Resources

Links

Liora's Links

• Liora Bellydance Cafe Press Shop
• Migrations
• Hands of Fatima
• YouTube Channel
• Sherwood Forest Faire
• Rose Movement
• Austin Bellydance Association

Bellydance and World Dance Festivals

• Migrations World Music & Dance Festival
  
• Austin Belly Dance Convention
  

Costuming​, Jewelry, & Music

• Amon Tobin
• Beats Antique
• Body Art Forms
• Hollywood Music Center
• Kolo Piercing
• L. Rose Designs
• Maduro
• Magical Fashions
• Maqam Music
• Melodia Designs
• Moondance Bellydance
• Pentaphobe
• Phoenix Rising Artists
• Solace
• Tawapa
• The Bellydance Shop
• The Red Camel​
  
• The Toids
  

Liora's Video Playlists

• Big Band Era Music and Dance
  
• Jazzy/Vintage-Inspired Bellydance
• Drum Solos
• The Evolution of Bellydance (20th century)
• Egyptian Cabaret
• American Cabaret
• Golden Age of Bellydance
• Just for Fun
• Tribal Fusion
• American Tribal Style (ATS)
• Dark / Gothic Fusion
• Miscellaneous Fusion
• Dances of India
  

 About Bellydance

• The history of bellydance
  
• Styles of bellydance
• More articles on Shira.net
• About Tribal Bellydance
• Liora's notes on History & Costuming of Tribal Bellydance
• Skirt Dancing by Artemis
  
• Shira dot net​
  

 About Dances of India

• Bharata Natyam (Classical Temple Dance of Southern India)
• Mudras of Bharata Natyam
• Odissi (Classical Temple Dance of Eastern India)
• Kathak (Classical Artistic Dance of Northern India)
• Rajasthan (Folk Dances of the Rajasthan in NW India)
• Bollywood (Modern Indian Dance)
• Bhangra (Folk Dance of the Punjab in Northern India)

Reading Material

• The Gilded Serpent - free online newsletter
  
• Al-Rawi, Rosina-Fawzia - Grandmother's Secrets: The Ancient Rituals and Healing Power of Belly Dancing
  
• Buonaventura, Wendy - Serpent of the Nile
• Carlton, Donna - Looking for Little Egypt
• Dallal, Tamalyn - 40 Days & 1,001 Nights: One Woman's Dance Through Life in the Islamic World
• Dallal, Tamalyn - They Told Me I Couldn't: A Young Woman's Multicultural Adventures as a Belly Dancer Traveling Through Colombia
• Djoumahna, Kajira - The Tribal Bible: Exploring the Phenomenon That Is American Tribal Style Bellydance
• Richards, Taz - The Belly Dance Book
• Soffee, Anne Thomas - Snake Hips: Bellydancing and How I Found True Love