During the day they are doctors, managers, mothers and secretaries. At night, they slip on their bead-and-sequin-studded bras and matching skirts and are enveloped by rhythmic clapping as they move to ...

Suzy Evans has spent a significant chunk of her life debunking myths about belly dancers. “There were so many times when I came across people who thought that belly dancers were like strippers,” she ...

The first time Michael Drumm saw a belly dancer, he thought, “As an American man … am I supposed to be embarrassed? Is there something wrong with me enjoying this?” The director and producer, head of ...

When Angela Nation of Springfield was a little girl, she loved to watch belly dancers perform on TV. “I’d watch shows just for little glimpses of the belly dancers,” she said. “I never actually had ...

HAYWARD — Some of those sitting in front of the television in late 1967 might remember Star Trek: Episode 43, in which an intergalactic belly dancer named Lara is found dead on the planet Argellius II ...

Now just close that mouth and lower those eyebrows. There are "belly dancers," and there are belly dancers. "Belly dancers" move seductively and choose to bare their midriff especially the diamond in ...