On certain mornings at the Northborough Senior Center, an interesting mingling of sounds echoes through the dining area. Music that’s a combination of early American hip-hop and Middle Eastern beats ...

Members of Romania's Roma -gypsy - community perform during the "Miss Piranda 2011" beauty and dance contest in Bucharest. The contestants were judged not just on their beauty, but also on their gypsy ...

THIS week sees belly-dancing travel from the Middle East to Middleton. Nikki Franklin, an accomplished belly dancer, 'Urban Gypsy,' and teacher, begins a series of classes to bring this exotic art ...

To Bianca Boll, belly dancing is a lot more than sparkly costumes, jiggly movements and exotic music. It was 21 years ago in Albuquerque, N.M., that Boll first experienced belly dancing, and she was ...

Though it's the Middle East that put belly dance on the world map, the origin of the form is shrouded in mystery. One of the legends suggests that its complex hip movements have their roots in the ...

The San Francisco Bay Area is a hotbed of innovative technological development and a crucible for the growth of performance arts. One art that thrives in the progressive creative environment of the ...

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