Favourite Links

Erin's Top Choices

http://www.shira.net/ Shira has an enormous library of information…look for info and advice on practically anything.

http://www.costumegoddess.com The best resource for costuming tips and help.

http://www.venusbellydance.com Local, and good info, including tidbits about various regional dances with photos.

http://www.visionarydance.com/ "Belly Dancing with Delilah." I love Delilah’s focus on the spirit of bellydance. Great articles.

http://www.beledy.net/phoenix/index.html See their Laws of Bellydynamics! Also tons of links to dancers, costuming, regional and events info, and more.

www.NearEastDance.com (Asia Minor Imports) As well as fabulous cabaret and tribal costumes for sale, check out her article: A Comprehensive Course in Near Eastern Dance Including Arabic and Turkish Music Theory for Dancers. (Also included: a Bellydance Movement Dictionary)

http://www.casbahdance.org/ (Morocco) Offers great articles, lots of Recommended Reading reviews.

www.desertmoondance.com Great articles from a Middle East perspective, links to Famous Belly Dancers In the Middle East, lots of information on ME music, links to lots of lovely photos of dancers, “beauty” tips (including stage makeup) and info on historical style in ancient Egypt. There’s articles on body image and weight, some raised my eyebrows, others seem positive.

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Miscellaneous Bellydance Links

http://www.learn-to-belly-dance.com Questions with answers, advice, dance history time line, on line classifieds for for those who want to learn to belly dance.

http://www.bellydancingforfun.com  Ottawa:

http://www.meda.bc.ca/ Middle Eastern Dance Association, Vancouver, BC. Lists events, both local and distant.

http://bellydancer.info A couple bellydance e-cards (and an opportunity to get your own artwork added), tips for photo shoots, and an opportunity to get your promo photos on business cards or postcards.

http://www.kawakib.com/ (Anthea) Articles, “The Henna Circle” with FAQs and lots of henna links

http://www.bdancer.com/ Tons of bellydance links

http://www.desertdance.com Desert Dance Festival homepage; Raks & Roll has info on The George Abdo Recordings American Belly Dance Music, tons of links

http://www.bellydanceny.com Of special interest is Tours and Travel Pages

http://www.Suhaila.com Great articles, also videos & books by Jamila Salimpour for sale.

http://www.fcbd.com (Fat Chance Belly Dance) Lots of tribal merchandise, and links to articles on American Tribal (see History under Troupe menu)

http://aleena.com/gallery/index.html Lots of pictures of beautiful dancers and costumes.

http://www.AzizaSaid.com/gallery.html Takes a long time to download all the beautiful bellydance pictures but it’s worth it: click and go get a cup of tea, then come back and enjoy

http://wwwnew.towson.edu/stagemakeup/StraightMakeup%20HowTo/ Step by step illustrations on applying stage makeup

http://www.visionarydance.com/ IdeasImages.html - great articles on birthing etc

http://www.tribalwhere.com/articles/articles.html Articles on teaching, costumes, ethics, etc

http://www.homestead.com/selket/bellydance.html A great directory for dance names, performance tips, and more.

http://www.turkishbellydance.net Tours, Turkish music, Turkish bazaar.

http://www.omeda.mainpage.net Ontario's bellydance website.

http://www.bellydancingforfun.com

http:www.orianaweb.com

Costumes & Bellydance Supplies

http:// www.pinkgypsy.com Costume accessories, patterns, music, videos and more.

http:// www.aliahscloset.com Sells beautiful costumes and accessories

http://www.artemisimports.com Dance Costumes Veils Belts Jewelry Music & Video Ethnic/Tribal Cymbals . Books Costuming supplies Henna supplies Patterns

http://www.shimmyshimmy.com Online catalogue of bellydance costume items, and other bellydance paraphernalia

http://www.bellydanceshoppe.com

http://www.Baladiboutique.com

http://www.denverfabrics.com/pages/denverstore/sewing_links/belly-dancing-links.htm Offers fabric, trims and sewing notions

http://www.denverfabrics.com/pages/static/belly-dance-costumes.htm  Patterns and fabric for belly dancing including nylon/Lycra stretch knits, metallics, velvet, and silk. Also sewing notions and trims. And all at discounted prices.

http://www.costlesscostumes.com  Excellent quality belts (some with real coins), bras, costume supplies, jewelry, heavy zils and other items.

http://www.bellydanceshoppe.com  Over 700 items including belly dance unitards, silk veils, 22 kinds of zils, sandals, hipscarves, videos, music and more.

Music sources

http://www.hossamramzy.com Hossam Ramzy’s site, selling his and other music

http://members.aol.com/deswind/ Desert Wind: Offering such collections as Gaia, Earth Goddess: Ritual Dances of the Mother
Kalima Ma: Dances of Transformation,Return to the Goddess: In Chants and Song, Shekhina Hebrew Goddess: Restoring the Balance at (Lyrics, information, etc at http://members.aol.com/andalin/)

http://www.aramusic.com -extensive list if you know the name of the artist & album you want

http://dynrec.com/tekbilek/ The Official Site of Omar Faruk Tekbilek

http://www.sirocco-music.com/ Sirocco's site.

http://www.unclemafufo.com/ Uncle Mafufo's site.

http://judaism.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?site=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.rahul.net%2Fhrmusic%2Fdiscos%2Fohframe.html Samples and sales of Ofra Haza's music.

http://www.baladi.com/ Brothers of the Baladi site.

