CAIRO — Sequins sparkled and beads jangled in a Cairo ballroom as students at a belly dance workshop imitated the teacher’s undulations. “Step, twist, sit, shimmy, up!” came the commands, and their ...

CAIRO -- Farid Mesbaah, male belly dancer, hopped on a car in Cairo’s Shobra district and strutted his stuff. He clanged metal castanets, magically converted his hips into pistons and twirled his head ...

CHICOPEE - Amateur and professional belly dancers from Belly Dance Western Mass. kicked off their 2018 performance season with a standing room only audience during their Cairo Cabaret Spring Show at ...

Jo Anne Zingo-Hargis, a thrill-seeker since birth, used to climb telephone poles for a living. The Connecticut native moved to Kansas in 1978 after she heard Southwestern Bell was “looking for women ...

At a Cairo wedding hall, Russian belly dancer Anastasia Biserova shimmied to the dance floor in a bright, high-slit skirt and an elaborately sequined bra top. She swirled her diaphanous pink shawl and ...

Farid Mesbaah, male belly dancer, hopped on a car in Cairo's Shobra district and strutted his stuff. He clanged metal castanets, magically converted his hips into pistons and twirled his head around ...

CAIRO — Studs sparkled on Diana Esposito's dress as she ticked her hips on a Nile boat thousands of miles away from the place she calls home: Brooklyn. "I have a full-time job doing what I love," said ...

CAIRO — When undercover police officers in Egypt swooped on an upscale nightclub on the Nile last spring and arrested a Russian belly dancer, the focus of their investigation was her costume — and ...

"If you're a belly dancer, you're a stripper." Nicole Edge has heard that one a few times. Edge, 27, is the leader of Cairo on the Coast, one of several belly dance troupes currently undulating in ...

An Italian belly dancer has been arrested and jailed in Egypt for outraging public decency with her saucy performances. Linda Martino, 32, was held after videos of her scantily clad shows were spotted ...