York - by Neon (NYC)</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[...Bellydance is not what it used to be. These days a lot of us, dance professionals and hobbyists, are giving much thought to the trends that have emerged in modern Western bellydance in the past couple decades, in particular to the rise of Tribal/Tribal fusion and other fusion bellydance styles. It's still early days for Tribal here, in NYC, but this is a good moment to stop and take a close look at what could become a prominent trend...<br /><small>Published using FREE <a href="http://www.hitrss.com/">HitRSS</a></small>]]></description>
            <pubDate>Sun, 12 Mar 2006 07:40:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title>A la Turka - Dance and Music Festival in Istanbul - Review by Alison Smith</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[...On my first visit to Turkey I fell in love with Turkish music, and subsequently took up the violin as an adult. So you can imagine that a trip to Istanbul that involved bellydancing and music was my dream holiday. Here is an account of the event which took place in early September 2005...<br /><small>Published using FREE <a href="http://www.hitrss.com/">HitRSS</a></small>]]></description>
            <pubDate>Fri, 10 Mar 2006 17:45:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title>INTERVIEW: Alexia, an artist who goes above and beyond...by Angelys Liranzo</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Alexia is the artistic director of Alexia Multi-Cultural Productions, advisor and guest choreographer of Raks Odalisque (Princeton University), co- founder of Groove Merchant ensemble and Drum and Dance Learning Center, and dance coordinator for the New Jersey State Teen Arts Festival.<br /><small>Published using FREE <a href="http://www.hitrss.com/">HitRSS</a></small>]]></description>
            <pubDate>Wed, 01 Mar 2006 01:30:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title>INTERVIEW: Ensemble Zikrayat (NYC)</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[ZIKRAYAT (www.zikrayatmusic.com) is a New York based ensemble of musicians and dancers dedicated to presenting the traditional repertory of Arabic music, song, and dance. In addition to well-known standards, ZIKRAYAT highlights little-known gems from the golden age of Egyptian Cinema. With each show dancers Dameshe, Naraya, Sira and Nahara research and recreate original dance pieces by legends Naima Akif, Taheya Karioca, and Samia Gamal, but with their own unique flair.<br /><small>Published using FREE <a href="http://www.hitrss.com/">HitRSS</a></small>]]></description>
            <pubDate>Fri, 24 Feb 2006 02:05:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title>Meet Hip Circle Member #1000, Rani of Penang, Malaysia!</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[...I've always had interest in belly dance ever since i was young. In fact, I've always wanted to be a dancer or a performer. It's just that i come from a family that is very strict, plus of a chinese and indian background, i didn't get a chance to pursue it up until i was 17 yrs old. I've always expressed myself thru dancing, be it anger, sensuality or just to be in my own world when i'm dancing. I feel that spiritually, it's about letting yourself go in music and motion, to celebrate life...
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            <pubDate>Sun, 19 Feb 2006 17:15:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title>INTERVIEW: Serena Ramzy - by Amulya</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[...I was born and raised in Sao Paulo in Brazil, a large cosmopolitan metropolis that is a fusion of numerous cultures and nationalities.One of them is a Middle Eastern community to which my sister Karima was drawn and in which she became a professional bellydancer...<br /><small>Published using FREE <a href="http://www.hitrss.com/">HitRSS</a></small>]]></description>
            <pubDate>Sat, 18 Feb 2006 20:50:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title>INTERVIEW: Elsa Leandros - dance fusion and dance fitness</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[An interview with NYC dancer Elsa Leandros. A choreographer and performance coach known for her enormous dance vocabulary and visionary approach to developing new and existing dance trends, Elsa's expertise is in demand among NYC's star performers of traditional ethnic and ballroom dance, as well among dancers focused on the cutting-edge fusion styles, such as bellydance fusion.<br /><small>Published using FREE <a href="http://www.hitrss.com/">HitRSS</a></small>]]></description>
            <pubDate>Fri, 17 Feb 2006 04:05:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title>Kindred Spirit Veil Dyeing by Jennifer Dawson (OH)</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The secrets of dyeing a silk bellydance veil.
....So you’re ready to dye your own veil? Okay then, here’s how I do it – but my method isn’t the only out there and it does have some limitations, but for the budget costumer, my process will give you a Technicolor veil that your friends will envy.
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            <pubDate>Wed, 15 Feb 2006 18:40:00 GMT</pubDate>
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