“Scandalous!” the Chicago newspapers proclaimed in reports from the World’s Columbian Exposition of 1893. American impresario Sol Bloom purportedly shocked Victorian America--in order to boost ticket ...

The jiggle is only the beginning. "It's a design in space. Sacred geometry. It's about fluidity yet control. ... It's about passion, grace, even grief," said Dhyanis Carniglia, a dance instructor from ...

In early June, news surfaced in the Yakima Symphony Orchestra office that patron and volunteer Heather Wayman had just won a first place Judge’s and People’s Choice award for her performance of the ...

Shrapnel from the bomb sank so deeply into the toddler’s arm that the doctors wanted to amputate. Fortunately, the girl’s grandmother knew something about herbs and salves, and she announced that no ...

Middle Eastern pop music is thumping at Sahara Hookah Lounge, a cavernous BYOB club in Sharonville. Dancers in bejeweled bra tops and voluminous sheer skirts writhe and wriggle, expertly manipulating ...

Sciatica drove Bettye Ames to belly dancing. Beset with back problems, and at the behest of a friend, the Dayton resident took up the ancient art 10 years ago to strengthen her abdominal muscles. The ...

Heather Abrams has been belly dancing on Friday nights at Canton’s Desert Inn since she was 9. Now she’s 31. “My boss Mark Shaheen (the restaurant’s owner) jokingly says I have the longest-running gig ...

Dance Studio A is tiny, a bare-bones box of a room next to a printing lab in the basement of the University of Florida’s student union. Unless you’re specifically looking for it, you might walk right ...