Ten-year-old Ariana Ferguson is the youngest dancer who will perform in Duluth's all-fusion belly dance show Saturday, Jan. 26. She will be one of 17 group-, troupe-, and solo acts who will perform ...

Members of the Shimmy Mob Team Parkersburg dance on Saturday at Point Park in Parkersburg to raise awareness for domestic violence and abuse as part of World Belly Dance Day. (Photo by Michelle Dillon ...

CEDAR RAPIDS — A belly dancing group is shimmying to raise awareness of domestic abuse and help support women’s shelters, performing in a May 14 flash mob in Cedar Rapids. The group is looking for ...

From left, Deborah Trippett and Josie Rabatin, co-leaders of Shimmy Mob Team Parkersburg WV. The dance squad is soliciting new members and donations to support the Family Crisis Intervention Center in ...

Domestic violence isn’t always black eyes and broken arms. Sometimes referred to as intimate-partner violence, it is a systematic pattern of power and control exerted by one person over another, ...

WILLIMANTIC — This past weekend, the Shimmy Mob team from Willimantic participated in a number of events. The Shimmy Mob is an annual belly dance “flash mob” event held worldwide. The group raises ...

Martha Germanis claims she was never much of a dancer. And belly dancing? "No, indeed!" the 85-year-old Bucktown resident said. But when Germanis' neighbor, Karla Marie Cochran, offered to show her a ...

LANSING, Mich. (WLNS) — Bellydancers from all across the Midwest and other regions visited Lansing during the weekend for the 16th annual Great Lakes Belly Dance Convention. The convention’s ...

EGYPTIAN MUSIC BOOMS through the amplifier at 6:15 p.m. as instructor Leslie Rosen leads her belly-dance class through what she calls a shimmy warmup. She gives gentle instructions every few seconds ...

Dance Studio A is tiny, a bare-bones box of a room next to a printing lab in the basement of the University of Florida’s student union. Unless you’re specifically looking for it, you might walk right ...