During the day they are doctors, managers, mothers and secretaries. At night, they slip on their bead-and-sequin-studded bras and matching skirts and are enveloped by rhythmic clapping as they move to ...

PALM BEACH GARDENS, Fla. -- She's been dancing for more than 70 years and she has no plans to quit. Catherine Furst of Palm Beach Gardens, Florida celebrated her 100th birthday this past weekend by ...

Suzy Evans has spent a significant chunk of her life debunking myths about belly dancers. “There were so many times when I came across people who thought that belly dancers were like strippers,” she ...

Something clicked for Julie Elliot as an undergraduate at the University of Iowa in the late 1970s. The young Strawberry Point student joined a folk dancing club and the Scottish Highlanders, then ...

When Angela Nation of Springfield was a little girl, she loved to watch belly dancers perform on TV. “I’d watch shows just for little glimpses of the belly dancers,” she said. “I never actually had ...

Catherine Furst, known to her friends as Kay, turned 100 years old over the weekend."I don't feel 100," Furst said.Furst isn't your typical senior citizen. She credits being kind and belly dancing to ...

CAIRO — Studs sparkled on Diana Esposito's dress as she ticked her hips on a Nile boat thousands of miles away from the place she calls home: Brooklyn. "I have a full-time job doing what I love," said ...

Now just close that mouth and lower those eyebrows. There are "belly dancers," and there are belly dancers. "Belly dancers" move seductively and choose to bare their midriff especially the diamond in ...