Resources for Bellydance
Bellydance Festivals
Information about Bellydance (links to external articles)
Video Playlists on YouTube
Reading Material
- Austin Belly Dance Convention (June in Austin)
- Z-Helen's Annual Troupe Competition & Workshops (November in Austin)
- Tribal Alchemy (May in Ft. Worth)
- 3rd Coast Tribal (January in Ft. Worth)
Information about Bellydance (links to external articles)
- The history of bellydance
- Styles of bellydance
- More articles on Shira.net
- About Tribal Bellydance
- Liora's notes on History & Costuming of Tribal Bellydance
Video Playlists on YouTube
- 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
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