Blog Map

Our blog includes posts that span various topics:

From belly dance/raqs sharqi and other Middle Eastern dance genres and their related culture, history and music to posts about body positivity, self-confidence and feminine empowerment, we touch upon many subjects that are of interest to today's belly dancers and other empowered women. 

To make it easier to navigate our blog, we've created this nifty blog map just for you!

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Belly Dance

Belly Dance Videos

• Tutorial | 6 Essential Hip Movements for Belly Dance
  
  

• First Class | What to Wear to a Belly Dance Class 

What is Belly Dance?

• Origins of the Term | Unpacking the Cultural Baggage & History of "Belly Dance"
  
  
• Benefits | The Many Benefits of Belly Dance 

 

• Definition

1. ​Belly Dance is Poetry in Motion
2. Dance is a Language 
   
   

• What to Expect | Suffering from Cold Belly?
  
  
• Misconceptions | A Dance of Seduction?

Belly Dancer Interviews

• Shahrzad | Shahrzad Interview!

Performance Tips

• First Performance | First Performance Jitters? Read This to KILL Your Stage Fright!
  
  
• First Solo | Tips & Tricks to Help You KILL Your First Solo!
  
  

Practice Tips

• Dancing In Crisis | I Just Don't Feel Like Dancing...
  
  
• Discipline | My Thoughts on Talent
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• Shimmies 

1. ​10 Things You Can Shimmy While Doing 
2. Shimmy Challenge!​

Mindset Tips

• Getting Started | What Every New Belly Dance Student Should Know
  
  
• Burnout | Feeling Overwhelmed or Burned Out?
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• Self-Care | Resist Through Art, Joy, Dance and Love
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• Dancing In Crisis | I Just Don't Feel Like Dancing...​
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• Uniqueness | Respect Your Belly Dance Journey
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• Nervousness

1. ​ Suffering from Cold Belly?
2. 10 Years From Now... ​
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• Creativity & Inspiration | Follow Your Inspiration, a Note to Dancers and Artists

​Self-Love & Gratitude

• Feminine Healing | How Belly Dance Helped Me Heal My Relationships With Other Women--and With Myself
  
  
• Embodiment | How Can We Live More Embodied Lives?
  
  
• Burnout | Feeling Overwhelmed or Burned Out?
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• Gratitude & Self-Love | Your Body is a Magnificent Expression of Life​
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• Body Positivity | 10 Things You Can Do to Start Loving Your Body!​
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• Affirmations |  The Dancer's Creed​


• Gratitude | Getting What You Love by Loving What You Get

The SharqiDance Experience
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• 2019 | A Year of Belly Dance in NJ ​

Belly Dance History, Culture, Music

​History & Classic Dancers

• Classic Dancers | Belly Dance History - A Timeline of Egypt's Biggest Stars
  
  
• ​History & Baggage | Unpacking the Cultural Baggage & History of "Belly Dance"

Middle Eastern Dance/ Musical Genres

• Saidi | A Little Bit About Saidi
  
  
• Raqs Sharqi | Unpacking the Cultural Baggage & History of "Belly Dance"
  
  
• Mahragan | Mahragan: The Soundtrack of Contemporary Egypt
  
  
• Khaleeji | What's Khaleeji Dance?
  
  
• Taqsim | What's a Taqsim?
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• Megeance | Megeance, a Belly Dancer's Entrance
  
  
• Baladi | Baladi, the Heart of Belly Dance 
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• Muwashahat | Muwashahat - Poetry as Music & Dance
  
  
• Sha3bi | Let's Talk About Sha3bi, Baby!
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Middle Eastern Rhythms

• Saidi | Saidi Rhythm for Belly Dancers
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• Samai Thaqil | Samai Rhythm for Belly Dancers
  
  

• Maqsum, Masmoudi, Saidi, Wahda, Fellahi | Learning Middle Eastern Music With the Star Spangled banner

Famous Songs

By Om Kalthoum

• ​Leylet Hob - A Song Every Belly Dancer Should Know
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• All About Alf Layla wa Layla by Um Kulthum
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• By Warda al Jaziria| Esmaouni & The Rose of Algeria

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Non-Belly Dance

Seasons, Cycles, Shifts

• Celebrating Life & Honoring Death | First Day of Spring Musings

Feminine Empowerment

• Slut-Shaming | Slut-Shaming Has No Place in Belly Dance 
  
  
• Feminine Healing | How Belly Dance Helped Me Heal My Relationships With Other Women--and With Myself
  
  
• Celebrating Womanhood | On International Women's Day
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• Reflecting on 2018 | 2018 Was the Year of the Woman 

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