Events Links

http://www.meda.bc.ca/events.html Local BC events, as well as more distant venues

http://members.aol.com/hasaninw/calendar.html For the Pacific Northwest

http://www.bellydanceny.com/events.html New York

http://www.mecda.org/calendar.htm Southern California area.

http://www.mesmera.com/star.html Mesmera's Current Events Cairo

http://www.mariabenitez.com/ Flamenco events

Festivals

http://www.desertdance.com/ Desert Dance Festival Website

http://www.voiceofdance.com/NDW/ Bay Area National Dance Week (The Bay Area is the largest per capita center for dance in the USA)

http://www.gildedserpent.com/ellencruz/ Tribal Fest 3 Sonoma County, California, in May

http://www.gildedserpent.com/ellencruz/ Festival Fantasia, Sebastopol, California, in October.

http://www.rakkasah.com/ Rakkasah THE Dance Festival, California. Rakkasah Festival ‘West’ in March; Rakkasah ‘Summer Caravan’ in July; Rakkasah ‘East’ in October

http://www.kismetdance.com/ Utah Belly Dance Festival Salt Lake City, Utah. August. The largest and longest running festival of it's kind in the U.S.

http://members.cox.net/jmdrake/Dance.htm New Orleans Belly Dance Festival, March

http://w1.864.telia.com/~u86413785/festival/galashow.htm#Time Stockholm Belly Dance Festival in May

Competitions

http://www.tonyaandatlantis.com/bduc.htm Belly Dancer of the Universe Competition February in Long Beach, CA.

http://www.bellydc.com/ Belly Dancer of the Year Competition and Pageant May, San Francisco Bay Area, CA.

http://www.homestead.com/bellydancecomp/welcome.html North Valley Belly Dance Competition November in Chico, CA.

http://www.twooldbags.net/wow.html Wiggles of the West July in Reno, NV.

http://taaj-o.tripod.com/taajfikhalbi/id8.html East Coast Belly Dance Classic 2003 Virginia Beach, VA, in August
High Desert Dance Festival. Bend OR. V First annual: May 31st, 2003: Lisa at 541-383-1867

http://www.medca.org/ Treasures of the Middle East 2003 Belly Dance Competition Oregan, May

http://www.zainahart.com/dc_competition.htm Double Crown Belly Dance Competition. Lincoln City, Oregon, in September

Trips, Tours, Camps, Retreats

http://www.visionarydance.com/Retreats.html Bellydance Retreats from Visionary Dance Productions. Delilah brings the Goddess into dance, in a beautiful Hawai'ian location

http://www.AncientExplorations.com/ Offers Dancing Goddess Dance Trips, among others

Graphics

http://www.belly-dance.org/index.html Includes images and brief bios of bellydance legends, historical images, and more.

http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Village/4060/index2.html (Tatjana) Lots of lovely bellydance clip art

http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Village/4060/links.html#Kunst Clipart links

http://joyfuldancer.home.attbi.com/ Joyful Dancer: Not clip art, but beautiful and if you’re looking to buy, definitely check this out.

http://www.shira.net/clip-meira.htm Me'ira's Clip Art bellydance collection

Middle Eastern Names

http://members.aol.com/hasaninw/names.html Name Search in many languages, with links to other name search sites.

http://www.homestead.com/selket/files/dance_names.html "A Dance Names Database"

http://www.saqra.net/namesw.html Extensive list of names.

http://www.kabalarians.com/gkh/your.htm#links Fun: analysis of your character based on your first name.

Flamenco

http://www.esflamenco.com  Es flamenco, es baile, es guitarra, es cante, es pasión (It's dancing, it's guitar, it's singing, it's passion).  Music, teaching videos, books, costumes, info on the flamenco forms, even “how to choose the best skirt”.

http://flamenco-world.com/flamenco.htm Great flamenco magazine (online), and dresses for sale.

http://dans.pagina.nl/ Links like crazy, on all kinds of dance around the world, including bellydance and flamenco.

http://www.tizz.com/spain/dance/home.htm An intro to Spanish Dance

http://www.dcflamenco.com/dcflamenco/index.shtml Washinton DC site: check out the great photo gallery

http://www.flamenco.org/ Various things, including events and Flamenco and Gypsy Points of Interest in Spain

http://www.andalucia.com/flamenco/ Lots of info on flamenco in Spain, and links to the many festivals

http://www.flamenco-vivo.org Great photo album. Also history and links.

http://www.horizonteflamenco.com/ Information on the history and stories of flamenco, and more. (In Spanish, French, or English.)

http://www.mariabenitez.com/ Flamenco events

http://web.tiscali.it/dance.awards.europe/index.htm  Dance Awards Barcelona Competition, March (in Spain) and June (in Italy).

http://www.dcflamenco.com/dcflamenco/index.shtml Info on Annual Flamenco Festival, Washington DC, January/February.

http://www.flamencoshop.com/jerezflamenco.htm Festival de Flamenco, Feb/Mar, in Jerez de la Frontera, Spain

http://flamencoarts.org  Flamenco Arts Festival, Oct, Santa Barbara, CA, USA

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