As she approached her 70th birthday, Carol Love decided that there was really only one way to mark the occasion. So, this past Sunday she gathered her coin belt and ancient assuit shawl, and headed ...

Amber Proctor, local belly dancer, performs Thursday at the Jazzhaus. Princess Farhana, a.k.a Pleasant Gehman, on the poster for filmmaker Steve Balderson's movie Underbelly. First of all, belly ...

The differences between the various types of belly dancing are as nuanced as the dance moves themselves. For some, the words “belly dance” conjure up the image of a woman with a jangly scarf around ...

Loveland resident Mary Bahus-Meyer likes that she can work out in colorful costumes and big jewelry every week that she comes to a Loveland Belly Belles lesson. “I like the idea of getting exercise ...

A ‘Sex in the City’ episode once made reference to belly dancers doing “lap dances” and having cash stuffed down their pants, and numerous films have portrayed belly dancing as more of an erotic ...

Nestled in the heart of historic downtown Perry, a small dance studio has been a gathering spot for women of all shapes, sizes and ages to learn the art of belly dancing for the past 14 years. The ...

Ten years ago, Springfield mom Angela Nation was looking for a way to get fit. The 43-year-old mother of three wanted to get back to being the active athlete she had been in her thirties — but she ...

I’ll let you guys in on a little secret: I regularly convince myself that I am totally capable of doing things that I don’t actually know how to do. Sometimes it’s great for conquering fears and ...

For the four women of "In the Pink," belly dancing will always be a calling. They even joke that they'll be on stage with canes and wheelchairs if that's what it takes to keep dancing. So it's only ...